Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-12-26
REVENUE COLLECTIONS.
BENEFITS Derived From the Enforcement Of
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Cen. Raum, commissioner of internal re-
Venue, will ask Congress to make an appro-
priation of $4,000 to increase the efficiency
OF the collection service, and especially for
the suppression of frauds in the manufacture
of distilled spirits. Gen. Raum, in asking
Congress for this additional appropriation,
will be able to show that the rigid enforce
ment of the revenue produces a much larger
revenue This is striksngly illustrated by a
comparison of the revenue collected last
year in five of the districts wher illicit dis
filling is the most extensive with the re-
venues collected in the same dis
tricts this year for the fiv 9
months ending Dec. /. The dis
tricts where the moonshiners have conducted
the most extended operations are the Fourth,
Fifth, and Sixth North Carolina, and the
Nashville and louisville districts in Tennes-
| see. 1t was not until this year that Com
missioner Raum had been able to organize
q sufficient civil force to break up Illicit dis
thing. 1t has only been during this year
| that an attempt has been made to vigorously
| enforce the laws by the using of an enlarged
force. The result is very significant, as
shown by the following comparison: The
| receipts from the North Carolina districts
for the five months of last year ending Dec.
were 1871, 1884; for corresponding period
this year they are Ss445,951.
| In the Fifth North Carolina district last
| year for the same period, the receipts were
$339, 1854. This year, for the same period.
under the new policy, they are S552,ls an
| increase of almost quarter of q million
dollars.
In the Sixth North Carolina district last
year, which IS the mountain district, the re-
ceipts were for five months $1OO,9S4; this
year, for corresponding period, $139, 800.
| In the Nashville, Tenn, district last year,
1888, 546; this year, 1907, 78O.
In the Knoxville, Tenn, district last wear.
Wal ,453; this year, $45,304.
In these districts a number of small legal
dlstllieries are now being established.
| In the Sixth North Carolina district in
November, 1877, there were twenty honest
olstliler1es IN operation. There are
now seventy eight doing legal busi-
ness. Commissioners Raum is of opin-
lon that these figures of themselves are
sufficient reason why Congress- should in
crease the appropriation to the amount
which IS necessary to enforce the revenue
| laws. AS matter of revenue, it is a good
Investment for the government.
Some Important news is soon expected of
revenue operations in Wayne county, KY,
and two adjacent counties in Tennessee. The
collectors of the eastern and western Ken
lucky districts and of the eastern Tennessee
district are working in conjunction with an
ample force of revenue officers, and are con
centrating upon these three counties from
three different directions. These counties
are among the worst 80 far as illicit distilla-
ton is concerned. Il is expected that the
body of men now operating against these
vlolators of the revenue laws have already
| succeeded IN capturing a vast amount OF
property and making many arrests in this
! wild and desperate region.