New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-10-03
THE NEWS OF THE CAPITAL.
DEPARTMENT GOSSIP.

THE STATES WHICH PAID THE REVENUE. AND
WHAT 1T COST To COLLECT 1.-THE wHISKEY
TAx-PENsioNs.
A statement is presented in a special tele-
gram to The TRIBUNE. printed below, show
ing the cost of collecting the rev
enue in the different States and the
amounts paid by many of the States.
The facts are interesting. number
of distiers are coming to Washington to
argue in behalf of a reduction of the whiskey
tax. The large majority of the claims for
arrears of pensions have been settled.
THE REVENUE OF THE LAST YEAR.
THE AMOUNT PAID ny THE PEOPLE OF THE DIE
TERENT STATES COST OF COLLECTION -
CHANGES N INCOME on DIFFERENT ARTICLES.
lRY TELEGRAPH rRIBUNE.i
WASHINGTON, oct. 2.-Some interesting facts
have been obtained respecting the amount of inter
nal revenue collected during the last fiscal year
and the cost of collecting 1t.
The whole amount Of internal revenue
collected was Sll3,5G1. G1O. and the cost
of collection S3.527956. The total receipts
were - iG2.9Si greater than for the pre-
vious year. 1t Will be understood that the
law reducing the tax on tobacco did not
60 into effect soon enough to cause any material
falling of in the revenue from that source in tho
last fiscal year.
While the amount Of revenue collected in
creased over two millions, the cost Of
collection was $72S.454 less In 1879 than
in ISIS. The average cost of collection
throughout the whole country was trife over
Per cent excluding the territories. where the cost is
necessarily much greater than in the States.
The eleven States which seeded paid
last year S11,G27,0s0 Of internal revenue, and
the cost OF collecting it was S753.62l. about
Il, tr~,,a fbn 40
cost OF collection for the whole country.
South Carolina paid only S1Os7S2. and the
cost of collection was $50 535; while Ne
lTaska paid more than 1877. 297. and the
cost of collection was only S15.Ss3. considerably
less than one-half as much Alabama paid $l29, SO,
cost 500, $50. while in Connecticut. which paid
Sl2O.33O, the collection was only S3O,6l0.
kentucky paid $7.6iO. sos of revenue, OF about
one-hslf much as Ncw-York, but tho
cost of collection per 500 in Kentucky
was about fourteen times as great in New
York. In Mississippi the amount collected was
Sss.249 and the cost 500, $50; in Maine the
amount was S3OG,6s5. and the cost only
SlG.72j Tennessee paid S912,s59, and the
cost of collection was S1Oj5Oi. while In
Michigan the amount paid was II .657, OIL. and the
cost of collection only S11957. Illinois. New
York and OHIO each paid more than ali the seeded
States. Illinois paid Sl9.4999l4. New-York
SIj.4jO,4I9 and Ohio S159l9.7 5G The cost of
collection IN those three States was as follows:
Illinois. $4OG,j26; Ncw-lorh, S2J2i22; Ohio,
Sl96,433
The total revenue derived from the tax upon
banks and bankers other than National banks dur
Ing the last fiscal year was S319S.ss5 a decrease
n compared with the previous fiscal year OF
E29314S The falling off IS attributed 10 the loss
on confidence by depositors In savings banks owing
IN rhe number Of failures in the last two years and
10 the increase In the limit Of exemptions upon de-
p0>itS bv tie Act of March /. 1873.
Tie total decrease in the revenue Tor the months OF
July and August OF the present fiscal year. as COM
pared with the same period of the previous year. Is
r9O 1OO -. made up a. follows Decrease IN reVe-
nue. from tODac tax. r1.&l2,l94 Oh banks and
bankers other than National banks, Sl,@SS 50;
miscellaneous. SOB. - - { tai. 81 3O1,25l 80;
increase IN revenue from tax 'n spirits, II ,V3I,-
80 10: icrneu,c,l Liquors. 81 So 69 -; total,
El.9l714J o. balance decrease, $50, -.