The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-01-29

w ASHlNGION, Jan. 20.
SPHERE will now bs cessation for
a time of tariff talk in the house
and the members will address
u themselves for three days this
week to the mysteries and perplexities
and pros and cons of the income tax.
The McMillin bill upon this subject re
ported to the house from the commit
Tee on ways and means last Wednes-
day will be submitted tomorrow as an
amendment to the Wilson customs
bill so as to unite in one measure all
the schemes for raising revenue aside
from the sales of bonds.
The general debate on this PROPOSE
tion will occupy Monday and Tuesday
with night sessions, and on Wednesday
the bill will be considered under the
five minute rule for amendments. The
general debate will be opened by Mr..
McMillin, of Tennessee, the author of
the measure. Some of the leaders of
the house who have taken little or no
part in the tariff debate will doubtless
be heard on this proposition. Mr..
Pence, the Democratic Populist of
Colorado, will propose to amend the
bill by the adoption of graduated tax
on incomes, running from 2 to 10 per
cent and which he believes will pro.
duce over a hundred millions instead of
thirty millions, the estimate of the
pending bill.
TO BE REPORTED THURSDAY.
After the vote shall have been taken
In committee of the whole on Wednes
day afternoon on making the income
and whiskey tax scheme part of the
Wilson bill the latter will be ready to
report on Thursday to the house for
ratification. Before the final vote is
taken, however, Mr.. Reed, Mr.. Wilson
and Mr.. Crisp will address the house on
'he general subject of tariff and rev.
Rnue, their text being the perfected
bill. 1t is likely that vote will not be
reached until late on Thursday, and
possibly not before Friday
The Wilson bill has considerably
changed since it was reported to the
house several weeks ago and not always
In accordance with the desires of the
committee on ways and msans. Two
or three of the defeats the committee
have sustained have been notable, but
they retrieved one of them yesterday
in establishing the time when the
free wool and manufactured wool
schedules should go into effect. The
house in committee of the whole have
decided Sin favor of Representative
Tom l.. Johnson's motion to have both
go into operation on the day of the ao-
proval of the bill. Yesterday the ways
and means committee got the dates re-
stored as proposed by them-free wool
Aug, /, 1894. and manufactured wool
Dec. /, 1894.
SUGAR ON THE FREE LIST.
Another defeat from which the
committee did not recover re-
suited in placing all sugars, raw
and refined, on the free list
and abolishing the bounty at once,
This was the most important incident
In the consideration of the bill. All at
tempts to take iron ore, coal and lum.
Der from the free list were unsuccess-
full.
Among the more important changes
effected in the text of the bill AS re-
ported were the following: Reducing
the duty on pig iron and manufactured
iron in sixteen paragraphs 5 per cent.
generally, and increasing the duty on ]
nails and screws per cent. putting
plows, rakes, disc and tooth harroUs,
threshers. cotton gins and harvesters ON
the free list (over the committees OBJ
jection), and striking out the recpro.
;ity clause from the petroleum para.
graph.
WORK IN THE SENATE.
The senate will probably wind nm
the election law debate this week as far
as the Republicans are concerned.
Hawaiian relations are still an open
question in the senate. The resolution
reported from the committee on for.
eign relations declaratory of the sense
of the congress in the matter is still
pending Notwithstanding the fact
that the report was almost unani.
nous, 1t appears that some of
the Republican senators follow.
ing In the lead of Mr.. Allison,
find the first section, declaring against
annexation at the present time, obieo.
tionable to them. So it may be that
the resolution, which at first promised
20 pass speedily, will continue to occupy
She attention Of the senate for some
Iime. and particularly is this probable
If an issue is raised by the moving Of
the Dolph amendment, requesting the
recall Of Mr. Willis, or by Mr.. Vests
insistence upon his amendment materi.
ally modifying the language of the
section touching annexation.