The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-12-08

MIN oack 10 North Carolina, Where ne could
cultivate the nutritious peanut without
license, and vote the radical ticket without
anybody TO modest or make him afraid. he
went,
HOW II IS MADE.
THE MoDUs oPERANDI OF MANUFACTURING
WHISKY, INCLUDING TRUCKING UNCLE SAM
OUT OF HIS SHARE OF THE SwAG.
In connection with this crooked matter
about crooked whisky it would be as we'll to
endesvor 10 make the readers understand
some of the multifarious cheeks and hedges
thrown around distillers, and to show how
the Bingbanas are alleged to have been able
to defraud the government. When any one
desires to go into the distilling business a
thorough examination of the promises is
made, and survey taken; the capsc-
ity of all the stills and of the
fermenting watts, and whether il is to be
boiler heat or furnace distillery are noted,
and, in TACT, a complete plat of the building,
different rooms and machinery is made.
The distillery is then registered by its
owner and bond filed, which covers double
the amount on which they would pay tax
in month. Notice is then given that they
are ready to run. Then the government
assigns them a storekeeper, whose duty it
is to weigh all grain used in the distillery
kLuo law dllOWS Is bllo dfcIdbo w 10 LldOCy
three and half gallons of liquor to a
bushel of corn); he Keeps book In which is
registered the number OF barrels distilled each
day that go into the warehouse; the store
keeper has keys to everything about the
establishment, pipes, tubs, stills-every
thing but the cistern into which the liquor
is run. After the appointment of store
keeper gauger is assigned, on request of
the distiller. It Is his duty to gauge the
liquor and put on warehouse stamp. This
stamp contains the name of the collector,
gauger and distiller. This stamp is then
cancelled by brand Of wave lines, The
liquor then goes into the warehouse, and
when IL goes in it is entered in q warehouse
book kept by warehouse keeper appointed
by the government, which book shows the
name OF the producer, the several numbers
of the package, number of warehouse stamp,
gauger's name,
CONTENTS OF THE BARREL,
both in wine and proof gallons, and the
specific gravity of the liquor. The next
process is that the distiller pays tax on the
liquor, at which time a tax paid stamp is
pat on, which shows the name OF the pro-
Queer, collector of the district, name of
gauger and date of the stamp, which is then
cancelled jus6 as the warehouse stamp was
by a stencil of waved lines. When the
tax paid stamp is put on, the
head Of the barrel Is branded to show
number of the tax paid stamp
punched out the head. and the
name of the liquor known to the trade
stencilled on. The liquor is then sold to a
rectifer, at which time the producer enters
on government book the capacity of the
barrel, number OF stamp, name OF the liquor
and date of sale and the rectifer's name.
On the receipt of the liquor by the rectifier
he enters on government book
the date Of the receipt, from
whom received, where located, name of
the inspector, date OF inspection, number of
wine and proof gallons, name of the liquor
generally NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of pack
ages, number of revenue stamp and
the number OF the tax paid stamp. The
next the gauger gauges that liquor which Is
reported on blank No. 81, which shows the
same as the book above mentioned, at which
time form No. Id (the bumper so
called from the fact that as the authority by
which the rectifer dumps the liquor from
barrels into the rectifying vats) is made out,
which must agree with the gauger's report.
The liquor is then poured out into the
rectAer's vat, ia dumped, "in the,presence of
the gsuger, whose duty tits to see that the
marks and brands on the barrels destroyed,
at the same time the gsuger certifes the
"dumper," form l22, as having seen the
liquor dumped, barrels emptied and
THE STAMPS SCRATCHED orr AND DE-
sTRoYED.
After the rectifer draws off the liquor from
the vsts for the market, he notifies the col
lector OF the district that he has withdrawn
the liquor, and wants q gsuger. The collec-
tor then Issues an order to the gauger On q
form made for that purpose, to 60 and gauge
the liquor, which is done and a rectifer's
stamp placed on the head OF the
barrel, which stamp shows the name OF the
gsuger, number of gallons, name of col
lector, for whom gagged and the date. This
stamp is then cancelled the same as the
others, at which, time q stencil is put on,
giving the name OF the reetifier; at that time
the wine and proof gallons, any outs there
msr be- in the barrel is then cut on the bung
stage, together with the proof OF the whisky.
The liquor Is now entirely out of the hands
OF the government, bat trace of IL is yet
he mast keep in q book the name of the
purchaser, and the purchaser must keep In a
book-both books open TO the officers of the
revenue-the name of the rectifer from
whom he purchases. It will be seen by the
foregoing that re liquor is measured and
guarded from the corn and mash-tubs to the
wholesale dealer, who sells 1t to the retail
man, and no fraud can be con-
summated without the cODnivanee OF
the government officers. Where the
dishonest distiller gets in his work is in
having the eauger certify on the dump"
that he has destroyed the stamps, when he
has not, and in having the storekeeper al
low him to run liquor out without its going
into the bonded warehouse. Stamps are
also raised, as, for instance, q stamp for
ten gallon package is allowed and is raised
to so gallons and used.
Chsrivari tells of negro named Domingo
in one of the French colonies, who, speaking