The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-16
INTERNAL REVENUE FIGURES.

The Annual Report of Commissioner
Mason.
WASHINGTON, Nov 15.-The annual re-
porto John w. Mason, commissioner of
internal revenue. has just been submitted
to the Secretary of the Treasury ,and shows
total receipts for the last fiscal year from
all sources of S14,603, ,416. an increase of
SO. .440,719 over the receipts for the
previous fiscal year. The re-
ceipts for the first three months of the
present fiscal year were $SS, ,742, ,6Ss,
an increase of $797. .S09, over the receipts of
the corresponding period of the previous
fiscal year. The cost Of collecting for the
past fiscal year was $4,2l0 ,6O4, or 2. .8S per
cent. of the receipts. Tbs cost for the
previous pear was 2S2 per cent. of the COLI
lections The estimated expenses for the
next fiscal year are 81, 522, $50. During the
year 69S stills were destroyed and 81 were
removed, involving the arrest of 37S per-
SONS.
TAXES FROM TOBACCO.
The aggregate amount of taxes collected
from tobacco during the last fiscal year was
1872, ,796, ,27O.
The decrease of the collections for the last
fiscal year as compared with those for the
previous fiscal year was SIG, $40. This is
due to reduction by the act Of Oct. /, 1890,
Of the tax on snuff, chewing and smoking
tobacco, Jan. l, 1891, from to cents per
pound, and to the repeal Of special taxes
relating to tobacco, July 1, 1891. The tax
on cigars and cigarettes was not changed,
and the collections tberefrom were in
creased &, 1856, $50.
INCREASE OF THE PRODUCT.
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taxed tobacco and snuff over the fiscal year
of 1890 was 5,605. 1884 pounds; the increase of
tobacco and snuff exported was ,2S9
pounds, and the increase Of tobacco and
snuff imported and withdrawn for con-
sumption was 165, 701 pounds
The increase dufing the fiscal year of 1891
of taxed cigars was 387, ,002, ,7S4 and the de-
crease in the cigars exported 40, ,966. and of
cigars imported and withdrawn for con-
sumption was 209, 704, ,729.
The increase Of taxed cigarettes was 451,-
284, ,0S0 and in cigarettes exported 35, ,224 =
200. The decrease of cigarettes imported
was 594 S75.
The amount of the claims for rebate
taxes on tobacco and snuff under the act of
Dec. IS, $780, allowed and paid is 81, l 1l8, POP !:
the amount rejected 81, ,9S4, and the amount
outstanding $l4,973.
The commissioner recommends the
repeal of sections 1864 and 1898 of the
Revised Statutes providing for the use of
caution labels on packages of tobacco. He
says both these sections are wholly unneces-
sary; that they require manufacturers to
incur needless expense and add to the petty
penalties with which the system is over
burdened.
THE DIsTILLERIES.
The total number of grain, molasses and
fruit distllleries registered and operated
during the year is 4, 4,049 and 3,Sl9 respect
lively, a deci case OF 2, ,3S1 in the number reg
istered and decrease of 1892 In the num-
ber operated. The quantity of spirits
Q15.962. .3S9 gallons) produced and deposited
in distillery warehouses during the fiscal
year ended June 80, 1891, is more than the
production CO9. .275 928 gallons) of the year
1890 by 9 ,686, ,461 gallons. The difference is
distributed among the different kinds
as known to the trade as follows
Increase in the production Of high wines,
45l, ,49S gallons; rye whisky, 989, ,9l2; alco-
hol. 906, ,373; rum, 126, ,506; gin, 80. 934; pure
neutral or cologne spirits, 1883, ,507; miscel-
laneous, 5,3Sl, ,9o2; total increase, s,229, $50
gallons. Decrease in the production of
bourbon whiskey, 2,543. 1863 gallons; net in
crease, 6,6S6, ,461 gallons.
The quantity Of spirits In distillery ware
houses June 80, 1891, is the largest quantity
so held at the close of any fiscal year. This
stock on hand has grown from 81, ,000, 900 in
1888 to $500, 900 in 1889, to SO. .700.0 600 In
1890. and finally, from the above quantity
to nearly 1900, 600 In 1891.
The quantity Of distilled spirits In the
United States, except what may be in Gus
toms bonded warehouses, on Oct /, 1891,
was l52, ,945. .773 gallons, this quantity being
distributed as follows: In distillery and
special bonded warehouses, 106. 539. .49S gal
Ions; in the hands of wholesale LIQUOR