The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-01-18
'es-.-'s.M INCOME TAX.
Tho Eli. Goes TO tho ILLUSIONS. 4 Separate
Measrr.. Whsre 1t Is Worry Likely TO BE

Tho Eli. Goes to the Enusca as = Separate
Mea,rr., Whsre 1t Is Worry Likely TO BE
NuDche6 on he stc:ci: - :. :
WAsaISGros, Jan i3,--The, action OF
the majority OF members in the ways
/ and ,yhcaas com nlittse Erist,y:in deter.
mining, * a ye &c OF s,S TO .fye, to re-
port The i.ic6ntsc ~; LII -, q measure
9serars, tte rsny, fli;l IN Gu sro,H the Nilsson
tariff bill, is the firss.evijence that tho
administration has reyained control OF
the committee,
oMe:sssrrsss. Arcefilhn9 aud Bryan, tho
members, of, the com,nittee. who are
most. deeply attached TO the income
tax scheme have lost 40 opportunity
to assert TINT unsler I, no. conditions
would the two measures, q separated,
for they recognize the probability that
certain democrat, in ttso rouse would
attempt to-fefcat e!re m: IN. tax bill,
f.it.appeaycsil as an independent propo-
sit;oa, by pur?2sely breASing, quo
r1tinn Having defca;cf the ad:hinistra-
tioH inNthc adoption oil tb D resolution
to report an. income tax bill to the
house, tfr. McNillin felt conGdcat that
I Eesivould be able to isreo Ills iorces il.
tact for tax, incorporation Of the IN
come tax into the Wilson bill itself
Curicusly enough, the member who
caused ai4Aosta sensation by defeating
Mr., Mc3Iilan's scllciupA, Friday was
Mr.. Eynum,- Of Indiana, who caused
almost an equal sensation when he
voted WITH Mr Mcmillan and defeated
the Misunderstanding, by supporting the
income tax proposition.
The vote Friday stooa: Messrs Will
son, Ereckinridge, Stevens, Cochran,
Montgomery and Dynum for reporting
the Income tax rs ar Independent
proposition, and Mcssrs Mcmillan,
Bryan, 1arsncY, Turner and Whiting
for incorporating the measure in the
!; Wilson bill. ~ ~ 1900
Mr.. Cochran, of New, York, and Mr..
members &C the committee who have
:. been. most opop III their hostility to tho
income tax, arc jabilaut, to say the
least, over their success in compelling
the submission. Of tie proposition as an
independent measure end do not hes
itate to predict its defeat in the house.
In SO fiji. MS these gentlemen count
upon republican aid in the. defeat of the
income tax they are likely to find
themselves mistaken. There is no rca-
son to beleve-that the republican lead
ers are abandoning. their original pro-
gramme Of compelling the democrats
to enact or defeat all financial lcgisla-
ton by u quorum OF their. own party.
1t is evident that one Of the motives
|, OF making the income tax bin an indie
pendent measure and thus ncceSSitat-
ing.a separate vote III the house was to
force the republican minority to pat
itself on record, and rs nearly every
republic is known to be opposed to
an income tax, it was the calculation Of
Mcssrs Cochran and Stevens that the
republican vote, together with the re-
belliOus democrats in the house, would
suffice to defeat the bill. None Of the
republican leaders, however, have
given Mr.. Coo iiran any,assurancc that
will warrant any such belief. On the
contrary, the Republicans viii permit
the democratst to fight out all tkeir finan-
cial battles strictly. INSIDE their own
party lines. Mr. Cochran's campaign
for tho defeat Of the income tax must,
therefore, lie mapped out wholly inside
his own territory.
Furthermore, the fact that Speaker
Crisp, who is VIGOROUSLY Il friend OF
the income tax, was ahlc on last Mon
day to bring quorum OF democrats in
to the house ready to support any
measure that his. rules committee
might dictate, may be taken os a
strong Indication that wien tie final
vote is taken On the income tux bill
there will not be sufficient democrats
whose courage viii last them to the
point of breaking e quorum, and the
income .taA will pass the house.
As already stated, it will be defeated
in the senate, and the revenues which
it is expected to raise will be produced
in the senate bill bya largely increased
tax on whisky, duty on sugar, the
abolition of the suga. bounty, and a
reduction OF Some Of the heavy cuts
made in The Wilson bill.
The only result in the house OF the
action Of the ways and mems commit
tee Friday, was the threat Of Eany OF
the friends of the income tax to en-
barrass the passagc.of tho Nilson bin
until they are assured OF tie success
of their bill for the lcyying OF an in
come tax. 30 t'n.
80.