Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-06-24

Army and Navy-The People GeneralI.
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 the
/ expenses of the war with Spain. The Sec
rotary of the Treasury gives the following
dates when the various provisions of the
new revenue law 90 into effect:
July Adhesive stamp taxes.
July 1-All special taxes.
Aug. 12-Adulterated -four tax.
June 14-All other provisions of the law.
The following is a 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 ia
bles, bowling alleys, tobacco. cigars, Gig
arettes insurance policies, leases, custom
house manifcsts. mortgages, foreign pas
sage tickets, proxies power of attorney,
protests of notes, etc, warehouse receipts,
medicines, chewing gum. wines, petroleum
and sugar retineries palace and parlor car
seats, sleeping car berths. inheritances
and legacies, sales and transactions, tele-
phone messages. kilograms, indemnifying
bonds, certificates of stock, certificates OF
damage, charter parties, contracts and
brokers notes, memorandums 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 will approximate 81
100000 a day:
Beer and Ale ......-........S5 barrel
Tobacco. ...,.....12c a pound
Cigars. So per 1000
Cigarettes. $500 per 1000
Bank checks OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES &c stamp
Manifests of express package. ..Ic stamp
Long distance telephone call. 1c
Telegraph message. ................. lie
IndemnIfying bond ................ 500
Life-insurance policy, for each 500. 1Oc
Benefit Society Insurance-4O per cent.
of hrst weeks premium.
Fire Insurance. One-haIf OF per cent.
on each dollar insured.
Lease-One year, a5e; years, soc; over
3 years, 81.
Mortgage-Under $1,000, 25c; for each
$500 over $1,000, e5c.
Passage to Foreign Countries-NOt ex-
: ceeding $50, 81; not exceeding $50,
! SO, over 500, SO.
Patent Medieine-For each &C value, one
eighth of L per cent.
Perfumery-For each sc value, one-eighth
of per cent.
Wine. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. lie pint /
oil and Sugar-ReHners are taxed one
fourth of 1 per cent. on gross receipts
exceeding S25O,OOO.
Mixed Flour. &c a barrel /
Tea. .................iOc a pound /
The additional tax on all fermented liz /
uors stored in warehouses and already /
stamped is to he assessed and collected. /
Brewers are allowed ~ per cent discount /
on stamps purchased. Other taxes that .
went into effect with the signing of the (
bill are an additional tax of cents
pound on tobacco and snuff, an addition
al 60 cents a thousand on cigars and
cigarettes Weighing more than three
pounds to the thousand and an addition
al 80 cents a 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-third 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 ex- css Of Geo pounds Of tobac-
co, or D.09J cigars or cigarettes. stamps
affixed subsequent 20 april II at the old
rate, must make re urus TO collectors
within thirty days for assessment of a
tax equal to cne-hdl1 the difference be-
tween the tax already paid at the time
Of removal from the fac Dry and tie new
rate. The excess or hand only is to be
and the tax viii be assessed on
the excess. which will be paid 70 collect
0rs after notice. 10 additional stamps
are to be affixed 20 such stock on hand.
Upon gross receipts OF persons firms,
and corporations engaged in
petroleum ana sugar or owning
or controlling any pipe line for trans
porting oil or other products in excess of
250, 0O0 tax OF one-Quarter of cent an
lually is imposed which is now in effect
Returns are 10 be made mon;hly.An i'm
port tax OF 10 cents a pound is imposed
Upon tea which takes effect Immediately.
The following special taxes take effect
N and after July 1: Bankers. gradual
d. $50: brokers. $50; pawnbrokers. 500;
brokers. $50: custom no so
rockers. SO: proprietors Of theaters, 500,
roprietors OF circuses, 500 proprletors Of
hows for money, SO; proprietors of bowl
ng alleys and billiard rooms for each al
ey or table So; dealers in leaf tobacco,
minimum Sc: dealers in tobac-
o whose sales exceed 600 pounds ;12;
of tobacco, graduated,
Sc; manufacturers of cigars,
minimum, S.; manufacturers
nd packers of mixed -four, s12. The last
* is not imposed until sixty days after
he passage of the act. which would make
effective Aug Il. 1898. All persons en-
aged in the business on that date are re-
uired to make returns before the end of
ugust and pay the special tax, reckoned
-om Aug. l. 1898, to the first day of July
blowing.
Wall Street Bit Hard.
It will delight the hearts Of many per-
ms to know that the Cigarette fends"
ust contribute very largely to the tax
o oon m