Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1898-07-16
WAR REVENUE TAXES
PRINCIPAL ARTICLES WITH
TARIFF ON EACH.
Already the Money Derived IL sunicient
to Pay the Daily Expenses of Our
Army and Navy-The People Generally
Glad to Pay.

TO ray Tue DdAy E1pSuscs OF Ouh
Army and Navy-The People Generally
Glad to Pay.
The new war revenue bill is already In
effect and from Maine to Mexico the peo-
pie through direct taxes paying the
expenses of the war with spain. The SEQ
rotary OF the Treasury gives the following
dates when the various provisions OF the
new revenue law go INTO effect:
July 1-Alhesivs stamp taxes.
july l-All special taxes.
Aug. 1eAdulterated -four tax
June l4-Au other provisions of the law.
The following is a list Of the articles on
which taxes uaast be paid: Beer, banks.
deposits, checks, certificates of debt. bills
of exchange, bills OF Iading, receipts,
drafts, brokers. amusements. billiard Ia
bles, bowling alleys tobacco, cigars. Gig
arettee, insurance policies. leases, custom
house manifests. mortgages. foreign pas
sage tickets proxies, power OF attorney.
protests OF notes. etc, warehouse receipts.
medicines. chewing gum. wines. petroleum
and sugar reffneries, palace and parlor car
eeats. sleeping car berths. inheritances
and legacieH. sales and transactions. tele-
phone messages. kilograms. indemnifytng
bonds. certificates OF stock, certificates OF
damage. charter parties, contracts ana
brokers notes, memorandum of sale.
custom house entries and Withdrawals,
mixed flour, tea.
The following list gives the principal
articles Of consumption with the tax that
shall be paid by each. The revenue rails
ed from this source viii approximate 81
10000 day:
/ Tobacco. ....-...-12c n pound
Cigars. -..-.a..--.... -S3 per 1000
/ Cigarettes .......-...-. 1896 per 1000
4 RAJ CHI Pc efn HF1n
Manifests of express package. lie stamp
Long distance telephone call. ..-. 10
| Telegraph message 1s
Indemnifying bond. ............ SOC
1 Lifs-insurance policy. for each 500. Toe
Benefit Society Insurance-4o per cent.
of first weeks premium.
| Fire Insurance One half of / per cent.
on each dollar insured.
Lease-One year. use; years soc; over
years. 81.
Mortgage-Under 81 500, 25e; for each
$500 over $1,000, 25c.
Passage to Foreign Countries-Not ex-
ceeding $50, 81; not exceeding $50,
80, over SEQ, SIS.
Patent Medicine-For each SC value. one
eighth of 1 per cent.
Perfumery-For each sc value, one eighth
Of 1 Per cent.
on and sugar-Refners are taxed
fourth of 1 per cent. on gross receipts
exceeding se5o,ooO.
Mixed Flour .4c barrel
Tea Toe a pound
uors stored in warehouses and already
stamped is to be assessed and collected.
Brewers are allowed IL per cent discount
on stamps purchased Other taxes that
went into effect with the signing of the
bill are an additional tax of cents q
| pound on tobacco and snufr. an addition
al 90 cents a thousand on cigars and
| cigarettes weighing more than three
pounds to the thousand and addition
al so cents a thousand on cigarettes
Weighing not more than three pounds to
| the thousand A one ounce package of
smoking tobacco. and one and two-thirds
ounce, two and one-haif ounce and
three and one-third ounce packages
OF tobacco and snur are author
teed In lieu of two. three and four
ounce packages. Dealers having a stock
on hand in excess of loo pounds of tobac-
co. or 1900 cigars or cigarettes. stamps
affixed subsequent to April IA at the old
rate. must make returns to collectors
within thirty days for assessment of .
tax equal to one-half the difference be-
tween the tax already paid at the time
of removal from the factory and the new
rate. The excess on hand only is to he
returned, and the tax will be assessed on
the excess. which will be paid to collect
ors after notice. No additional stamps
are to be afixed TO such stock on hand.
Upon gross receipts of Parsons, firms.
companies and corporations engaged In
refining petroleum and sugar or owning
or controlling any pipe line for trans
porting oil or other products in excess of
ts5o, oo0 tax of one-ouarter of cent an
nuaily is imposed, which liz now in effect.
Returns are TO be made monthly. An i'm
port tax OF 10 cents pound is imposed
upon tea. which takes effect Immediately.
The following special taxes take effect
on and after July 1: Bankers gradual.
commercial brokers. $40: custom house
brokers' $40: proprietors of theaters, 800;
proprietors of circuses. sleo; proprietors OF
shows for money. $40: proprietors OF bowl
Ing aileys and billiard rooms. for each al
ley or eatas, =; dealers in leaf tobacco,
graduated. minimum. S.. dealers in tobac-
| co whose sales exceed 60 600 pounds, S.:
manufacturers of tobacco, graduated
: | minimum 81; manufacturers of cigars
| graduated. minimum, So. manufacturers
and packers of mixed -four, s12. The las,
, | tax is not imposed until sixty days after
; the passage of the act. which would make
II effective Aug. II. 1895. All persons en-
| gagged in the business on that date are re-
| ouired to make returns before the end OF
| August and pay the special tax. reckoned
: | n 4.
following.
Wall street Hit Hard
1t will delight the hearts of many per.
sons to know that the cigarette fiends
| must contribute very largely to the tax
On the so0o, ooo.o 600 cigarettes which they
annually consume the tax will amount
5 TO about 5000. COO more than now. Al
{ ready the dealers are announcing theIl
; | new price lists. Packages of SIX cigar
) cites of the standard cheap brands will
be sold for the same price as packages O.
ten are now being sold for. Men of none,
-, who hold seats on the exchanges will
1 | have to pay their share toward helping
! | Uncle Sam win his fight against SpaiI
4 also. The tax on the transactions of tn
, | New York stock exchange alone will
amount 10 s2.0o0 0Q a year and the othe
exchanges will pay in proportion Prob
ably s.. 600 600 will be raised in that way II
. that city alone. The government will ge
r about 100000 more from the people OF
A Manhattan island alone through the doub
Il ling of the Inheritance tax. which ranges
" | from ! what jpberf