The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-04
InternaI-Revenue Statistics That Show
the HOOsier State Sixth in the
Matter of Collections.
MORE TIME FOR RAILWAYS
ENFORCEMENT OF SAFETY-APPLI-
ANCE LAW WILL BE DELAYED.
Condition of the Panama Canal-Haiti
in a Ferment Over RumOrs Con-
cerning German War Ships.

Special 20 the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3-Of the $1i6, ,619 593
collected from internal revenue sources dur
ing the fiscal year ending June 80 1897, as
shown by the report of Mr. Forman COM
missioner of that bureau, to-day the Sixth
district of Indiana contributed 50, ,539, ,999 and
the Seventh $6O24,372, making $S, 1868
in all. Indiana is sixth on the list. The
following additional facts of local interest
to Indiana are also CLEANED from the COM
missioner's report Number of barrels of
fermented liquor produced in Indiana dur
ing the year. 634,17S; Bourbon whisky, gall
Ions, i22,O2S rye whisky, 81 707: alcohol, 517,-
457 gin, 34,2S1 high wines, 1865; pure, neu-
trail or cologne spirits, 459,1S9 making an
aggregate of S,650,979 gallons. Withdrawn,
all kinds, 6,S5S,434 gallons; spirits remaining
in warehouse June 80, 1897, S11O,747 gallons;
gallons in hands of wholesalers and rectifi-
ers Oct. l, 1897, 1OO,lO5
Indiana produced 1,291,5SS pounds of oleo-
margarine during the year. In the produc-
ton of distilled spirits last year, Indiana
distillers used 2SO,652 bushels of malt &C. 24O
bushels of rye, 1,612,716 bushels of corn and
1852 bushels of oats. During the year Indi-
ana produced 1885 gallons fruit brandy and
rectified 1,2SS,123 gallons spirits. During the
the distilleries Gallons of spirits gagged
in the State during the year numbered H.
264, Ill During the year 1877 gallons of spirits
in all Indiana were reported for seizure.
There are 1O1 registered tobacco nianufac-
turers in Indiana, against ninety-three a
year ago, and S35 manufacturers of cigars,
against S52 year ago. The latter class
used 1887, ,232 pounds of tobacco in the pro-
duction of 62,S6S,67S cigars. Indiana has
thirty-six registered fruit distilleries and
sixteen registered grain distilleries.
The commissioner of internal revenue
estimates that the receipts from all sources
for the current fiscal year will aggregate at
least $155, 100000, an increase over 1897 of
about $S,300,0O0. A comparative statement
of the receipts during the last fiscal year
is given. as follows; Spirits, $500 542, an
increase over 1896 of 81, ,S3S, ,472; tobacco, $780,,
1929 a decrease of $1,231 fermented
liquors, S32, ,472 162, a decrease of 81, ,5l2, ,073;
oleomargarine, 81 1,034, 129, a decrease of $780,
3O2 filled cheese, SIS, 1892, an increase of $S,-
992 banks and bankers, $S5, a decrease of
$49 miscellaneous, $375,9S2, a decrease of
$69 729; total receipts, $l46, 1898, decrease
Of $211 O22.
The Withdrawals for consumption during
the year are given as follows: Fruit BRAN
dies, 1,146 l31 gallons, a decrease of 294 679;
spirits distilled from grain, 6S S3S, ,231 gallons,
an increase of 1,793,3 ,321 beer, "a, 423 094 bar
rels. a decrease of 1,4O3,OO4; cigars and
cheroots weighing over three pounds per
thousand number, 4,063, ,169 097, a decrease
of 174, 1856, ,S46; cigarettes weighing not over
three pounds per thousand, number, 4151,-
669, 760, an increase of 109, ,120; cigarettes
weighing over three pounds per thousand,
snuff 13, ,26S, $40 pounds, an increase of no.
O41; tobacco chewing and smoking, 260, 1884,,
512 pounds, an increase of 1867 675; oleomar-
garine, 42,534,559 pounds Qaw became op-
erative during the year) The cost of the
collection of the revenue during the last fiS-
cal year was So, ,469. During the year
2,241 illicit stills were destroyed and 80 were
removed; S29 persons were arrested, one
killed and three wounded. OF the stills
seized and destroyed 22S were located in
Alabama, S41 in Georgia, 463 in North Caro-
lima, 1870 in South Carolina and 245 in the
Sixth Virginia district. During the last ten
years ten officers were killed and sixteen
were wounded by mOOnShinerS. The COM
missioner recommends that the expense of
storing spirits in general bonded ware
it's, such charge to be levied by means of
stamp tax. This, he says, would greatly
lessen the objection to the use of the ware
house by any class of spirits The COM
missioner also recommends that existing
laws be modified so as to authorize the
tions what statutory packages of tobacco,
snuff, cigars and cigarettes may contain, or
authorize him to prohibit the packing in
such packages of articles which appre-
ciably increase the size and weight of the
package under penalties of seizure and for
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