The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1885-05-05 00:00:00

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Mr. ChiMein rine in a crowded lihnta.: of Cimittionx
to pnnent the Budget scheme for the coliiing year.
It-ferring to the moth., of the lett finAlleial year
Mr. Chillier, ,tated that the actual deficit max
hit, he except for the betrayal of
khart. and the nect,nity for (mull war prepara.
time. in the Soudan
_Lite deficit would not have
exceed...l ti 135,003. lie mentioned, among other
inter...ding item, in thi, portion of hi. upeech, that
the income-tax of mispetun in the pound had pne
a maw .4 £i2.0u0.000. Since BM the Funded
11-1* had been retitle...l by L1'ti,291.000, in addition to
which then. had been paid olf t,T,n3",000, the war
debt bequeathed by the lato hivernment,
I:1,011,mo which had Lamm premented to India in
discharge of dela, incurred by the Plaine policy.
Exclii.ire of the Vote it( Cniilit he intimated the
expenditure for the coining year at citn,s72,ooo. The
incremte in the tleiunit of the miring:bank liad during
the latt year amounted to C 3,060,000, a proportion of
increaue fully maintained up to the linnets Ile
intimated the income for the forthon ll ill g year upon
the Itaui, of the fivepettny inconte-tax lieu, 1:40,060
lin, upon telegraph xervii.mil at tit 1,140,000, whilut the
exislelitiire he put clown at Egn,572.000. This left a
deficit of 4.1,732,000, which, with K 306,0011 for utipple•
mvatary evtiatate., and the eleven million, for the
Vote of Credit, MM.` a total deficit of £11,632,000.
Gelling to particular., the Chancellor announced hi.,
intention to prop..e an inemase in the income tax to
eightpence, an announcement received with grateful
cheer* by an amenably that fean.l at leant another
penny. Being dm, put into increaxed good h
the Committee made the mint of a little Wiwi of
memory on the part of the Chancollor of the F.x.
chequer. Ihmaring to refer to Sir Sydney Waterlow,
he could not read" the imine of the borough for which
the bon. baronet ;iihr, and wart not able to allude to
him in Parliamentary forin. Turning in iii, tnxible
to Mr. tiladmone and Mr. Treselyan, who ..at near
him. he failed to obtain the desired information.
With great pre/wince of Mind he proo...tkml to refer to
the him. baronet as "nly hen. (fiend whouitu behind."
Thi,, though seeiuted by an expressive pnture
t..wani, the lack bench..., the Committee emphatically
declined to accept AA dinignation. Amid 11. .lid
Laughter and cheent, member, called out "Name,
name," till 'tome ime C. 4/ to the amintanoe of the
Chancellor he wax aide to refer ii, "the hon. menther
Fr t/rave.s.nd.- The next item he rcierred t., warn
ch.- final reform of the I h.atli an announce. '
inent *leo receiver' with I,;.entaal cheering. The pew
iumal here it to nosilhie the tax am far am poiesible
Upton all property lqiuting by muocesuion after dumb,
whether it be real or pentonal. In the coining
financial year the relief to the Exchequer will InliOnni
to only 1100,000, but it will finally each the aunt of
(3430,000. Another propnual, alw. ult.oh theervd, is
to make an annual.cluirgu fix* per Pent, anion the
income of corporat tote.. which 'will yield an iinnu.liste
emote° of 4150,0b0. elOO,OOO ;will be gained by an
addition to stamp duties on Stock Exchange tram..
action,. An additional instant of tw.i ,hillinsti a
gallon will lie charged .tu xpirite, raiming tip, duty on
home pnabictions (nen ten shilling.. to twelve shillings
a gallon, anti on eelogial and foreign from ten and
sarpenee t., t "eh shillings and fourpenoe per gallon,
iwingitor in an increased revenue of 11:300,000, The
tax thi hour Imrtel of 36 gallons will he inert...and
f nen uhillingu and threepenosto ..even whining.
and threepence, bringing in an adriithemt iRr4),OOO a
year. These additions ti the ruientte, including an
uCw."hitlailmaneinitediallkol'in:atcruFtwailfctr:elrea4l:l:4llllt7raw• -chrat*Tll:;:t4nti"l,l;;"-uk-'4°4:-."l.ld"tlitek:
t by 'the tit:pen/60n of the oprration for the
reduction of the National debt. The xperch occupied
dale upon two hours ii the delivery, and wax lint,Mad
I' throughout with unflagging interval. There
followed at it, conchnion a dinulb.ry O.4lvrtion, in
the course of which vari..ne wuci,mn. were nrnrat
hilt did not detrect fnan the general natidaction
indicated dtuists the program.i of the ntatement.
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