The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-11-19

Annual Report of Commissioner Pratt
Collections for the Year-Recommend a-
lions for Improving the Efficiency Of the
Bureau and the Prevention of Whisky
Frauds.
The Commissioner of Internal Reve-
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 1900, 900 or more as consume
the articles taxed by our internal reve-
nue. laws, the British public, numbering
less by one-fourth than our people, paid,
under their excise laws, during the year
ending March 81, 1875, taxes measured
i'll gold to the amount of $1S3, 962, 1856,
against $40, 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 30, 1874, exclusive of
loans and Treasury notes, was as follows:
Customs ~ ,973 no, 367
Internal revenue. ................ i,voo,3S3, 10
direct TAX ....................''' ls,olo'lo 3
fubic lands. ........'.''.'...'..'' , 9oo
MISCELLANEOUS. zoo,oo4,Voz
Premiums on loans and sales OF gold
coin. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. l?2,ooi,ll'
Total. "a, 1895, 63s ,34l
The collections for the fiscal year,
which ended June 30, 1874, were
$102, 644, TAG; for the year which ended
June 30, 1875, $110,545, 154. The in
crease during the last fiscal year is owing,
in part, to the increase of duties laid by
the act of March 3, 1875, 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under the laws repealed, extraordinary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
SUGGESTIONS.
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 30, 1876, from
the different articles subject to an in
creased tax, showing total tax return of
$3,203,S18. The tax returned upon dis
titled spirits was $1,779,7 99, and the
Commissioner says regarding it:
1T will doubtless be a matter Of surprise
that the increased amount realized from dis
titled spirits during chat period-March 3, 1875,
to June 80, 1S75-was so small. The eXplana-
ton however. is found in the fact that 1t be-
came generally known, through the proceed
ings in Congress, that an increase in the rate
of tax would probably be made, and the dis
tllers, IN order to realize the benefit of the in
crease, withdrew from bonded warehouses,
upon payment OF taxes at 10 cents a gallon,
5, 430 OBJ gallons in the month Of January 1875,
and the enormous quantity of 1l,5O4, 356 gal
Ions in February following, leaving still in
bonded warehouses over 100000 gallons OF
spirits on March 3, 1875 the day when the in
crease of the tax from 10 to 80 cents per gallon
was made by Congress. BY law these spirits
were allowed after bond being given, to re-
main in the distillery warehouse one year be-
fore withdrawal, and these spirits have beer
| and still continue to be placed on the market
subject only to the former duty of 40 cents pei
gallon"
RECEIPTS BY STATES.
The net amount of receipts from al
sources of internal revenue, during tn,
last fiscal year, in the several States il
/ vivian 90 fnllouo.