Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-11-03
CONGRESS- LAST DAY.
Adjournment Took Place
This Afternoon.
CHINESE BILL IN SENATE.
Principal Features in the Draft Of the
New Tariff Bill.

WASH GT' y, Soy. The committee
on "a s 80, Il go the house resolu-
ton adj uruweit AZ 3 O'Clock today.
Mr. CatcGiugs Dem, Miss.) introduced
the res lu'i n, which was discussed, and
then the rr, ious question ordered. The
resolution was finally passed-,yeas, 1874;
nays, So
The Chimes bill passed the senate yes
terday afternoon. IL is the house bill un-
amended. II extends for six months the
time under which the Chinese can register
under the Gearv law aud for the deporta-
tion after this time Of any Chinese laborer
found in the Uuited Stat.s .s without a
certihcation of registration. 1t provides
that the word laborer shall be construed
to mean skilled and unskilled laborers,
while Chinese merchant shall be a
Chinaman Nrvoted exclusively to mercan-
tile pursuits and not engaged as laborer
at all.
Chinese merchants shall be all China
men devoted exclusively to mercantile
pursuits and not engaged as a laborer at
all. 1t changes the provisions of the
Geary law concerning witnesses, In that
instead of requiring white witness it re-
quires that the witness snail be other
than a Chinaman. Pending the order Of
deportation the Chinsman to be deported
cannot be bailed. Certificates of regi,tIa.
tion are To contain the photo Of the appli-
cant.
Working on tho Tariff
The committee on ways and means hav.
ing charge Of the tariff bill have not yet
reported their rough draft to their assoc-
ates.
They are now again going over the
rough draft, which they completed several
days ago, to get it in form to report To the
majority of the committee. The power
Of the committee Is well established To
make the tariff as nearly rs possible a
simple tariff.
In so doing they expected to increase the
revenue from the customs rs well as to
greatly reduce duties all along the line
All duties are to be reduced to a revenue
point, the free list is greatly enlarged AMI
a cut made In nearly everything along the
line.
The question Of increasing the revenue
Is one which great deal Of attention is
being given and a number of propositions
for increasing the income OF the govern
meat through the internal revenue taxes
are unde. consideration. The proposed in
creased tax on beer appears to be popular
one among the Democrats in the house
Ii Is estimated that the present tax
Of 81 on barrel of beer amounts to
about l-5 of cent per glass and
1t Is calculated an increase Of 81
a barrel, which would make this tax
about two-ffths Of cent per glass, would
not affect the remaining selling price of
the drink, and the tax of $2a barrel would
not be more than half the tax on alcohol
in beer Of what the whisky tax is, the tax
being calculated on the alcohol in the beer
and not on the bulk of beer itself.
Big Increases Expected.
An income Of $32, ,000, 600 year is calcu-
lated on from this increase il made. The
tax on whisky will probably be increased
10 cents, making it 81 instead of 80 cents,
as now This increase is reckoned to in
crease the income $l2,OO0,OO0
The present tax on man ufactured to-
bacco, etc, including cigars, is 8 cents. 1t
Is proposed To double this to increase the
duty by tl6,O00O 900. The tax on cigars,
which is now IS, it is now proposed to in
crease to 81, which should add $6, ,0O0, 900 to
the revenue.
In connection with this it Is proposed to
reduce the import duty on tobacco used in
the manufacture Of cigars to encourage
the manufacture in this country, and in
crease the revenue by increasing the i'm
portation. AS ha. been said before it is
not proposed TO rsestablsh any tax on
sugar, but the abolition OF the tax would
save the government s2O,0OO,OO0 year,
practically adding this much to the rev.
enue.
1t is calculated that il these things are
done the aggregate increase of revenue
will be $76,OOO,000, and 1t is believed by the
Democrats that there would be sufficient
increase Of revenue arising from an iu-
crease on importations on lower duties to
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