Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-01-25
CONGRESS Yesterday.

During the consideration Of bridge
bill in the Senate yesterday Mr.. Vest,
of Missouri, criticised the Presidents
veto of the New York bridge bill, and
showed that on one of the points on
which the veto was based there had
been decision by the Supreme Court
of the United States contrary to the po-
sition assumed by the President.
In the House consideration of the
Wilson tariff bill was resumed. Pend
ing amendments to the iron-ore sched-
ule. one by Mr.. Oates proposing a duty
OF 40 cents per ton and another propos-
ing to substitute the Mckinley law for
the iron-ore schedule OF the Wilson bill,
were defeated, thus leaving iron on the
free list. The following amendments
were offered to the paragraph of the
tariff bill which puts agricultural i'm
plements on the free list by Mr.. Rob
bins, of Alabama, for the addition OF
cotton machinery to the free list by
Mr.. Payne to strike out the Robbins
amendment and insert retaliation or
reciprocal provision ; by Mr.. Terry for
the free admission of agricultural i'm
elements and cotton machinery by
MIR. Hare for tax of 30 per cent. ad
valorem on agricultural implements
with a provision that the tariff should
be RENTED when imported from a
country which admitted similar imple-
ments from this country free Of duty.
No action was taken ON the foregoing
amendments.
The ways and means committee
made number of important changes III
the revenge bill, including reduction
of tax from 81 60 to 81 on cigarettes, al
lowing petroleum to come in free, strlk-
ing out the reciprocity provision of the
bill, and amending the clause of the
income tax section computing in
comes.
To the surprise OF most of the meln-
bers of the House of Representatives,
who had no inkling of his purpose,
Representative McMillin, Of the SUBJ
committee of the ways and means COM
mittee that prepared the internal rev.
enue bill containing the income tax pro-
vision, introduced the measure in the
House. Only the ardent advocates of
the income tax and those bitterly op-
posed to it were prepared for Repre-
sentative McN1illin's coup in reporting
the internal revenue bill, just as the
House had risen from committee of the
whole after discussing the iron ore and
agricultural implements schedule OF the
Wilson tariff bill.
The New York delegation led by Mr.
Cochran, began to filibuster to prevent
the introduction ofthe internal revenue
bill, but Speaker Crisp, who, it is re-
ported, appeared to favor the income
tax men, recognized Representative
McAIillin, who, in turn, sent. the bill to
the Speaker, who had its title read at
once and then referred it to the COM
mittee of the whole before any COM
ment could be made. The next instant
the Speaker declared the House adj
journed under the special order govern
ing the tariff debate.
The New York delegation in the
House of Representatives held confer
ence and adopted a resolution pledgipg
themselves by every parliamentary
means within their power to prevent
the income tax advocates from having
an opportunity to offer the internal
revenue bill as an amendment to the
Wilson tariff bill. 1t is expected that
there will be bitter contest in the
House over the proposition to add the
iuternal-revenue bill to the tariff bill.