Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-12-03

Internal Revenue Statistics.
WASHINGTON, Nov ~.
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Douglass reports receipts for the last
fiscal year at $102, 644, TAI, or $2.644,747
in excess of the estimate. The estimate
Of the surren. fiscal year is $107 ,O00, 900.
| The total drawback on spirits, tobacco,
and general merchandise for the past
fiscal year was $52, 346, and for 1874,
1886, 495. No spirits were exported for
drawback during the last year, and the
quantity of tobacco was very slight COM
pared with the amount exported in bond.
| The amounts refunded for taxes illegally
collected were $61S,667 in 1878 and
$239, TAO in 1874. The receipts from dis
titled spirits for the fiscal year of 1874
were $40, 444 900, net decrease Of 3d.
| 655,280. The receipts from special taxes
on rectifiers and dealers show an increase
Of $799,413. The production of spirits
during the year was SO, 572, 062 taxable
| gallons. Seizures amounted in value to
| $476, 1862. The amount Of distilled spirits
remaining in warehouse Sept. 30, for
payment of tax, was $12, 577 ,096, making
decrease of $3,240, 613 from June 30.
The amount remaining for export was
reduced in same time from 2 las, 010 gal
Ions to ,047, ia gallons.
The annual receipts from all source s
relating to fermented liquors for the
year were S9,304 879.
Receipts from tobacco In all forms,
$33 ,242 1915, a decrease Of 81 ,143, 427, due
to the closing out of bonded warehouses
In the early part Of the year and the effect
of the panic. From November to the
present time there has been steady in
crease of collections over any previous
corresponding period. The largest
amount collected in any quarter was the
first quarter Of the present fiscal year
$10162,754 The receipts of the fiscal
year from this source are expected to
aggregate 500, 100000.
| The production of tobacco for the last
fiscal year was 118, 548,61 pounds, an in
crease over the preceding year of 2,107,-
684 pounds The number OF cigars,
| cheroots, etc, on which taxes was col
lected was ,S86697, 1893, or 75,662, 852 in
excess of the previous year. The guam
| tity Of tobacco removed without payment
of tax for expectation for the fiscal year
was 10,S00,027 pounds, an excess of
nearly three-quarterso of million pounds
| over the preceding year.
The Commissioner considers IL indis-
pensably necessary to control the move
ment of raw or leaf tobacco by the con-
tinuance of the leaf clauses of the act of
June 9, 1872.
The receipts from other sources were
Bank deposits, savings banks, capital
and bank circulation, $3,387 600; adj
hesive stamps, $6,1368 44; penalties,
1864 ,216; articles and occupations for
merly taxed, but now exempt, 1854, $50.
The Commissioner extols the working
of the system abolishing Assessorships
and leaving the whole matter with the
Collectors as securing more prompt pay
ment and larger amount of tax.
The tax against banks and bankers
realized 3,000,734, an increase of $403,-
013 over the previous year, notwith
standing the financial disasters of the
fall of 1878, and is largely due to the new
system of assessment, the results of
which are still more apparent in the rise
from collections from special taxes the
last quarter of the fiscal year 1872, when
they amounted to $3,803,539, against
$5,S55,5S1 in the last quarter of the fiscal
year 1874.
The Commissioner suggests that the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing, here
after, upon his requisition, furnish all
the stamps necessary under the law ex-
cept proprietary and documentary, and
asks positive provision from Congress
upon the subject.
/ Should Congress wish to abolish stamps
on bank checks, etc, perfumery, cos
metics, patent medicines matches, ETC.,
which yielded last year $6, 1854 (but
he is still of opinion that the revenue
cannot be reduced with safety, the Com
missioner says an equivalent could be
had by increasing the tax on spirits ten
cents per gallon, which would yield &c.
200, or four cents pound on tobacco
weuld yield $4,6l2, 600
| The best modern example of the
complete disappearance of book is per-
| haps afforded by 1.-THE Shadows of the
| Clouds" volume of short stories, James
Anthony Froude's first work, published
in 1847. 1t Is not only out Of print, but
out of every public library in London
| including the British Museum. How 1t
was spirited away from that would be an
| interesting question fer detectives. 1t
has been advertised for In London, with
| no response. Every public library and
every antique book store in New York
and Boston have been searched In vain.
One dealer In rare books in New York
has two dozen standing orders for it, but
has never been able'to fill q single one
1t is said that Mr.. Froude spent nearly all
he possessed in calling in the first edition,
and suppressing the book. What could
have been his motive it would be inter-
esting to know.
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