The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1893-12-14
MAJORITY MEMBERS
or the Ways and Means Committee Take
Vacation Tariff Bill Completed 30 fas
~ Duties aud Customs Arc Concerned.

or the Ways and Means Committee Take
yncation-TarlfY Bill Completed SO Far
~ Duties aud Customs Arc Concerned.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.-The majority
mem hers of the ways and means COM
, mittce granted themselves few days
vacation They were at the treasury
until long after midnight Friday MORN
ing porting over the customs schedules
with Secretary Carlisle, and when they
adjourned the bill was completed so
far as the import duties and the Gus
toms administration features arc con-
cerned. No meeting OF the committee
was held Friday morning, nor is it
the intention to meet formally
again until Monday morning when
the entire committee including both
democratic and republican MEM
be-s will be present The Wilson
bill will then be formally laid before
tho committee and adopted by strict
party vote IL is the expectation OF
the minority members that they will
DO able to file their report on Wclncs'
to the house together with tho minority
report.
No agreement has been reached on
the internal revenue feature OF the
bill Indeed the committee is ~ help
lessly divided in opinion regarding the
most important features OF internal
revenue taxation namely. as it
was when it first began the
consideration Of the subject. 1t has
been definitely determined TO double
the tax on cigarettes. and to impose y
tax Of from five TO ten cents
per pack on playing cards. 1t
has also been. determined that
legacies and inhcritarccS will be
taxed together with the not earnings
Of corporations but whether q tax will
also be levied on incomes above s.. 900
a year has not yet been finally do-
cided. The majority members arc un.
able TO state what rates OF taxation
they will levy on these SOURCES OF in
come.
They have just received series of
eating how much revenue Dan DO de-
rived by various rates Of taxation. but
no definite conclusion has bccu reach
ed The situation, were it not grave,
would be amusing. Chairman SAyres,
OF the appropriation, is holding back
his appropriation bills; because he says
no must know how much OF Il
deficit the Wilson bill will produce
In the revenues OF the government be.
fore he can finally determine on his
appropriation for the expenditures OF
the government Tho members OF the
committee on ways and means on the
other hand are holding back their bill
for raising rcvonue by internal taxa
ton until they can learn how heavy
tho expenditures of the government
will TO under the bills to be passed by
tho appropriations committee. The
outcome will probably be that
the haphaxard bill for raising internal
revenue will be introduced in the house
with tho understanding thnt it is to be
amended while under discussion, and
finally perfected while In the senate,
II can be definitely stated that no rate
Of taxation has yet been decided upon
for whisky. Indeed. it is not even
known that the tax will be in
creased mt all. The subject that
arouses the most interest is the
sugar schedule. Congressman Boat
ner, OF Louisiana. and tho other mem.
bers from sugar raising states, VIII" are
most earnest in their efforts TO amend
the sugar schedule OF the Wilson bill
by imposing duty on sugar and sur
rendering the bounty, find themselves
confronted with new danger. Mr..
Boatner is undoubtedly in II position to
bring abouta caucus Of the party but he
Is hcsitatinX just now because he has
learned that while the democrats from
the Vest will support him in wip;nY
ont the bounty feature OF tho bill they
havo canvassed the house and have Sc
cured the support OF some forty OF
more democrats who are opD0Scl TO the
imposition Of duty on sugar This
new element o. opposition has shown
Mr.. Bontner and hi, collcauSurs hat by
agitating the sugar schedule un''uly
they run the grave risk OF having tbs
bounty abolished but not any duty on
raw sugar imposed. Chairman Wilson
is understood to be ready 70 consent tc
a caucus. AS has been indicated in
these dispatches the demand for 4
caucus has been growing ever since the
members have returned to Washing
ton. The Alabama and !hc West
Virginia members are particularly
insistent in their demand for Il
caucus. They believe that no Other
way can they avert :hc ruin that
threatens their constituents 10y the
proposition to place coal un' iron on
the free list. The agitation for n caucus
will probably reach its heud by the end
OF next week, when rs one OF the l.;cm
bers Of the committee said Friday tina
the party will probably decide that III
had best wash its dirty linen in its own
back yard
Two Children Burned.
KANSAS CITY, Dec 9-At . O'Clock
Friday morning Mrs G.. +. Nichols
locked her two little children, Freddie