The Portland daily press., 1884-12-02
$ also can be effected without prejudice to our

This also can be effected without prejudice to our
export trade.
In regard to our Internal revenue taxes, I have
70 say tnat, as these taxes with the exception or
the tax upon whiskev, ought not TO be and will not
be needed for revenue II appropriations are kept
within reasonable bounds aad rigid economy is es-
tabshed In all branches of the public service see
no good reason for their continuance The tax
upon bank note circulation I shall refer to in my
remarks upon national banks. Taxes upon agrieul-
tnFal productions, although indirectly levied. are
inconsistent with genery policy and tobacco is
the only one Of these productions which has been
taxed. An article which is 80 generally used, and
which adds so much the comfort OF the large
numbers OF our population who their living by
manual labor, cannot properly be considered lux
ury and as the collection of the tax is expensive
and Troublesome to the Government and is espec-
iaily obnoxious and irritauVe TO small manufac-
be removed.
The TAX upon whiskey could not be repealed With
out disrega OF public sentiment, nor without
creating necessity for higher duties upon import
ed goods, but while this is true the TAX upon the al
cohol used In manufacturing might DO removed
win decided benefit to home industry and foreign
Under the provisions OF section g, ,43s Revised
Statues as amended, spirits used in the msuufsc-
ture for export of certain enumerated articles are
freed from the tax of 80 cents per gallon. This law
mas greatly increased the expectation Of the articles
therein named.
These articles however, constitute but a very
small portion OF those In the manufacture Of wbicn
alcohol Is used or in which it would be used it
not for the tax thereon
In GTeaJ Britain spirits have been used in manu-
factures froe Of tax since the year 1856, the spirits
having been previously mixed withwood naphtha or
'methylated'
L is understood that spirits thus methylaiel are
uniis g. be used rs beverage, while they rsmain
uniDJurod for the general purposes Of mauufactur-
ing 1t ia suggested therefore, that provision DO
made for the use Of domss stic methyiated Spirits,
free OF tax as measure tending 10 encourage man.
ufactures, both for home use and Tor expectation.
EXPORTS AND IMPORTS.
The total value or the imports aud exports OF
merchandise during the year ended June 80. 1884,
Amounted to 81 ,405, 211 302 rs against 81 b45,-
VZO,3l6 during the preceding fiscal year, showing
deerease OF 8 l3S 809,O14.
The value of the exports Of domestic merchandise
amounted 70 S724 964 S52 as against S-O4 22S-
632 during the preceding fiscal year showing de-
crease OF $79.25S 7S0; and the value Of the i'm
ports OF merchandise amounted to $667 6S7, 1913
as against 3.lS0 91t during the preceding fiscal
year, showing decrease of $50 ,4S3 221.
The total value OF the exports of merchandb
both domestic and foreign production exc-e&
total value OF the imports of merchandise SSy
9l6, as against an excess Of Sl00,65S, - -. -.
year.
The exports of specie from the United States
during the last fiscal year amounted to Sa7 1885,
3S3 as against S31 1896, 1888 during the preceding
fiscal year; and the imports Of specie amounted 10
S37 ,426,262 as sgainst S2S, ,4S9 3J1 during tho
preceding fiscal year. The Of Exports OF
specie over the imports thereof amounted to S2V,-
7O1 ,l2l as against Of So $50 942 in such
exports during the preceding fiscal year.
The following table shows the nature Of our ex-
ports during the fiscal years 1883 and 1884:
1883. 1884