The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-11-28
lEVENUE DECREASED
receipts of the Year From
Different Sources.
,pE.TER EXPENSE TO COLLECT
ito Annual Report of the Commissioner
If Internal Revenue shows Nearly
Four Millions Decrease.

Washington, Nov. 23.-The annual
.o,rt Of the commissioner of internal
.ronue. as issued today, shows the re-
sints from different sources during the
f.oal year as follows:
spjrits, $79,862, $40; decrease, So
as 624; tobacco, 500, ,907; in
,.sasp, Sl.O87, 0O9; fermented liquors,
ri 640.7l7; increase, $225,82 in
,,me tax, $77,139; oleomargarine,
q 4O9,2II; decrease, $314,26S; miscel-
aneous. SOL, 583; decrease, $500, 554;
ntal from all sources, $143, 246, OFT;
decrease, SO, 922, 1911.
The total cost of collecting the rev.
snue during the year was 81, 1919, COL, a
npr centage as compared to revenue of
IS per cent, against 2.70 per cent for
! the previous year.
During the year 5000 violations of
be internal revenue laws were reported
k revenue agents; 789 persons have
been arrested; property valued at
$40. 905 has been reported for seizure,
| and 1879, $50 for assessment for unpaid
axes and penalties. During the same
/ rriod I,727 stills were seized; lat
4 rills removed; 81 persons arrested;
ofcer was killed and others were
Wounded.
Commissioner Miller estimates that
he revenues for the present fiscal year
will aggregate $165, 100000. He rec
Ommends amendments to existing laws
as follows:
Provision for an allowance for losses
in transportation of spirits to general
warehouse shall be only for storage of
spirits removed from distilling ware
houses, or from other general bonded
warehouses in the same districts, and
for charge of % cents for each pack
age, or such sum as may be necessary
to cover the expense of gauging; legis-
atiOn to enable distillers or owners OF
spirits in distillery warehouses to bot
tie tho same for export in bond or for
domestic use under government super
vision, after payment of tax thereon;
that collectors of internal revenue be
authorized by law to keep records OF
the o-1nocship OF distilled sp14 rs in in
ternal revenue bonded warehouses,
such ownership to be evidenced by
warehouse receipts or by the judgments
Of courts of competent jurisdiction;
also that such law be passed as will
enable owners of dist lied spirits in
distillery warehouse or bonded ware
house to withdraw the same upon pay
ment of the tax or for any purpose au'
thorized by law, and, in case of dis
pute, as to the ownership of unadjust'
ed claims, on account of storage OF
other charges, upon the giving of an
Indemnity bond by the parties other
than the distiller applying to with
draw; an amendment allowing the use
Of fruits other than apples, peaches
and grapes for distillation; also pro-
vision that fermenters not in use al
iistilleries may be closed and fastened
up in such manner as may be pre-
Sribed by the commissioner OF inter
nal revenue; also a provision that
stOrekeepers and gaugers, who are as
signed to distilleries whose registered
capacity is twenty bushels or less
shall receive such compensation AS may
be prescibed by the commissioner of in
trnal revenue, not to exceed 81 pei
day; that bakers and manufacturers OF
yeast may make and have on hand
mash, wort or wash fit for distillatlon
in the conduct of these industries, the
quality of such mash, wort, or wash te
be fixed and the purpose for which II
is to be used to be strictly defined; thai
section 81 of the act of August 49,
1894, allowing the use of alcohol by
manufacturers except under certain
conditions be repealed.