The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-06-29
No Twin City Internal Rev
enue Consolidation.
CHANGE CAN'T BE MADE
Bureau Official Explains Why None
Will Be Made.
THE TAX ON MIXED FLOUR"
The Internal Revenue COmmissiOne,
Clearly Defines the Article
to Be Taxed.

From The Journal Bureau. Rooms 10, Post
Sa1itdin0, HGSaiaGton-
Washington, d. c., June 29.--An official
of the internal revenue bureau to-day said
that so far as the bureau was concerned
there has been no intimation that the in
ternal revenue Offices Of the twin cities
will be consolidated and deputy collec-
tor placed in one or the other of the two
cities.
1T would be impracticable to make such
q move" said this official, because there
would be no economy in it from our point
Of view. II there were consolidation and
the headquarters located in Minneapolis,
for instance, stamp agency would have
to be maintained in ST. Paul, and vice
versa. While business in Minneapolis in
taxes on grain deals would warrant the
location of the Office there, still there is
enough business in st. Paul to oblige us
to keep some sort of an agent there to ac-
commodate the business men of that city.
AS to the visit of a special agent to Min
neapolis and St. Paul some time ago,
that was probably a regular inspector
accounts. and not with a view to deter
mining whether consolidation is feasible.
We have received a number of inquiries
from the twin cities in the past two or
three weeks relative to proposed con-
solldation, and in ali cases have answered
that there is no truth in the report
MIXED FLOUR" Commissioner of IN
ternal ev e IL
DEFINED. Yerkes to-day made
public a letter de-
f1ning mixed -four" in accordance with
the amendment to the original act, pro-
cured by Representative Tawney last
session, which takes effect on Monday
next. After quoting the amended act, the
commissioner says:
To be subject.to taxes, mixed -four, blended
product, must either contain over so per-
centum of wheat flour, OF if it contains less
percentum OF wheat -four, it must be in
tended for sale. or be sc1d or offered for
sale as wheat flour, and not as mixed -four
The classification under the act of June 13
1898, as mixed flour of mixtures which con-
tanned less than 80 percentum of wheat flour,
was correct and tax upon such product has
been and will be incurred until July l, when
the amended statutes takes effect
CARRIERS The postmaster GEN
eral has decided that
EIGHT HOURS "forty-elght
hour" provision of
A DAY. the current appropri-
alton bill expires
June 30, and that after that date all car
riers in the United States must work
eight hours each day for six days in the
week. Under the 'forty-eight hour" pro-
vision carrier worked each day as he
was needed, sometimes more than eight
hours and sometimes less, just so the to-
tai Of hours for the week was forty-eight
Under the new order of the postmaster
general each carrier must work exactly
eight hours each working day, and should
his work not be completed within that
time, he is to return to the main office
with his undelivered mail and wait until
the next day before disposing of it. This
new rule will work many inconvenience
to business men in the larger cities, for
their mail will frequently come to them a
day late as the result of it.