Birmingham age-herald., 1894-08-16
The Four House Bills Read a Second Time and Freely
 Discussed.
Secretary Carlisle Writes Let ter of StatiStiCS-TWo ReSo- lutions Offered In
 the House.

morning business ihe chief clerk of the house delivered a message from the house notifying the senate of the discharge of the house conferees on the tariff bill, and of the fact that the house had receded from it's disagreements to the senate amendments; and, further, that he Qhe clerk) had been directed to present to the senate for the signature of its president the enrolled tariff bill. Within few,minutes afterwards the vice. president announced that he had signed the tariff bill.
 MT. Quay gave notice that he would offer as an amendment to each of the four billa putting sugar, coal, iron ore and barbed wire on the free list, the Mckinley tariff bill.
 MT. Jarvis of North Carolina was ap- pointed as 8 member of the following senate committees: Claims, public build- ipgs, national banks and to establish the University of the United States Mir. Daniel was appointed on the committee on priyi- leges and elections, and Mir. Martin of Kansas on the committee on pensions.
 MT. Butler offered a resolution which was referred, instructing the committee on interstate commerce to inquire and re- port as to the freight and passenger charges, differential, etc. of the Southern Steamship and ItailTay association.
 At the request of Mir. Harris, each of the four house bilAs, as to sugar, coal, iron ore and barbed wire was taken up and re- ceived its seconv reading. This formality having been accomplished, Mir. Harris rose and said ttI deem it my duty to submit to the senate a communication from the secretary of the treasury received this morning. The letter was read from the clerks desk as follows:
 TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
 tt tWASHINGTuN An.y 15 s'Hon. Isham G. Harris Acting Chairman
 Finance Committee
 s'DEAR SIR: Your letter advising me that the house of representative has passed and sent to the senate bills putting sugar, coal, iron and barbed wire on the free list, and requesting an official statement from you (me) as to the fleet that the passage of these bills, or either of them, would have upon the revenues of the govern ment, is received, and in response l have the honor to say that according to the most careful estimates that can be made, if no change Is made in the proposed revenue legislation which has recently passed through con- gress, the total receipts into the treasury during the current fiscal year will bs as follows:
 ''From duties on imports, senate bill in- cluding S43, ,000, GOO on sugar and $l79 ,000,- 0O0 from internal taxes, whisky $95 ,O00 GOO, tobacco $33, ,000, ,000, fermented liquids $33, 900, ,000, income $15, ,0C0, ,000. oleomargarine
 
 cellaneous S2o0 ,000, from sale of lands and other miscellaneous sources $20 000 ,000. Grand total, $37S, ,0O0 ,O0O.
 ''The estimated receipts for the present fiscal year from the proposed tax on in- comes and playing cards, and the proposed additional tax of 20 cents per gallon on dis titled Spirits, are, it will be observed, m ach less than is stated in the various tabulated statements which have been heretofore used in the discussion of these subjects, hut aatiSfiad tna amnnnfa bara Diypn are approximately correct. The proposed income tax will not become payable by the terms of the bill recently passed, until lon or before July l, 1895, which is the close of the fiscal year, and it is estimated by the commissioner of internal revenue that by reason of the largest stock on hand, the receipts from the tax on playing cards will not amount to more than $1 GOO ,OOO during the year. The estimated increase of receipts on account of additional tax on distilled spirits during the present year has already been prevented, to great ex- tent, by the withdrawal of large quanti- ties of goods from the bonded warehouses and the payment of taxos thereon-90 cents and this process is still going on. The total expenditures during the current fiscal year will be as follows: Civil and miscel- laneous, including differentials in postal revenues, $90, ,000, 900; war, including rivers and harbors, s56 ,oO0 ,0O0; navy, including interests ss6, ,5Oo, ,OOo, total ssss, ,OOO OOO, ss. timated surplus $15, ,00O, ,000.
 ''The duty on sugar, proposed in the re- cent bill, will, according to importations of that article during the fiscal year 1893, cause an annual revenue of $43, 478, ,958, and the duties on the other articles mentioned in your communication would yield under that bill about S1 ,000 900; that is to cay, iron ore $270, ,920, coal S436, 149 and barbsd wire fencing, wire and wire rods, of iron or steel, when imported for the man ufaC. ture of barbed wire fencing, about $8O0,- 900. It will be seen, therefore, if sugar alone is placed on the free list the expendi-