The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-04-09
ONE-HALF MILLION
GALLONS CASCADE
IN THE SEIZURE
BIG HAUL BY REVENUE OFFICERS
GROWS IN IMPORTANCE UP
ON INVESTIGATION.
The PENALTIES ARE ENORMOUS
Government Can confseate Proper
ty And Upon Conviction Send The
Owners to Prison.-speeiaI Men
Have Been Busy.


seizure Of the plant of the Cascade
Distillery company on Thursday proves
to be a bigger haul than it was at
first supposed, as nearly 100000 gal
Ions Of whisky is now being held by
the government The goods we're
seized for alleged violations of the In
ternal revenue law.
Forfeiture OF all the seized proper
ty is one of the penalties If the own.
ers OF the distillery are guilty of the
charge that has been made by the
United Safes authorities.
The seizure is one of the largest
ever made by the government.
1t was made at the instance of U. s.
Collector of Internal Revenue r. 8.
Sharp. The plant Of the Cascade Dis
tillery Company is LOCATED near Tul-
lahoma, and consists Of distillery
building, granary building, Ave ware
houses and about 600 acres of land.
Without the tax of $1.10 per gallon,
the approximate value placed on the
entire seizure including plant and
product, by Manager George A. Shwab,
is $450000.
Federal interference was brought
about by an alleged violation of sec
tions 1856 and 1857 of the internal
revenue laws of 1900, relative to at
tempts to evade the payment Of the
tax on distilled spirits. The plant
was seized by Deputy Collector ]. A.
Walker and Thomas B. Stapp. -
George A. Dickel & Company, manu-
facturers of Cascade" whisky, is one
of the best known distillery plants in
the entire country. The plant has
been in operation for more than thirty
years. 1t is located four miles from
Tullahoma, and two and one-half miles
from Normandy. 1t is not corpora
ton, but is owned solely. by V. e..
Shwab of this city.
It was only after an investigation
covering some time that the step was
taken by the United States revenue
officers. Three revenue men are kept
on duty at the plant at all times,
hut their number has been augmented
within the past few months, it is I'M
derstood. Except to the federal on
GERS, the news of the seizure OF the
great and powerful distillery comes as
a thunderbolt from clear sky.
The officers of the company are: v.
e. Shwab, owner; George A. ShWab,
his son, manager; and w. S. Carroll,
manager of the plant at Tullahoma.
Mr.. Shwab, the elder, has not taken an
active part in the management of the
affairs of the concern for the past six
years. His son, George A. Shwab,
has general supervision of the bust
ness. and makes his headquarters al
the Offices of the company, POI Second
avenue, north.
Upon conviction for violation OF
the two sections of the laws relative
to the case, there are various penal
ties: A collection of double the
amount of the tax evaded; forfeit of
the distillery and the distilling ap-
paratus used; forfeit of all distilled
spirits and all raw materials on the
premises, a fine of from $500 to So
600. and Imprisonment for a term be-
tween six months and three years.
Law in Case.
The two sections of the revenue
laws in question follow:
"9256.-WheneYer any person
evades. or attempts to evade, the pay
ment of the tax on any distilled
spirits. in any manner whatever, he
shall forfeit any pay double the
amount of the tax so evaded or at
tempted to be evaded.
"3257.-Whenever any person en-
gagged in carrying on the business OF
distiller defrauds or attmpts to de-
fraud, the United States of the tax on
the spirits distilled by him, or any
part thereof, he shall forfeit the dis
tillery and distilling apparatus used
by him, and all distilled spirits and all
raw materials for the production OF
distilled spirits found in the distillery
and on the distillery premises, and
shall be fined not less than FIVE hun
dred, nor more than FIVE thousand
dollars and be imprisoned not less
than six months nor more than three
years"
Mr.. Sharp was extremely reticent
regarding the causes of the seizure
and would say nothing at all as to the
events Immediately leading up to the
step taken. Beyond the fact that the
revenue men seem confident that they
have sufficient evidence to convict,
there Is little more TO be learned re-