Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1893-12-01

tariff bill is in letter and spirit
strictly in accordance Herewith.
It gives the largest free list the
county has ever had and in accor-
danre with the expressed wishes of
hundreds Of manufactures in that
free list is excluded much Of the
raw material used by American
manufacturers. Among them the
following: iron ore, coal, pig tin,
hemp, flax, jute, silver, lead ore,
copper, wool salt, crude. b orax,
binding Irvine; cotton ties, and lum-
Der not advanced in preparation
above saving. 1t cuts about every
protective item in the Mckinley
law down to a strictly revenue ba-
sis.
The new bill is in the main salts
factory to democrats, although
there is some things on the free
list that some democratic members
Of the house would have preferred
seeing q small duty retained upon.
Prominent among these arc iron
ore, lead ore and coal, but the DEM
ocrats on the committee after care
fully studying the matter from
every point OF view concluded that
it. would be undemocratic to make
fish Of one and flesh of the otEcr
and they we're accordingly put on
Tie Tree list. Those who are best
informed believe that the Judge
ment Of the majority of the Ways
and Means committee will be en-
dorsed by tho majority Of the
Hoase and that the bill will be
passed by that body substantially
as it is today. The action of the
Senate is net so certain. The OPP
position will be concentrated upon
the Senate, because Of the slim
democratic majority in that body.
There are several reasons why
providing for personal in.
come tax was not attached to the
bill. In the first place there are
quite a number Of democrats who
are opposed to personal income
tax. But probably the strongest
reasons of all was the desire to
know just how much revenue it
will be necessary to raise by an in
come tax before deciding the rate
and method of that tax, q knowl-
edge that could not be obtained I'M
il the new tariff bill becomes a
law. Meanwhile the tax imposed
BY the bill upon the net earnings
Of corporations may prove a salts
factory substitute for more gen
eyal income tax.
President Cleveland will not, |
am Informed on good authority, go
into the Hawaiian matter in his an
nual letter further than to say that
it will be fully treated in a special
message later. He prefers to wait
until the episode is closed before
dealing with it in q message to
Congress.
Secretary Lamont's annual re-
port was the first to be made pub
lie, those Of the other members Of
the cabinet, with the exception of
Secretary Carlisle's report will
probably go to Congress before it
is published.
Why shouldn't the U. S. govern
ment print its own postage stamps?
Chief Johnson Of the Bureau Of
Engraving and Printing isn't the
first man who has asked that ques-
ton, but he has asked in a very |
practical manner. by submitting
figures to the Post Master General !
showing how much cheaper the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
could do the work than any Of the
private parties who have submit
ted bids for printing the stamps
during 1904. An unofficial esti-
mate is that the government could
save at least $4,000 a year by
printing its own postage stamps.
There is a doubt it seems as to
whether the Post Master General