Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-11-30
ISSUE FACING THE COMING CONGRESS-.

The shape the question at issue between the
friends of high protection and the friends of
tariff for revenue with incidental protection
will probably take during the coming winter
at Washington will be a proposition on the
part of the high protectionists to abolish the
internal revenue system of taxation entirely.
The amount collected annually from the pres
sent tariff and from miscellaneous sources is
Just about sufficient to pay the expenses Of
the federal government, and the amount of
tax collected under the internal revenue sys-
tenn is just about equal to our annual surplus
of income above expenditure. Tie advocates
of high tariffs will accomplish their object
better, therefore, by agitating for the aboli-
tion of the internal taxes than by presenting
easily-refuted arguments in support Of their
peculiar ideas. The matter will be better
understood from the inspection of the follow
ing facts: The total ordinary receipts of the
treasury in the year ended June 30, 1851, were
$3.50, 49,, ,292, of which sum $19S, ,159,676 was
derived from tariff charges Oh imported goods,
$27, ,35S,2 ,211 from miscellaneous sources, and
$l35, ,264 1886 from internal taxes. The larger
part of this last class of receipts was obtained
from the tax on spirits, tobacco and fermented
liquors, but a small revenue being derived
from bank checks, matches, proprietary med-
cines, perfumery, the deposits in national banks
and the amount of their circulation. An ef
fort was made at the last session of Congress
to abolish the aforementioned taxes, leaving
those on spirits, tobacco and fermented liquors
untouched, and the taX-reduction bill as amend
ed in the Senate will doubtless come up for
| I'll yo1,n t,a frtn nf n
low tariff will probably seek to have the con-
sderation of that scheme postponed until the
tariff commissions report comes up for action
The receipts for internal taxes for the fiscal
year ended June &c. 1882, were $146, SOC, ,G00
the annual increase being about Sl1 600, 900.
-Four complete months of the current fiscal
year have passed and from the receipts Of
these four months ISL, 1891, $3.50 it is estima-
ted that the amount Of internal taxes in the
year ending June 80, 1888, will prove to be
from $l53, 100000 to S155,000, 900, a slight
falling off in the rate of increase being re-
ported. This is the amount Of the tax which
Mr.. Kelley of Pennsylvania, thinks should
be Topped off at one blow; Mr. Belmont, Mr..
Hewitt, and Others of like low-tariff views,
think it better to divide the amount of reduc-
tion between the tariff and the internal taxes
in such way as to take off about $50 0O0, 600
of the tariff burden, and $75, 600, 600 of the
war tax. The proposition is to reduce the
tax on spirits from 80 to 80 cents gallon, on
tobacco from 1G to cents, cigars from S6 to
s. per thousand, beer from 92t to 50 cents,
license about 81 per cent. and that all other
internal revenue taxes be abolished. There
is no good reason, it is held, why the public
debt should continue to be paid off at the
present rapid rate. The cry of the people
is for a rest from some of their burdens. Few
people, it is to be hoped, consume large guam
titles of spirits, tobacco or fermented liquors,
and to them the removal of the tax on such
articles will bring little or no relief, but every
one is interested to have cheaper clothing,
cheaper sugar and cheaper wares of all sorts.-
Baltimore Sun.
THE NORTH CAROLINA ELECTIoN.-The
full returns from the State give Bennett, DEM
ocrat for Congressman at-large, a majority of
AS. There is talk that his competitor, Dock
cry, Republican, will contest the election.
1t is stated that Maj. Robbins, Democrat,
will contest the result in the Statesvlle Dis
trict before the State canvassers on the ground
of Irregularities in Davie county. 1t is claim
ed that a large number or the York ballots, in
Davie, were on blue paper, and enough of
these will be thrown out to elect Robbins.
Also, that many registered and voted on the
same day, which was illegal.
In the vote for Congressman in the Char
lotte District, Maj. Dowd, Democrat, received
IA sol votes, and Col. Vim. Johnston, Inde-
pendent, 0,SS0. Dowds majority is 4,0l1.
The next Senate of North Carolina will be
composed of so acknowledgements "a, re-
publicans 15, and one liberal. The House will
have 1lS members-democrats "a, republicans
IA. In the Senate there will he two colored
men and in the House four.
Geo. NJ. Rose, democrat, in Cumberland
county, was elected to the Legislature House,)
by three votes, and E. Powers, coalitionist,
was elected by a majority of nine votes. The