In the French elections on May 11. 1924. | his example. Edouard Herriot, leader of the for members of the chamber of deputies the parties of the left, consisting mainly of socialists and radicals, won a decisive victory over the bloc national, made up of liberals, conservatives and moderates led by Premier Raymond Poincare and President Alexandre Millerand. The new chamber did not meet until June 2 and in the meantime the leaders of the left parties and their newspapers carried on an active campaign against President Millerand. They demanded his resignation, though he had been elected for seven years and his term did not expire until 1927. Their special grievance against him was the fact that he had intervened actively in the electoral campaign with an appeal to the voters to support the bloc national and had threatened in case of a victory for the left to resign the presideney. Raymond Poincare resigned the premiership on June 2. but the president refused to follow left, declined to form a ministry, as did others TAXES COLLECTED IN THE UNITED STATES. The statistics in this summary relate to general property taxes. Special taxes, intaxes collected by the national government cluding inheritance, income, etc., contribute for the year ended June 30, 1923, the forty- $256,647,000; poll taxes, $29,140,000; lieight states and the District of Columbia, censes and permits, $408,271,000, and specounties, and all cities, towns, villages, school cial assessments, $203,392,000. The figures districts, townships, drainage districts and for the national government for the year other civil divisions having the power to levy ended June 30, 1922, amounted to $3,630,215,and collect taxes for the fiscal year ending 000, or $426,082,000 more than similar taxes in the calendar year 1922. A summary is collected for the year which ended June 30, also presented of specified taxes of the na- 1923. tional government for the year which ended June 30, 1922. All other references to the fiscal years 1922 and 1912 as applied to the national government relate respectively to the fiscal years which ended June 30, 1923, and June 30, 1913. re The grand total of revenues from taxation is $7,428,749,000, or an average of $68.33 for each person. Of this total $3,204,133,000 represent the revenues of the national government, consisting of customs, $562,189,000; internal revenue (1) income and profit tax. $1.691,090,000, and (2) miscellaneous taxes, $935,699,000; tax on circulation of national banks, $4,304,000; and federal serve franchise tax, $10,851.000. The total revenues from taxes of the states, counties, cities, townships and all other local political units are $4,224.616,000. or an average of $38.86 for each person. Of this total. $3,327,166,000, or 78.8 per cent, comes from TAX RECEIPTS IN 1922 [Totals expressed Total. The statistics here given form part of the 1922 census of wealth, debt and taxation. A similar census taken for 1912 included the revenues of the national government and of all states and counties; but as regards cities included only those having a population of more than 2,500. SUMMARY FOR 1922 AND 1912. $30,398 $22.706 $817 $342 $5,364 $1,169 10,305 2,855 12,123 7,970 4.646 1.169 |