Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-07-11
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Mcrrlscn's Report on Randall's Latest
Tariff BiII--The House Asked
Not to Pass Il
An Able and Exhaustive Exposition Of
the Evils Of tho Measure and Its
Injury 10 the People
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WASHINGTON, July lO.-- Representative
Morrlsou's report on the Kendall bin
says The bill proposes to remove all
iaternal taxes on tobacco, suuif and CT.
gars amounting, on Tie bass Of last years
receipts TO S2s,0o0,uO0i on apple, resca
and grape brandy, 90 81, 100000; on spiI.
its for use In the arts, variously estimated
az from $1,000, 900 to $40, 900 600, and he
liered to be at least $40, 1000, making
an aggregate Of internal revenue
taxes to be removed $50, 400, 600. An an
pendix OF estimates submitted with ire
bill, as part OF revenue from customs or
tarlff taxes TO be effected by II, Is esti-
mated az SS,570,5TG, making aggregate Of
proposed reductions 5000, coo The
bill TO so reduce excessive revenue tax,
aud the statement that there was no
excessive revenues TO be reduced,
we're submitted to the house by the same
members In the same half month II the
statement that the revenues will not OK.
coed appropriations and estimates, In.
GLIDING loss OF receipts from brandy and
from spirits, etc, for use In the arts, may
be credited, the enactment OF the bill INTO
law win leave the government Sts, 000,-
900 short of the sum necessary to the adj.
ministration OF the affairs of the govern.
ment and the requirements Of the public
debt authorized by law, including debts
Incurred by the payment OF pensions al
ready allowed, the validity Of
which We may not question, and the
payment Of which is enjointd upon the
| United States. The oath we have taken
70 support the constitution makes your
committee unwilling TO credit purpose
50 lacking in patriotism, SO forgetiul OF
! public faith. We must believe these and
other provisions OF the bill 10 be the re.
4 suit Of ilscal distemper, hlndering Just,
comprehensive and intelligent treatment
OF the subject.
\ In view OF It's effect and purpose SO far
as II has a purpose affecting the revenues
nt the government, the bill might az we'll
/ be left to that neglect which, no doubt, Il
| was expected TO receive, but I'm tho hope
that ever an unwiso measure may offer
n way Tor the majority OF the
house TO redeem its pledges by
the removal and reduction OF unnecessary
and, therefore, unjust taxes, your com
miltee reports the bill back with the
recommendation that IL does not pass.
The bill changes the duty ON the rate Of
tax on articles yielding less than one
tenth (Sl7,000 000) out Of @lSl, 900, 900
received from customs In 1876 IL IN
! creases those which yielded Sll ,600,00
decreases or removes those which yield
S5,0Q0,00 on q basis OF imports for eS5
II does nos reduce the revenue from Gus.
toms $780, TG, not at all, but 1t does
Increase II $4,000, 900. Besides the
articles added 90 tho free list the duty on
I import taxes Is reduced on cotton, beans
castor oil, starch, iron and steel rails
beams, Orders, lead aud other articles
yielding S83 600, 900 OF revenue, aud the
revenue is estimated In tho bill to fall of
In proportion TO the reduced rate OF tax
alton recommended The tax on all
clothing, whether Of silk, linen, cotton
or wooden, and other wooden goods, on
tln-plates, cotton ties and other articles
yielding as already stated, Gil, 600, 900
is increased and the revenue estimated
to fall IN still greater proportion than ON
the articles upon which the rate OF tax Is
reduced. Apparently the bill was pre-
scented In the belief that necessity ex-
listed for reduction, not OF taxes, but OF
revenues, and that the desired end IL
reached both through higher and lower
taxes, Estimates which the bill made on
this arbitrary assumption are entitled TO no
respect whatever.
The report then proceeds TO consider
AihI lAuhuuA JIM III 0tldlit anu FulFf tut
estimated and intended effect of the bill
we believe would be TO make plain the
methods by which taxation on basis OF
imports and revenue receipts in 1885
would yield Sli 900, 900 OF revenues and
be made to divert that sum from public
purposes TO private gain. The introduction
OF this bin would be considered the drst
ayowed attempt In our legislative history
TO empty the treasury by use Of the taxing
power II this measure may be supposed
to have any purpose relating 10 the sys-
tenn Of finance, IL points 10 direct taxa
tiOn, for when Internal taxes are taken
of and custom-house taxes are laid on
so high that the people get the burden
and monopolisss the benefits and the
treasury nothing, new sources OF supply
Will be inevitable. The measure Is not
supposed TO foreshadow any such system
or 10 do more than Indicate
TO the mind OF the unlearned
IN the methods, and uDmlndiul
OF the results. In treating OF the pro-
posed reduction and removal Of internal
revenue taxes, Mr., Morrison says they
are most lightly borne and cannot be re-
linquished In the face OF $4,000, 900, 900
war debt yet unpaid. The report then
says; ",rhis we do know, that Of the 2s,.
! VUU, UUv peOplS VINO 10 bOucJuluHy SONIC
work or are engaged in gainful pursuits,
u, 100000 OF these earn ON an average not
much more than $500 a year, which nee
fesnrily ~ consumed IN the means Of sub
sistence OF the other one-tenth, and now
we are oyertaken by and In
the midst Of our Industrial paralysis.
A million of wofkmen are idle for want Of
work 70 40 and capital In still greater
proportion than unemployed work lies
dead, even uDproduc.iye. Our hills and
mountains full OF mineral wesllh, millions
Of acres OF productive land wait for the
pillow, homes Tor the homeless billlons are
10 be had Tor the taking. Favored With
plentiful harvests, blessed with health,
the Only plague which afliicts us Is Idle.
ness. What we need is profitable employ
ment. There ~ an apparent puny cffort |
10 the bill, through the increase OF taxa
ton, 70 shut out goods |
from abroad that there may |
be made athome Ifthls effort be 70 sue
cessiul as 20 prevent importation Of all
manufactures, we would have direct tax
alton and three-quarters Of Il million men
yet unemployed. Their profitable en-
pl0yment amounts 20 nearly the difference
between what IL popularity known as good
and hard times. The removal Of the tQrl
becro tax VII furnish no new employ
lnens, neither WIN ~ juices tptn 4 wfeFl
shaft or Hpindio. Wood. Nhrl, HefApt
lflt, ana chenp food fOf l1a t4iiitt n&p J