Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-08-16
SECRETARY CARLIsLTs LETTER.
10 the Asting Chairman oT ibs Finance
Committee.

WAsuSurON, Aug. l6.-Sscretary
Caflislu's IL ~ follows:
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Oillcu UI the Secretary,
Washington, ID. C., Aug. 10, 1894.
Hon. Isuam q. Harris, acting chair.
man finance committee;
Dear siI;-Your letter sdyisinE mo
that the HOute Of Representatives had
passed aud sent 10 the Senate biIlB
putting sugar, coal, it0n ore and batbed
wire on the free ] NJ aud requesting au
Official statement as 10 the effect
thc passage Of these bills or
uithef 0i them would have uuou
the revenue Of the government,
h received, and IN response, 1 have the
honor 10 say that according 10 the must
careful estimates that can DO made in
tue proposed revenue legislation which
hus recently passed through Congress,
tho total receipts into Tue treasury
during the current fiscal year will bu AZ
iullOwH
Estimated revenues for hscaI year
ending June 80, 1895, from dutiCs on
Imports, seuSte bill, including si8, 900.
900 ON sugar, Sl70,uOO,OOD from inter.
nal IaNce, whisky sos, 900, 900; tobacco,
Sl3,OOOOUO; iermenloI liquors $3.50, 900.
uOui Income tax, sl6,OO0,OOO; oironiAf.
gaFine 100000, paying cards 81.
100000, miscellaneous, 5000, 900,
total Internal taxes sl7D. 900, 900; from
sale OF public lands aud other misce.
hneous sources, 100000, 900; total osli-
mated revenues, s37s 100000. The
estimated receipts Tor the present year
from the proposed tax ON Incomes aud
playing caTus and the pro.
pused additional tax Of 20 cents Dor
gallon on distilled spirits are, Il viii be
observed, much lees thAu IN stated Ia
Tue various tabulated statements which
have heretofore been used Ia the DIS
cu'sion Of these subjects. but / am
satisfied tho amounts here given are
approximately correct.
The proposed Income tax will not be
payable by the terms vi the bill Fecoul-
ny pasttJ until son or before July /,
lo01i whiuu IN the ClOso Of the fiscal |
year, anu u IL estimated by tho com.
missioner Of Internal revenue that by
reason Of thu large stock on hand, the |
receipts from the tax on playing cards !
VIII not amount to more than 81 900.
900 during this year. The estimated
luctuuse Of receipts GA account OF the |
HHffNNh"A VA va AtbAlllNA HlAiNAh AAllnk /
TIE prtsent Year has alfeauy been pre- |
vented 90 great extent by Withdraw. !
lug lsrge quantities VI goods irsm tue |
bonded warehouses aud the pay meut Of |
tux thereon Mt on cents per gallon, anu |
'hs prooo'u II still going on. The total |
expenditures durng the current htcAl |
year VIII Uu rs follow:
Covert and miscellaneous, including |
N'hoionry In postal revenues, 100000. !
UOui war, iuclaulug rivers auu hAtuurs, |
a4a,uOO,OuO, navy, including ueI YES. |
5els anu HtmamtnIf, s38, 0JU,O IN.
NHu, slO,UOO,UOO; pentiurg, sli3,uUO,. |
W Ni lhululeresi, S6O,5UO,OUO. Tue total |
expenditures, 1896, OUO,OOO. Estimated
'a'Wus lof year, 1000, 900. The DUTY |
900 sugar proposed / tho recent hi, |
WI, according ~ imporlatluus Of thai |
'iHciu uuripg the fiscal yoar 1893, |
ylell an annual revenue OF fi3. us ,h8s,
uhu tue duties ON the Otusr atiiciyB
mentioned IN your communication
would yield under that biz, about
elOlO OOOi that Ii to any, Iron ore,
t.'o,52J, coal, si06, lao, and batbrd
"'Iei fencing ware aud vie rods o.
non or steel, wnun Imported for the
manufacture Of barbed wire fencing,
ABOUT $500, 900.
II WA No seen therefore that II sugar