Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-11-27
Our Internal Receipts.
Annual REPORT OF COMMITS
sIoNER MILLER.
THE SOURCES OF REVENUE.
Tobacco, Spirits and Liquors Contribute
Generously to Uncle SANS Pocket
book Marked Decrease in the
Number of Special Taxpayers.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.-The annual
report Of Joseph S. Miller, commissions
Of internal revenue, was given to the
press. MI. Mlller's report shows that
internal revenue receipts from all sources
during the past fiscal year were Sl24,-
1926, 475, or nearly four and a half mill
ions more Than his estimates. His esti-
mates of receipts for the current year
are 1925, 900, 900, providing that no
changes are made in existing rates of
taxation. The cost of collection during
the past year aggregated 1878, 2S3, be-
ing less than B.. 2 per cent. of the amount
collected, against "a per cent. in 1887.
The estimated expenses of the service
for the next fiscal year are put down at
"a, 1875, $50.
During the past year tobacco and its
manufactures yielded $50, 500, 431 v
nue., against $50, 10S, t67 during the pre-
ceding year; spirits. $69, 306, 166, against
$6h, 529, 321 in 1887; fermented liquors,
$23, 324,2lS last year, against s2) ,922, lS7
| the year before. The revenue from oleo-
margarine during the past year amount
ed to So, 644, 039, and for eight months in
1856 and '87, when the tax was first placed
on, it aggregated S723, 94S. During the
past year 5lS Illicit stills were seized and
removed or destroyed. and one officer
Deputy United States Marshal Tram
nell of Arkansas-was killed. The year
| previous there were 1855 seizures.
The number of gallons of spirits pro-
duced from grain during the year, 6S, 1885,
100, shows a decrease OF 1856, 216 gal
Ions from the product of the preceding
year, and is 13, 514, SIT gallons less than
the average product, 81, ATT gallons
for the last ten years.
In reference to the proposition to re-
peal the tax on fruit brandies, distilled
from any kind of fruit, Commissioner
Miller says the reduction in the revenue
by the abolition Of the tax upon fruit
brandy is not to be measured by the sub
traction of the present collection from
that source. A considerably larger
amount would in all probability be lost,
while mischief to the revenue service
and increased difficulties in the enforce
ment of the laws as to grain and molasses
spirits, out of all proportion to the
amount of tax surrendered, might be Sc
rionsly unprecedented.
The commissionerdevoted considerable
space 20 o~leomargarine, its production,
MAJ IL cture, and taxation, 81, 557, 627
poIn &c we're produced at manufactures
duriDz the year, and 81, 694, 627 between
Nov. ], 1856, the day on which the oleo-
margarine law took effect, and June 80,
1887. There appears, he says, to have
been a small increase in production dur
ing the year, ::a9 the demand for con-
7 : sumption at home and abroad is increas-
ing. A considerable decrease in the
number of manufacturers, as well as
wholesale and retail dealers, is reported.
Commenting OF this Commissioner
I MIUcf says: 11he decrease in the num-
Z pr or special taxpayers, has become a
subject of great solicitude to this
Office, as it may be partly due
to fraud. The statement appended to
the report) as to the production and use
of oleo oil shows that more than twenty
seven million pounds out of a product
during the year of 89, coo, 600 pounds of
this subject, invented for the sole purpose
of being used in the manufacture of a
butter substitute, was neither exported
nor used, as shown by, reports received
at this Office, in the manufacture of oleo-
margarine. The question as to what
actually becomes of this material will
never be satisfactorily answered until
the manufacturers thereof are compelled
to account for it with the same particu-
larity as they are required to account for
the article subject to tax. 1t is doubt
less used in the manufacture of some
food product, such for instance BIS
cheese. 1t cannot be economically used
as a lubricant in the face of the fact that
it's markat price is nearly double the
price of taliow.