The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-11-10
co,lMIssIoSEn,kvASs, REPORT.
The Receipts aud Expenditures Of the In
p ternat Rcyenue Bureau,

<'eS HsSSS'Pka Aoh expenditures Oh the l.
ternat hevenue bureau. ~
WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. 9.-The an
nual report OF Hon. Walter Evans, Com
'nissionero Internal Revenue, for the fis-
cal year ended June 20, 1854, has
been submitted to the Secretary of the
Treasury. The total receipts from all
sources OF internal revenue taxation for
the year are Sl9l, ,590,039 as compared
with sl44,a53344 ior the year 1883, and
Sl+6, 5o3. 273 for The year 1851, and sl3J.-
al, ,9le for the year 1881. IT is estimated
Sll5,0OO,0OD will be collected the presen;
!siscal year. Payment OF the tax on the
large production OF spirits in 1851 was a
material factor in the collections during
the past year. a,tf. =
!, \ comparative statement OF the receipts
tor the fiscal years OF 1883 and 1884 shows
a decrease OF Sl6,Hl $50 from tobacco, an
increase OF S2,5SG,6l from spirits, an in.
crease OF Sl,ls4,33S in fermentcd LIQUORS
and a decrease OF sl0,G42,404 from taxes
under repealed laws and penalties, making
a total decrease OF So W., ,3305. The cost
OF collection the past year was s., lOO5ll
as compared with $40, ,a57 in 1883. This
includes $4,000 for the accounts of store
Keepers and guasers for the last half OF
June. 1851, that were not paid, owing
10 the appropriation being exhausted
and for which deficiency IN appropriation
will be needed. The total expenses were
little lees than 1 10 percent on the
amount collected. The Commissioner
says the diminution OF the gross receipts
could not proportionately affect the cost OF
collection as nearly the same force had to
be retained. 7J, -'
During the year 81 stills were seized
and 9O2 persons arrested for engaging in
illicit distitlation. The Commissioner saws
strong representations were made In vain
to Congress at its last session against the
policy OF 4 reduction OF the force OF reye-
nue. agents below the number Of thirty.fiye
liked in the revised statutes. Only twenty
can now be lawfully employed. This
leaves too nany avenues for fraud expos.
ed and the commissioner says he fears it
will result in much injury, as it is difficult
for any ono man efficiently to do the
work belonging to the revenue agent in a
territory embracing sometimes three or
more States and never less than two.
BY comparing the, receipts for the last
fiscal year with those for the fiscal wear
Immediately preceding 1t, the decrease in
revenue from tobacco was SlG,04l, $40, and
BY comparing those receipts with the re-
ceipts for the fiscal year ended June 30,
tSS2, the decrease was S2l ,3999, $50. The
last comparison more nearly shows the
effect OF the reduction oi the, tax on to-
bacco under the &C, OF March 3D., 1883, for
the collection Of those two fiscal years was
made under the different rates OF tax. But
this comparison is not complete owing to
the fact that the production OF tobacco,
snuff and cigars for the last fiscal year
shows large increase over tlre production
for the fiscal year ended June 10, 1882.
The decreaso>in receipts compared with
the fiscal year OF 1883 was S., ,64S. .355 on
chewing and smoking tobacco, s2S7 ,sll on
snuff, sG,526, 40 on cigars, and S.15, 500 on
cigarettes. There was an increase OF ii in
the number OF grain dlstilleries registered
in the las. fiscal year, and a decrease OF
Is in the number operated. The increase
in the numbertegistered occurs, as vast the
case in the preceding fiscal year, in n class
Of distilleries having smaller capacities for
the production OF spirits. FS