The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-10-05
Present Tariff Law Has Greatly In
creased Imports and sweIIed the
Amouts Paid nj Customs Houses.
BIG BLUNDER BY VOORHEES,
HIS ESTIMATE oF INTERNsL-REvE-
NUE. RECEIPTS AWAY OFF.
Instead of an Increase from the Whfs-
KY Tax. Collections Are shors About
Seventy Million Dollars.
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Special TO the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON. Oct. T. - Secretary Car.
Isle has had prepared for himself a tabu.
late9 statement OF the receipts OF the gov
ernment for twelve months each under ths
old law and under the present law. III,
month OF August marked the en1 OF thu
first year OF the new tariff. and compari.
sons are now possible. The tables arc giver
belo~. IL VIII be seen that the revenues
received from customs under the new Law
exceed those under the Mckinley law by
over thlrty-fye millions. and that there l.
not a month when the customs under the
new law did not exceed those for the COR
responding month under the old law That
means. OF course. that the foreign manu-
facturers, recognizing the advantages Of
fered TO them by the new tariff. have been
dumping their pauper-made goods on the
American market 10 the detriment OF the
American laborer at a rate that was impos-
sible under the provisions of the Mckinley
law.
The comparison between the receipts from
internal revenue tells a different story. for
the revenues under the new law fall nearly
fifty millions below those under the Nc
Kinlsy law. Not a single month cnder the
new law did the receipts from internal Seve-
nue. approach the receipts for the corrS-
spending month under the old law. This
great decrease of revenue Is ascribed at the
Bureau of Internal Revenue TO dropping on
OF the whisky revenues. II will be remem-
bered that while the tariff bill was before
the Senate Senator Voorhees,. chairman OF
the finance committee, the principal
advocate of an increase Of 20 cents gall
lon on whisky and il was his constant ar
gument that every cent the tax on whisky
was increased would bring an annual in-
crease of a million dollars The results
have not borne out Mr.. voorhees, r0seate
predictions. The revenues from internal
taxes, instead of being increased by twenty
millions, are short nearly nffy millions, so
that Mr.. Voorhees, is about seventy million
dollars wrong on his forecast No explana-
tion is given at the Internal Revenue Bu-
reau for the remarkable falling off IN the
whisky tax. IL was known that vast guam
titles OF whisky had been taken out OF
bond just before the new law went into
effect which accounts for the enormous
revenues received during the last two
months under the Mckinley law. but IL was
revenue officers that. after the first six
months, the results of the increased whisky
tax would begin TO snow. The failure OF
the revenues TO increase led at first 10 the
suspicion that the inqfsEtd tax had re-
the reports from the districts where moon
shining is the principal Industry failed TO,
verify this theory. The receipts from,
whisky are expected by the internal reVe-
nue. officers amount 10 half a million or
more a day hereafter, but other officers OF
the treasury predict that this fiSure VIII
not bc realized. and that IL viii be six
months or more before the whisky receipts
return to the normal figures The tables