The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-11-21
THE PUBLIC REVENUE
Annual Report Of the Commissioner Of In
ternal Revenuc-IntcrestinE Figures.

TO06bS
Annual Report Of the Commissioners Of In.
ternal Revenuc-IntcrestinE Figures.
WASHINGTON, November 1O.-The an
nual report Of Hon. Walter Evans, Com
missioner of Internal Revenue, for the fisca
year ended June 80, 1884, has been sub
mitted to the Secretary of the Treasury
The total receipts from all sources of inter
nal revenue taxation for the year is 1921,
500, O39 as compared with S f4,553, 3g4 fol
the year 1888, S14G.5a3, 273 for the veal
1882, SAG, 523, 273 for the year 1882, and
S135, 229, 912 for the year 1881. 1t is esti
mated that S115,O00,OOO will be collected
the present fiscal year. Tie payment OF
tax on the large production of spirits in
1881 was a natural factor in the collections
during the past year. The Commissioners
says falling of is anticipated the present
year. will follow from the diminished guam
titles of bourbon and rye WHISTLES produced
in 1882, on which the tax will mature the
current fiscal year. Another cause con
tributing ; to the reduction of re-
ceipts will be the largely increased ex
pOrtatiOn of spirits in bond, OIL which, fol
various reasons, owners can not pay tax,
Something like 10,000, 900 gallons alrcad,
have been forced abroad during the curren,
calendar year because of the stagnation in
trade and the refusal of Congress to extend
the Bonded periods. A comparative state
ment of receipts for the fiscal years 1888
and 5S4 show a decrease of SIG, $50,
from tobacco, an increase of So, 535, G10;
from spirits, an increase of 81, 1874 ,33S: from
fern anted liquors. a decrease of SO, "a 2,4Oi:
from laces under repealed laws and penal
ties, making total decrease of S22 1858, 305
The cost of collection the past year was So
1OO,a51. as compared with SIS, 1O5,957 In
1888. This includes S5S,O00 for accounts
stOrtkeepers and gaugers for the last half OF
June, 1884. that were not paid owing to the
appropriation being exhausted, anil fol-
which deficiency an appropriation will be
neeGed. Total expenses were little less
than 4 Is per cent of the amount collected.
The Commissioner says the dminuiton of
the gross receipts could not prOpOrtionatcly
affect the cost of collection, as nearly the
same force had to be retained. During the
year SIT stills were seized and 002 persons
arrested for engaging in illicit distillation.
The Commissioner says strong representa-
tons were made In vain to Congress at its
last session against the policy of reducing
the force of revenue agents below the num-
Der of thirty-five fixed i'm the revised stat.
utes. Only twenty can now be legally en-
plOyed. This leaves too many avenues for
fraud exposed, and the Commissioner says
he fears it will result in much injury, as it
is difficult for any one man efficiently to do
the work belonging to revenue agent in
territory embracing sometimes three or
more States, and never less than two. BY
comparing the receipts
FOR TIE LAST FISCAL YEAR
with those for the fiscal year Immediately
preceding it, the decrease of revenue fiOin
tobacco was SlG.O4 $40, and by comparing
those receipts with the receipts for the fiscal
year ended June 80, 1882, the decrease was
S21, 3a9. 5SS. The last comparison more
nearly shows the effect of the reduction of
the taI on tobacco under the act IF March 8,
1883, Tor the collections of those two fiscal
years ,gere made under the differenG rateg
of tax. But this comparison is not complete,
owing to the fact that the production OF
tobacco, snuff and cigars for the past fiscal
year shows large increase over the pro-
duction for the fiscal year ended June 80,
1852, q decrease in receipts compared with
the fiscsl year 1888, was SS,64S355 on chew.
ing and smoking tobacco, S2S7, S11 on snuff,
S6,526,410 on ecigars, and S4I5,56G on
cigarettes. There was an increase of forty.
one in the number of grain distilleries regis
tered thu last fiscal year, and decrease OF
eighteen in the number operated. Tine in
crease in the number occurs, as was the
case in the preceding fiscal year, in
the class of distilleries having smaller
capacities for the production OF
spirits. In the class of larger distillerics 4
very decided reduction occurs both in the
number registered and the number operated.
The quantity,Of grain used in the produc-
ton of spirits the past fiscal year was 49,
927, 9S2 bushels an increase of 243. 195 bush
els above the amount used in the preceding
fiscal year, but 5, l37, S97 bushels less than
the average of the last five years. A cor
responding increase appears in the number
of gallons produced from grain during the
year, 73, 924, 5S1 gallons, an excess of ,4S9,.
4O6 gallons over 1888. The quantity of
mOlasseS used for the production of rum the
fiscal year was 2,259. $50 gallons, decrease
of 1850 gallons from the year previous
and decrease of 255.452 gallons from the
average OF the last five years. The guam
tity. of rum distilled from mOlaSses
was LILIES gallons, decrease OF
90,SU2 gallons from 1883 and decrease
of 2U4.674 gallons the last five years.
A comparative statement of spirits of
,o;,,,'. -, ,aroho,, ~ ~ u" os .,s,
fSoai 49, 1850 anJ 1891 chew Tho, W Will, W.,
$50 49, ;,aroo,a +, Al s,oo,, - o,oohnI
1,, o., ~ U Ill W. E,.,
1,,no % Zee. nror t tha o,,nn.i,r ha,d guna
." ,oOo IS - 90 n,,ip, IL eu 80 un '.
49," ~, IL d,o =, thar "r,das of 90,
'.;";,oI,,. g, - az. ,,, w Jp'.S ..
y no co., n ~ ~ "," ~ %nnn''aso ~
q 90 30 s me- ,,"Ii =, 80 vi
80 eo ,ss' ,ao,,, e ~ tt;,is y. =" ,' JI
,uas h,,rhon nh;si,. IT. o y, m"o ~