The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-11-20
Internal Revenue COMMISSIONER
RepOrf,

WASHINGTON, November 19.-The
Commissioner of the Internal Revenue,
Douglass, reports that the receipts for the
last fiscal year amounts to SlO2,644,1 ,14',
and S2,644,747 in excess of the estimate
This estimate of the current fiscal year
is SlO7, 100000. The total drawback on
spirits, tobacco and general merchandise
for the past fiscal year was S52,346, and
for 1874, 36,495. No spirits were ex-
ported for drawback during the last
year, and the quantity of tobacco was
very slight compared with the amount
exported in bond. The amounts re-
funded for taxes illegally collected were
$618,367, in 1873, and $239, 749 in 1874.
The receipts from distilled spirits for the
year 1874 were $40, ,444, ,090, a net decrease
of 1865, ,2Sl. The receipts from special
taxes on rectifiers and dealers show an
increase of S799,4l3. The production of
spirits during the year was 69,572,O62
taxable gallons. The seizures amounted
in value to S476,362. Distilled spirits re-
naming in warehouse September Both
for payment of tax, l2,577,096 gallons, a
decrease Of 4,240,6 663 gallons from June
3Oth. The amount remaining for export
was reduced in the same time from
2,l45.Oll gallons, to l,047,7l4 gallons.
Annual receipts from all sources relating
to fermented liquors for the year, $9, 907,- :
679; receipts from tobacco in all forms,
s33,242, 2,675, u decrease Of 81, l43, 427, due
to the closing out of bonded warehouses
in the early part of the year, and the eff
feet of the panic from November to the
present time. There has been steady
increase of collections over any previous
corresponding period. Largest amount
collected any quarter, was the first quar-
ter of the present fiscal year, SIC, 1872
754. The production of tobacco for the
last fiscal year was ll8,54S,6l9 pounds,
an increase over the preceding year of
2,lO7, ,684 pounds. The number of cigars,
Sc, on which taxes were collected, /, 1885,
697, ,479, or 79,662,852 in excess of the
previous year. The quantity Of tobacco
removed without payment Of taxes for the
fiscal year, lOSOO 927 pounds, an excess
of nearly three quarter million
pounds over the preceding year. The
Comm's ioner considers it indispensibly
necessary to control the movement Of
raw or leaf tobacco, by the continuance
of the leaf clauses of the act of June 9th.
1872. The receipts from other sources
were bank deposits, savings bank capital
and bank circulation, 1898, ,lOOi adhe-
sive stamps, Sc, 1864 penalties, 1884,
PIG; articles of occupation formerly tan
ed but now exempt, $764, $3.50. The Com
missioner extols the working of the sys
TEN abolishing assessorships and leaving
the whole matter with the collectors, as
securing a more prompt payment and II
larger amount of tax. The tax against
banks and bankers realized $4,000, ,I3i,
an increase of $403, ,0l3 over the previous
year notwithstanding the financial dis
astcrs of the fall Of 1873, and is largely
due to the new system of assessment, the
results of which are still more apparent
in the rise from the collections from the
special taxes of the last quarter of the
fiscal wear 1872, when they amounted to
1908, ,539 to IS, j5,5Sl in the last quar-
ter 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 except
proprietary and document stamps, and
asks positive provision from Congress
upon the subject. Should Congress wish
to abolish the stamps on bank checks,
perfumery, cosmetics, patent mcdi-
cincs, matches, etc, which yielded last
year Sc, 1885, ,s44, but still be of the opinion
that the revenue cannot be diminished
with safety, the Commissioner says an
equivalent could be had by increasing
the tax on spirits 10 cents per gallon
which would yield S6,95I0O0, OF four
cents a pound on tobacco would yield
8. 4 900