The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-04
THE REPORT OF YERKES
INTERNAL REVENUE FIGURES FOR
 LAST FISCAL TEAR.
The Collections Amounted to szs4.- i7s,o76, an Excess of eI,a8A,lo5 Over Those of the Year
 Before

washington. Dec. S.--The annual re. port of Commissioner George W. Herkes of the Internal Revenue Bu- reau. Treasury Department, shows that the receipts of the bureau for the wear ended June 30, 1905, were $2sAi7S.s76, an excess of s1,2s4.1s5 over tho col. lections for the fiscal year Of 1904.
 Using as a basis the collections for the first three months of the current fiscal year the commissioner estimates that the receipts from all internal rev. enue sources for the fiscal year end- ing June 30. 1906. will aggregate s242.- 100000. or nearly $S.000,o00 in excess of those for the last fiscal year.
 During the last fiscal year there was collected from the tax on distilled spir- It's S12e,512,62S, on fermented liquors $49, ,459.539, and on tobacco s45,659, ,siO. The leading States in the payment of internal revenue taxes for the past year are Illinois. s51 ,ss2. .7os: New york. s27.ssi.572; Indiana, s24.652.244: Ken- lucky. $2l.754,3ss; Ohio. s19.7s2.s15, and Pennsylvania, $1s.196,l70. Among the States paying the smallest amounts are Idaho, Mississippi, Nevada. North Da. kota, Vermont and Wyoming.
 In 1904. the total production of dis titled spirits was i39505,2i4 gallons; in 1905. 153.25s,379 gallons; in 1904, in round numbers 1ls,400,o00 gallons of tax paid spirits were withdrawn, in 1905. 117,700.000.
 There has been an increase In the amount of snuff and tobacco manu- factured and in the production of beer. Commissioner Yerkes discussed the free work" done by his bureau, such as gauging of spirits at rectifying houses. the free stamps used. clerk hire, etc.. and recommnds Legislation fixing 6 charge of twenty cents per stamp for each stamp issued to recti. fiers or wholesale liquor dealers for use upon packages prepared and sent out by them.
 From this source the commissioner estimates that an increased revenue of from s75o.00o to 3s00,0o0 would be pro- duced The commissioner also recom- mends that tax of twenty-five cents per gallon be imposed on all sweet wines fortified through the use or grape brandy
 The cost of collecting the internal revenue last year was $4.705,296, and the commissioner estimates that the cost for the next fiscal year will be reduced by $s49.120. The cost is stated to have been 2.0l per cent the past year as against an average since the creation of the bureau of 2.S3 per cent.
 The Internal revnue receipts for the last fiscal year are given as folio g:
 From spirits. @i35.65s,5i3, an increase over 1904 of s14e.4s7.
 Tobacco. s45,e59,s91, increase, s1o4.- 101.
 Fermented liquors. sSo.sso.s5s. in- crease. S6.227,0s4 .
 olemargerine, s6O5.47s. increase, $121.3S1.
 Mixed Hours. s1,s4s. increase, Ss2.s1.
 Adulterated butter. S3.s3s, increase. $2,093. Princess, or renovated butter, $156.735. increase. $l5,s61.
 Miscellaneous. t441,19s, decrease S1.. 2s1,304
 There was an Increase of 5,157.s04 pounds in the quantity of leaf tobacco used in the manufacture, of taxable to- bacco products and an increase of 33.- oo5.773 pounds and a decrease of g. S94.633 pounds respectively. in the quantity of domestic leaf exported and foreign leaf exported and an Increase af 4o.4s3,351 pounds In the quantity of domestic leaf tobacco produced as cora- pared with the previous year.