The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-29
THIS WEEK IN CONGRESS.
Three Days to Be Given TO the Income
Tax BY the House.

co,aral Debate-Leaders Who We're
e;1o,t on the Tariff to Be Heard From
.be New Issue-How the Ways
Means COMMITTEES Came Out on the
Tariff Bill.
washington, Jan. 2s.-There will be a
.0ssation for brief period of tariff talk
n the House, and the members will ad-
sc themselves for three days this
80 IN the mysteries and perplexities
end nros and cons Of the income tax ques-
t;on The Mcmillan bill upon this subject,
.onorted to the House from the committee
avs end means last Wednesday, will
so.r,oTroyy be submitted as an amendment
+otba Wilson customs bill, so as to unite
- one measure all the schemes
Gov raising revenue aside from the sale
of bonds The general debate on this
Uronosition will occupy Monday and
tuesday, with night sessions, as has been
the rule for the past three weeks; and on
wednesday the bill will be considered
rnder the five-minute rule for amend
nonts. The general debate will be opened
NV Mr.. McMiIlin, of Tennessee, the author
of the measure. Some of the leaders of
the House, who have taken little or no
mart in the tariff debate, willsdoubtless be
heard on this proposition. Speeches are
expected from Messrs. Bland, Cox, of
Tennessee, Williams, of Illinois, Pence,
the democratic populist of Colorado,
and others. in support of the income tax.
AN IMPORTANT AMENDMENT.
Mr. Pence will propose TO amend the
hill nv the adoption of graduated tax on
incomes. running from to 10 per cent,
and which he believes will produce over
Si00OOO. 900 of revenue, instead of $30, 000,-
C0O the estimate of the pending bill.
The income tax bill includes provisions
for tax on playing cards, ana an in
crease of the tax on whisky, with an ex-
tension of the bonded period from three
TO five years Mr.. Montgomery, of Ken
tuclzv. prepared part of the committees
report relating to the whisky tax, and in
ease it is deemed necessary to further
exnIain the reasons for the increase to
the House, Mr.. Montgomery will perform
that duty.
After the votes shall have been taken
in committee of the whole on Wednesday
afternoon on making the whisky and in
come tax schemes a part of the Wilson
bill the latter will be ready to be reported
on thursday to the House for ratification.
Before the final vote is taken, however.
Messrs. Reed, Wilson and Crisp will ad-
dress the House on the general subject of
tariff and revenue, the text being the per-
fected bill 1t is likely that vote will
not be reached until late on Thursday,
and possibly not before Friday.
ONE AMENDMENT ENACTED ON.
When the committee of the whole
House arose at the expiration of the ses-
-
ment proposed by the committee on ways
and means remained Enacted on. IT was
one proposing to increase the duty on
barley and barley malt from 20 to 80 ad
valorem respectively to 80 and 35 per cent
1t failed of passage because of lack of
time and Chairman Richardson said that
he should hold that it was pending, but
whether or not that would be the judg-
ment Of the speaker of the House he
could not say.
The bill has been 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 means. Two or three of the defeats
the committee has sustained have been
notable, but they retrieved one of them
yesterday in re-establiShing the time
when the free wool and manufactured
wool schedules should go into effect. The
4IOuoC CUuullUbb6 Oh inc WHOLE QdQ de-
clded in favor of Representative Tom L.
JOhnson's motion to have both go into
operation on the day of the approval of
the bill Yesterday the ways and means
committee got the dates restored as pro-
posed by them free wool Aug. /, 1884
manufactured wool Dec. l, 1894.
THE SUGAR SCHEDULE.
Another defeat, from which the com
nlttee dld not recover, resulted in plac-
ing all sugars, raw and refined on the free
ASI and abolishing the bounty at once.
ms was the most important incident in
the discussion of the bill.
All attempts to take iron ore, coal and
lumber from the free list were unsuccess-
full S''
among the more important changes at
Ieeted by the text of the bill as reported
We're the following:
increasing the duty on all diamonds
iIou ~ per cent. to Is per cent. in the
lougn 81 per cent. cut, and 35 per cent.
reducing the duty on pig iron and
manufactures of iron in sixteen para
graphs, . per cent and increasing the
uuty onnalls and screws per cent.
hanging the duty on sweet chocolate
al 70 per cent. ad valorem to 2 cents
q, RHuno' Making the duty on condensed
LIN cents a pound, including the
weight OF the package.
ruttlng plows, rakes, disc and tooth
r r@rtoWs' shears, cotton gins and har-
r nGs.erS on the free list lover the com
mittee's objection
coa naking crude opium containing per
T Tst and over of morphine from the free
I In oru n!Alng the duty at 81 pound.
r increasing the duty on morphine and
1'S S,piiL3 salts from 80 cents to IS cents.
tholIIhIhg out the reciprocal clause from
'HT petroleum paragraph.
n tLauSIefrlng crrranrs from the free list
rem. N'' Az per cehb' aa NalO-
me FEDERAL ELECTIONS LAW.
fa5 5ne senate will probably wind up the
far e as elections law debate this week, So
the co SuG republicans are concerned, by
t abnanaier, New Hampshire, and two fur.
4uuresses by Mr.. Hawley, of Connec.