The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-11-14
INTERNAL REVENUE.
a Review of Commissioners Evans Annual
Report-Receipts More than $23,00O,-
900 Less than in 1888.


Report-Receipts More than S23,0o0,-
900 Less than in 1888.
WASHINGTON, Nov. l0.--The annual re-
port of Hon. Walter Evans, Commissioner
Of Internal Revenue, for the fiscal year
ended June 80, 1884, has been submitted to
the Secretary Of the Treasury. The total
receipts from all sources of internal revenue
taxation for the year were $121, $50, 039, as
compared to S144, 553, 344 for the year 1888,
SAG, ,273 for the year 1892, and S135, 229,-
912 for the year 1881. 1t is estimated that
$4,000, 600 will be collected during the pres
ent fiscal year. The Commissioner says a
falling off is anticipated In the present year
that will follow from the diminished guam
tlty OF bourbon and rye whiskies produced
il. 1882, on which the tax will mature dur
ing the current fiscal year. Another cause
contributing TO the reduction of receipts will
be the largely increased expectation of spirits
In bond on which, for various reasons, the
owners can not pay the tax. Something
like 10,000,000 gallons have already been
forced abroad during the current calendar
year.
A comparative statement of the receipts
Sor the fiscal years 1888 and 1884 shows a
decrease of SIG, O41, $50 from tobacco, an in
CASSNoO Vi %1;OOOO1U HUH SplIIJS, ill III
crease OF S31, 1S4. 1873 from fermented
liquors. and a decrease of S10.642. 4O4 from
the taxes under the repealed laws and PEN
alties, making total decrease of So, $685.
30S. The total expenses We're little less
than four and one-ffth per cent. OF the
amount collected. The Commissioner says
the diminution of the gross receipts could
not prOportionately affect the cost of col
lection no a n 40
retained.
BY comparing the receipts for the last
fiscal year with those for the fiscal year im-
mediately preceding it the decrease of rev.
enue from tobacco was $16,04I,S49
There was an increase of Al in the num-
Der of grain distilleries registered during
the last fiscal year and a decrease of Is in
the number operated. The increase in the
number registered occurs as was the case
in the preceding fiscal year, in the class of
distilleries having smaller capacities
for the production ofspirits. In the class
of larger distilleries a very decided
reduction occurs both in the number
registered and the number operated. A COM
parative statement of the spirits of different
kinds known to the trade remaining in the
warehouse at the close Of the fiscal years
1883 and 1884 shows that while there was
an increase in the stock of alcohol, gin,
high-wines and pure spirits, there was
decrease in other grades of spirits,
principally in bourbon and rye whis-
kies, of 17,750,694 gallons. Nearly two
thirds was bourbon whisky. The quantity
Of spirits produced and deposited in
the distillery warehouses during the fiscal
year is greater than the production for the
year 1888 by / ,422, 431 gallons. The quanti-
ty Of spirits withdrawn from distiIlery
warehouses for the year is greater than the
quantity withdrawn during the year 1888
by 2,90l,377 gallons The, quantity of dis
titled spirits in the United States except
what may be i'll customs bonded ware
houses, on October l, 1884, was 96,81O, 521
gallons.