The Republican journal., 1903-12-10
PIPE AND Triple.
Figures for Maine from the Report of tho
Commissioner of Internal Revenue.

Figures for Maine from the Report OF tho
Commissioner of Internal Revenue.
Pipe and tipple for Maine are ex-
commissioner for internal revenue OF
the treasury department. This has
lust been made public for the last fiscal
year. Although the commissioner
mentions Maine as one of the States
where the internal revenue collections
are yery small, ranking in the same
class with North and South Dakota,
Vermont, Arkansas and Idaho, there
were 1910 special tax payers OF dlffer-
emf kinds in the Pine Tree State during
the fiscal year.
The figures are chiefly interesting
for the number of retail and wholesale
LIQUOR dealers who ply their traffic in
defiance of the State laws but at the
same time protect themselves as
against federal statutes by taking out
the proper licenses. Commissioner
Yerkes says there was one rectlf1er 90
ing business in the State during the
past fiscal year; 95s retail liquor deal
ers: fourteen wholesalers; three brew.
ers: 4Os dealers in malt liquors, and
thirtv-seyen wholesale dealers IN malt
liouors. But the prohibition laws keep
the number of these dealers down, as
is shown by comparison with the hg-
ures for New Hampshire, where the
population is only about half as large
as Maine and where during the last MS
cal wear there were two rectitiers, 1851
retail LIQUOR dealers, fifteen wholesale
liuuor dealers; five brewers; 400 deal
ers by retail in malt liquors and seven
ty-fiye wholesale dealers in malt liquors.
RESULT OF ENFORCEMENT.
The campaign for the enforcement
of law in Maine has plainly had an
effect. for the commissioners record
for Maine during the previous fiscal
wear shows no rectifers, 1,033 retail
iiouor dealers, fifteen wholesalers; five
brewers, 351 dealers in malt liquors at
retail; and thirty-one at wholesale. The
retailers and wholesalers OF malt IL
quors have increased:
The other special tax payers IN
Maine are few, being two retail dealers
in oleumargerine colored IN lmltatloh
of butter; eighty-tive retail dealers IN
oleomargerine free from coloratlon ana
two wholesale dealers in the same
article. The number OF special tax
PAYERS in Maine for the previous fiscal
year was 1856, but some OF the war
taxes were in force during that year,
including taxes on billiard tables ana
bowling alleys and on different kinds OF
brokers. The repeal OF the war taxes
is also responsible for reduction IN
the amount of collections for Name,
which for the last fiscal year were only
SIS. 1890 as against Slo3, o25.33 the
previous fiscal year Maine, New
Hamnshire and Vermont are in one
collection district, with James A. Wood
as collector at Portsmouth. The total
collections of the three States for the
last fiscal year were 1891, 025.13, OF
which New Hampshire paid 1882, 36l.7l
and Vermont, S29.S65.s2, as against
$40, ASP. so and 800, 520.55 respectively:
The conversation of Collector Wood
is 50. $50, where the previous year 1t
was $4,000, because then the aggregate
collections of the district were $780,
49,. so. The salaries of collectors are
regulated by the amount OF money they
collect and run as high as "a, 800. when
the collections of a district exceed
1000, 600
There were taxes and penalties re-
ported for assessment in the Pine Tree
State to the amount of s2,572.S1 and
the expenditures from the fraud fund
were S9S6.03.
CIGAR FIGURES.
The figures for the manufacture OF
cigars are by the calendar year and
show for Maine seventy-four factories,
each having separate account. These
used 1851, so2 pounds of tobacco in max
ing $3.50, 800 cigars weighing more than
three pounds per 1000, while no cigars
were made of less weight than three
pounds per 1000, all of which goes to
show that as a rule smokers i'll Maine
like big smoke and a strong one.
The internal revenue suits IN Name
decided in favor of the government
during the last fiscal year resulted in
judgments for 500 and s5S.o7 in costs.
Although there Is a man with IL
cense as rectifier in the State there
is 10 record on the commissioners
books that a gallon of spirits was rec
titled within the borders of the state.