Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-04-17
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HOUSE.

cutive session, and soon after adjourned.
HOUSE.
The Tax Bill.
Mr.. Dawes, from the Committee on
| Ways and Means, reported bill to reduce
duties on imports and internal tax. Re-
| ferred to Committee of the Whole and
made the special order for Tuesday next
from day to day until disposed of.
The PrOtectiOnists.
Mr.. Kelly failed to obtain leave to report
the minority bill.
Mr.. Beck asked who composed the minor
ity.
Mr.. Kelly saidthat Re himself was one.
Mr.. Beatty objected to Kelly's bill being
introduced.
Mr.. Banks remarked that the admission
of Kelly's bill had no effect whatever except
to give notice that such opinions exist.
! The Speaker remarked that the bill could
be introduced on Monday next as a matter
of right.
Mr.. Kelly asked that the bill be printed
| in the Globe for the information of the
House and country.
Mr.. Beatty. l object to that too.
| Mr.. Brooks, of New York. l am in q
minority Of the Committee with two other
gentlemen. Should like to know what mi
nority the gentleman from Pennsylvania
| represents.
Mr.. Kelly. Mr.. Maynard unites with me
in every provision of the bill. | report at
his instance and request.
Mr.. Brooks. Then there are two gentle
men out of a committee of nine in favor of
that bill l do not object to its reception.
Mr.. Hooper. If the gentleman from
Pennsylvania (Kelly) is in a minority of
two, and the gentleman from New York
(Brooks) is in a minority of three, should
like to know whether the bill reported by
my colleague, Dawes, is the report of ma
jOrity,
Mr.. Speaker. That is rather an arithme-
teal than a parliamentary question.
(Laughter).
Speech of Chairman Dawes,
Mr.. Dawes then proceeded TO address the
House. He said the bill now reported is
bill for the reduction of duties on imports
and internal taxes, and for such improve
ments in the administration of the laws
Herewith connected, as have been suggest
ed by the faborious examination the COM
of reduction on the basis of last years re-
ceipts is as follows: estimated reduction on
basis of quantities of 1871; tea SPAS, $50;
coffee 81, $40, 3O9; coal 1922, S61; salt $685.
522: leather S529,258; iron and manufac-
lures s., l35. 223; steel and manufactures of
S745. $50; wool S559,S22; wooden manufac-
lures 4.759,6SO; wooden carpets $197,772;
cotton manufactures SlSS,724, copper and
&c
etc, S584, 1862; cork manufactured, $2S,9l5;
lumber $76l,7O1; all other articles
S2l2: free list S1,586,6 67: total
SI8,9l2,438. Internal Revenue: Tobacco
S.72O, 900; gas S2,573, 124; bank checks ST.
$4,000; matches $2,25O,9OO; agreement
stamps estimated at 100000; total $l2,-
500, 1923; grand total $31, 49, 6l. Estimat-
ed reduction on duty received in 1871: lea
50, 625, 7l6; coffee $5,070,4SO. In addition
TO these reductions the committee has en-
deavored to throw safeguards around the
administration of our customhOuses and
has greatly simplifed the law pertaining to
Internal Revenue. 1t has consolidated into
an equivalent tax Of IS cents nearly all OF
the several taxes on whisky. 1t has re-
moved many of the annoying and restric-
tive provisions Of the existing law
obstructing the business Of the dis
tiller and harrassing commerce in that
article. 1t has provided instead OF
10 cents for smoking tobacco and 81 cents
for chewing tobacco, a uniform tax OF 70
cents per pound on all kinds tobacco, and
has at the same time provided safe meth
cd for exporting tobacco, as Wellas spirits,
directly from the mandatory without the
cumbersome forms aud unsatisfactory draw
backs the existing law; and it has been its
endeavor while reducing taxation to make
more efficient and it is possible at the same
time less burdensome and annoying, the
laws that shall enforce the duties and taxes
which remain. 1t is manifest to those who
have had any experience in the adjustment
of tariffs or the impositions of taxes, that a
bill so framed that every item shall be salts
factory to all members OF the
committee engaged in that work
is an impossibility. There are doubtless
different provisions in this bill to which
each member of the committee in turn
might have objections. have the permits
sion of the committee to state to the House
my own emphatic dissent from some of the
essential provisions in this bill, and also
their permission to move in the House such
amendments as will remove these objec-
reasons for my dissent from them l will
more fully set forth whenever in extended
debate on this bill shall have opportunity.
1t would have better met my view II, first
and foremost, it had removed all possible
exactions and restrictions as we'll as
the burdens now harrassing the bust
ness and pursuits OF the people
arising from internal taxes except those
iinnnTsc nd
tobacco, and had presented larger and
broader free list of articles now dutiable,
which enter into the manufactures and in
dustries of this country, and are not such
as can be produced at home, and had dis
tributed whatever balance Of reduction the
eXigencies of the government would per
init more generally over the whole Eemain-
ing list Of dutiable goods, thereby falling
less heavily on some and more generally,
and consequently lighter on all. In this way
there would be as little disturbance
as possible of the currents and expectations
aud faith Of trade and capital, and the re-
lance of labor, and would have preferred
in doing this that the aggregate ofreductiOn
should have reached as | hoped it might,
instead of the sum Of $31, 845, SCI, at least
forty to forty-ive million dollars, which |
| believe the revenues of the future will JUS
tify. 1t will be my endeavor by fair pro-
cess Of amendment in the progress of this
bill to reach that end, and [ have no doubt
that by the cooperation of the House, the
| bill will be so far improved as to command
its support and the approval of the people.
Maynard's Bill.
AT the conclusion of Mr.. Dawes re-
marks, MIR. Maynard asked and obtained
leave to introduce the bill on which himself
and Mr.. Kelly, as a minority of the COM
mittee, had agreed. 1t is entitled, bill for
the further reduction of taxes and the pro-
motion of commerce. Itputs internal taxes
first. 1t makes tea and coffee free, with
other additions to the act to adopt the ten
per cent. reduction provision of the Senate
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