Ogden Evening Standard | 1910-08-26 | Page 8 | Royal E. Cabell in Salt Lake

revenue for Utah, Idaho and Wyoming, Wyom-ing, and will leave tonight for the coast. The purpose of his visit to Los Angeles In to confer with the California Cal-ifornia collectors on the subject of the manufacture Of sweet wine, j When asked last night about the corporation tax and the general con-I con-I dltion of the Internal revenue office;; I in the United States, Mr. Cabell said: "Practically all of the corporation tax has been paid, but the greater part of it has been paid under protest. 1 It was calculated that the corporation tax would ret the government something some-thing over S27.5iJO.OOii. Of this amount over $27,000.00.) his been collected, so that you can see all of the large corporations nnd most of the smaller ono6 have paid their tax. At the present pres-ent time there. Is a test case in the L'nlted States supreme court. The decision de-cision or this court will tell us whether wheth-er or not the tax Is legal. I "The district revenue office in Salt j lake,, while It cannot be classed , amon1; the big offices from point of ' money collected, 9 listed in class A ! for eibcieney, and 1 can frankly say 1 that it Is oni? of the most efficient of-ces of-ces we haie In the United States. This efficiency speaks doubly wc'.l of the ' office In that it covers one of the bfg- gest territories we Lave. The reason ; for the collections in this office be-1 be-1 ing small lies in the fact that In t b I - I district there are scarcely any tohac-I tohac-I co factories, distilleries, and few breweries. brew-eries. These concerns not the sov-ernment sov-ernment moro than 90 per cent of the internal revenne money. Tills whole tax amounts to about $2n,o(i0.000 per year. ROYAL E. (ML IN SALT LAKE ,Palt Lake. Aug. 2C Royal E. Cabell, Ca-bell, commissioner of Internal revenue reve-nue of Washlnnou, D. C, storiped oif iu Salt Lake last night on hi;? way to Ixjs Angeles. He will remain in the city during tho day. visiting with , L II. Calllster, collector of lnttirnai