Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-12-03

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upon his ostrich-like stupidity.
Report of the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.
In his report Commissioner of Internal
Revenue Douglass states the receipts for
the fiscal year at $102, GA, TAT, or s., GA
TAT in excess of the estimate. The es
innate of the current fiscal year is $107,-
100000. The total drawback on spirits,
tobacco, and general merchandise for the
past fiscal year was $52, 346, and for 1874
$50, 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 $685.
749 in 1874. The receipts from distilled
spirits for the fiscal year of 1874 were
$40 ,444 900, a net decrease of $2,655 $50
The receipts from special taxes on recti-
fers and dealers show an increase of
$799,413. The production of spirits dur
ing the year was SO, 572, 062 taxable gal
Ions. Seizures amounted in value to
$476, 1862. The amount of distilled spirits
remaining in warehouse Sept. 80 for
payment of tax was $12,577 ,096, making
a decrease of $3,240,613 from June 80.
The amount remaining for export was
reduced in same time from 2, 145, 010 gal
Ions to 1,047,714 gallons.
The annual receipts from all sources
relating to fermented liquors for the
year were $9,304 $40.
Receipts from tobacco in all forms,
$50, 242, 875, 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
increase of collections over any previous
corresponding period. The largest
amount collected in any quarter was the
first quarter of the present fiscal year
So 162,754. The receipts of the fiscal
year from this source are expected to
aggregate $36,0O0,0O0.
The production of tobacco for the last
fiscal year was 11S548,619 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 1886, 697, 498, or "a, 662, 1852 in
excess of the previous year. The guam
tity of tobacco removed without payment
of tax for expectation for the fiscal year
was 10,800,927 pounds, an excess of near
~ three-quarters of a million pounds
over the preceding year.
The Commissioner considers it 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 6, 1872.
The receipts from other sources were:
Bank deposits, savings banks, capital
and bank circulation, $3387 900; adhe-
sive stamps, $6,136,844 penalties, 1864,
216; articles and occupations formerly
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 re-
allied $3,O00,734, an increase of $403,-
OBJ over the previous year, notwithstand-
ing the financial disasters of the fall Of
1878, and is largely due to the new sys-
tenn of assessments, 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 $3,3O3,539 against
So, 855, 581 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 arositive provision from Congress
upon the subject.
Should Congress wish to abolish
stamps on bank checks, ETC., perfumery,
cosmetics, patent medicines, matches,
etc, which yielded last year Sc, 1856, 844
(but he is still of opinion that the reve-
nue. cannot be reduced with safety the
Commissioner says an equivalent could
be had by increasing the tax on spirits
ten cents per gallon, which would yield.
Sc, 957, 900, or four cents pound on to-
bacco would yield 1852, 600.
The Salt Lake Meas computes the
number of polygamists in the Territory
at 1000 men, 1900 women and 5000
children, and the cost and loss by the
punishment of all at $4,000, and that the
courts would have around them 1000,
crying women and 9. 1000 crying children.
The average car horse endures four
years