New-York tribune., 1903-01-01
THE STATES BUSINESS.
Benefits Of Reduction IN Tao on O1'-
eunisatiOn of Companies.
fRY rELEcRApH TO THE rRIBUNE.l


Albany Dec 3l.-Controler Miller's report Tor
the fiscal year ending September 80 shows that
the revenues from the taxation Of corporations
amounted to Sc 226 1S3 Is, the actual number OF
corporations taxed being 1924. This is an IN
crease of s., ,2229 502 30 over the previous fiscal
year, when GLIB corporations were taxed
Nearly 80 per cent of the collections are now
due TO the legislation of 1901 The cost OF col
| lection is less than five-tenths of L per cent
Organiza ton taxes paid in the last year were
$3.50. .j67 II. as against S293 091 % the year be-
! fore
The transfer taxes collected were S3,3o3,534 -,
without any unusually large estates being in
cIuded as was the case in the two previous
years For the fiscal year ending September oo'
1901 the sum of s.. .0S4. .606 81 was collected from
the transfer tax
The increase in the receipts of the organiza-
ton tax from: S295. .091 % to S3SOo6f IL, was
due doubtless to the reduction of the tax from
one-eighth to one-twentieth of l per cent, this
policy having induced many companies to IN
corporate in this State.
The financial transactions of the State for the
fiscal year as they appear in the records or the
Controllers office are follows:
Balance October 90 zoo .-,,e
Receipts 9ts from all sources. exclusive Of trans
fers '---''-'- -'o, -
Total .... s3s $50 1876 SO
payments, exclusive of transfers %
Balance IN treasury of all funds , ooo o.
on the statement of receipts above given these from
sources so-caIed. amount to S53 go
The State Tax Commissioners have made 1898
separate valuations of special franchises dur
ing the year. aggregating $26S.017,77o, in
crease over the previous year OF nearly S120cO-
600 On these valuations f64 writs of certiorari
were issued, as against 221 writs in 1901 and
27S writs in 1900.
It was said at the office of Patrick W. Culli-
NAM State Excise Commissioner, to-day that
the receipts from the Liquor Tax law for the
fiscal year had been S12,51 1868. an increase of
S43,694 over the preceding year. The revenue
from bond actions and cancelled certificates was
| SIG 134 for the calendar year On June /. 1900,
there were 1874 hotels in the boroughs of Man.
haitian The Bronx and Brooklyn On June 1.
| 1902 there were only 2.OS6 such places, show
inc a reduction of LASS, more than 43 per
cent The convictions for violation of the Liquor
Tax law in the boroughs of Manhattan and The
Bronx increased from eight in 1898 to 315 in
1902.
The Factory Inspection Bureau of the Depart
ment of Labor has made SS.47S inspections and
visits during the year in the factories, shops,
bakeries, mines and tenement house workrooms
of the State This record for the force of thirty
nine inspectors compares with a total of %, ,434
for a larger number of inspectors in ten months
of 1901. During the year there were forty-nVe
prosecutions for violations of the law. and in
273 cases goods were tagged because of unlaw-
full manufacture in tenement houses. Reports
were made on 8, $50 accidents in factories.
The institutions subject to the inspection OF
the State Board of Charities fourteen in num-
ber report the presence of $40 inmates, ana
that the expenditures for their support amount
to 81 ,265, 19o Oh
Commissioner Wieting, of the Department OF
Agriculture, will report to the legislature that
the butter manufactured in the State IS an eA-
cellent. uniform product, and that TINS is also
true of cheese. Butter and cheese have brought
better prices during the last year than for
number of years, and the prospects OF the dairy
interests are brighter to-day than for many
years Oeomargarine is not sold In this STATE:
The milk sold is a practical approximation OIL
pure milk Mr.. Wieting gives hgures relative 10
the milk supply, showing the amount of milk
produced in this State to be- approximately:
60 45O 900 4O-quart cans, Of which about NAN
is consumed as milk and the remainder mace
into butter and cheese. There are about sixteen
hundred butter and cheese factories in the state
TO which milk is delivered, and forty-tWo cities
TO which milk is delivered for consumption In
1900 there were 476 cases of violation OF the
milk laws in 1901 430 cases, and this year only
30 -,
In November the foot and mouth disease broke
ont among the cattle in certain of the NeW-Ens-
land States and to prevent the disease Oeiis
brought into this State the Commissioner mas
been compelled, and is still compelled TO Keep
a strong patrol on the borders of Vermont, New
Hamnshire and Connecticut Up to the present
time this disease has not found a foothold mere,
and Mr. Wieting is encouraged 10 oeiieNe ho
will succeed in keeping 1t out