The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-31
INTERNAL REVENUE.
COMMISSIONER SUBMITS HIS PRE-
LIMINARY REPORT.
Some Figures That VIII Be of Great
Interest to the Pubiic-Receipts
From the Various States.

WASHINGTON, July 3O.-The COM
missioner of internal revenue has sub
mitted to Secretary Carlisle the pre-
/ liminary report of his bureau for the
year ending June 80. 1t shows that
the receipts of internal revenue for the
year aggregated $146 S3O,610, an increase
of $3.3S4.54 over the receipts of the
preceding fiscal year.
The expense approximated $4,044, 80.
The percentage of the cost of col
lection will be $40, a reduction of Is
compared with the preceding fiscal
year.
From spirits the receipts were $780,,
$1,000, an increase of $803,771. The
largest item OF increase under this
head was from fruit spirits, the re-
ceipts of 81, 5S4, S79 being $48S,8 in eX-
cess of last years. Retail liquor taxes
increased by $221, 106, rectifiers' tax $49,-
45S and the wholesale liquor dealers
special taxes SAG, 243. The only increases
noted were trifing.
Tobacco brought in revenue of $780,
III, 629, or 81 ,006 721 more than was de-
rived from this source in the preced-
ing year. There was general increase
in all the items under this head, the
largest being in cigarettes, under three
pounds per thousand, where the re-
ceipts were $2,015, 191, or 1857 ,493 more
than in the preceding year. Cigars
and cheroots, over three pounds per
thousand, realized So, 713,267, or an in
crease of $221, 800, and snuff afforded a
revenue of $752,571, an increase of
sos, O27
From fermented liquors there was
derived taxes aggregating $33, 7S4, 325, or
81, GIT more than during the preced-
ing year. ALL beers and similar liquors
brought in S33, 139, ISL, an increase of
81, O94S26.
There was a falling off of $1S9,77S in
the taxes realized from oleomargarine,
the revenue from which amounted to
81, 219430 The decrease was general in
all the items under this head, the larg-
est item being S112,S17 in the direct tax
on oleomargarine, while retail dealers
tax shrunk $57, 215 and wholesale deal
ers' taxes $26, $40. The miscellaneous
receipts diminished $1S2,600 during the
year, the largest item being $40 de-
crease in receipts from playing cards,
from which only S259,S39 were received.
During the past year g. 039 $40 gal
Ions of spirits distilled from other ma
terials than from fruit is a decrease of
7,413,129 gallons as compared with the
preceding year. Cigarettes to the num-
Der of 1912 $40 were drawn out,
which was 1887 $50 more than were
consumed during the preceding year.
The number of cigars and cheroots
withdrawn were 4.237. 755, 943, an in
crease of 73, 1888, SOB Chewing and smok-
ing tobacco were taken out to the
amount of 253, 667, 1877 pounds, an in
crease of 5,397,499 pounds.
Illinois returned more internal reve-
nue. than any other state, the total col
lections there being S31, 973 1873. New
York came next in order with s21, $780,
40 Kentucky stood third with S14-
$685. ITO; Ohio and Pennsylvania were
close together with $11, 947,724 and SILL
14554S respectively. Indiana had ST.
So, 245; Missouri, 6953,915; Maryland,
$5,96S, 069, and Wisconsin, $5,012,O77.
Nine of the remaining states reached
the five million mark in the returns.
DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is
of inestimable value at three stages in
the lives of every woman-when the
girl becomes woman, when the wo-