Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-07-17
Some Glazing Inconsistencies of the
Pennsylvania Pointed Out.

oOm6 01driuS Oh Ill
Pennsylvania Pointed Out.
Proof That His Measure Would Doubl
the Tax on Staples,
And His Whole Theory Graphican
Described as a "FiscaI Dis.
temper,
WASHINGTON, D.. c., July Con
gresham William r. Morrison's re
port on the tariff bill was finished abou
5 O'Clock this afternoon but too late t,
present to the house. 1t will be file,
tomorrow. 1t is a strong, pungen
document, and a full report will b,
read by the readers of the newspaper
with great interest. "The majority 0
the committee beg leave to report,
says Mr.. Morrison, referring to thu
title of Randall's bill which heads hi
report, s'that the bill proposes to re
move all internal taxes Oh tobacco
snuff and cigars, amounting on the
basis of last years receipts to $2S ,000,.
600; on apple, peach and grape brandy
to 81 400, 900; on spirits for use in thu
arts, variously estimated at from
8 100000 to $15, 900 900 and believed
to be at least SIG, DOC, 900, making il
the aggregate of internal revenue taxes
to be removed $50 400 900. In the
appendix of estimates SUBMITTED with
the bill, as part of it, the reduction Of
revenue from customs on tariff taxes te
be effected by it is estimotee at $780,.
576, making the aggregate of proposed
reductions $48, 000, 900. The bill to SO
reduce excessive revenues, and the
statement that there are no excessive
revenues to be reduced, were submit
ted to the house by the same member
in the same half month. If the state
ment that the revenues will not exceed
appropriations and the estimates with
the bill, including loss of receipts from
brandy and from spirits tor use in the
arts, may be credited, the enactment of
the bill into a law will leave the gov
eminent $48 900 900 short of the sum
necessary to the administration of the
government, and the requirements OF
the public debt authorized by law, IN
Guiding debt incurred by payment OF
pensions already allowed, the validity
of which we may not question, and
the payment of which is enjoined upon
us in the oath we have taken to support
the constitution. Your committee, un-
willing to credit a purpose SO lacking
in patriotism, so forgetful of the public
faith, must believe these and other pro-
visions of the bill the result of
FISCAL DIsTEMPER,
hindering a just comprehension and in
telligent treatment of the subject. In
view of its effect and purpose so far as
it has a purpose affecting the revenue
of government, the bill might well be
left to that neglect which, no doubt, it
was expected to receive. But in the
hope that ever so unwise a measure
may open the way for the majority OF
the house to redeem its pledge by the
removal and reduction of Unnecessary
and, therefore, unjust taxes, your CON-
mittee report the bill back with the
recommendation that it do not pass.
"The bill changes the duty or rate OF
tax on articles yielding less than one
tenth ca, O00, 0OO), out of the S1S1 ,OOO,-
600 received from customs in 1885; il
increases those which yielded Sill $780,
600 and decreases or removes those
which yield $4,000, 900 on the basis OF
imports for 1885. 1t does not reduce
the revenue from customs SIS $50, SO
nor at all, but does increase it S. ,50O,-
600. Beside the articles added to the
free-list, the duty or import tax is re-
duced on castor beans, castor oil, starch,
iron and steel rails, rods, beams, Cir
ders, lead, and other articles yielding
$780, 900 of revenue, and the revenue
is estimated in the bill to fall of in pro-
portion to the reduced rate of taxation
recommended. The tax on all cloth
ing, whether of silk, linen, cot. on or
wooden, and on other wooden goods
or tin-plate, cotton ties, and other arti-
cles yielding, as already stated, S1l,-
600 900, is increased, and the revenue
is estimated to fall off in still greater
proportion than on articles upon which
the rate of tax is reduced. Apparent
ly, the bill was presented in the be-
lief that a necessity existed for a reduc- |
ton, not of taxes, but of revenues, and
the desired end is reached both |
through higher and lower taxes. The
estimates with the bill are made on this |
arbitrary assumption and are entitled to |
respect whatever. i
HEwITT'T BILL.
$50 much OF the bill as related to |
the administration of the custom laws,
as MIR. Hewitt's bill, has re.
celved the approval of this committee,
and is part of the bill heretofore re-.
ported. Except 'bristles,' the articles
placed on the free list are so placed
with others in the bill already reported
the house. Animals for breeding
purposes, free in all our tariffs in which
they have been specially named, are
added to the taxable list. The few
and unimportant proposed reductions
in the dutiable articles. aggregatlpg less
than 1000, 900, may well be made. |
the condition of the treasury
will justify it. They are, for the most
part, proposed in a bill introduced by
the chairman of your committee and
not reported, the committee believing
the reductions reported more urgent
and their amount as large as the de-
upon the government, in view
its receipts, would justify.
Under the Morrill, protective tariff, |
and before any war taxes were added
to 1t, the highest tax on manufactures
of wool was II cents a pound, and %
per cent. on the value; the average tax
all wooden clothing and other wool
goods was not more than $50 on
the 500 worth. AS the tariff now is,
all the lower priced wooden goods of
foreign make and such as are in use
among the common people, are so
taxed as to be excluded from
markets because a high protective
tariff leads to monopoly and class
legislation. The average on such high
er goods as are imported is $67 16 on
the 500 worth, and the highest rate
is 40 cents a pound and 40 per cent. on
the value, much more than double the
Morrill, tariff rate. This bill increases
pound rates to 30 cents, which are now
10 cents, II cents, Is cents and "a
cents, and again SO largely increases
the tax on wooden cloths and goods as
to further prevent importation from
abroad and to add to the cost of WOOL
EN- clothing at home, while estimating
a reduction of 1924, 529 in the income
the treasury as the result of a higher
tax on the people.
COTTON TIES AND TIN PLATES
Cotton is only produced in a few
southern states and is the one field.