Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1897 — INTERNAL REVENUE RECEIPTS. [ARTICLE]

INTERNAL REVENUE RECEIPTS.

Commissioner Forman Presents a Hopeful Report. In his annual report to the Secretary of the Treasury Mr. Forman, commissioner of internal revenue, estimates that the receipts from all sources for the current fiscal jfear will aggregate at least $115,000,000, an increase over 1897 of about $8,300,000. A comparative statement of the receipts during the lust fiscal year is given as follows: Spirits, $82,008,542; increase over 1860, sl,338.472. Tobacco. $30,710,207; decrease. $1,331. Fermented liquors, $32,472,102; decrease, $1,312,073. Oleomargarine, $1,034,129; decrease, $185.1 -A:/'.". . /■ ’Filled cheese, $18,992; increase, $18,992. Banks and bankers, $80; decrease, $49. Miscellaneous, $375,382; decrease, $69,729. Total receipts, $140,019,593; decrease, $211,022. The withdrawals for consumption during the year are given as follows: Fruit brandies, 1,140,131 gallons; decrease, 294,679. Spirits distilled from grain," 08,833,231 gallons; increase, 1,793,321, Beer, 34,423,094 barrels; decrease, 1,403,004. Cigars and cheroots weighing over three pounds per 1,000. number, 4,003,169,097; decrease, 174,580,840. Cigarettes weighing not over three pounds per 1,000. number, 4,151,009,700; Increase, 192,178,120. Cigarettes weighing three pounds per 1,000, number, 1,582,710; increase, 155,013. Snuff, 13,268,640 pounds; increase, 720,041. Tobacco, chewing and smoking, 260,734,812 pounds; Increase. 7.067,075. Oleomargarine, 42,534,559 pounds; decrease, 5,098,214. Filled cheese, 1.660,137 pounds (law became operative during the year). The cost of the collection of the revenue during the last fiscal year was $3,848,469. During the year 2,241 illicit stills were destroyed and thirty-two were removed. Eight hundred nnd twenty-nine persons were arrested, one killed and three were wounded. Of the stills seized nnd destroyed 228 were located in Alabama, 841 in Georgia, 463 in North Carolina, 190 in South Carolina and 245 in the sixth Virginia district.