The Evening Argus

New York, Dec. 21. - Van Wyck's report of the committee on retrenchment, on the subject of revenue frauds, is printed. It says: Continuing the investigation commenced more than a year ago, this committee find many frauds yet existing in the revenue department, in kind as heretofore, but not to the same extent. By reason of the reduction tax on whisky, and making estimated capacity one of the tests of production, when the capacity system shall be improved and modified as experience has already demonstrated to be necessary, frauds will be lessened and the revenue increased. The greatest want is, undoubtedly, honest officials, but no improvement can be hoped for in that direction under the present executive - a fact congress should have realized and acted upon long ago, and then devised a system which human ingenuity could not easily circumvent.