Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-12-08
INTERNAL REVENUE REPORT.

the Last Fiscal Year--States Which Com
tribute the Largest Amounts--Number
and Glass of Special Tax-Payers--Spirits
Withdrawn 80 Disbursements of Sugar
BOunties.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.--The annual report OF
]. 5. Miller. commissioner Of internal revenue,
shows the total receipts from all sources for
the fiscal year ended June 30, 1894, to have
been $l47 ,449 decrease for the year OF sl3,-
S36,540. The following figures show the re-
ceipts from the several sources during the last
fiscal year and the increase or decrease as
compared with the year next preceding:
Spirits sS5 ,259 252; decrease, 10, ,46l OoS.
Tobacco $,s,6l7 S9s; decrease, $3,27l,si3
Fermented liquors, S3l ,4l4,7Ss; decrease ST.
1884,
Oleomargarine, 81, ,723. 40; ino.rase, s52,s36.
Banks and bankers, $2.26 no 'hange.
Miscellaneous, $li7, ,449; decrease, Sl3,-
1886, $50.
The quantities Of spirits, etc., on which tax
was paid during the last fiscal year, with the
increase or decrease as compared with the
ilscal year 1853, are given rs follows
Spirits. distilled from apples, peaches and
grapes. 8So5sS gallons, deerense- 25eass.
Distilled from other materials. ~ sass8 1874 gal
EionS; decrease, t0,iiiaif
/ Bset1aented hauaFs, ss,S3s.sss barre.s;. ae.
crease, i.siss1s.
Number of cigars, cheroots and cigarettes,
weighing over 8 pounds per 1000, 4066,9l7, ,433;
decrease, 747,279,6S4.
Cigarettes, weighing not over 8 pounds per
| 1000, 3, ,183, ,573, 100; increase, 6,88l 900
| Cigarettes, weighing over pounds per 1850,
20s,370 increase, 203,37o.
Snuff, II ,627 092 pounds; decrease 2S5, ,80,.
| Chewing and smoking tobacco, 235 451 ,s05
| pounds; decrease, l6,9479f4
| Oleomargarine, 66429,9O0 pounds; increase,
1 1856 125.
| or the receipts by states, Illinois is at the
head of the list with $50 942 ,223, Kentucky next
with S24 ,308 $3.50, New York next with Sls,922 II,
Ohio with Sl2454 1903, Pennsylvania with sl2,-
ISL 1856 The cost of collecting the internal rev.
enue during the last year was 1885 800, or go
per cent. of the collections.
| The total number of Chinese registration cer-
tifcates applied for under the act of November
B. 1893, was l06,Sll, at cost up to June 80, 1894
Of S42, 1899.
VIOLATIONS OF LAW
The estimated expenses of the internal rev.
enue service for the fiscal year ending June 30
1896, are given as 81 is59S70.
The report shows the work of the bureau Is
in excellent condition, both in the office Of the
commissioner and in the field Two thousand
two hundred and seventy-nine violations
of internal revenue laws have been re-
ported by the bureau agents during the
year; 632 persons were arrested; property tc
the value of ,l9l was reported for seizure
and SiO.271 for assessment for underpaid taxes
and penalties. OF the 1.0l6 illGit stills seized
90S were DESTROYED and los removed, an increase
for the year of ai0 In each of the Georgia ant
the Fifth North Carolina districts 23l still.
| were DESTROYED
The actual number and class OF special tax
payers in the United States on June 80, 1894
is given as follows Retail liquor dealers, 2l5,
4l9; rectifers, 1,49i wholesale liquor dealers
4565; manufacturers of stills, 26; brewers
sos; retail dealers in malt liquors, 1888
wholesale dealers in malt liquors, 5,5l5; manu-
facturers of oleomargarine, 81; etail dealer
in oleomargarine 7,i00; wholesale dealers II
oleomargarine, 2l7. Total, 249,l37. which is
decrease for the fiscal year of l,456.
The number OF distilleries operated durin
, the year was 5,i4s OF this number ,54l wer
for grain, twelve for molasses and $685. TO
fruit. The quantity Of grain used for the pro
duction OF spirits during the year was 10, ,1l6
sl8 bushels, a decrease Of q,3l3,59l bushels
The yield of spirits from each bushel of graf
was 4.42 gallons, as against 424 gallons for ls9
and 4.35 for 1893. The report shows the numbe
year was 62, 1873: hogs 25,554.
The kinds and quantities OF spirits produce
and deposited in distilling warehouses durin
b the year is shown in gallons as follows: Boul
I bon whisky, l5.51s3 $40; rye whisky, lo,0265
alcohol, lO570,070; rum, 1,s64,595; gin, l,2S797
t highwines, 1265S0: pure, neutral or cologr
n spirits, 35,3T lis; miscellaneous, li,43i336.
e SPIRITS WITHDRAWN
y The amounts of the leading kinds Of spirit
e | withdrawn from warehouses during the YET
d are given in gallons as follows: Bourbc
d whisky, 30 ,97s; rye, 9,5l2,03s: alcohol, 10
i 30i 1926; cologne spirits, 81 47i,235 mscellant
: Gus, 13,47i,235. Total, 81. .0s7 6l3.
G The amount Of distilled spirits withdrawn Il
G export during the year 1894 was 6,ll4,4l7 ga
: Ions, as against 8, 3,762,23l exported in 1893 II
r amount of spirits in warehouses on June
: 1894, was 1877 ,O7S gallons,
r During the fiscal year, ended June 80, 1850
63ia licenses were issued to domestic sug;
u producers intending to claim bounty on the
S product, and Sl2l00,20s, net, after deduc
It ing refundments, were disbursed by this o
IS flee, in payment of approved boun'
o claims. During the fiscal years endt
e June 80, 1867, and June 80, 1893, s7,3i2,0T al
k S9375, 1870, respectively, were disbursed
+, bounty on sugar, making, with last year
IS bounty, a total disbursement of S!S,sl74l5, e
= elusive of administrative expense incurred
executing the boun,y law.
'' SUGAR BOUNTY.
The following shows the amount of the val
ous kinds of sugar returned, bounty paid Teen
omitted, etc, during the fiscal year 1894:
= Cane sugar officially returned Gil ,l56,922: n
n bounty paid Sll,ll4599; claims involved 3,2
ID Beet sugsr officially returned, 1871 ,296; n
lie bounty paid, ss25l74; claims involved sixt
m two.
Of Sorghum sugar officially returned, l.s0i3-
& net bounty paid, sl7.3lo; claims involved, ten
S, Maple sugar officially returned 7,663,60S Il
a bounty paid SIG l2l; claims involved, 4,62s.
l. Total sugar officially returned 665. 1851 Il
r bounty paid, ST., ,l0O2Os; claims involved, 10
Offcial returns and bounty claims on ha
l. show that the following amounts OF bounty
r sugar produced during the existence of t
is bounty law were unpaid at the time of the
IS peal of this law, on August %, 1891 (cer
G. omitted;
n On maple sugar, slas,73a; beet sugar Ss6,7
n cane sugar, S3l 232; sorghum sugar, S4S6. Tot
n $24l,lsa.
er SOLD AT A SACRIFICE,