The age-herald., 1899-08-02
RECEIPTS FROM INTERNAL REVENUE Commissioner Makes His An-
 nuaI Report. INCREASE OF slO0,OOO,Ooo Is Recorded Over the Past Fiscal Year The Cost of Collections Has
 Been Reduced .61
 Per Cent.
INCREASE OF S1O0,OOO,OOO

 liminary report of the commissioner of in- ternal revenue for the fiscal year. ended June 30, 1899, shows that the receipts from all sources of internal revenue for the year aggregated S273 4s4 .5s2, an increase of $1o2.- 763 over the receipts for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1898. The expenses for the bureau for the fiscal year approximates $4,5 4,145, and the percentage of cost of col lection predicted on these figures, less tax money orders, will be 16S a reduction of .61 in the percentage of cost of collection as compared with the preceding fiscal year, when the percentage of cost was 2,29.- The receipts from the several sources of revenue and the increase or decrease in each for the year as compared with the year 1898 are given as follows:
 Spirits, $99, ,2S3, ,543, increase $6,736543. Tobacco. $52 4sS. POT, increase $1e,2s26S5. Fermented liquors, $6S,644,55s. increase $29, ,129 ,1S7.
 Oleomargine, $1,956,61S increase $64O,SSS. Filled cheese, $1S,09S, increase $1,579. Mixed flour, $7.S4o Jaw not in effect last yeaD.
 Special taxes under war revenue act, not elsewhere enumerated, s4,921, ,59S
 Legacies and distributive shares of per sonal property, $1235,4S5.
 Schedule and Stamp tax), $43,SS7,S1S. Miscellaneous, g, ,oS5,S6S
 Total, $27S,4S4,5S2.
 Among the war revenue receipts in- cluded in the above are the following: Bankers, capital not exceeding $25ooo, s44S,7O2.
 Brokers, stocks and bonds, etc, $S57,Ol0. Commercial brokers, $5O,Oo0.
 Bowling alleys, 349
 Circuses, SIS, ,233.
 Theatre exhibitions, etc., $126,54l. Playing cards, $271 ,29S.
 Penalties S166576.
 The quantities of distillers' spirits, fer mented liquors, manufactured tobacco, snuff, cigars, cigarettes oleomargarine ard filled cheese, of which tax was paid dur ing the fiscal year with the increase or decrease in each case as compared with the fiscal year 1898, are given as follows: Spirits distilled from fruit, 1,306,21S gal Ions; decrease, 105.230.
 Spirits distilled from grain, 3,S19,314 gall Ions; increase, 12,192
 Cigars weighing more than three pounds per thousand, 4,529S72,9O4; increase, 24,- 611,7S7
 Cigars weighing not more than three pounds per thousand. 47415,520; increase Al, ,73S,64O.
 Cigarettes weighing not more than three pounds per thousand, 2SO2, ,502, 7S3; decrease, 94s,sSl ,224.
 Cigarettes weighing more than three pounds per thousand, 2,62S.164; increase, 417,O53.
 Snuff, 4,627, 1O6 pounds; decrease, 59S.O2s. Tobacco, chewing and smoking, 237, ,132, AIS pounds; decrease, 5102S,203.
 Oleomargarine. 9S.495,62S pounds; increase, 25,1O6,sO1.
 The statement of the collections in each of the several states shows receipts above S, 100000, as follows, cents omitted: California, including Nevada, $4.94S693. Colorado, including Wyoming, $1,24S, 135. Connecticut, including Rhode Island, s2,- s16. .759.
 Illinois, s47 ,359,523.
 Indiana, a7.213 O7O.
 Iowa, s2O03, ,265.
 Kentucky, $22, ,235 243.
 Louisiana, including Mississippi, $2.254 ,173. Maryland, including Delaware, District of Columbia and two counties in Virginia, $S,13O,409.
 Massachusetts, $S,153,620.
 Michigan, $4643,795.
 Minnesota, $2,567,6Ss.
 Missouri $16,369,075.
 Nebraska including North Dakota and South Dakota, 8, ,42S,079.
 New Hampshire. including Maine and Vermont, $1, ,341 ,036 New Jersey, $S.742,261.
 New York, $i6,634,9SO.
 North Carolina, A,921 ,016.
 Ohio, $21 ,341, ,065.
 Oregon, including Washington and Alas ka, $1,074,921.
 Pennsylvania, $23,3S5572.
 Tennessee, $2, ,173,S
 Texas, $1,577, ,S33.
 Virginia, $4S15, S51..
 West Virginia $1,430,106.
 Wisconsin, $9, ,467, ,065.