The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1885-11-24
INTERNAL REVENUE.
COMMISSIONER MILLER SUBMITS Hia
ANNUAL REPORT.
The Largest Collections Were Made in
Illinois and the Smallest in Vermont
- Special Legislation for Dis
titled Spirits.

WASHINGTON CRY, Nov. "a Tho annual
report OF the commissioner OF internal rev.
enue shows that the receipts of the bureau
Tor the last fiscal year were SIZE, Al 12I, a
decrease Of 50, l5S.919 from those of last
year and Of over S., 90 900 from the esti-
mates. The largest cjllect were made
In Illinois, amounting to $23. 075, s65,
Kentucky seconi with S4,s42, AS,
New York third with sl3 S23. Gas,
Ohio fourth with 81. 56j $40, Pennsylvania
fifth with 81 81, 2O9 Missouri sixth with
~. 2'd, l65, and Indiana seventh with 1,03l,-
S01. The smallest collection was made in
Vermont, and amounted to $50, So The
cost OF collection was a. 455, $50, against
Is 01G. ga for the previous fiscal year. Six
hundred and twenty-four violations of in
ternal revenue law were reported and 23l
parsons were arrested. The commissioner
recommends an increase in the number Of
revenue agents
The number Of grain distlleries registered
during tho year was 1,l9j, of which only
9l8 were operated. The commissioner asks
for legislation taxing all fractions of a gal
Ion OF distilled spirits, as several
large distillers have substituted pack
ages OF ton gallons capacity and up
ward In place Of the ordinary
spirit barrel, in order to obtain the
benefit Of the untaxsd fraction as frequently
mends that the provision of the law under
which grape brandy products are permitted
three years. storage OF their products in
special bonded warehouses be made applica-
BILE to distilsrs OF brandy from all fruits.
The quantity Of distilled spirits in the
United States, except what may DO in Gus
toms bonded warehouses Oct. l, 1885,, was
", LOT, 026 gallons, and the average stock
Of each retail liquor dealer in the United
States is estimated at 100 gallons There
was u decrease of 81, $50 Ola of the assess
ment' on distilled spirits made during the
last year from the amount assessed in the
previous year. mainly because the production
OF distilled spirits three years ago was less
than it was for four years ago and because
large quantities OF spirits, Oh which the tax
had been due were bonded for export and
uttered to remain in the warehouse with
out payment or assessment OF the tax for O
period not exceeding seven months. Allud-
ing to the transportation OF exported spirits,
the commissioner says:
Besides the 1000, OUO gallons OF domestic
spirits on which the internal revenue tax
mas never been paid, which remained in
store in foreign warehouses at the close of
tho year, there then remained in distlery
warehouses IL, 220 Alb gallons of spirits,
ing the three years from the date Of the en-
try for deposit 1t appears that under an
opinion of the attorney general of Dec. "a,
1854. such spirits as are covered by trans
portation bonds or expectation bonds are
allowed to ROMAN in distillery warehouses
during time reasonably necessary in the
process of expectation, even after the ex-
piration Of the three years limit fixed by
the warehousing bond. This time was
limited by my predecessor with the ap-
prevail Of tho then secretary of the treasury
10 seven months Not being able to see tho
necessity for so long time to ac-
romplish the transportation of the spirits to
the port Of export, l have. with the ap.
prevail Of the present secretary, re lucsd tho
time to thirty days, and limited the
time within which such bonds may be filed
as to collect the tax on or before the expira-
ton OF the time (three years. within which
spirits may remain in distilling warehouses.
The only time now obtainable in excess of
the three years is that which occurs
through the necessary delay in enforcing
the paynent of the tax