Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1883-02-23
CONGRESSIONAL.

Congressional.
WASHINGTON, Feb. l9-Kelley, from
the committee of ways and means, moved
to suspend the rules and pass the bill to
reduce the internal revenue taxation.
Morrison demanded secondcr
Springer raised the point of order that
the bill had not been before the commit
tee OF ways and means and that therefore
was beyond the power of that committee
to suspend the rules and put it on pas
sage.
The motion was lost, l39 to IS.
Tucker inquired whether Kelly moved
to admit the amendment to abolish the
tax entirely on tobacco.
Kelley replied, gentleman knows that
the speaker must decide that amendment
could not be admitted in support of his
motion.
Kelley said: Every line of the bill pre-
sented had received the approval of the
senate committee which he represented.
Therefore he believed while doubt and
uncertainty might prevail to tariff legls-
lation there was an opportunity offered
to mitigate our exc cssivc revennc to the
extent of forty millions. 1t was yet
probable that the two houses might be
brought to an agreement on the tariff
bill.
Morrison said that the people were pay
ing into the treasury $80,OOO,0 900 OF
tax under war rates and twlc eighty
million in bounty to manufacturers. The
internal revenue had been reduced one
half and to-day, twenty years after the
war, our import taxes renamed as
they were. Notwithstanding this here
was bill brought to relieve the capitol
OF the country and tobacco chcwers at the
expense OF the people. 1t was offered
here IN order to give a qmd of tobcco
to some people with every likelihood of
their biting a bite.
Dunnrll said the house was now face to
face with the policy declared in New
York in October prior to the meeting OF
the 47th congress that reduction of rev.
enue must come from internal revenue.
Mckinley asserted that the surplus
revenue in h.. treasury could be whh
safety redused $50 200, 900 every one adj
mitted. Whether the tariff were reversed
or not this internal revenue must be re-
duced. There is no ,statemanship, there
is no business sense, in saying because we
have not furnished the tariff bill we shall
not relieve ourselves of the burdens OF
internal taxation which everybody admits
ought to be removed. The house called
the attention of the community to the
spectacle presented to-day. For the last
month, day and night, the house has
been discussing the tariff bill and now
comes back the same old proposition of
last session. The old scape goat which
has seen expected to bear the services Of
the republican party into wilderness.
Laughter That party has gone before
the country with that proposition, but the
people had thrown Its bank checks in Its
place, burnt Its matches and broken its
bottles of "ready relief" over its head.
Let the republican party 60 before the
country If it dare with this bill in answer
to the demand made at the last election
for relief from taxation.
Hatch criticised the bill as relieving
capital but not taking any of the burden
of taxation off of labor of the country.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2l-The pending
amendment was that offered last evening
by McCook, under direction of the mill.
tary committee as follows: That all
lands reserved for military purposes
which in the opinion of the president
may be no longer desirable for such pur
pose, or so much thereof as he may des-
ignate, shall be placed under control OF
the secretary of the interior to be dis.
posed of, provided such lands shall not
be placed under control Of the secretary
of the interior until direction of the pres
ident therefor has been filed in the inter-
ior department., provided also that SAID
lands shall not 5e subject 70 locatlon by
warrant or scrip OF any description, ror
to homestead or pre-emptlon laws of the
United States, and provided further that
said lands shall not be sold until they
shall have been surveyed and plated un-
der the direction of the secretary of the
interior and approved by three competent
men to be appointed by him and their
appraisal approved by the president, and
SAID land shall he sold at public sale to
highest bidder for cash and shall not be
sold at less than its appraised value and
in such subdivisions Us may be advanta-
geous to the government, no sub division
to exceed l6O acres.
On motion of Washburn McCook's
amendment was amended by providing
that the land shall not be sold ut less than
$l.25 per acre.
On motion of Carpenter the amend
ment was further amended so as to pro-
vide that any settlers who were in actua!
occupation of any portion of any reserva-
ton prior to the location of the reserva-
ton and continued such occupation at
the present time shall be entitled to
locate on the land on which they live un-
der the homestead law.
The amendment as amended was
adopted.
Bellshoover moved an amendment by
striking out the clause authorizing the
secretary of war to detail fer service in
the signal corps not to exceed commits
sloned officers exclusive of second leuts.
of tho s,Cna1 corns ant hOr,7ad nv }av