Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-09-07
ERRORS IN THE BILL.
MANY MISTAKES DISCOVERED
IN THE TARIFF BILL
no Appropriation to Put the Income Tax
Into EReot-Treasury Asked for 100000
Diamonds Un.ntsntlonnlly Placed on
tho Free List,
Mig Tar,n Blundcr..


In addition to tho long list of errors
found in the German tariff bill. the
surprising discove y has been made by
the Treasury Department officials that
no appropriation has been made for
putting into eject the income tax pro-
visions. The collectors of internal
evenu can do nothing under these
circumstance in the direction of pre-
pairing to collect the tax. The treas
usy officials claim to be blameless, for
they forwarded to the Appropriations
Committee more than u month ago an
estimate for an init i appropriation of
100000 to be used during the current
fiscal year in carrying out the income
tax provisions Of the tariff bill if it
should become n law. Tho omission
cannot be rectifed at this session of
Congress.
Scattered over twcnty-one different
pages of the new tariff bill there have
teen discovered SO far Il total of thirty
n errors, the greater part of which
have no EJECT on the bill. There
are three serious errors, though. not
counting tho section that authorizes
the payment OF u rebate on the tax
paid on alcohol used in the arts and
sciences. None of the error, can be
corrected without a joint resolution of
the two houses, for the Law" print of
the bill must be an exact copy, word
ing and spelling, pu ctuation, and
everything else contained in the en-
rolled bill, which is the copy that boz
comes part of the archives OF the gov
eminent.
N>,By tho omiss'o on of a comma the
Date has lifted bodily from the FREQ
tho products o. coal tar, not colors
Ives. Among the p, o lucts of coal tar
more important are dead oil, pitch,
II benzole. These shou d have come
free, but by the omission of the
bmma they are all transferred to the
6utiable list. Another error is one
lover which there has been some dis
! lute, but according to tariff experts it
operates to put diamonds in the free
list Tho use of the semicolon in
stead of the colon is used by en-
perts to indicate that diamonds
themselves, as o class, not set. in
addition to those tor use in certain
trades, as was intended, are admitted
free. 1t is aid that some of the larg-
est Importers of precious stones in
New York, war Of this error, have
ordered large invoices of diamonds be-
fore the error can he corrected. Para
graph "a of the chemical schedule
makes sulphate of magnesia, or epson
salts, dutiable at 1.5 OF a cent a pound.
This was an item addld by the Senate
which omitted to strike from tho free
fist paragraph 542, which reads: Mag
hesia, sulphate of, o. epson salts"
The two paragraphs are in opposition.
Cnstly Error. of the Pasr.
In o communication sent to Congress
some years ago it was shown that the
insertion OF q comma instead of O
hyphen in q tariff bill cost the govern
-ment almost $5cO,0Oo. The tariff act
OF Jure g. 1872, contained in the fres
plants, tropical and semi-tropical, for
tho purpose of propagation or c%ultiva-
tion." instead OF the comm after the
word "fruit' there should have been a
hyphen, the article intended to be adj
mitted free Icing fr~uit-plants. The
error was corrected by q joint resolu-
ton on May 8, 1874, but up to that time
hundreds of thousands of dollars worth
of tro. ical fruits were brought in abb
solutcly free OF duty.
a serious error in the Mckinley act
was corrected in like manner, the mis-
take being the displacement OF a pa
peared in the law read: "Cables, cord
composed in whole or in part Of istle,
OF Tampico fiber, si.a al grass, or sunni
~ cents per pound" The only worde
that should have been inclosea in pa
rentheses were except binding twine,"
which made q very material change in
the construction of the paragraph.
The correction was made Feb. Is, 1891.
the law, however, having been in force
since Oct. !, 1890.