The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-11-20

WItnoue Amendneflto orr aiteratfohI b Ef,hf;
Eelght thousand stHo hundred and forty.for,
Eand half pounds Of tobacco, valued
$50, 1880, were seized during the past fisca
year for violation OF tile internal reyenil
flaw. II i e 2 s., q e 4
The report also contains the following
/" The total receipts from stamps on bank
l!checks, perfumery, cosmetics, patent medi
lcines, matches, &c, being the remnants
ilof what was known underline revenue laws
originally as documentary and ,prohibitory
stamps, were for the last fiscal year sc, 1885,
S448S. If Congress should wish to sabol.
ish these remnants, and still are of the
opinion that the revenue could not be
diminished with safety, an equivalent
could be had by increasing the tax on
spirits ten cents per gallon. This would
lyiefd--eatimating on the number of taxable
gallons produced during the last fiscal year
3S6, 957 900; an additional tax On tobacco OF
four cents per pound, estimating on cor.
responding basis, excluding snuff, would
yield 4,612, 900. /,
The number Of grain distilleries operated.
in Virginia during the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1874, was twenty-threee /; and the
number of fruit distilleries s97." T1aoS.
ASSOCIATED Press telegram.J aE
WASHINGTON, November 19.-The report
of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue
shows that the total productions of manu-.
featured tobacco during the last fiscal year
was 11S,54S,618 pounds; the collection of
tax on tobacco was S33,242,s75: total GUAM
tity OF manufactured during the year,
1885, 1927 pounds. The actual production
OF manufactured tobacco exceeded that of
the previous year by over 1000, 900 pounds,
and the foreign expectation exceeded that of
the previousye by nearly 900 pounds.
The Commissioner urges the continuation
Of the leaf.tobacco clauses in the act of June
6, 1872, without amendment or alteration.
The results of this great trade, so far as
its relations to the Government are con-
cerned, have been exceedingly satisfactory.
During the last fiscal year $3.50 fruit dis
tilleries were registered and 2,S41 ope-
rated; 100 distilleries other than fruit were
registered and 665 operated, and there has
been an increased activity in all operations
relating to bonded and distilled products.
The quantity produced during the year
1874 as compared with that produced during
the year 1873 is relatively greater than the
quantity withdrawn for all purposes during
1874 as compared with the quantity with.
drawn for all purposes during 1873, leaving
balance of 15,817,709 gallons in warehouse
June 80, 1873, the quantity in warehouse at
that time being 1891 1852 gallons.
~ no fret Of
year the demand for distilled spirits has been
active, and the quantity withdrawn from
warehouses upon payment Of the tax has
exceeded the quantity deposited, so that the
balance remaining in warehouse September
30, 1874, has been reduced to II, 5T7 ,096 gal
Ions, or decrease of 3,240,613 gallons as
compared with the quantity remaining in
warehouse June 30, 1874.
The whole number of cases compromised
during the past fiscal year was 3S1, and the
total amount received by compromises
S62,G19. During the year 500 suits have
been commenced, 1926 have been settled in
favor of the United States Government, and
527 against 1856 suits were settled or dis.
missed, and there were pending on the LIST
Of July, 1874, 7,246.
The largest amount collected in any one
quarter from tobacco was collected during
the first quarter of the current fiscal year,
which reaches the sum of $40, 162, 1854.
Should corresponding relative collections
continue to be made for the remaing three
quarters the receipts for the current fiscal
year will aggregate S36,000,6O0