Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1900-01-25
STATES INTERNAL REVENUE
Vermonts Receipts Gained More Than
Eight Fold Last Year-555 Licenses
to Retail LIQUOR Dealers.

Washington. Jan. 22 Some very inter-
etn" figures about internal revenue col
.cctious IN the State of Vermont for the
last fiscal year have just been forwarded
to Congress The large revenue receipts
have prcCulded the possibility OF the COM
missioner making his returns this year as
carly as he has in years gone by. YER
mWltS internal revenue receipts are more
than eight times as ldrIe for the past
year as they We're for the previous year.
The exact tota! OF the internal revenue
collect lions i'm the Green Mountain state
for the hscal year enuing June j0 1St9,
were $l9h 2l3.6S. 4 he total for the previous
year was only $50 al. Il. This great in
crcasc Of course. is largely due to the
internal revenue tax which was imposed
upon tn" country for the purpose OF
raising war funds. Vermont is in the
same collection district with Maine and
New Hampshire. and both of these states
show the same large gains. The total col
icctions last year for the New Hampshire
'diStrict wogc Sl,34l,036G. The total collec-
tions for the previous year in the New
Hampshire district, which II may be re-
pcatcd, Dncludqs Maine and Vermont, were
Si-5.o9N.4". The collections in tn" Stat" of
New Hampshire Jumped from 1889. .799 Il to
&19L9iG.3l. The collections in the Statc of
Maine jumped from SH.7j1.49 to i346, ,Sii. TO-
Thus, the pacing of IA one-cent stamp on
tcicgrams and Il two-ccnt stamp on checks
aud stamps on notes and various 9th a.
legal papers swclls the Golfers of our
Uncle samuel.
Incidentally it may be mentioned that
this big increase in the collections swe Is
tho salary of the collector OF internal
revenue for the New Hampshire district
whose Office is at Portsmouth. According
80 the law, foS' the big collections of the
past year he receives Il salary of 81 500.
PREVIOUS to that the total of collections
only warranted paying him "A salary of
$4,000. Ii does not, however, affect the
salarics paid to his deputies throuShou
The States of Vermont. Maine and New
hdmpshirc The only effect is that it has
in'Ccascd the number of these deputies.
New Hampshire has long furnished he
bulk of internal revenue, but in the num-
hor of registered tobacco manufacturers
Vermont leads all the other three States
in The district. ThtGe are six registered
tobacco manufactures in Vermont against
seven the previous year New Hampsni q
has Ou.y TWO; and Main" has one. The
number of cigar manufacturers IL glster u
IN the district during The past year Was
one hundred and nincty-siX, a fal ing off of
three. These Used oli.J2i pounds OF IuplC-
co, winch was manufactured into li,IUI-
2t1 cigars. These were c4gars all of VIII, n
weighed more than three pounds to IN
thousand. \crmput has thirty Eight Of
these cigar manufactures, and they Used
39.o71 pounds of tobacco, and made l. s6o, ,O;tj
cigars The bulk of the cigar manufacture
ing in the distCict was done in New Hamp-
shire and Maine, the latter state having
niEety-four manufactures. There are
eight factories in the district that manu-
iacture lear tobacco. They consumed last
year i9'2 pounds. These are all in the
state of New Hampshire, there being none
in Vermont.
Vermont presents splendid showing as
to the legal status OF internal revenue
cases. There are only two suits pending
lctore the courts there on account of in
tcrnai revenue Violai ion, and those are
both criminal suits No fines Were imposed
during the pasl year for the viola ton cf
the internal revenue laws in the Gre@n
Mountain State.
one of the interesting features in the
Information furnished to Congress is the
number of spccia. liceT Scs for the sale of
liquor This shows that there are five hun
dred and iifty-tNe government licenses to
retail liquor dealers in the State of Yer
mont. and only one license to "A wholesa. q
dealer. There are three licenses for dea -
ears in leaf tobacco; seven licenses TO deal
crS in manufactured tobacco; six liccnses
to m1nufactorics Of tobacco; thirty-slX
tenscs to manufacturers of cigars; Two
hundred ana twcnty-seven licenses to ie-
tail dealers in malt liquors: twenty five
licenses to wholesale dealers la malt liu-
uors; and one license TO wholesale deal
or in oleomarga. inc. There are sixty-nine
III cnses to bankers TWO hundred and
scvcnty-nine licenses to billiard tables and
bowling alleys; thirteen licenses 10 broke )
and dealers in stocks and bonds nine
licenses to commercial brokers': thirteen
licenses to custom house brokers'; che
license for pawn brokers; two licenses tor
proprietors of circuses; ana one hundred
and ninc licenses for proprictors of eAhibi-
tons not otherwise provided for This
m a gag al lf ifl in, b. -
Vermont paying internal revenue laws of
one thousand three hundred and hfty-six.