The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-12-01
TELEGRAPHIC


Warrington, 49,. Internal Revenue
Commissioner Raum, in his annual re-
port, repeats his Recommendation of last
year, that the tenure of Office for collect
ors be fixed at four years. The commits
sioner details the work done in eonnec.
tiop with the additional taxes due from
banks, and shows there has been ALREADY
ascsrtained to be due 1922. 705 from
seventy banks in Chicago, New York.
Baltimore, Boston and Philadelphis. a
considerable portion Of which has been
collected and paid into the treasury.
Other collectors have been instructed TO
examine the banks of their respective
districts In regard to their liability for
the additional tax. The commissioner
says he is satisfied large additional sums
are due government from this source.
The attention OF Congress is called To
the idea Of individual stamps for cipars
The amount Of distilled spirits in distil.
lery warehouses, on the LIST of Novem her.
was $4,000, goo gallons, an increase Of
Z, 40e, 0o0 gallons over last year, The
great bulk Of these spirits is held in Ken.
lucky, and they are chiefly what are
known as 'sour mash" vhiskies.
The amount in warehouses on July LIST.
1885, produced in the year 1879.
was 3, ~, 1852 gallons, the tax upon which
Will fall due during 1882. An increase
IN the salary of the deputy commissioner
and he ds of divisions is recommended.
The total amount Of collections frem to-
6aeco for the fiscal year ended June 80.
1881, was $42,854, 99l. This amount in
cludes the collection Of internal revenue
Imposed on imported manufactured to-
oscco, snuff and cigars and special taxes
paid by manufacturers of tobacco, snuff
and cigars, and by dealers, in leaf and
manufactured tobacco, and is more than
the receipts from the same source for the
fiscal year ended June 80, 1880, by 49,
1884, S51. Commissioner Raum recon-
mends term of four years for subordi.
mates, with graduated pay; and when
retired, to receive retiring pay equal to
one months pay for each year Of service.
The statement is submitted which shows
the receipts of internal revenue for the
fiscal year 1879 were $113, 44e. Cpl; fiscal
1880, $l23, 1881 ,916; fiscal year ended June
80, 1881, $135, 229,9l2; and the receipts
for the first four menths Of the present
fiscal year $50,S76,970, being $7,061, 722
In excess of the receipts for the CORES
pending months of the last fiscal year.
The commissioner says: If this increase
should be maintained during the remain
ing eight months Of the fiscal year, the
receipts for 1882 will be fully $157, 00o,-
600 Whenever government will allow
the reduction of internal taxation, in my
opinion it will be wise to confRe these
taxes to distilled spirits, malt liquors, to-
bacco and its products, and TO special
taxes on manufacturers and dealers in
these articles, and to fix the taxes at such
rates as will yield good revenue neces-
sary to be raised from these sources. I'm
mediately after the close Of the last fiscal
year an examination showed that collec-
tors had accounted for all public moneys
which came to their hands. During the
past FIVE fiscal years $500, 3lO, 797 have
been collected and the entire amount
paid into the treasury, without any loss
to government by defaIcation +; the entire
expense of the past five years, $21, &c.,
600, being 3.37 per cent upon the amount
collected, and in the disbursement of this
money there had been no loss to govern
ment.
Pensioning the widows and orphans of
officers killed in the service is advocated.
The struggle maintained the past FIVE
years for the suppression of illicit dis
filling has resulted in the killing of
twenty eight and Wounding of sixty.four
officers and employees.