Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-03-15

regarded as dealer in tobacco, and the
payment of any other special tax shall
not relieve any person who sells cigars,
cneroots or cigarettes from the payment
of his tax
Provided. That no manufacturer of CT
gars, cneroots or cigarettes shall be re-
CURED to Pay special tax as dealer in
tabacco as above defined for selling his
own product at the place of manufact-
ure.
SEC. 8. Appropriates $4,000 for ex-
penses Incidental to carrying the above
into effect
| SEo.5. That Section $50 of the Revis-
Cd Statutes of the United States and all
Jaws, ana parts OF laws which impose re-
stflcflon on the sale of leaf tobacco be and
are hereby repealed.
SIC. IL. That Section 1885 of the Re-
Vlsed Statutes of the United States be
amends by striking out all after said
number and substituting therefore the
following:
And the commissioners of internal
revenue. with the approval of the Secre-
tary of the Treasury, may exempt distil-
lers of brandy made exclusively from ap
pies, peaches, grapes or other fruit
from any provision of this title relating
so the manufacture of spirits except as to
the tax thereon, when in his Judgment it
msy seem expedient to do SOL
SEC. u. That the provisions of an act
entitled "An act relating to the produc
ton of fruit brandy, and to punish frauds
connected with the same" approved
March 3, 1887, be extended and made ap-
plicable to brandy distilled from apples
or peaches, or from any other fruit tbs
brandy distilled from which is not now
required, or hereafter shall not be requir-
ed, TO be deposited in distillery ware
house; provided that each of the ware
houses established under said act or
which may hereafter be established, shall
be IN charge of either a storekeeper or
q storekeeper and gauger, at the discre-
ton of tie Commissioner of Internal
Revenue,
SEQ. Is. That section 1882 of the Re-
vised Statutes and the supplement there
to shall be amended so that said section
shall read as follows: "When a Judgment
OF forfeiture in any case of seizure is
recovered against any distillery used or
ut for use III the production of distilled
spirits because 10 bond has been given or
against any distillery used or fit for use
III the production of spirits having a
registered producing capacity of less
than $50 gallons day, every still doublar,
worm, worm-tuo, mash-tub and ferment-
ng-tub therein shall be sold, as in case
of other forfeited property without
| being mUtilated or destroyed; and in case
of seizure OF a still, doubIer, worm,
worm-tub, fermenting tub, mash tub or
other distilling apparatus of any kind
whatsoever for any odense involving
forfeiture of the same, it shall be the
| duty OF the seizing officer to remove the
some from the placed where seized to a
place OF safe storage, and said property
so seized shall be sold as provided by
law, but without being mutilated or des-
troyed."
SEC. Il. That Section $3.50 of the Re-
vised Statutes of the United States be
amended by striking out all after said
number and substituting therefor the fol-
lowing: "The Secretary OF tho Treasury
may exempt all distilieries which mash
less than twenty-five bushels OF grain per
day from the operations Of the provisions
OF this title relating to the manufacture
of spirits except as to the payment of
the tax, which said tax shall then be levied
and collected on the capacity of said
ulshIll5Eles, HEU bdiu UlStllIeTlSS Bnail Jn6n
be run and operated without stor6keep-
ers, or storekeeper and gaugers; ana the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with
the approval of said Secretary, may
establish special warehouses in which he
may authorize to be deposited the pro
duct of any number of said di5tilleries,
to be designated by him, and III which,
any distiller operating any such distillery
may deposit his product which when so
deposited, shall be subject to all the laws
and regulations as to bonds, tax, removals
and otherwise as other warehouses. The
Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with
the approval of the Secretary Of the
Treasury, is 1ereby authorized and di.
rected to make such rules and regulations
as may be necessary TO carry out the pro-
visions of this section; provided, that
such regulations shall be adopted as will
require that all the spirits manufactured
shall be subject to the payment of the
KIT according to the law"
SEC. Is. That, whenever it shall be
made to appear TO the United States
Court or Judge having jurisdiction that
the health or life Of any person impris-
oned for any offense ia county jail or
elsewhere for a period of one year or less
is endangered by close confinement, the
said court or Judge is hereby authorized
to make such order and provision for the
comfort and well-being of the person SO
i'm prisoned az shall be deemed reasonable
and proper.
SEC. 16. That all clauses of Section
1924 of the Revised Statutes, and all laws
amendatory thereof, and all other laws
which impose any special taxes upon
man ufacturers of stills, retail dealers in
liquors, and retail dealers in malt liquors,
are hereby repealed.
! SEC. II. This act shall be ia force from
and after July l, 1888, and all laws and
parts of laws in conflict herewith are
hereby repealed.
The total reduction in revenue made by
the bill is about $25,O0O,0O0, made up Of
$20,000,000 on tobacco and S5,O00,00O of
various special taxes removed.
By a party vote, the Ways and Means
Com mittee decided that the bill should
be added 10 the Mills Tariff bill, making
one bill of both. There was spirited
controversy in committee on the question
of allowing hearings on proposed tariff
changes, and the subject will again come
up at to-morrow'5 meeting.
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