The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-12-16
FLENTY Of BEER,
Wines, WHISTLES
AND CIGARETTES
Annual Report OF Commits
sioner Cabell Shows ~uf-
ficient TO Go Round
CIGARE TTES WOULD
CIRCLE THE EARTH
Greatest Internal Revenue
X. ceipts Since the War
Nnh Exception OF
the Year 1911

WASHINGTON. Dec. ia severe
jolt to temperance is administered
in the annual report of Commissioner
! OF Internal Revenues Royal Il. Cab
ell to the secretary of The treasury.
which was made public tonight.
The report disclosed the tact that
the country. IL judged by that stand-
ara OF morality set up by temper ance
advocates. was rapidly gong to the
uemnition bow-wows, with every man.
woman and child apparently in fair
way to tall hsir to an annual appor-
tIcnment OF a pAaTei OF beef, several
sanus.s oil sp.rits and enough tobaceo
la tne fotn, OF essa4 etles, Cigars and
| chewing to con.oit ap.y sn.oke h4s
or her self TO uealn, were the annual
OUTPUT ol the MAJ. LECTURERS oil tnese
commodities TO he eQnalay uiSideu per
, CAPITA
me commissioners report showed.
for instaace. that tnere were enough
cigarettes produced during the hscai
year t. eli Gle the eartn more than a
hundred times II they were all taken
from their respective Wrappers ana
laid end To end. and these, be IL I'M
fefstood, were only tfttse cigarettes
! on which taxes were paid by the man
ufaeturers. The taxed output Of snun.
chewing and cigais made of tobacco
would bring the Ter capita allotment
of this weed up TO many pounds. or
many hundredweight. were the wo-
men and children eliminated from the
suggestions equation.
Fl. urss In Millions.
The report goes on to state that
the total taxed output OF fermented
liquors. including beer, ale. etc. was
62.ITs,ss4 barrels decrease of L.
i0S.42s barrels from the fiscal year
OF 1911. To make up for this appa-
rent iosa of appetite among the beer
drinking generation. however. Com
missioner Cabeli states that the fiscal
year ended June so. 1912. witnessed
the largest production Of distilled
spirits in the history OF the c1un-
try. The taxed production OF this
commodity. according to the report.
was TTs.24s.ss5 taxable gallons. eS-
ceeding the largest previous produc-
ton, which was for the fiscal year
enfing Ju~e so. 1911, by s,S4T. 1905
gallons. These figures were compiled
to include only the spirits distilled
from material other than fruit. and.
~therefore do not include many wines
ard cordiais. The total productios If
spirits was 1sT.S7I.s6S gallons.
The susa ..tal of thege figures, to-
rether with -sser taxable products, yn
to make up the best record OF inter-
nal revenue collections with the ex-
ception of the fiscal year Of 1911 sine.
the year 1868. and exceeded record
set by that year by s11.4s6. IS.
The total receipts Of the bureau for
the present fiscal year was s321. 49,
, ss4es. or this amount, ordinary
sources. including the tribute levied
on the beer. whiskey and tobacco
PRODUCED s2s3,os2.sa4.sS. an increase
over the previous fiscal year of $+.0I7.-
Ss0.I5, and from the special excise
tax on corporations there was col
lected s2s.5ss,2ss.s1. decrease OF
s4,ses, 2sSIs. making a net decrease
from the collections Of 1911 of $780,
405.04.
Corporation Tax.
The decrease In the amount OF corr
poration tax collected in 1919. says
the comm isstcner. was due to the fact
that OF the corporation tax assessed
Oh returns Of corporations fer the
calendar year 1903. the first year of
~ law. nearly six and a half million
dollars could not be collected until
July l, 1910, which fei! In the gov
ernment's fiscal year 1911. The Diff
ference of four and a half millions
appearing in the 1911 collection, there
fore. rightfully belonged II the fiscal
year of 1910. The commissioner es-
tinated the collectors for the f~cal
year 1918 at approximately $4,000
nae. anro-tioning to ordinary sources
1921. 600 GOO and to the corporation
ta~ sea 200. 600.
Devisting from his figures for the
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