The New York herald., 1868-01-08

Total. $l52 000, 900
remains TO DO provided for from some other sources .
deficiency Of eighteen millions t$lso00 0Oo necessary
seventy millions, with such additional amount
may bo Professionally required TO meet unexpected
extraordinary contingencies
IIcRHsn TAXES
To meet such deacisncy, the so-cailcd Especial" or
.Tcense taxes and the taxes on sales which have
been included in the above estimates be relied
and II should be thought desirable they may bo mod-
fed with little trouble and Inconvenience to the bus
large additional In faot this class Of taxes
readily manageable and admit OF such indeh.
production that they may be considered in the light OF
Q
Ihs amour. derived from the special taxes dicenses)
for the fiscal year SIS sis6,446 SO; and
Sales autoneers brokers' including sales by whoe-
sale dsasrs in excess Of $4,000. s4ii4o'S al making
Deductng from this aggregate tho receipts from the
special taxes on dsters, rechers, and Wholesale and
retail dealers in iqaors-which II IS proposed 70
hereafter part OF tho system for collecting a
revenue from Distilled sprits-Ihore remains the sum OF
ii is however recommended In tho event OF the en-.
tire removal OF the socaied industrial taxes place
tho manufacturers and tho wholesale dealers on
responding basis, aud impose upon them special Of
500, when the value OF thor sales Is In
OF $4,000, and additional OF So for every
san ~ The law ~iii A. Il neisvss ~ onasv ocean,
able TO the industrial interests OF tho country and will
produce an additional rsvenus over what 10 now OBJ.
laned from tho taxes on Wholesale dealers, OF about
Sal, ,0o0. o00
REVENUE ADMINISTRATIONS
We como, next to tho consideration OF o subject
which Is daily becoming one OF increasing importance
much 30, that n II does not receive voluntarily
the practical attention Of toe legislative department Of
the govornmept will Of itself ultimately and at no
distant day, compel that attention the exclusion OF
every other subecs nasmuch the necessity involved
imperils not only the revenue and consequently the
pubrc credit, but even the very aud maintsn
ancs Of republican institutions. We refer the press
ing necessity which exists for complete reform aud
organization OF the administrative part of the onal
revenue system What spectacle 10 to-day presented
TO the country OF the law 10 repeated instances break
ing down and demanding for itself additional safeguards
In the nature OF mechanical expedients; OF o large
proportion Of ths assessed internal taxes
naming uncolected, collected the benefit OF
other recipient than the national Treasury; and
OF fraud and incompeency In official position, becom
ing daily more apparent and disastrous in their con.
scquencss But this exhibit painful ~ u s the case
In only half stated The demoralzing influence OF
successful evasion OF the the accumulation
OF profit thereby has penetrated deeply into the com.
muny, and public sentiment has become influenced 10
such extent that serious disgrace attaches 70 trans
actions 70 which government is party which, u com,
mitted against ndivduas, would be universally branded
~ infamoua
Ths extent Of the revenue frauds and Of the manner
In part In which they effected, have been already
referred 70 in- this and previous reports; but notwh
standing the illustrations thus sorded and the further
formed theme Of general d.cussioS Il s no. probable
that the public ~ yss fully appreciate ths magnitude OF
the frauds or the dssrss 70 which chssng the govern
menp has been reduced TO science. Ihua, Tor sr-
ample, ihs fraudulent transactions involved IN the
naaufAcurs and sale Of dslilsd spirits are pcpulsEly
truth could be revealed IL would in The opinion Of the
Commissioned be found that the frauds In tobacco and
cigars have been comparatively greater than IN whskey
Invested have bssn much Interior those In either
vhIskey or tobacco
For the sorhnuancs OF this state Of things there Ia in
The hrss place no necessity, and secondly "a ehcens
remedy II does exist Ia Great Britain, France Bel
sum, Holsod spd The German states aud what does
not exist hers ought not TO be recognized az
here. The response made question put by tho Com
missioner durils ns pss, summer 70 leading orios 0f