Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-12-04
INTERNAL REVENUE mi IL.

The annual report of the commissioner Of
internal revenue, which has just been complet-
ed, predicts that receipts from internal revenue
taxes will during the present fiscal year reach
| illicit distilleries have been relied! In order
to provide AN ample force to suppress Illicit
distilling, Gen. Raum recommends, an ammo.
priation of 100000 as deficiency to be used
during the present fiscal year. During the
year ended June 80, 1879, 8l1s, ,62l Of inter-
treasury. The receipts from distilled spirits
for the year 1879, as compared with 1878, show
an increase of $2,l49, 46S, as compared with
1878. The increased production of spirits dur
ing the fiscal year 1879 was Ii, 789, 568 gallons.
The increase of production of manufactured
tobacco the last fiscal year was l2,026,s2l,
pounds; of the number Of cigars and cigar
| cites 1874, l77,7l9.
The report is very voluminous and contains
a large number of tabulated Statements.
Sixty-three hundred and sixty-four persons
have been arrested for illicit distilling, and
twenty-seven ofhcers and employees killed and
forty eight wounded while engaged in enforc-
ing internal revenue laws. ...I...4
In this connection the commissioners says:
"It is clear to my mind that in some portions
of the country, for considerable time to come,
reliance cannot be placed upon the State courts
for Furnishing citizens who commit murder, or
assault to murder, upon our officers while en-
gagged in the performance Of their duties. It
seems to me of the utmost importance that the
United States should, under its own laws and
through its own courts, undertake the trial
and punishment of persons who are guilty of
assault to murder officers while engaged in, or
on account of, the performance of their special
duties, and I have the honor to renew the re-
commentator made in my last report of the
passage of such law by Congress-"
The increase in the number of legal distiller-
les. he says, will materially augment the ex-
pense for storekeepers and gaugers, and will
make it necessary that deficiency appropria-
ton be made for the present fiscal year Of
$4,000.
1t is recommended that where spirits are
withdrawn in good faith for expectation, and
diligence is exercised in their transportation,
and Losses occur by evaporation OF accident,
that no tax shall be levied for any such loss,
and that provision of law be made for the ex.
portation of alcohol in metallic cans of ten gal
Ions and upwards.
A comparison of receipts from the several
sources Of revenue for the first four months of
the current fiscal year, as compared with a cor
responding period in 187s shows IN increase of
62l ealions) produced and deposited in distii-
lery warehouses during the fiscal year, was
greater than the quantity produced during any
other year. The closest approximation to this
product was that of the year ending June go
1870, which was II ,337, 0O9 gallons The pro-
uuCtlOu Oh tne uscaA year 4o.U was OBVIOUSLY
excessive, as it fell to 54,776,546 gallons
in 1871, and it might be apprehended that the
product of the year would fall far below that
of 1879, but when it is considered that IL, S37,-
ISL gallons of spirits were exported during the
year of 1872 and that the foreign demand is
unabated, it seems probable that the large pro-
duct of the early portion of this year will be
continued during the year.
Regarding the production and movement of
distilled spirits during the first four months
of the present fiscal year, the report says: 1t
shows that the foreign demand Of last year is
steadily maintained, while the production ia
N,941, 4S9 gallons greater than for the CORES
Withdrawal Of 2,958,95o gallons greater
than for the same period last year. If the
business of these four months is maintained
during the balance of the fiscal year, which is
scarcely to be credited, the production will be
over 81, 0O0, 900 gallons, and the amount of tax
received will be over $45, 75O,O0O. There
were during the year 5,448 distilleries regis
tered and 5 347 operated.
During the special tax year ended April 80,
1879. there were 49,464, 42l proof gallons of
spirits rectifed. The quantity of spirits, 49,
2l2,4 gallons actually remaining in the ware
The following figures show the increase or
decrease Us to the various kinds of spirit ex-
ported in the year 1878, as compared with the
wear 1878: