The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-12-07
REVENUE REPORT.
Report OF the Commissioner OF Internal
Revenue-Increase of Observation-Disclosures
of


Report OF the Commissioner Of Internal
Revenue-Increase of Receipts Estimate
of Expenses.
WASHINGTON. Nov &c Hon. Joseph S. Nil.
Ter, Commissioner Of Internal Revenue, has
made an elaborate report to the Secretary Of
the Treasury OF operations Of that service dur
ing the fiscal year ended June 30 last. The to
tai receipts were 3,6,4s5-an increase OF
1888, ia over those OF any year since 1881
when they aggregated s1i4, sos,3 45. The receipts
were also A3s6 415 more than the estimates
The estimated receipts for the current fiscal
year are ELS, 600, 40 provided no changes
are made in the existing rates OF taxa
ton. The Withdrawals for consumption
during the year were as follows:
Spirits distilled from apples, peaches
and grapes $50 f01 gallons; other spirits, 70676-
3ss gallons: fermented Ii Quors, 1850 ,219 bar
rels; cigars. 3,s4I7se,6J0; cigarettes 1,s6s, 49,
100: snuff. T4S699 pounds: tobacco. chewing
and smoking 2Ol. 1913 pounds; oleomargarine,
p 667, 1o5 pounds. This shows large increase
as compared with the previous year. The cost
Of collection Of internal taxes was 3,97s, 2s3-
less than 30 per cent of the amount collected.
The cost Of collection for the previous year was
8.46 per cent. OF the amount collected. Seven
hundred and eighty-oue persons have been
rested for revenue violations; property to the
ure, and t13,6l9.l4 for assessments for unpaid
taxes and penalties. and SIS Illicit stills were
seized, resulting in the death OF one officer and
the wounding OF another.
Tobacco and its manufactures yielded $50
&c.. 431 revenue against SO 10s, SG7 the proceed
ing year: spirits 500 300 1896 against s5s $50 32l
in 1887, and fermented liquors ga. 81, 21s last
year, against %, %, 1S1 the year before. The
revenue from oleomsrgarne during the past
al ca A %
months in 1856 and 1887 when the tax was first
placed it aggregated '7239iS. The production
OF tobacco, snun. cigars and cigarettes during
the year as compared with the previous year is
stated as follows: Tobacco. pounds, 2Ul, 9l5 964:
snuf, pounds. 7i3G99; total tobacco and SNUFF,
s09. 362 362-increase over last fiscal year 2s63.-
03l tobacco and snui exported, IS, 504, total
production for fiscal year 1887, 30 22s 44 total
production for fiscal year 1885, 2e2 Sos 3d. total
increase over fiscal year 1885, a,63s.3s5. Cigars.
number, ASA 10, $50; cigarettes. number, 1,s5s.
126 100. total taxed 500, 75b: increase over
last fiscal year, 33i,6i2, l07. Cigars. exported.
1865: cigarettes, exported, lSl.7 so. total
product for fiscal year 1881, 5,5I&,640 99s; il
crease, 709. 25S. 400
The number OF distilleries registered during
the year vas 1924, and the number operated
$685. and the number of grain distileres reg
istered was l,S0l, of which 1,029 were operated.
an increase over the previous year Of 140 in the
number registered and of sixty in the number
operated. There were 2.6si fruit distilleries
registered and 2S67 operated. a decrease of
1,Sl2 of the number registered anc 1919 in the
number operated.
The quantity of spirits C8.s,9,4 n6 gallons) pro-
duced and deposited in distillery warehouses
during the yearis less than the production "a
S8l-599 gallonsl OF the year 1887 by 7,552,-
193 gallons. There was an increase
amounting to 4,s21,6 gallons in the pro-
duction OF alcohol. rum, gin, pure, net
trail or cologne spirits and miscellaneous
and decrease amounting to 12,37t $50 gallons
in the production of bourbon whisky, rye
whisky and highwines- The quantity of spirits
Go,141,S11 gallons withdrawn, tax paid, from
distillery warehouses during the year is more
than the quantity t66, 1s3, 31S galons) withdrawn
from distillery warehouses during the year ISIS,
by 1853, sos gallons. II the quantity (2635, 19s
gallons), stated by the chief of the bureau
OF statistics, OF exported domestic spirits re-
ported during the year upon payment of n Gus
toms duty equal TO the internal revenue tax be
added. the quantity virtually Withdrawn from
distillery warehouses during the year is found
to be s6 1's,68 gallons, or 4,1T.Go more than
during the year 49,, including the 2,2l6.e45 gal
ions reImported and tax paid during that year
There was net decrease of 1U9, 1oS gallons in
the quantity OF spirits withdrawn for export as
Compared with the previous year.
The aggregate amount OF taxes collected from
tobacco during the year was ts06Ra43l. Thi-
amount includes internal revenue taxes paid by
stamps on imported manufactured tobacco
snuf. cigars and cigarettes. and is an increase
OF s554.3y4 over the collections from this source
for the previous year. The export account
shows a decrease in manufactured tobac-
CO of as410O pounds. a decrease in the number
of cigars exported of Ace i25 and an increase in
the number Of cigarettes exported OF ~. $3.50.
Of INN he 1S-
cal year ended June 80, 1855, was Si.2J3. 80 The
value OF the manufactured tobacco imported
was s., 531.
The Commissioner devotes considerable space
IN his report TO the subject OF oleomargarue
and includes reports By the analytical chemist
and the microscopes, copies of laws relating 10
oleomaryarne now in force in European coun-
tries and copies OF letters and reports as to
countries having no soecial laws on the subject
of oieomargarine. but having general laws re-
iating to food adulteration. The quantity of
olaomarEariue produced from November l. 1876,
the day on which the law took effect, 10 June
80. 1883 was 56.CeIIs pounds: lost or de-
stroyed. 6ls19 pounds; remaining in factory
June 80 last. Bis $40 pounds There were 5.5 I93
pounds OF oco-aargarine il the United States
June 81 last of which Si5aD1 pounds were in
the hands OF the manufacturers 1888 pounds
IN the hands of the wholesale dealers and 1,0JG,-
go pounds testims1ed} in the hands Of the re-
tai dealers.
The estimated expresses of the internal reve-
nue. service for the fscaI year ending June 81,
1899, including salaries and expenses OF officers
and employees, stamps, paDer. the detection OF
violations of law etc. aggregate A.1S5.2Sl.
This also includes an estimate OF $1,000 for en-
forcing the act TO prevent the manufacture and
sale OF adulterated food in the District OF Co
lGmbia-