St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-07-11
THE BLOW FALLS.
NEr. Morrison Gets Even With RAM
dali of Pennsylvania.


WASHINGTON. July 10.-In the house
Mr.. Morrison of Illinois, from the COM
mittee on ways and means, reported back
adversely the Randall tariff bill, and it was
referred to the committee of the whole
The report says:
The ELL proposes to remove all taxes on to-
bacco, stuff and cigars, amounting on the
basis OF last years receipts to S2S 600, 600; on
apple, peach and grape brandy to SLIGO, eco;
on spirits for use in tho arts. varfOuSly eSti-
mated at from S7,000,000 to Sl5.000,000, and
believed to be at least $40, 900, 900, making in
the aggregate Of internal revenue taxes to be
| removed $39, 100000. In the appendix of es-
Inmates, submitted with the bill as part Of it.
the reduction Of revenue from customs on
tariff TO be effected by it is estimated at
| SIS, 570,576, making the aggregate of proposed
reductions S4e, 000 600. The bill to so reduce
excessive revenues, and the statement that
there were no excessive revenues to be re-
duced, were submitted to the house by the
same member in the same half month. If
the statement that the revenues will
| not exceed appropriations and the
estimates with the bill, including
LOSS OF RECEIPTS FROM BRANDY,
| and from spirits in use in the arts, may be
credited, the enactment Of the bill into a law
will leave the government SIS, DOC, 800 short of
| the sum necessary to the administration of
| the government and requirements of the
public debt authorized by law, including
debts incurred by payment of pensions al
ready 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 commit
| mittee, unwilling to credit a purpose SO lack
| ing in patriotism, SO forgetful Of the public
faith, must believe these and other pro-
visions OF the bill to be the result of fiscal
disternper, hindering just comprehension
info ant of has Tn
view OF its effect and purpose, so far as it has
q purpose, affecting the revenue Of the gov
eminent, the bill might be left to the neglect
which, no doubt, it was expected to receive,
| But, in the hope that even so unwise a
| measure may open the way for i majority of
kthe house to
REDEEM ITS PLEDGES
| by the removal and reduction of unnecessary
| and therefore unjust taxes, your committee
report the bill back with the recommendation
that it does not pass. The bill changes the
| duty Or rate of tax on articles yielding less
| than one-tenth ISL, ,000) out of the $751;
| coo received from customs in 1885. 1t in
creases those which yielded 81, 100000 and
decreases Or removes those which yields
$1,000 000 on the basis of imports for 1885. 1t
does not reduce the revenue from customs
| $3.50, 567; not at all, but does increase it
| $500, GOO. Besides the articles added to the
| free list, the duty or import tax is reduced on
caster beans. castor oil. starch, iron and steel
rails, beams, Orders. lead and other articles,
yielding So, 100000 of revenue, and the rev.
| enue is estimated on the bill to fall Off in pro-
portion to the reduced rate Of taxation recon-
| mended.
THE TAX ON ALL CLOTHING,
whether of silk, linen, cotton or wool, and
other wooden goods, of tin plates, cotton ties
and other articles, yielding, as already stated,
| Sl1.6G0 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. Apparently the bill was presented
in the belief that a necessity existed for re-
ductlon, not of taxes, but Of revenues, and
| that the desired end is reached both through
| higher and lower taxes. The estimates with
| tho bill are made OF this arbitrary assump-
| ton, and are entitled to no respect whatever.
| The report then proceeds to consider the RAN
dali bill in DETAIL and says: The estimated
and intended effects of the bill are believed to
make plain the methods by which taxation
on the basis of import and revenue receipts
| in 1885 would yield S14,000,0O0 of revenues,
and be made to divert that sum from public
purposes to private gain. The introduction
| Of this bill would be considered the first
avowed attempt of our legislative history to
empty the treasury by the use OF the taxing