Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-02-20
ADD1rIosAL REVENUE.
The New Bill introduced by Mr.
Dawes.
Whiskey, Tobacco, Sugar, Etc., to
Afford the Increased Taxes
Called For.

whiskey, Tobacco, Sugar, Etc., to
Afford the Increased Taxes
Called For.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.-The text
of the revenue bill reported to the
House to-day by Mr. Dawes is as fol-
lows:
A bill to further protect the sinking
fund and provide for the exigencies
of the Government:
Be it enacted, That from and after
the passage of this act. there shall be
levied and collected on all distilled
spirits, on which the tax prescribed
by law shall not have been paid, and
whether the said spirits shall then be
in distillery, bonded warehouse or not,
tax of one dollar on each proof gal
lon when below proof, to be paid by
distiller, owner or person having pos
session thereof. before removal from
the distillery or bonded warehouse,
and so much of section 325l of the Re-
vised Statutes of the United States as
is inconsistent herewith is hereby re-
pealed provided that. in addition to
the tax of 20 cents per gallon imposed
by the law now existing, there shall be
levied and collected tax of Is cents,
being one half the increase of tax I'M
der this act, on each and every proof
gallon of wine when below proof of
domestic distilled spirits manufactured
and placed in bonded warehouse prior
to the day when this act shall take eff
feet, and held in bonded warehouse at
that time, and on all-such spirits held
by distillers. rectifers or wholesale
dealers having in their possession, or
under their cotrol distilled spirits or
stamped packages. And any person
who shall sell, transfer, or otherwise
dispose of any such distilled spirits
after this act takes effect, until an ad-
ditional stamp, to be especially printed
for this purpose by the Commissioner
of Internal Revenue, denoting the pay
ment of the additional tax of Is cents
per gallon herein imposed, ispurchased
and attached to the packages, or pack
ages containing the same in such man
rer as the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue shall prescribe, shall be SUBJ
ject to and pay penalty of one dollar
for each and every gallon so removed,
and spirits so removed shall be forfeit
ed to the United States. And, provi-
ded further. that on all brandy, gin,
rum and all compounds and prepare
lions of which distilled spirits are a
component part of its chief value, en-
bracing all forms of distilled spirits
imported from foreign countries, on
which the duty, as fixed in the Revised
Statutes, is two dollars per gallon, the
duty to be hereafter levied, COL
lected and paid shall be 81 80 per
proof gallon.
Sec.2 That section 1868 of the re-
vised statutes be and the same is here
by amended by striking out the word.
twenty cents per pound, and inserting
the words twenty-four cents per pound,
provided that the increase of tax here
in provided for shall not apply to to-
bacco, on which the tax under the ex-
listing law shall have been paid when
this act takes effect. boss
Sec. 3. That so much of section
34t37 as imposes stamp tax on friction
matches, lucifer matches, or other ar
ticles made in part of wood and used
for like purposes, be and the same is
hereby repealed, to take effect On and
after the first day of July, 1876.
Sec. 4. That on all molasses, not in
Guiding tank bottom syrup of sugar
cane juice, Melado. or concentrated
Melado, and on sugars according to
the duties, standard in color, imported
from foreign countries, there shall be
levied, collected and paid, in addition
to the duties now imposed in Schedule
G, Section 2504, ofrevised statutes, an
amount equal to % per cent of said du-
ties as levied upon the several grades
therein designated.
Sec. 5. That so much of section
2503 of the revised statutes as provides
that only 19 per cent of the several du-
ties and rates of duty imposed on GER
tain articles therein enumerated by
section 1904, shall be levied, collected
and paid, and the same is hereby re-
pealed, and the several duties and rates
of duty prescribed in said section 1904.
shall be and remain as in that section
levied without abatement of the 10 per
centum, as prescribed in section 25O3.
Sec. 6. That the increase of duties
provided by this act shall not apply to
any goods, wares or merchandise on
board and bound to the United States
on the 10th day of February, 1875, nor
on any such goods, wares or merchan-
disc on deposit in warehouses or public
stores at the date of the passage of this
act
The committee agreed yesterday to
favor the repeal Of that part of the
present law which requires stamps on
bank checks, ETC., but this morning
they struck out the contemplated re-
pealing section before reporting the
bill to the House
An answer to the following resolu-
ton of inquiry, passed by the House
last Monday on motion of Mr.. Atkins,
of Tennessee, will be looked for with
interest: Il
Resolved, that the Postmaster Gen
eral be be, and he is hereby requested |
to inform the House whether B. Fl. |
Peterson has not contract for carry
ing the United States mails on the Mis-
sissipi river and on the Indian river,
or on any other river, and, ifso, at what |
rate of compensation on each contract;
and whether said Peterson is the own
er or captain of any steamboat on Ell
Their ofthe said mailroutes, and wheth-
er he employs others, who are owners
or captains of boats. to carry the mail
for him, to whom the whole or any part
of such compensation is paid and also
whether the Postmaster General did
not lately determine to annul the said
contracts with the said Peterson and
give them to another at great saving
to the Government, giving the amount
of such saving and the reason why he
did not carry out such intention.