The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-11-30
Carlisle Tells the Reformers to
Tax Corporations.
s,LvER-LgAo MINERS IN ARMS.
The New Tariff Bill Threatens Ruin
to Their Interests.
Sugar Mea Making Vigorous Protest
Wee President Stevenson Hires
Cheaper Miners--A BIG wersscd MIL
Gives Nsfice Of . Redacsion ef Wages

WAeHfyGToS trTT. NOV. <5-fhS Dcmo-
cratic members Of the ways and means
committee met this afternoon TO consider
the revenue and income tax schedules of
the new tariff bill. A full meeting of the
committee has been called Tor Friday.
The income tax question was the principal
theme of discussion to-day. 1t was deli
niteIy concluded that such a plan should
be reported. ou, there was much diversity
of opinion as TO its scope. Mesxrs. Ryan,
Mcmillan, Whiting and Others favored q
plan providing for a gradual fax on all
incomes in excess Of S.. oc0. but other men,
bers Of the COMMITTEES urged that the plan
adopted should only apply TO wealthy cor
porations and companies holding exclusive
franchises and that individuals should
not be included in the provisions. 1t is
therefore on these questions of detail only
that any trouble now remains. An income
tax plan In to be reported and il will i'm
pose tax on the income Of corporations
and companies holding valuable and
exclusive franchises. ieg.cies, inheritances
and successions Of all kinds. and possibly
on all inc aceruing to foreigners and
non-resi
During meeting Secretary Carlisle
arrived to participate In the conference on
the internal revenue schedules. and gave a
brief history Of the income tar system in
vogue during and after the close Of the
war. He did hot seem opposed to = sys-
TEN which confined its operations to tax
on corporations. SUGGESTIONS, ETC.. and,
indeed, the whole Democratic membership
OF the committee now seems favorable to
this plan. the only difference of. opinion
being on the taxation of individual in
comes. The Democrats met again tonight
at the residence of Secretary Carlisle and
resumed discussion Of various plans. for
the income tar. and it was thought Prob
able the internal revenue schedules might
be com mpleted by the next meeting Of the
committee.
The silver and lead miners Will find in
the new tariff bill something to think
over. Beside the clause placing silver
lead ore on the free list il the proposition
to make bonded warehouses of eli smell
ters. I. il claimed this will affOrd an op-
portunity for fraud If the smelters should
desire 10 engage in it. and that 1t would
still further increase the importation of
foreisn-mined ores The metal schedule
provides for duty cf Is per cent. ad va
loren on lead ore, and for no duty on ore
containing both silver and lead IN which
silver is of greater value than lead. 1t
will be left to the treasury department 70
fix the regulations undsf EMch ores shall
be admitted. and If the department off,
cials should be friendly to the smelters, it
is argued, 1t would be an easy matter to
admit almost all lead ores under the
silver-lead classification. There Is pros
pect that the bonded warehouse PROPOSE
tion will be strongly antagonized.
The sugar raisers of the country, many
of whom are not satisfied with the propo-
sition to gradually abolish the sugar
bounty as intended in the Wilson bill, will
continue the contest in the senate aud the
house. with . hope of securing modIfica-
ton of the clause if they cannot get 1t
stricken out entirely. They assert that
under promise of continuation of the
bounty granted by the Mckinley law,
which they construed as a time contract.
they had every reason to suppose the 2
cents pound bounty would be continued
for fifteen years from the time the bounty
was provided. and say they will push their
fight to the utmost limit with hope Of
securing better terms than the Wilson bill
gives. They assert that they have made
large outIays on the strength of
this promised bounty, and have made
contracts many years ahead. controlled
by the same consideration. They say that
with the business once we'll started the
United States can produce all the sugar
the people If this country will consume
and thus keep at home over $i00. 200. 900
annually now sent abroad for sugar. The
sorghum and bee. sugar men OF the West
are interested in the question, as well as
the cane sugar men of Louisiana.