New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-06
ASSERTED WAREHOUSING FRAUDS.
4 METHOD BY WHICH DUTIES HAVE BEEN EVADEl
on COSTLY WINES.

on COSTLY WINES.
Revelations of fraud in the storing of goods
IN bonded warehouses heve been made dnruG the past
week and the subject of investigation 10y the Gus
tom house officials The first result 81 the investigation
YVES mentioned in Yesterdays TRIBUNE IN the arrest OF
the neu beers Of the fr1n Sprngmann Geohai'i I'm
ySris wine ut No 81 aud 66 Broadst ltis CLAIMED
that the facts which have come TO light show con
spraey which has existed for some time past between
certain dealers liquors and the owners Of bonded and
free warehouses defIaud the Government Uf large
suuls az money The Of conducting the alleged
frd was as foilow= Certain persons bon led 90
fr,- warehouses which adiOn each other communication
between them beung very easy Fine ehami@gncs,
brandy and wines, which suhect t" the payment "f
heavy duties, aud which have arrived recently from
abroad are put into the bonded warehous"s, and the
cheapest kinds Of wnos, &c, male OF cider charged
with oarhnic acid gaa pure spirits favored
with cheap essence, nre put by the same
persons or their ccnfcdcratcs IN the free ware
houses adjoining. By COLLISION with the bobd"i
warehouse men, the cheap liquors are poured into the i'm
ported and the fine wines and brndies are trans
ferred iutO the packages in the free warchonses The
cass the bonded warehouse are sod according TO their
marks and original brands subject To the duy and the
other packs withdrawn from the fre warehouses
after storage has been paid and there is no DUTY 10
pay sOd according To sample, and, OF course on;
the highest price Thus the Government is defraiici
douhiy. The internal revenue tax levied on liquors
OF the duty the impaired goo Ia avoided In most
the imported casks which contain the quality
OF transferred liquors permitted 20 remain In the
bonded warehouses and not reclaimed and are sold
~ pay the duty which If charged - them. When the
Packages examined they found to contain poor
liquors and rarely bring enough 10 pay the dnims
Humiliation by the ClstOrn-hoitsc officials already
shows that frauds Of this character have been
CARRIED for the past ycHr. dur which several PEI
soIs who previously In the li1uor business have
become bonded wsrcliousenon. Further examination
promises to reveal the eXsteuce OF raudu nj tTahsac-
Of this k'ud whereby the Government h' been de
fraued uf thousand dollars TIC hooks OF bon ted
and warehouse in state and Brid9sts have hfs'
uuder examination for several days past hut the result
Of the Investigation Is not yet known.
Deputy Surveyor ktinck who made the Investigation
into THE matter says that lie has received information
that Il firm Tcierrd above several years atr
Importing wine had exported the again IN bond
that IT, without paying the duty The transaction Ill
opved could not have occurred without either NEGLECT
conbvsRee the mart Of the Government st"rekecrr
The champagne which fraudnl'ntly removed paid q
dnty Of SO sket. an aggregate OF S222 Oh me 81
cases lit possible Ia one class az gd~ In
the 'sorbed. II p0ssih" 10 remove Others
aud while the figures can not W. oven II reasonable 10
suppose that the Government Las lost large amount OF
money.