The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-08-23
WASHINGTON NEWS.

The new whiskey regulations were yes
teriay put in the printers hands, but the
nrcof will be subject to revision, and it may
he two weeks before they will be ready for
distribution. They will be got up in pam
inlet form, the same as the regulations now
issued concerning taxes on tobacco, snuff,
and cigars, furnishing all information in
admirably arranged manner, and will be
found Invaluable to al. concerned in the
business. They will give full effect 20 the
law Of April 10, 1869, and also certain pro-
visions Of the old law which were deemed
conflicting. Compounders of spirits are
regarded as rccti6erS, and cannot hereafter
use Wholesale stamps, but are to be allowed to
place their own trademarks conspicuously
urs>n packages, with the rcctifer's stamp.
Hereafter rcctifcrs, upon purchasing
hich wines or spirits, and reporting TO the
collector NIL the circumstances Of purchase,
and the cereal marks, and number and date
Of tax stamp, and number of proof gallons
received, will be entitled to receive after
rcctifcation stamps sufficient to cover an
equal number of proof gallons. The rcgu-
l4tionS arc very stringent in regard to the
REPORTS necessary to be made By rectifers
II the amount of high wines and spirits pur-
chased. and collectors will hereafter have
much more thorough system of checks upon
the rcctiticrs. The Commissioner has rea-
son to believe that the interests Of the ser
vice will be greatly promoted when the new
regulations are enforced by the revenue
officers throughout the country.-lf aShing-
ten Republican, Saturday.
THE MoRILE REVENUE FRAUps-HIS-
TORY or THE Washington, August
l9.-WarrantS have been issued for the ar
rest Of the parties implicated in the Mobile
whiskey and tobacco frauds. The frauds
are known in the Treasury Department
~ the Ann D." case, from the fact that
the schooner Ann D. was represented to have
been engaged for the transportation of the
whiskcy and tobacco to Tampico, Mexico.
Clearance papers were obtained from the
customs officers for her, and man named
Walker, who has since fed to England, and
who was then in the Government service as
revenue inspector, furnished official GER
titicatc of the receipt on board of the yes
sci Of 1865 barrels Of whiskey and 99S
boxes Of tobacco.
The evidence obtained by the detectives
shows that the vessel was not at Mobile at
the time, but was employed as a lighter off
Pensacola, and that her capacity did not
amount to 100 tons. while the clearance pa
rcrs read as if issued for large ship. The
detectives also discovered that only 100 of
the 1865 barrels of whiskey were shipped
from Ciuti to Mobile. The records Of the
office Of the collector of internal revenue
SHOW that the whole amount was received
and stored in a bonded warehouse, and that
the tax, amounting altogether to $751;
0t2 IS, was not collected as the law docs
not require it to be paid on whiskey in
tended for expectation. The bonded ware
house was carried on by Leonard Co, but
il is believed that no such firm ever existed,
and that it was used as a blind by the
whiskey ring during the entire period of
their operations.
The m0duS Opcrdndi Of the case was
briefly as follows: The ring shipped a part
Of the whiskev in bond from Ciuti, pre-
tending 10 ship the whole, and in halfway
succeeded in getting the remainder on the
market without paying the tax. At Mobile
papers were procured from the officers of
the customs and internal revenue showing
that it had been shipped to Tampico, but in
reality not a single barrel ever was shipped,
and the vessel alleged to have been char
tered for its transportation was not even in
that port at the time the clearance papers
we're granted. Blank receipts, with the
name Of the United States consul at Tampl-
co signed to them, were purchased IN New
Orleans, and filled up to show the arrival
OF the whiskey there, so that the records
of the several departments of the Govern
mcnt show that it was shipped from Ciuti
to Tampico, when, in fact, it vas put on
the market without paying tax. The case
has been hanging in the Treasury for more
than a year, and was first brought to the
attention Of the Department by a man
named Hammond, who was Il clerk in the
employ Of the owners of the whiskcy. The
exact interest in the Office Of ali the par
ties who are to he arrested is unknown, but
ii has been discovered that Walker, the in
spcctor, received II 800 cash for his share
OF the transaction, and that the other Go
vcrnment officers were more literally paid
for their work.