Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-18

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in receipts in everything, except molassel
rum. He gives some suggestions regarding
the use OF alcohol for industrial purposes
Special figures for Pennsylvania are giver
by The DISPATCH staff correspondent
WASHINGTON, November 17.-Commis
sioner of Internal Revenue Mason, in hi
report regards the general condition of the
service throughout the country as very sat
isiactory. One thousand two hundred an6
fifty-three violations of internal revenue
law have been reported by the revenue
agents during the year. Six hundred and
fifty-nine persons have been arrested on
their information. Property to the value Of
S137, ,4O4 has been reported by them
for seizure, and $4,000 for assess.
ments for unpaid taxes and penal.
ties. The number of stills seized
was 456 resulting in the arrest of 636 per-
sons and the death of one and the wounding
of two officers of the service. High tribute
to the revenue agents is paid for efficiency
and fidelity. The commissioner says he
does not regard the present force as
sufficient for the important work
intrusted to them. He, there
| fore, recommends that the force be increased
from 20 to 80, and that their travelling ex-
penses be increased. The total expense of
the service for the next fiscal year is esti-
| mated at 81, ,266, $50.
| INCREASED TOBACCO MANUFACTURES
The increase in the quantity of tobacco
and snuff and in the number of cigars and
cigarettes for the last fiscal year over those
taxed during the previous fiscal year was:
Manufactured tobacco, II, ,535, ,636 pounds;
snuff, 26,631 pounds; cigars, 22,658, 800;
cigarettes, 2SS, ,7S9, ,26O.
The export account shows an increase in
manufactured tobacco of lis, 1873 pounds, an
increase in the number of cigars exported
of 266, 700, and an increase in the number of
cigarettes exported of 65, ,909, $50. The num-
Der OF cigars imported during the year was
sc, ,0S7, ,407. The value of the manufactured
tobacco imported was Sl7O,353
The total number OF special taxpayers is
given as $50, ,134, Of whom $50, 013 are deal
ers in manufactured tobacco.
AN INCREASE IN DIsTILLERIEs ALSO.
The whole number OF grain distilleries
registered during the year was LAO, Of
which number ,267 were operated, an in
crease of 140 in the number registered and
with the previous year. In the class of
larger diStillerieS there was an increase Of
two in the number registered, but there was
an increase of 68 in the number operated.
There were {, 3,126 fruit distilleries regis
tered and 3,072 operated, an increase of 442
in the number registered and Of 465 in the
number operated during the fiscal year. The
total number of grain, molasses and fruit
Il nd al Il
the year are 1876 and 4,S49, respectively.
The number OF gallons Of spirits produced
from grain during the year (87, ,8S7, ,456 gal
lons) shows an increase of 19, 499, ,296 gallons
over the product (6S, 3SS, 100 gallons) of the
previous year, and is A. 161, $50 gallons more
than the average produced (S3, ,726, ,306 gal
lons) for the last ten years.
DECREASE IN MoLAssEs RUM.
The quantity of rum distilled from mo.
lasses during the year (1,471, ,054 gallons),
shows decrease of 400, 1872 gallons from the
product of the previous year ,891, ,246 gal
lons) and is $40 gallons less than the
average product Il 564 gallonS) for the
last ten years.
The Commissioner renews the recon-
mendation of his predecessor in regard to the
expediency of taxing all fractions of gal
Ion of distilled spirits, and expresses the
hope that legislation will be had to remove
all opportunity for evasions of existing law
on this subject.
The increase in the production of Bourbon
whisky is IA, ,497 ,175 gallons; rye whisky,
2,870, ,078; gin, 156, ,97S; high wines, IL, ,059;
pure, neutral or cologne spirits, 90, al; mis-
cellaneous, 1,135,069. Total increase, 49,
695, 800 gallons.
ALCOHOL IN INDUSTRIAL ARTS.
In regard to the use of alcohol in the in
dustrial arts, the Commissioner says that in
view of the fact that the special temptation
to demethylation is to secure a cheap alco-
holic beverage, the Importance of separating
methylated spirits from all stocks of such
beverages is very great. 1t is also equally
important, he says, to keep methy- |
lated spirits out of the hands |
of distillers and rectifers who use stills, as
it is impossible to demethylate spirits with !
out the use of stills. He estimates the |
quantity of alcohol annually used in the |
arts and manufactures at 100000 gallons. |
The quantity of fruit brandy of all kinds |
Withdrawn from distilleries during the year !
to be deposited in bonded warehouses was |
991, ,632 gallons.
The quantity of distilled spirits in the
United States, except what may be in Gus
toms bonded warehouses on October 1, 1889, |
was 102, ,65O.962 gallons. The average
monthly production OF oleomargarine |
during the fiscal year was 2,972, ,0O2 pounds. |
OPERATIONS IN PENNSYLVANIA.
The collections in Pennsylvania for the |
year aggregated SS, 500, ,796 Sc. Of this the
First, or Eastern district, contributed So
O37, ,945 46. The Ninth district gave up ST.
T58,O76 2S, the Twelfth furnished $685.
292 SO, and in the Twenty third, or Western
district, which includes Allegheny county,
was collected So, 1854 %.
Only one person was arrested during the
year in Pennsylvania for violation of the
revenue laws, and that was in the Pittsburg
district.
Property seized for violation of internal
revenue laws in Pennsylvania amounted to
only 294 gallons of spirits, worth 1925. In
Pennsylvania the number of persons paying
the special tax during the year is as follows:
Reetifers, 1872, retail liquor dealers, $50;
wholesale, 322; manufacturers of cigars,
8. S10 dealers in leaf tobacco 294; dealers in
tobacco, As, OBJ; manufacture
ers OF tobacco, 80; brewers, 26S; retail deal
ers in malt liquors, 428 wholesale, 233; re-
tail dealers in oleomargarine. SO; whole
sale, 4.
An interesting table is given OF the num-
Der OF liquor dealers paying special each
year since 1878, for the special tax year end
ing April 80. Pennsylvania begins with
l5, 548 retail dealers in liquors in 1873,
reaches the maximum OF 9.540 in 1887,
drops to Il, 1872 in 1888, and to g, $40 in 1885,
The wholesale dealers numbered 451 in 1873,
reached 511 In 1884, and gradually decreased
% 322 in 1889.
The number of stills registered in Penn
'ylvania during the last fiscal year was 104
If which 90 were operated.
Special Sale-Pluah Sacques!
300 fine plush sacques, SIS to $25, best
Yalues ever shown.