Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1884 — The Internal Revenue. [ARTICLE]

The Internal Revenue.

Deputy Commissioner Rogers, who has had more experience with internal revenue legislation than any other man in Washington, gives his views of the probable action of Congress as follows: “It looks to me as though the present system of collecting internal revenue taxes would be done away with. Congress will probably pass a law collecting taxes on spirits by stamps. The office of revenue agent will be abolished, and the prosecution of small violators of law in the South will be abandoned. In some sections where moonshiners abound we dare not send officers to make raids, because word has already been passed around to kill them. I think that Congress win abolish the tax on beer and reduce the 'tax on spirits from 90 cents, as it is at present, to GO cents per gallon.” The most popular “Turkish” towels now in the market come from Philadelphia. .This goes to show that an ordinary towel by any other name can attain a premium for popularity. Two rafts of pine logs from Lake Superior towed into Cleveland covered a space, one of five and the other of eight acres, and contained 5,000,000 feet ot lumber. Minibteb Lowell has sent cut * denial of the story that he would take up his residence at Oxford, England. German immigrants avoid the cotton States. r