Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-11-28
TAX ON WHISKY AND TOBACCO.

TAX ON WHISKY AND TOBACCO.
The annual eport of the Commission
or of Internal Revenue has been pub
lished.
Among the aggregate collections
made and reported TO the commission
er by tbs collectors of the several co.,
lection districts during the year are the
following:
Second Virginia district, William
Ryan, collector, 1914 ,999 SO.
Second Virginia district, James d.
Brady, collector, 81, ,92S, ,S61 9S.
Sixth Virginia district, Park Agnew,
collector, 81 ,l29, ,907. 80.
The aggregate collections by States
were, Virginia, So, ,403 1854; Virginia,
TWO counties of Accomac and North
ampton, belonging to collection district
of Maryland, S2,017.10.
Illicit stills seized we're, Sixth Vir-
ginia, 2O9.
The commissioner says:
"The total number o. illicit stills de-
stroyed during the year, the amount of
property seized and the number of ar
rests made, as compared with statistics
on the same subject in my recent
report, do not give measure Of
the stimulus afforded by these causes
TO violations of law OF this character.
I desire TO call attention to the fact
that in communities where this il
licit distilling prevails it has
been found that the violators
of the law are not confined
to the unregistered Illicit distillers
alone, but embrace in many sections 8
large number of registered distilleIs,
both gram and fruit, who ars driven to
this course in self protection to meet
the competition forced upon them by
the illicit distillers who do not register
or make any pretence of complying
with the law. In many sections they
have gone SO far as to band together to
render it impossible for collectors to
collect from them by process of law
taxes which have been properly and
lawfully assessed. For instance, in one
section where last year there was COZ
elusive evidence that quite number OF
distillers had evsded considerable sums
in taxes by failing to report the full
amount Of material purchased, the po-
mace distilled, and the removal OF the
illicit product, when assessments were
made for the purpose of collecting
these taxes and seizures of the djstil-
leries followed, it was found impossible
in some cases to get any one at all 10
hid for plants worth from $500 to S4O0,
and in other cases bids for property of
that value did not exceed S25.
"This indicates clearly the measure
of influence these law breakers ara able
10 exercise in moulding public opinion
1t is unnecessary to multiply examples
of this kind"
The number OF registered tobacco
manufacturers in Virginia, is $50, oe- :
crease 0, 4 on the preceding year.
The pumber OF cigar manufacturers
operating during the year in Virginia,
1856
Number of dealers in leaf.tobacco,
in Virginia, 29l.
Cigarettes are made mostly in New
York. Virginia and North Carolina.
The States in which the largest qusnti'
ties of chewing and smoking tobacco
were manufactured are Missouri, Ken
tucky, Virginia, North Carolina, Micnl'
pan. and Ohio-Virginia producing 95,-
Isl, 1894 pounds, and North Carolina
producing 20 800, ,92S pounds.
During the calendar year ending De-
cember 81, 1897, $50 leaf-tobacco factor
les in Virginia used 97,973.937 pounds
of leaf, and of scrap, 557 ,059 POUNDS
In the same period Virginia manu-
factured, of plug, fine cut, ard smoking
tobacco and snuff. total OF 50, Isl ,394