The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-07-07
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
WASHINGTON, July 6.
SENATE.

tax bill made report. The Commit
tee report in favor of a compromise on
tue tax on cotton, making it three cents
a pound.
bate on the bill, said he hoped the
present tariff bill would be defeated.
It was not very much modified. New
England did not want the bill, as her
interests were already sufficiently pro-
tected. The demand for n new tariff
came from Pennsylvania and the
Northwest. The Senate agreed to con-
firm the report on the tax bill.
The bill to provide for the payment
for QuartermasterS' stores and sub
siStence supplies furnished to the army
was then taken up.
Mr.. Fessenden, from the Conference
Committee on the tax bill, made re-
port which was read at length. Mr..
FeSSenden, ut the conclusion of the
reading said, there were u great many
amendments to the bill, but most of
them were verbal. The Committee had
attended to the subject with very great
care, and had no difficulty in coming
to a conclusion, except upon II few
points which were finally settled to the
satisfaction of all. 1t would be too
much ola task for him (Fessenden) to
undertake to go through the whole bill
to explain all the amendments, but if
any Senator had a question to ask in
regard to any article in the bill he
would be happy to answer him.
Mr.. Salisbury said: When this bill
came from the House there was a tax
of cents per pound on cotton. The
Committee of Conference hud reduced
it to cents. The House was glad of
that, but considering the situation OF
the people in that section where cotton
was grown, reduced as they were to
Rbject poverty, scarcely able to get
bread for their families, and unrepre-
scented in Congress, he thoughtit unjust
to single out one article of agriculture
tor taxation. He was totally opposed
to taxing cotton, unless other products
of the farm was taxed. While the bill
as presented by the Conference Com
mittee was most favorable as it came
from the House, yet as the single arti-
Gle OF cotton was selected out of all the
agricultural products for taxation, he
could not vote for the bill.
Mr.. Hendricks said the Senate was
informed early in the session, by
the heads OF the departments of
the Government, that the condition of
the finances was such as would allow
very large reduction in taxation. He
was informed by Mr.. Sherman that the
revenue from internal taxation might
be reduced seventy-tive million dollars.
He hoped then to see some reduction in
the taxes that have been put upon the
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but there was no such relief there, on
the extraordinary tax on whisky, al
though he thought an experience of ten
years had shown that that tax defeated
the revenue. He then spoke in OPPOSE
tion to the cottontax, and characterized
the bill as unfavorable to the agricul-
tural interests.
Mr.. sherman snid that the agricul-
turnl interests were better cared for
than any other in this bill. Nearly all
the burdens of the bill were put upon
wealth; articles of luxury were taxed
heavily, and agricultural implements
were left free. He doubted the sinceri-
ty of hundreds when he said he did not
oppose the bill from any sectional point.
1t would be within the bounds to say if
Ohio paid ten millions of tax under the
last bill, she would pay but five million
under this. Indiana would pay one or
two millions less under this thnn under
the former bill and so of other States.
Mr.. Poland called up the bill to pro-
vide for the payment of Quartermasters'
stores and subsistence supplies furnish |
ed to the army of the United States. |
The question was on Mr.. Wilson's |
to strike out the provision |
authorizing the payment for stores not |
receipted for. A discussion
by Messrs. Williams, Clark, Howe, |
Fessenden, Salisbury, Howard and |
Mr.. Wilson's amendment
was agreed to by vote of II yeas to ID
nays.
At 5:l5 the Senate took recess until
p. NJ.
The bill in regard to pensions to of
ticers and soldiers of the war of 1872
bill was modified so as to include
sailors. The bill was then recommitted |
to the Committee on Invalid Pensions,
together with all amendments aud
so as to have a complete bill
reported.
Mr.. Perham asked leave to report n
bill granting pensions to those soldiers
tOus circumstances.
Mr.. Hale asked whether the bill in
cluded the soldiers of the late war.
Mr.. Perham replied that it did not.
Mr.. Hale objected to any bill shat did |
not extend the same right to the SOL |
diers of the late war as it did to the SOL !
diers of any other war.
Mr.. Hubbard, of Connecticut, from the |
Committee on Patents, reported bill |
to allow James @. Cook to apply for the |
of his patent button backs |
and connecting eyes.
The House then went into Commit |
tee of the Whole, Mr.. Schofield in the |
chair, and resumed the consideration
of the tariff bill.
Mr.. Kelley moved to reduce the duty |
on Italian marble from one dollar to |
seventy cents per cubic foot, and spoke |
in its support. After considerable de- |
bate it was rejected.
Mr.. Wilson, of Iowa, moved to reduce |
the advalorum duty on polished mar |
BILE from 40 to 50 per cent.
Mr.. Hogan opposed the amendment. |
The committee rose to close the de- |
bate, and Mr.. Hooper presented the re-
port of the Conference Committee on |
the internal revenue bill, and proceeded
to explain the same.
Mr.. Stevens inquired what had been
done with the provision requiring cases
of alleged frauds on the revenue to be |
tried before n United States court, in
stead of being decided by Assessors.
Mr.. Hooper replied that the House
had receded from that provision, being
ternal Revenue that there were suf1i-
cient provisions of the same kind in
other parts of the bill.
Mr.. Stevens thought that was the
most important provision in the bill.
andNthat the bill should not pass with
out it.
Mr.. Ross inquired what disposition
had been made of the provision about
Income tax.
Mr.. Hogan explained that the Senate
had struck ont the whole section, as the
Income tax for this year had been laid,
and the Senate deemed it ex pedient that
there should be no action on the sub
ject till next session. In that view the
House concurred. In regard to cotton
tax it was fixed at cents per pound
instead of cents as fixed by the SEN
ate, and cents.as fixed by the House.
rn relation to gas companies and horse
railroads; the Senate provision allow
ing them to odd the taxes was agreed
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