Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-08-17
oARLIsLr's II3rrER.
FUN Text of the Document READ In
the Senate.

uh ttNt OF thc document Ucnd IN
the Senate.
Washington Aug. i5.-Secretary Car
isles letter, read in the senate wodnes-
day morning, Is as folluwsi
Treasury Department, Office OF the
Secretary, Washington, d, c.. Aug. 10.
lsgl Hon. lahum @, Harris, Acting
Chairman Finance Committee: Dear
Sr-Nour letter advising me that the
house OF representatives had passed
ana sent 70 the senate bills putting
sugar coal and iron ore and bnrbpd
wire on the free list and requesting an
onleial statement from me as "a the
erect that the passage of these bills
or either OF them would have upon the
revenues OF the government Is received
and in response have the homer 10 say
thUt. according TO the most careful es-
Inmates that can be made in the pro-
posed revenue legislation which has
recently passed through congress, tile
total receipts into the treasury dur
ing the current fiscal year viii be as
follows:
Estimated receipts for fiscal year,
ending June 30, 1885,
From duties on imports, senate bill.
including Si5,0O0,00O on sugar. Si79,000.-
O0Qi from internal taxes whisky $685.
100000; tobacco, $4,000, 900; fcrmented H.
quore, SS9,000.00 Incomes, Sib, 900 GOO;
oleomargnrine, sis00 600; playing cards,
SlO1O,Ooo' Miscellaneous, 100000, Total
Internal Internal revenue taxes. Si1g-
100000 From sale public lands and 9TH
err miscellaneous sources 10000 Total
estimate OF revenue. .s37S O0O.0 900. The
estimated receipts for the present year
from the propoead tax on Incomes and
playing cards and the proposed add
tinnal tax OF 20 cents per gallon on
distilled spirits are. It win be observed,
much less than Is stated IN the various
tabulHtod statements which have been
heretofore used IN the discussion Of
these subjects, but ! am satisfied tbs
amount here given is approximately
correct. The proposed income tax will
not be payable by terms OF the hill
recently passed until con or before July
!, 1895" which IS the close OF the fiscal
year IL Is estimated by the commits
sl0ner Of Internal revenue that by
the reason OF the large stock ON hand
tho receipts from the tax on playing
cards viii not amount 10 moro thun
one million during this year The esq
tlmoted increase of receipts on no.
count Of the additional tax ON dis
titled spirits during the present year
has already been prevented to a great
extent by the Withdrawal Of large
quantities Of the goods from the bonded
warehouses; and the payment OF the
tux thereon at 90 cents per gallon, and
this process r. stlll going on. The
total expenditures during the current
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