Connecticut western news., 1874-11-20
THE UNITED STATES GOVERN. MENT.
Interesting Statistics from the Internal
 Revenue Department.

Interesting Statistics from the Internal Revenue Department.
 The forthcoming report of the Fifth Auditor of the United States Treasury Department will be very interesting, as showing the cost of the present Internal Revenue system, and also the cost of foreign missions. The report will be sent to Congress with that of the Sec retary of the Treasury, who is now busily engaged in arranging the mate- rials of the Department and elucidating his views. The Auditor will show that the following stamps were furnished to the Collectors of Internal Revenue
 Beer stamps, $9, 482, 465; distilled spirit stamps, $49,O91, 1852; tobacco stamps, $31 1906, 794; special tax stamps, BIO, ,0O5, TOO |; stamp tail wrappers, $486,. 589.
 The cost of assessing and collecting the internal revenue for 1874 was as follows
 Assessing, $s6O, 191. 70; supervisors, SIS, 936. 25; revenue agents, $86, 704. 40; surveyors of distilleries, $22, 2,611.5 j; gaugers, $903, ,S55.87 i; total, $4, 193,- 976.76.
 The following is the cost for the same service during the year 1873:
 Assessing, $2, 732, APO. 66; collecting, $1, ,595, ,476.28 supervisors, $90, ,841 .76 i; revenue agents, $79, 945 94 surveyors of distilleries, $40, ,907.26; gaugers, 1858, ,295. 19; total, $5, ,3S1, ,877.09.
 This shows decrease in the cost of collecting the revenue of $1, 188, ,000.33. The salaries in the office of the Com missioner of Internal Revenue during the year were $355, 134, and the miscel- laneous expenses, $129, ,541. The sala- ries of Supervisors of Internal Revenue were $29, 9, 941, while the expenses reached the unaccountable figure of $88,944. Salaries of Internal Revenue agents, $52, ,3S7; expenses of the same, $34,- 317; salaries of surveyors of distil- leries, 1896; expenses of the same, $1O, 715; fees of Internal Revenue gaugers, $847, ,825 travelling expenses, $56, ,060 paid for engraving and print ing Internal Revenue stamps and stamp paper, 1884, ,490; expended for counsel fees in Internal Revenue cases, $24, ,O27; expended for moieties, $5, ,089; expend- ed for reports, $9,773.
 The expenses of the foreign service and of commissions, arbitrations, ex- positions, etc., are very interesting, and are as follows:
 Expenses of foreign missions, $396,- e59 expense of consuls, $57O, ,621 fees received from consuls, $715, 5,202; ex- cess of fees above expense of consuls, $144, ,581 expended for relief of sea- men, $64, $40; amount of seamen's ex- tra wages collected, $55, 311 expendi- lures above receipts, $9, ,329 expended for passage of seamen charged with crime, $849; expended for interpreters, etc., in China and Japan, $24, ,2S4 i; salaries and expenses of Northern Boundary Survey, $123, 266; salaries and expenses of United States and British Claims Commission, $224, S37 i; expenses and salaries of United States and Spanish Claims Commission, $19,- 500; expenses and salaries of United States and Mexican Claims Oommis- sion, $4, PAS i; expenses and salaries of United States Commission to Texas, $1O, 742 expenses and salaries of Tri- bunal of Arbitration, $31, ,408 expenses and salaries of Vienna Exposition, $29, ,151,