Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-20
THE INTERNAL REVENUE TAX.
The Vote on the Question-What Some O.
the Representatives Say.

The Vote on the Ouestion-What Some O
the Representatives Say.
WASHINGTON, February 16.-By a vote o
10 to 4, the House committee on appropri
tions, yesterday, resolved to report favor
ably on the substitute for Cowles' internal
revenue bill. The substitute proposes the
entire repeal of the tobacco tax, land omits
the "moonshine' section of the Cowles
bill.
Those in favor of the measure were Ran.
dali, Clements, Felix Campbell New York
Gay, Canton, Ryan, Butterworth, Long,
Comas and Henderson. Those opposed
were Forney, Foran, Sayres and Rice. For
ney says he will report the substitute bill
removing the duty on manufactured to-.
bacco and snuff, but not on cigars and
cheroots.
Representative Sayres said he intended
to prepare a minority report for presenta-
tion. He said: II am opposed to reduc-
ing the surplus by taking off the tax on
cigars, chsroots and cigarettes until we
have first reduced the customs duty on the
necessities OF life"
As there appears to be some differences
of opinion as to the measure of privilege
which the revenue bill will possess, and
which may later bring on conflict on the
floor of the House between the ways and
means and appropriations committees, it
might be well to state the position of the
last-named committee in the matter.
While it does not contend that any COM
mittee other than that OF the ways and
means is privileged to report a revenue bill
a any time, it holds that, under the rules,
when a bill is once placed on the calendar,
it will itself he privileged, and that a mo.
tion may at any time 60 into committee
of the whole to consider the revenue bills.
To succeed in getting at the tobacco bill
it would be necessary for the House to lay
aside any revenue bill preceding it on the
calendar, and If the ways and means com.
mittee should anticipate the report of the
committee on appropriation by reporting
another tariff bill, this might prove Sc.
rious but not necessarily insurmountable
obstacle of the wiser friends of the bill to
repeal the tobacco tax.
PATTERNED AFTER THE MILLS BILL.
WASHINGTON, February 16.-The ways
and means committee had meeting, this
morning. The Mcmillan tariff bill, which
was presented to the committee, yester-
day, was considered. and it was ordered
to the House. According to the
it would reduce the revenue
$72.OOO,OO0. 1t is closely patterned after
the Mills bill regarding the free list, with a
few additions by the Senate. When this is
OF, the committee, with view to
having at hand a bill to meet immediate
in the matter of excessive rev.
enue, will authorize ~ favorable report
upon the bill, prepared by Representative
Breckenridge of Kentucky which proposes
to put tin pla and wool on the free list,
and reduce the internal revenue as pro-
posed in the Mills bill (Which, in it's reve-
nue. sections, is Identical with the Cowles
billy. The bill also includes the wooden
and wOrsted cloth sections Of the Mills
bill. This measure, it is estimated, would
reduce the revenues $40, 100000.
1t is generally believed this measure will
be the main recourse of the ways and
means Democrats in approaching the con-
fiict with the appropriation committee.