The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-02-24
REPORTED EEPREssLT FOR uE MonxrNo LEADER
MIG 1T REP OR It.
Important from Washington.
The Tariff Bill Passed the
House.
The Military Appropriation
Bill becomes a Law.
Report Of the Louisiana Com
mittGe.
What Shall be done with the
Creole State2
WASHINGTON.

Washington, Feb. 23.-House. The
tariff bill was taken up. Mr.. Lough-
ridge offered an additional section,
re-imposing the income lax and pro-
viding machinery for its collection
Adopted, ia TO 81. 1t provides that
three per cent shall be collected on
incomes between $4,000 and S1O,OUO,
and five per cent on incomes above
$4,000. kellogg moved to strike
out the enacting clause, which would
have defeated the whole bill. Re
jected, yeas l02, nays ll3. Cotton
offered an amendment providing for
tax OF ten cents pound on tea and
two cents on coffee. Rejected. An
amendment was offered for tax of
one-tenth of one per cent on all sales
of gold and stocks. Adopted.
Dawes then moved to strike out the
enacting clause which was agreed to.
He then moved that the committee
rise and the bill be re- committed to
the committee of ways and means.
with instructions TO report it back
with the tax on whiskUy 90 cents,
with the sugar and tobacco clauses as
amended in committee Of the whole,
and with the ten per cent horizontal
section retained. Dawes Subsequent
ly Withdrew the motion to rp-cOmmit
and Cox moved that the House con-
cur in the action Of the committee Of
the whole in striking out the enact
ing cltusc. The House refused, yeas
lOG, nays 100, to concur in the action
of the committee of the whole in
striking out the enaCting clause, and
the bill stands re-Committed to the
committee of the whole.
During the discussion of the tariff
bill, Mr.. Dawes referred to the in
come tax as one most just and proper
in theory, but one which had proved
Objectionable wherever tried, because
it was promotive of perjury and de-
moralization. He then, as last ef-
fort to provide for the necessities of
the government, offered as a subst-
tute for the bill, one taxing whiskpy,
to be hereafter manufactured, ninety
cents gallon, tobacco and sugar as
in the bill, and retaining the ten per
cent horizontal tax on manufactured
goods, and on that he moved the pre-
vious question. The previous Ques-
ton was seconded and the main uues-
ton ordered, 1873 to ia, and the
substitute was agreed to, 131 to III.
The question was then taken on
ordering the bill engrossed for third
reading, on which Dawes moved the
previous question which was second
ed by the requisite twO-thirds majOri-
ty, and the bill then passed, l23 to
lib. The first section fixes the tax
on the future production of high
wines at ninety cents a gallon. The
second section increases the tax on
manufactured tobacco from twenty
to twenty-four cents IA pound, and on
cigars from five to six dollars a thou
sand, and on cigarettes from two and
One-half to two and three fourths dol
lars thousand, neither tax to apply
to any of these articles on which the
existing tax has been paid. The
third section increases the tax
on sugar, molasses, milado, &c,
to an amount equal 10 % per cent. of
the present duties. Section four re-
places the ten per cent. horizontal
reduction in the tariff on certain man.
ufactured goods. Section five pro-
vides that the increase of duties
provided by this act shall not apply
to any goods on shipboard and bound
for the United States on the 10th of
February, nor any goods in bond at
the date of the passage of this act.