St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-07-11
TIE BLOW FALLS.
NEr. Morrison Gets Even with RAN
daIl 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 SIS, GOO 600; on
apple, peach and grape brandy to SLIGO, eco;
on spirits for use in tha arts. variOuSly esti-
mated at from ST,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 S39, 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, $40, SO, making the aggregate of proposed
reductions S4e, 900, 000 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 aw
will leave the government SIS, 900, 900 short of
the sum necessary TO the administration of
the government and requirements of the
public debt authorized by law, including
debus 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
mlrtee, unwilling TO credit purpose so lack
ing in patriotism, so forgetful OF the public
faith, must believe these and other pro-
visions OF the bin to be the result of fiscal
distemper, hindering just comprehension
and intelligent statement of the subject. In
view Of its effect and purpose, so far as it has
g purpose, affecting the revenue Of the gov
eminent, the bill might be lett to the neglect
which, no doubt, it was expected to receive,
But, in the hope that even so unwise
measure may open the way for majority of
<the 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 (S17,000000) out of the $751;
0G0, GOO received from customs in 1885. 1t in
creaSes those which yielded 81, COT, 600 and
decreases or removes those which yields
5000 0C0 on the basis of imports for 1885. 1t
Goes not reduce the revenue from customs
SIS, 57C,567; not at all, but does increase it
60, SEQ 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
iaIiS DesttilS RIfueFS, lctl1 anu OLnSr arUlclSS,
yielding Sd, 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, 600, 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 necessity existed for u 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 on 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 1856 would yield S14,000,000 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