The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-11-20
HIGHLY SATISFACTORY RESULTS.
Continuance Of the ssLeaf Clauses" In
the Revenue Law Urged.
TOTAL RECEIPTS FROM STAMPS. ON
BANK.CHECKs, &C., &c.
GRAINED sTlLLERIEs IN VIRGINIA.
&C, &C., &C.

Especial telegram to the Bspatch.l
WAsHINGToN, November 19.-The report
Of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue
shows that the total receipts from tobacco
for the fiscal year which ended June 80,
1874, were s33,242,s75.G2. A comparison
with the receipts of the last fiscal year
shows decrease of collections on manufac-
tured tobacco of all descriptions of 81, 49,
902.G3; an increase on cigars, cheroots, and
cigarettes, of $685., 200.76; an increase from
the sale of export-stamps Of $1,140.SO.
There is decrease in collections from
dealers in manufactured tobacco of S21,-
614.23; decreased collections from special
taxes of tobacco and cigar manufacturers,
81, 475.93; decreased collections from ped
oilers Of tobacco, s6,O23.66; decreased col
lections from sales of cigars, leaf and manu-
featured tobacco, &C., S44,226.72; making a
total OF receipts from the manufacture and
sale of tobacco, snuff, and cigars in all their
forms of S33,242, S75.62, and showing, as
compared with the previous fiscal year, de-
crease of 81, 143, 427.47; as compared With
the first quarter of the preceding fiscal
year, decrease to the amount of $685..
1880. This decrease was not un-
expected, owing to the large quantities
of tobacco put upon the market in conse-
quence of the closing out of the bonded
warehouses by the act of June 6, 1872,
and the increased stimulant given for two or
three months to the movement of plug to-
bacco by the adoption OF the uniform rate
of tax at twenty cents per pound by the
same act. The decrease during the second
quarter, amounting to S144, 6O7.53, (Which
took place during October and November,
1879 was undoubtedly the result of the
financial disturbances of the country.
The loss in collections during the two
months named was S1,440, 7S1.73; but from
the month of November, 1873, up to the pre-
sent time there has been steady increase of
collections from this source over any pre-
yious corresponding period. The largest
amount ever collected in any one quarter
from tobacco was collected during the first
quarter of the current fiscal year, which
reaches the sum of S10.162, 954.35. Should
corresponding relative collections continue
to be made for the remaining three quar-
ters the receipts from this source will
aggregate for the current fiscal year in round
numbers 100000.
Taking the amount Of taxes collected as
the basis for computing the product OF
manufactured tobacco for the year which
ended June 80, 1874, the result is as follows:
Tobacco of all descriptions taxed at 20 cents
per pound, 104, sos, 54S pounds; snuff taxed
at 80 cents per pound, 3,245, 143 pounds
Total quantity on which tax was paid, 1917
747,691 pounds. Adding the tobacco, &C.,
shipped in bond for eXpdrt-10, 800,927
pounds-giyes total production of 1885,.
4O6,6le pounds for the year, being an in
crease over the production of the preceding
fiscal year of s,107, 1854 pounds.
The number of cigars, cheroots, &c, on
which taxes were collected during the fiscal
wear which ended June 80, 1874, was 1885,
697 ,49s, being In excess of the number on
which taxes were collected the previous fiscal
year by 79,662,s52. This number, however,
does not show the actual production of the
country for the time specified, inasmuch as
there are included in this number the inn
ported cigars which paid an internal reVe-
nue. tax in addition to the import duty
The quantity Of tobacco shown BY the re-
cords If the Internal Revenue Office to have
been removed without payment of tax for
expectation to foreign countries was, for the
wear which ended June both, 1874,
1o. 800 ,s27 pounds; exported after tax had
been paid, with benefit of drawback, $500
pounds. Total quantity exported during,
the year, 1887 1928 pounds. This is in ex:
cess of the total quantity exported during
the previous fiscal year by 727, 1888 pounds.
From the preceding figures and COMPARE
tive statements it will be seen that, While the
collections from tobacco show falling OH as
COMPARED with the previous fiscal year, the
actual production Of manufactured tobacco
was in excess of any previous year by over.
two millions of pounds, and the exportahon
r. foreign countries was in excess OF any
preyious year by nearly three-quarters OF .
million of pounds. y
Upon the whole, the results for the year
are highly satisfactory, and indicate pros.
nerous condition of this great branch OF
industry, and show It to Dc ra ana
HE source of revenue to the National Ifea-
sury even during season of general busi-
ness depression; but to secure the pest re-
snlts from the tax now imposed by law upon
manufactured tobacco, snuff, and cigars, IL is
indispensably necessary SO to control Inc
movements OF raw or leaf tobacco as not 70
allow its direct consumption to dimm lns
the demap. d for manufactured tobacco. Ihe
enaetment of the several leaf clauses ia u Tue
act Of june S, 1872, while they most enec.u'
ally accomplish this object, do not at all IN.
te.rfere with the sale, transfer, or snipmeh'
of leaf tobacco for the ordinary purposes y
trade and commerce. The Commission,
cee asd leaf CIQ1lSeE