The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-12-07
THE COUNT8YS DRINK AND SMOKE BILL IS GREAT

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special attention to this increased
consumption, saying:
while the enactment Of state
wide prohibitory laws in some states
and OF local option laws in other
states has greatly reduced the num-
Der of distilleries of the smaller
classes, and in some districts has re-
duced the number of rectifers and
wholesale liquor dealers, the pro-
duction and withdrawal for con-
sumption of distilled spirits has
greatly increased during the past
fiscal year
The production of tobacco, cigars,
cigarettes and snuff also increased
largely in the last year, the increase
in taxes paid the government on
these articles being more than &c.
100000.
The production of playing cards
shows a large increase. The reve-
nue. from this source in the last
fiscal year is shown by the report to
have been $65, 52434. AS the tax
is 2 cents a pack, this indicates that
the total number of playing cards
manufactured in the United States
in the last year was more than 28,-
100000 packs. Whether bridge
whist or poker has done more to
cause this increased consumption of
cards the report does not state.
Revenue Collections.
The total internal revenue collec-
lions for the year, according to the
report. were $289,957,220.16, an in
crease over the preceding year OF
$43,744,500.94 Among the items
making up this total are the tax on
spirits, s148,029,311.54, an increase
of $13,161, 277.42; tax on tC bacco,
$58,11S,478.9S; tax on fermented
, liquors $50, 1872, 283.54, an increase
Of s3,155 ,877.12. and corporation
tax $20,959,783.74. The tax col
| lected on oleOmargarine was about
| 81, 100000.
Total internal revenue collections
for the South Atlantic states for
the year were: Florida, $1,431,-
224.12; Georgia, $3.50, 987.23;
North Carolina, 9,634.O2;
South Carolina, $167,O46.92; Ten
nessee, $2,342,355.81; Virginia, &c.
DAB, 086.33.
Figures on corporation tax are
as follows:
Florida - Corporations, 1,487;
capital, $198,233,3464O; tax col
lected, $3S,196.O2.
Georgia - Corporations. 4,132:
capital, $322.658,47O.98; tax col
lected. $159,653.61
South Sarolina-Corporations, g.
704; capital. s151,357,813.78; tax
collected $79,877.54.
Liquors and Cigars.
Production of distilled spirits was
as follows: Florida, 212,837 gal
lone; Georgia. 11,773.
The production of fermented
liquors, in barrels, was: Florida,
10, 425; Georgia, 1880.
The number Of cigar factories and
the production OF cigars was as fol-
lows
Observation-Disclosures 421; cigars
OF more than three pounds to the
thousand. made, $45,367,515.
Manufactured tobacco of all kinds
produced during the year, in pounds
was as follows: Florida, 20,958;
Georgia, $3.50; North Carolina 81
447899; South Carolina, 1851;
Tennessee, 8,819,755; Virginia, u.s.
97O,62O.
The number of seizures and value
OF property seized is as follows:
Florida, seizures So; value, 3d.
| 789.45.
Georgia, seizures ia; value $5i :
10000.
Commissioner CabelPs report,
speaking of Illicit distilling, says
Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina
and South Carolina lead in offenses
OF that character. During the year
officers closed 1911 such plants,
200 more than the year before. One
officer was killed and three seriously
wounded.
Commissioner Cabell recommends
that the pay of revenue collectors
and officers be raised to a level
with corresponding positions in the
postal and customs service.
One thing shown is that there is
no whiskey now in any bonded
warehouse that was made before
tho spring of 1902.