Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1882-07-10
THE INTERNAL REVENUE.
ITS REDUCTION UNDER DISCUS.
SION BY CONGRESS.
The Republicans Proposing to Make
Reductions Aggregating $4O,0OO,OOO
Both Parties Trying to Make Cap.
ital Out Of the Matter-Adj0urnment
to be Delayed.

WASHINGTON, July s. The fol
lowing amendments to the internal
revenue reduction bill were proposed
in the Senate to-day:
By Morrill-Several additional Sec
tons, as follows: Section 4-That
on and after the first day of October,
1882, SO much of Section 3 of the Act
approved March 3, 1875, entitled an
Act to further protect the Sinking
Fund, and provide for the exigencies
of the Government, as imposes an
additional duty of % per cent. on all
molasses, tank bottoms, syrup of sugar,
cane juice, and on sugars according
to the Dutch standard in color, i'm
ported from forei gn countries, is here
by repealed, and the duties on such
articles shall be and remain
the same rs before the passage Of the
said act, and the Secretary Of the
Treasury is hereby authorized and
directed to cause the proper stand
ards Of sugar to be furnished for use
in the collection of duties on sugar,
and 10 cause the strength of such
standards to be ascertained and
when so ascertalned to declare by
proclamation the strength which
shall be equivalent to each numb
Of such standard, and IN any case
where the strength of imported SUI
oar is in proportion to its color above
the proper strength, that that color
be the standard. Duty shall be
charged according to strength, and
not according to color
WAsHISGToS, July s. - The
chief topic OF conversation at
the Capitol to-day has been the
action Of the Senate upon the
resolution Of the caucus, last night,
WHICH ttCittcu " MAKE amendments
to the Internal Revenue bin that
will, if adopted, reduce taxation in
the neighborhood of $40, 100000.
1t was currently said in the dis
patches last night that the caucus
] had decided to reduce the tax on to-
bacco to the figure fixed in the
House bill.
Senators Cameron, of Pennsylva-
n MIA, and Malone, Of Virginia, are the
only two Republican Senators who
have declared themselves in favor oil
n reduction in the tax on tobacco
There may be other Republican Sen
,. ators who will vote to reduce the tax
> and Mr.. Beck has hopes that the
J. amendment proposed by him to-day
fixing the tax on tobacco at ten cents
will be adopted. He has no idea
D. however, that the Senate will agre,
+ to his other proposition to reduce thu
tax On whisky to fifty cents per gal
q Ion. The decision of the caucu
O. was to reduce the duty OF
: Bessemer rails from $2s to $40 pc
ton; to abolish the duty of % pc
H. cent. upon all sugars in addition t
n. existing rates by the Act of Marc
n
% 3, 1875; to adopt the Mckinle,
A amendment imposing the same dut
on every article made of hoop iron, G
O. which hoop is It's chief compone n
part, as Is now paid on hoop iror
=. and pass the Knit Goods bill with
l. out amendment, while there wer
some differences Of opinion in tn
ce caucus as to the changes to b
made. In the end a resolution pre-
= viding for the reductions as name
H. above was unanimously adopted
. The alternate revenue bill, as
passed the House, was not at all "a
= isfactory to Western Republicans
They disliked to be obliged to d.
fend the charges that the Democra,
~. were certain to make on the stun,
,e.s that Congress had simply abolishe
= taxes on the banks and had dol
practically nothing for the peopl
1t was said at the time of the cauc,
n that if any reductions were to |
made something more should