Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-10-26
What Sections Give Most to the
Government.
WHERE MOST CUSTOMS ARE PAID
Interesting Showing in Regard to
the internal Revenue.
MISCELLANEOUS e RCES

A statement of much interest, just is
sued by the treasury, shows the detailed re-
ceipts of the government by states for the
| fiscal year, which ended June 30. This
statement gives the shares borne by each
state in the operating expenses OF the
United States government.
There are three sources from which the
government receives its revenues-internal
revenue, customs and miscellaneous. The
miscellaneous receipts are from sales of
public lands, copyright fees, profits on
coinage of all kinds interest payments and
repayments; revenues from the District of
Columbia, which are considerable; receipts
from United States courts, the sales OF
buildings, old war vessels and large va
riety of matters. These receipts therefore,
cannot be apportioned under the heads of
states and consequently the amount paid
by each state is not known Compared,
however, to customs and internal revenue
receipts the miscellaneous are very insig-
nificant.
The total receipts of the government for
the last fiscal year were 1896, O69, 912 di-
vided as follows: Customs, S191 1854 ;So7;
internal revenue, $273,345, 302; miscellan-
eous, 500 ,S59 ISL
Customs Receipts by States.
By states the contributions in customs
receipts were as follows: Maine, S32o,2&3;
New Hampshire, 81, $40; Vermont, 500, $50;
Massachusetts, 1851 ,956; Rhode Island,
s256, s24; Connecticut, $267, S34; New York,
s13s 693, s53-aI but 100000 was received
at the port of New York; New Jersey, $780,
O64; Pennsylvania, 22,653 500; Delaware,
s27, 2S3: Maryland, s2,062, 1853, the entire
amount being from the port of Baltimore;
District of Columbia, $50 254 which is much
larger than several of the large states; VIZ
ginia $3.50 979: West Virginia, $685.; North
Carolina $40 11T. South Carolina. Sl0I 40,
Georgia, $50, 4O7; Florida, s722 020; Alabama,
SIG, 267; Mississippi, $500; Louisiana, 81
800, 033: Texas, s694,73s Kentucky, s261 ,294;
Tennessee, s41 ,965; Ohio, s1,376,631; Mich
igan, s950,667; Indiana. s16s 159; Illinois,
Sc, 427, 1856 practically all of which was at
the port of Chicago; Iowa, So l03; Mis-
souri, 81, 453,976; Colorado, s66,211; Oregon,
s41S,591: Washington, $311O12; Montana and
Idaho, $45,32S; Arizona, s12S511; Minnesota,
$3.50 264; North and South Dakota, So, 513;
Nebraska, s94,S65; Wisconsin. 1896, $3.50; Cal
ifornia, Sc, 500, LAT, San Francisco supplying
nearly all of this; Alaska, $47979. 1t will
be seen that the total amount of these re-
ceipts is fully $1,000, 900 more than the total
receipts given by the treasury, but the diff
ference is caused by the refunding of duties
paid in excess and otherwise.
Internal Revenueby States.
The receipts from internal revenue are Of
more interest than the customs receipts.
By states the receipts We're as follows: New
Hampshire, $1,33s 357; Massachusetts, S.
154,145 Connecticut $2,924, ops; New York,
SAC, 636627; New Jersey, ss,O79,27s; Penn
sylvana, $23, 1886, 1856; Maryland, which in
cludes the District of Columbia, So, 142, 312;
Virginia, $4,S13, 416; West Virginia, 81, 432, .
023; North Carolina, 81, $50; South Ca
rolina 1886 $50; Georgia, -$935,S76; Florida,
sos, 926; Alabama, S50l,29O: Louisiana,
81, 2S4 16s; Kentucky, 500 2o9. o96; Tennessee,
81 16S, 1s2; Arkansas, S271, 551; Texas, ST.
576,544; Ohio, $21, 29O97; Indiana, $17,206,-
1914; Michigan, S4,664 ,952; Illinois, $47, 364,-
1S5; Wisconsin, 50, 46s, sol: Minnesota, 81
562, 1877; Iowa, 81 963. G03; Kansas, $947 OPS !;
Nebraska, $3,42S, 0SS; Missouri, SIG. 1863, O96;
Oregon, $1,076,3G5; California $4,35o, 794 !:
Colorado, $1,247 $50: Montana, 1916, 207;
New Mexico, S132, 905.
Several of the smaller states in the west
are added to larger states to make a dis
trict