Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-04-17
IN THE HOUSE.

IN THE HOUSE.
On motion of Mr., FarnswOrth, the
/ House non-coneurred in the Senate
amendments to the House bill in relation
! to contracts for transporting the mails.
] The Committee on Ways and Means
| reported a bill TO reduce the duties on
| imports and internal taxes, which was
referred to the Committee of the Whole
and made the special order for Tuesday,
and from day TO day until disposed of.
/ Mr.. Kelley failed to obtain leave to
report the minority bill, when an exeit-
/ ing debate occurred.
Mr.. Beck asked who composed the
minority?
MFR. Kelley said he himself was one
Mr.. Beatty objected to Mr.. Kelley's
bill being introduced.
Mr.. Banks remarked that the admis-
sion of Mr.. Kelly's bill had no effect
whatever, except 10 give notice that such
opinions exist.
The Speaker remarked that the bill
could be introduced on Monday next as
a matter of right
Mr. Kelley asked that the bill be
printed in the Globe for the information
of the House and the country.
Mr.. Beatty-1 object TO that, too.
MIR. Brooks New York II am in the
minority of the committee, with two
other gentlemen. should like to know
what minority the gentleman from Penn
sylvania represents?
Mr.. Kelly-Mr. Maynard unites with
me in every provision of the bill. l re-
port at his instance and request.
Mr.. BrOOks-Then there are two gen
tlemen out of the committee of nine in
favor of that bill. l do not object to its
reception.
Mr.. Hooper-If the gentleman from
Pennsylvania Kelley is in the minority
of two, and the gentleman from New
York Brooksl is in the minority of
three, l should like TO know whether the
bill reported by my colleague Dawes is
the report of the majority?
Speaker-That is rather an arithmeti-
cal than a parliamentary question.
Laughter.
Mr.. Dawes then proceeded to address
the House, and said: In reporting this
bill desire the Indulgence of the House
for few moments. Public expectation
and the patience of the House have so
long awaited on the business of this COM
mittee, that it is proper that at the
earliest moment 1 should briefly sub
NIT the result of their labors The
bill which is now reported is, as its title
indicates, a bill for the reduction
of duties on imports and internal taxes,
and for such improvements in the ad-
ministratien of laws Herewith con-
nected as have been suggested by the
laboriOus examination the committee
have given to the subject The amount
Of l,a hau = - Ia - -
receipts is as follows: The estimated re-
ductfon on the basis and quantities of
1870; tea, &, ,34S, ,6S9; coffee, s., 949, ,309:
coal, S322, ISL; salt, S6l5, SD; leather,
S529, ,229; iron and manufactures, 81, ,l35,
223; steel and manufactures, S745, ,539;
wool, $3.50, ,S23; wooden manufactures,
81, 759, $50; wooden carpets, Sl97, ,772;
cotton manufactures, S7SS, 722; copper
and manufactures of, S39, ,61l; chemicals,
drug, etc, S5S4.S62; cork manufactured,
S2S, SIS; lumber, S76l, sol; all other arti-
cles, S2l2; free list, 81, ,5S4 ,667; total, 49,
$50, ,43S.
Internal revenue: tobacco, Sc, 40, ,000; !;
gas, s., 573, ,123; bank checks, 81 ,250, 900 !;
matches; $3.50, 600 agreement stamps,
estimated at 100000; total, So, S93, l23;
grand total, S3l ,S45, SCI. Estimated re-
ductiOn on the duty received in 1871 on
tea, s., ,525, ,7l6; on coffee, 500, 4S0 In
addition to these reductions the Com
mittee has endeavored to throw safe
guards around the administration of
our custom houses, and has greatly sim
plified the law pertaining to the inter-
nal revenue. 1t has consolidated to an
equivalent tax ofsixty-five cents, nearly
al of the several taxes on whisky. 1t
has removed many of the annoying and
restrictive provisions of the existing law
Obstructing the business of distillers and
harrassing commerce in that article. 1t
has provided, instead of sixteen cents
for smoking tobacco and thirty-two
cents for chewing tobacco, a uniform
tax of twenty cents per pound on all
kinds of tobacco, and has at the same
time provided o safe method for eX-
porting tobacco, as well as spirits, di-
ractly from the naanafaetoFy, with
out any of the cumbersome forms
and very unsatisfactory drawbacks
of the existing law, and it has
been its endeavOr, while reducing taxa
ton, to make more efficient, and, if pos
sible, at the same time, less burdensOnle
and annoying the laws that shall enforce
the duties and taxes which remain. 1t is
manifest to those who have had any eX-
perience in the adjustment of tariffs and
| imposition of duties that a bill so framed
that every item shall be satisfactory to
all the members of the committee en-
gagged in that work is an impossibiity.
| There are doubtless different provisions
l in this bill to which each member of the
committee in turn might have objec-
/ tiOns. | have the permission of the COM
mittee to state to the House my own
| emphatic dissent from some of the es-
sential provisions Of this bill, and also
their permission to move in the House
such amendments as will remove those
/ objections. What these provisions are,
and the reasons for my dissent from
them, | will more fully set forth when
ever, in an extended debate on this bill,
/ shall have an opportunity. 1t would
have better met my view if first and
foremost it had removed all possible eX-
actions and restrictions, as well as bur-
dens, now harassing the business and
! pursuits of people arising from internal
taxes, except those ON spirituous and
! fermented liquors and tobacco; and next
had presented a larger and broader free
list of articles now dutlable which enter
into the manufactures and industries oi
this country, and are not such as can
be produced at home; and had distrib-
uted Whatever balance of reduction the
exigencies of the government would
permit more generally over the whole
remaining list ofdutiable goods, thereby
falling less heavily on some, and more
generally, and consequently lighter, on
all. In this way there would be as little
I disturbance as possible of the currents
and expectations and faith of trade and
capital and the reliance of labor; and
would have preferred, in doing this, thai
the aggregate of reduction should
have reached, as l hoped it might,
instead of the sum Of SSi ,S45, ,561
at least forty to forty-five million
} dollars, which, l believe, the reye-
nues Of the future wih justify. II
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