Show The Direct Tax Refund WASHINGTON April 13Many of the states that expected to realize the entire amount of their contributions contribu-tions to the direct tax are to be disappointed Scrutiny of the refunding act by the first comptroller has satisfied him the United States government may claim offsets against all the states wherein the tax was not collected from individuals directly by the government He has been searching the records for such offsets and here are some of those he has already discovered dis-covered on accounts of quotas of arms ammunition am-munition etc or services up to 18S7 California ifornia 8110 Georgia 4220 Illinois 17178 Michigan 5663 Minnisota 5 331 Oregon 5672 Virginia G646 Wisconsin Wis-consin 55201 Now Mexico 5597 Washington Wash-ington 6396 Had the old law continued in force any of these states might have made their account square by diminishing the amounts of their requisitions but after the new military law of 1887 passed this course could not been pursued |