Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-06-23
WAR REVENUE TAXES
PRINCIPAL ARTICLES WITH
TARIFF ON EACH.
Already the Money Derived Is suncIent
to Pay the Daily Expenses of Our
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 are paying tho
expenses of the war with Spain. The Sec
rotary Of the Treasury gives the following
dates when the various provisions OF tho
new revenue law go into effect:
July 1-Adhesive stamp taxes.
July 1-All special taxes
Aug. 12-AdulterQted -four tax
June H-Al other provisions Of the law
The following is list of the articles on
which taxes must be paid: Beer. banks
deposits. checks, certificates of debt bills
OF exchange, bills OF lading, receipts
drafts. brokers, amusements. billiard la
bles, bowling alleys. tobacco, cigars, Gig
arettes. insurance policies leases, custom
house manifests, mortgages, foreign pas
cage tickets, proxies power Of attorney,
protests OF notes, etc. warehouse receipts,
medicines, chewing gum, wines, petroleum
anc sugar refineries, palace and parlor car
seats, sleeping car berths, inheritances
and leBacics. sales and transactions. tele-
phone messages kilograms, indemnifying
bonds, certificates of stock certificates OF
damage, charter parties contracts and
brokers' notes, memorandum of sale.
custom house entries and Withdrawals,
mixed -four tea
The following list gives the principal
snail be paid by each. The revenue rails
90 from this source will approximate ST.
100000 a day:
Boer and Ale. .............@6 a barrel
Iopacco' '.''.'.' ...'.....13c a pound
Cigars '............,...... SO per 900
Cigarettes ............ 1896 per 1000
Bank checks. .................2 stamp
Manifests of express package. ..1o stamp
Long distance telephone call. ...... ic
Telegraph message. ............... 10
Indemnifytng bond. ........... soc
Life-insurance policy, for each 500. 1Oc
BENEFIT Society Insurance--4O per cent.
of first weeks premium.
Fire Insurance One half of 1 per cent.
on each dollar insured.
Lease One year, 25c; years, sec; over
years, 81.
MortgRgo-Under 81 800, 2bc; for each
$500 over $1,000, roo.
Passage to Foreign Countries-Not ex-
ceedinG $50. 81; not exceeding SEQ,
SO, over SEQ, IS.
( Patent Medioino-For each &c value, one
eighth of per cent.
Perfumery-For each 30 value, on O. eighth
of per cont.
Wine. ,.....,..,,.,..1c "a Mint
OIL and Sugar-Rehners are taxed one
exceeding sa5o,OOO.
Mixed Flour. .........,.....dc barrel
Iea. .'.'....'. ..............I0o n pound
The additional tax on all fermented liz
+ uors stored in warehouses and already
stamped Is to be assessed and collected
4 brewers are allowed 7Is per cent discount
4 ON stamps purchased. Other taxes that
went into effect with the signing OF tho
/ Dill are an additional tax of cents a
4 pound tobacco a MI m aI
al 60 cents thousand on cigars and
j cigarettes weighing more than three
4 pounds to the thousand and an addition
I al 90 cents thousand on cigarettes
weighing not more than three pounds to
the thousand. one ounce package of
smoking tobacco, and one and two thirds
ounce, two and one-half ounce and
three and one-thrd ounce packages
of tobacco and SNUFF are author
lied In lieu OF two, three and four
ounce packages Dealers having a stock
on hand IN excess Of 600 pounds of tobae-
co. or 10000 cigars or cigarettes stamps
afiiNed subsequent to April IA at the old
rate, must make re,Wns to collectors
within thirty days for assessment of a
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 be
returned, and the tax will be assessed on
the excess which VIII be paid to collect
OTIS aIler houce. NO additional stamps
are to be affixed 10 such stock on hand
Upon gross receipts of persons, 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
S2500O0 a tax of one-quarter of ! cent an
nually is imposed which Is now in effect.
Returns are to be made munthlyAn Inn
port tax OF 10 cents a pound Is imposed
upon tea, which takes effect Immediately
The following special taxes take effect
on and after July /: Bankers, gradual
ed $50: brokers. $50. pawnbrokers $50.
commercial brokers' 500; custom house
brokers, SO; proprietcrs Of theaters. 500;
proprietors Of circuses, Sl00, proprietors Of
shows for money, $40; proprietors of bowl
ing alleys and billiard rooms for each al
ley or table, So dealers In leaf tobacco
graduated, minimum. S., dealers in tobac.
co whose sales exceed 10000 pounds, s12:
manufacturers of tobacco graduated
minimum, So; manufacturers of cigars
graduated, minimum 50: manufacturers
and packers of mixed -four S12. The last
tax is not imposed until sixty DAYS after
the passage of the act which would make
II effective Aug u. 1898 All persons en-
gagged in the business on that date are re-
quired 10 make returns before the end of
August and pay the special tax reckoned
from Aug. l. 1898 to the first day of July
following.
Wall Street Hit Hard.
1t Will delight the hearts OF many per.
sons to know that the cigarette fends"
must contribute very largely to the tux
on the 5000. GOO 600 cigarettes which they
annually consume the tax Will amount
to about $S.0oOO00 more than now. Al
ready the dealers are announcing their
new price lists Packages OF six cigar
cites of the standard cheap brands VIII
be sold for the same price as packages Of
I#F.s.,