The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-08-22
TARIFF ERRORS.
Rushing Through the Senate
a Bill to Allow Rebates
on Alcohol.
TREASURY CIRCULAR LOOKED FOR
Quibbles Will Not Receive Any
Attention--No Income Tax
Appropriation.

WASHINGTON, Aug. %, 1894. 4.-SenatorS
Aldrch and Quay were at work this
| morning endeavoring to smooth the way
for the passage of the House bill through
the Senate that corrects the errors made
in the tariff bill relative to the rebate to
alcohol used in the arts and sciences
Such action, owing to the absence OF
quorum, can only be had by unanimous
consent. 1t is understood that If the
bill does pass the Senate it will so back
to the House in very different shape
from that in which it left it. The sugar.
men, it is said, will amend 1t by tachlng
on to it as rider, the Mckinley bounty
or the bounty for hte crop of lSSf and
it is not improbable that other amend
| ments looking to the protection of some
industries that suffered by reason of
the tariff bill will be made to the bill
The intention is to give the House the
alter native of agreeing to these amend
ments or permitting the error regarding
alcohol to go uncorrected.
LIBERAL INTERPRETATION.
So many disturbing reports have been
| made as to the effect of disputed points
in the new tariff law, that Secretary
Carlisle, it is said, will make public an
official statement as to his understand
ing of its provisions. 1t is we'll under
stood in the Treasury that the Secre-
tary will construe disputed provisions
on the tariff bill in liberal way in ac-
cerdance with the manifest impact of
| Congress, not taking advantage of quib-
bles based upon mistakes in punctuation,
thus keeping in view the purpose of the
law makers.
QUAY'S HUMBUG.
The Congressional Record this morning
is enlivened by another installment of
the few remarks which Senator Mat
thew Stanley Quay of Pennsylvania has
addressed to the country on the sub
| ject of the tariff. This particular speech
purports to have been made in the Sen
ate on Saturday, June 16, 1894. 1t opens
| leum upon the free list. This runs
! through one hundred and twenty coz
umns of the Record" nearly all in solid
agate, and largely consisting of tabular
statements compiled with great industry,
from every possible source of Mforma>
| tion Then follows a brief general dis
| ests of the State of Pennsylvania, with
an elaborate descriptive account of the
origin and progress of the manufacture
of glass from the early Egyptian pc
| Rod two thousand years before Christ,
down to the most recent days, including
| a minute description of all the processes
employed IN glass blowing 2le and ,2tI4t. other
eight columns additional and leaves othe-
important Pennsylvania industries still
to be described.
INCOME TAX COLLECTIONS.
Commissioner Miller of the Internal
Revenue Bureau stated this morning that
| the omission by Congress to make an APP
preparation for carrying into effect the
provision of the ncome tax schedule
of the Tariff bill would not interfere with
the enforcement of the law by the Treas
ury Department. although it may cause
some slight embarrassment Congress
could and doubtlss would at tn next
| session make the necessary appropra-
| ton of about $500, 600 TO pay field agents.
All the blank forms, instructions, etc,
could be provided in advance out of
| the regular appropriations for the in
ternal revenue service, and as the ncome
| tax Will not go into effect until Janu-
ary l, 1895, and it's collection is not made
compulsory until after March l. 1885, no
| serious consequence, he thought, would
ensue from the failure to provide for
| the salaries of field agents and inspec-
tors Congress, he added, seldom an
ticipated matters of this kind, although
an estimate of the expense necessary to
carry the income tax schedule into effect
had been furnished by the Secretary of
the Treasury to Congress.
Chairman Sayers of the House opro-
priation Committee says the omission to
include in the Sundry Civil bill an ap-
preparation to put the income tax into
effect was intentional as Congress had
no positive information before it at the
time the Sundry Civil bill was passed
that the income tax would become a
law and in case it does there will be
ample time to supply the omission when
Congress again assemblies in December.