The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-01-05
INTERNAL REVENUE REPORT.

The estimate submitted in my annual
report for 1869 of the probable receipts
from internal revenue sources, exclusive
of the direct tax upon land and the duty
upon the circulation and deposits of ma
ltional banks, for the fiscal year 1870, has
been more than realized That estimate
was $175, 100000, and the aggregate re
ceipts under the then existing laws are
shown to be $195, 235, s67.97, an excess of
l$10,235, 367 81, beyond the estimate.
The aggregate includes the sums refund
ed for taxes illegally ass ssed and collect
ed, amounting to $196, S09.S1, as well as
the amount Of commissions of collectors
Drawbacks have only been allowed on
general merchandise, under section III,
act Of June 80, 1854, limited by the act
of March 81, 1868, to ale and patent med
icines, amounting to $5,83855. The
amount allowed for the same for 1869
was $377, Abb. The drawback on rum
and alcohol is not considered in this bu-
rcau The total receipts for the fiscal
year 1870 are $lS5 ,235,97. The total re
ceipts for the fiscal year 1869 $160039,
344.29.--~h wIag net gain of $25 1885,.
528. 68
Comparative statements of the @ources
of revenue Spirits, increase, $10555, 1877
IA; tobacco, $7,920,00031; fermented
liquors, $219,247,36; banks and bankers,
$1,084, 194G1 gross receipts, $593, 801.17;
sales, $630,555.94 special taxes not else
where enumerated, 1919, 505.59; income,
including salaries, 984,01788; lega
cies, 1927, 745, so SUGGESTIONS, $685. 86.
35; articles in schedule A, $24 ,58136 );
passports, decrease, $6697 gas increase,
$197, 41155; sources not elsewhere emu
merated, decrease, $556,973.68; penal
ties, $40 184.07; adhesive stamps, in
crease, $123,33S 05; total increase, $685.
9,27S43; decrease, $612,75465.
From one of the tables it appears that
there has been a continuous increase in
the receipts from the excise tax from
June 80, 1870, aggregating the sum of
S25, 190,523.69 and averaging for each
month, $4,000, no. 80 There is no insur
mountable difficulty in enforcing our ex
else laws, and a proper regard to the
qualifications Of revenue officers for
liability and integrity is what is most es
sential to secure the prompt and certain
collection Of internal taxes.
/ The number of distilleres, other than
fruit, registered during the last fiscal year
is 710; number of fruit distillers regis
tered, 2,120 total, 1880. The spirit
producing capacity of the registered dis
tileries for each twenty four hours, as as
certa!ned by surveys, is as follows: From
grain, 759,377 gallons; from molasses,24,-
9O3 gallons; from fruit, 126,271 gallons
Total daily spirit producing capacity,
91O,551 gallons. 1t will be seen that if
the distiIleries, other than fruit, ere op
Grated 0 the full extent Of their capacity
for period of ten months throughout
the dlstlling season in each year, they
are capable OF producing 203 .912,8 800 gal
Ions. This quantity, however, is largely
In excess of our consumption, which is
estimated at from seventy five to eighty
millions of dollars. The best informa
ton which this Office has been able to pro-
cure on this subject induces the belief
that the whole number of distilerles, 9th
er than fruit is operated for about the
period OF six months only, and for that
period they are not run to the full extent
of their producing capacity. The returns
to this office for the last fiscal year show
a total production in taxable gallons,
| from material other than fruit, of II 1884,
O99; from fruit, 938,254 and from fruit
not yet returned, but estimated at $780,
600; total yearly produce ion, 72,435, 353.
This quantity of spirits in bond, July 1,
1869, was $685. 1876 gallons The guam.
tity remaining IN bond June 80, 1870, |
was 1852, 458 gallons. Judging from
the information in possession of this of.
| flee, there is no reason for believing that
there will be any material falling off in
the production of spirits during the cur
rent fiscal year
| In reference to the spirit meters, the |
Commissioner says that the tests institut-
ed have not yet been completed, and that
he will make the meter question the sub |
ject of a special communication to Con-
gress hereafter.
Notwithstanding the favorable exhibit |
in the receipts from tobacco, the Com
missioner directs attention particularly to
some defects in the provisions and oper
atoms of the law taxing tobacco The
present law imposes two rates of tax on
all manufactured tobacco, one of 16 cents
and the other of 80 cents per pound. 1t /
seems to have been the intention to ap-
ply the former rate only In exceptional
cases, while the general rate was to be
double the amount. But in practice it is
found that what was to have been but oc-
casional and only exceptional has come
to be too nearly the general and prevail
ing rate on all tobacco manufactured and
sold as smoking tobacco while much that
is intended and used for chewing is sold
also under the lesser rate. The Commits.
sloner is satisfied that there is but one
remedy for the frauds perpetrated under
this head, and that is to make the tax on
sll descriptions of tobacco uniform.
Less of inequality would then exist un-
der tax of 80 cents per pound than I'M