The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-11-18

Annual Report Of Commissioner Pratt
Collections for the Year-Recommenda-
tons for Improving the Efficiency of the
Bureau and the prevention of Whisky
Frauds.
The Commissioner of Internal Reeve
nue. has completed his report for the fis-
cal year which ended june 80, 1875. The
document is very voluminous. The
Commissioner says it may be some con-
ISOLATION to know that, grievous. as are
the burdens laid upon such of our popu--
lation of AZ, 100000 Or more as consume
the articles taxed by our internal reYe-
nue. laws, the British public, numbering
less by one fourth, than our people, paid,
under their excise laws, during the year
ending March 81, 1876, taxes measured
in gold to the amount of $183, 1852, 756,
against $11O, 545, 154. paid In currency
by the people of this country during the
fiscal year which ended, June 30, 1875.
The report shows that the, actual
amount of receipts into the Treasury
from all sources, from and after June
80, 1861, to June 80, 1874, exclusive OF
loans and Treasury notes, was as follows:
Customs. .l. ~. 81 ,s7s, 71O,ss7
Internal revenue. 49,. lso6 52S,!2 70
Direct tax. ............. aa,olV, loS
Public lands ...!.. ..s.s-... Z1,doi,Soo
miscellaneous. zoo,Uo4,SoS
coin. ......................... 192,557,l17
Total ..... :. .$4, 1895, 6Ss,SA
The collections for the fiscal year,
which ended June 30, 1874, were
$102, ga, 746; for the year which ended
June 80, 1876 $11O, 545,154. The in
crease during the last fiscal year is owing,
in part, to the increase of duties laid by
the act of March 8, 1876, upon distilled
spirits, manufactured tobacco, cigars and
cigarettes, and in part to taxes collected
under the laws repealed, extraordinary
efforts having been put forth to collect
delinquent taxes due from banks and
bankers, railroad and other corporations,
and taxes due on incomes, legacies and
SuccesSlOnS .nelyd q a3sl
THE NEW TAX LAW.
A statement is given showing the re-
ceipts under the act of March 3, 1875, up
to and inclusive of June 80, 1876, from
the different articles subject to an in
creased tax, showing a total tax return of
$3, 2O3, 818. The tax returned upon dis
titled spirits was $1,779,7 99, and the
Commissioner says regarding it:
at will doubtless be a matter of surprise
that the increased amount realized from dis
titled spirits during chat period 8, 1876,
to June 80, 1875-Was 80 small. The explana-
ton, however. is found in the fact that it be-
came generally known, through the proceed
ings ia Congress- that an increase in the rate
of tax would probably be made, and The dis
tillers, In order to realize the benefit of the in
crease, Withdrew from bonded warehouses,
upon payment of taxes at 70 cents gallon,
$3.50, O21 gallons in the month of January, 1876,
and the enormous quantity Ct II, 504, 1856 gal
Ions in February following leaving still in
bonded warehouses over 100000 gallons of
spirit on March 3, 1876, the day when the in
crease of the tax from 20 to 80 cents per gallon
was made by Congress. BY law these spirits
were allowed, after bond being gwen, to re-
main in the distillery warehouse one year be-
fore Withdrawal, and these spirits have been
and still continue to be placed on the market,
subject only to the former duty of 70 cents per
gallon. sg xff4&44 *f'
RECEIPTS By STATES.
The net amount of receipts from all
sources of internal revenue, during the
last fiscal year, in the several States is