Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-06-29

charter of national banks was taken at 5.3O
2. NJ. and reSulted-ayeS 81, nays IL.
The Senate next took up the bill to regu-
late proceedings in bankruptcy, and pending
discussion of the same adjourned.
The House at H. IA A. NJ, went into COM
mittee of the whole on the bill to reduce in
ternal revenue taxation. Mr.. White, of Ken
tucky, spoke in favor of the amendment which
he proposed to offer repeating the internal
revenue system so far as it applied to the regu-
lation of the production, manufacture and
sale of tobacco. The debate on the above
bill occupied the remainder of the days ses-
sion, but no action on the bill or amendments
was taken. The committee finally rose and
the House at 4.30 P NJ. adjourned.
The Senate, on the 23d, took up the rule re-
Gently reported from the committee on rules
to settle the right of the President pro tenn.
to designate his own substitute in cases OF
absence. The subject, after occupying three
fourths of the time allotted for morning bus
mess, was referred, with the amendments
suggested by Brown and German, to the com
mittee on rules fOrf further consideration. The
House bill to establish a uniform system OF
bankruptcy came up as the regular order.
The discussion of this bill occupied nearly the
remainder of the days session: 1t was finally
laid aside until Monday. The Senate then
took up and passed the Senate bill to pay for
the use of the Protestant Orphan Asylum
property at Natchez, Miss. At 3.45 L. NJ.
The House Resolutions commemorative OF the
late Representative Allen of Missouri were
received, and after impressive remarks upon
the life and services of the deceased by Cock
rell, Dawes, Brown and Vest, the usual NOR
tuary resolutions were adopted and the Senate
at O'Clock adjourned until Monday.
In the House, Mr.. Townshend of Illinois
gave notice that if the committee on ways
and means did not at an early day report
resolution for the final adjournment of Con
gress he would himself make motion to that
effect. Kelley of Pennsylvania, Chairman of
the committee on ways and means, stated that
the matter would be brought to the attention
of the House after the next committee meet
ing Kasson of Iowa, from the committee on
ways and MEANS reported back a bill amend
ing section 1888 of the Revised Statues SO
that the duties paid ON sugars shall be assessed
on the quantity delivered instead of the guam
tity entered into bonded warehouses. Refer
red to the committee of the whole. The
House then, at 1925 A. NJ, went into com
mittee of the whole and resumed the consider
alton of the bill to reduce internal revenue
taxation, it being agreed that general debate
thereon should close at 8 O'Clock, at which
hour eulogies upon the lifeand character of the
late Thomas Allen of Missouri would be de-
livered. Stephens of Georgia said that the
bill was right as far as it went, but that it
did not 60 nearly as far as he would have
wished. He thought the entire Internal rev.
enue system ought to be abolished: Internal
taxes except in the time of war were anti
republican and anti-democratic. They were
in opposition to the general policy of this gov
ernment. They were of British origin and
had always been viewed with British odium.
The best way in which to raise revenue was
by the import duties they bore less heavily
on taxpayers and that was what legislators
ought to look to. A general debate followed
which occupied the time until O'Clock, when
the committee rose. After addresses by Rob
inson of Massachusetts, Hewitt of New York
and Hatch and Frost of Missouri, the House,
out of respect of the memory of the deceased,
at 4. Is p. NJ. adjourned.
In the House, on the oath, Mr.. Kelley, of
Pennsylvania, chairman of the committee on
ways and means, reported a concurrent reso-
luton for the final adjournment of Congress
at IL O'Clock upon the 18th of July Adopted.
The House then went into committee of the
whole on the bill to reduce the internal reve-
nue. taxation, and the bill was read by sections.
Mr.. Robson, of New Jersey, moved to amend
by striking from the first section the clause re-
pealing the tax on bank capital Mr.. Smith,
of Illinois, advocated an amendment, which
he offered to Mr.. RobesOn'S amendment, re-
pealing the tax on the capital of State and
private banks and leaving it upon the capital
of National banks. Mr.. Holman, of Indiana,
moved to amend by striking therefrom all that
relieves banks of taxation. Mr.. Smiths
amendment was lost, and the vote was then
taken on Mr.. Robeson's amendment, and it
was also rejected, so to 90. This was one of
the amendments agreed to by the Republican
caucus. The question recurring upon Mr..
Holmans amendment, which was so modified
as not to apply to bank checks, orders and
vouchers, but simply to strike out the clause
repeating the tax Oh bank capital and deposits,
it was lost, yeas &c. nays So. Mr.. Randall, of
Pennsylvania, offered an amendment prOvi-
ding that from and after July 1st, 1883, all
laws imposing internal taxes on tobacco, snuff,
cigars, cheroots and cigarettes shall be repealed,
as we'll as all laws which impose any limita-
ton or restriction on the sale or use of leaf
tobacco by the producer. Lost, ayes 105, nays
107. Mr.. Upson, of Texas, offered an amend
ment repeating the tax on fermented liquors
and tobacco. Lost. Mr.. Robson offered a
caucus amendment striking out the clause re-
ducing the special license tax on dealers in dis
titled spirits. Agreed to. Mr. Willis, of Ken
lucky, offered an amendment permitting any
firm, individual or corporation to withdraw
from bond alcohol, or spirits containing alco-
hol in specific quantities Of not less than $50
gallons without payment of tax for the sole
purpose of use in industrial pursuits. With
out action the committee rose with the under
standing that the bill should come up on Mon
day as unfinished business, and the House then
adjourned.