The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-12-09
REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF
INTERNAL REVENUE.

INTERNAL REVENUE.
WAsHINGToN, Nov. 2s.-The report of
Hon. c. Delano, Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue, was given to the repre-
sentatives of the press to-day. 1t con-
Lains many important facts and recom-
mendafions. The Commissioner SAYS
the estimate submitted in his annual
report for 1869 of the probable receipts
from internal revenue sources, exclusive
of the direct tax upon lands and the
duty upon the circulation and deposits
of national banks for the fiscal year of
1870, has been more than realized. The
estimate was S175,000000, and the ag-
gregate receipts under the then existing
excess Of S10,235, 967.97 beyond the esti-
mate. This aggregate includes the sums
refunded for taxes Illegally assessed and
collected, amounting to SIS, S09.91, as
well as the amount of commissions of
the collectors. -
The total receipts for the first six
months of 1870 are SS4, 46S, 2SS.57, and
for the like period of 1869 were sos, 1S4,-
| 725.l3, being an increase of p per cent.
Total receipts of the last six months of
1870 are 81, 076, 759, TAO, and for the like
period of 1869 were $50, S54, 619.16, be-
ing an increase of IL per cent.
~
mitted from which it appears that the
total receipts for the fiscal year of 1870
are S1S5, 235, 867.97. The total for 1869
were S16O, ,344.29, showing net gain
for the present year of $25, 1876, 523.6S.
In the foregoing statement it will be
seen that there has been a continuous
increase in receipts from the excise tax
from June, S30.187.00, aggregating,
S25,562. %.
These figures and the deductions
tl.erefrom satisfies the Commissioner
that there is no insurmountable difficult
ty in enforcing our excise law, the en-
pIoyment of spies and informers; and
the policy of paying notifies in his opin-
ion, are no longer necessary, and the
revenue service would be improved by
disseminating them. He recommends
that the detectives should be continued
under the designation of Assistant Sup
ervisors. The number of distilleries,
other than fruit, registered during the
last fiscal year is 10; number of fruit
distilleries registered, 2,120; total 1880.
Returns for the last fiscal year show
the total production of table gallons
from material other than from fruit of
II 1877 ,099; from fruit, 93S, 264; from
fruit not yet returned but estimated,
100000; total production, 72,425,35
The Commissioner says the production
of spirits from fruit is likely to be large
Iy increased for the current year owing
to the extensive crop of fruit grown in
many parts of the United States, and
because the act of July has relieved
manufacturers from many of the re-
quirements applicable to grain distilla-
ton, which then applied to fruit, and
| were burdensome.
Quantity of spirits in bond. July lst,
! 1869, I61 1861, l66 gallons; quantity re-
naming in bond July 1st, 1870, 1852,
| 45S gallons. The Commissioner thinks
there will be no material falling off in
the production of spirits during the cur
rent year. The plan of surveying dis
| tiIleries on the basis of the As hour fer
mentiDg period for sweet mash, to
| which attention was called in his last
annual report, has been fully carried
out, and its results are highly satisfac-
tory and advantageous to the govern
ment. The distilleries now very gener-
ally seem disposed to obey the law and
comply with the orders and regulations
| of the bureau.
| Receipts from tobacco continue salts
factory. Receipts for last fiscal year
from this source were 81, $50, 7970S
for preceding year, So, 430, 707.57 show
| ing an increase of S7,710,000.51. This
increase of. nearly SS,000,O00 has not
| been spaSmOdIc, but regular monthly
increase, averaging over 100000 pei
month. The Commissioner calls atten-
! ton to what he thinks defects in the
law, by which great iniquities exist, and
claims there is but one remedy for the
frauds perpetrated, and that is to make
| the tax on all descriptions uniform
less inequality would then exist under
a tax of % cents per pound than under
| the present rates; with this uniform
rate established on all manufactured to-
bacco, the revenue can be collected with
much greater facility than at present
| He is also satisfied that the larger por-
| ton of the tobacco trade are generally
in favor of uniform rate of tax on all
descriptions and grades of snuff and to-
bacco, and while portion of the trade
favor a tax of 1S6 cents, a large maj ORR
ty are Indifferent as to the rate, whether
16 or 81 cents per pound, provided the
tax is uniform and thoroughly collected
and the manufacturer left free to manip.
ulate his product as he pleases.
1t will be seen that gross receipts
from all sources of internal revenue
for the first Is months of the late adj.
ministration amounted to 81, 967, FOG, 100
and taking the same source of revenue
the excess during the same period Of
comparison in favor of the present ad.
| ministration amounts to I0,1SS, S07,-
lib.