Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-06-12
BANK CHECK TAX.
It May Be Substituted for the Tax
on Beer and Tea.
PROTECTION FOR The FARMERS.
Mr.. Cannon Speaks I'm Favor OF Placing an
Export bounty ON Agricultural Prod
ucts-Action on the Union Pacific
Question Wanted.

WASHING TON, June l0.-The repub-
lican members OF the finance commit
tee will withdraw the amendments for
an additional tax on beer and for the
duty Of 10 cents pound on ten. In
explanation Of this q member OF the
finance committee said that the pres
sure for the withdrawal of these
amendments had been very great, and
that many republican senators have
made decided stands against them.
The formal action of the committee on
the subject has not been taken, but
the determination has been reached.
The members OF the committee are
still in doubt as to what shall be done
with increases on tobacco in the in
ternational revenue part OF the bill, but
there has been great pressure to have
these taxes reduced. The question Of
revenue is giving the committee con-
siderable concern, and II there should
be withdrawal of the increases on
tobacco rs well as those on beer and
tea, the bill would not meet the needs
OF the government as revenue pro-
Queer. For this reason II has been
practically determined to make bank
check stamp tax, and the question Of
additional revenue by means of a sys-
TEN of stamp taxes on beer has been
under consideration.
The senate had q period OF tariff
speeches yesterday, and, as result,
little progress was made on the bill.
Mr.. Rawlins, of Utah, and Mr.. Mills,
Of Texas, discussed the democratic at
titude on the tariff from their respec-
tive standpoints. Mr.. Rawlins was q
member of the platform committee Of
the Chicago convention and proposed
the tariff plank which was adopted. He
held that the vote he and several other
democratic senator's had cast for du-
ties on cotton and other agricultural
products was justified by the plat
form and by the traditions of the
party. Mr.. Mills severely arraigned
the bill as class measure designed
to build up vast fund for distribution
among the benefciaries of the bill and
at the expense of the forgotten man."
the taxpayers. He then turned his at
tention to the daughters of million
aires, "fattened like heifers," and sent
abroad in quest of titles. When the
vast fortunes had been built up by I'M
Just taxation, then, he said, these
daughters were put on the market,
hawked and peddled, sold for prin.
cesses and duchesses and countesses and
marchionesses and other 'cesses,' and
here was congress legislating the mon
ey to pay for these trips abroad. II
the American people accepted this con-
dition then they were not worthy of
self-government"
Mr.. Cannon. of Utah, proposed an
amendment placing an export bounty
on agricultural products. He spoke
for two hours on the need of giving
the farmer share of the benefits of
the tariff. The only ground on which
the doctrine of protection could stand
was that II protected the labor of this
country from the wolfish pauper labor
of the world. But how could anyone
contend for protection to the labor of
the shops and mills and deny 1t to the
labor of the fields? The farmer com.
peted with the world. II this bill was
not just, the country would be plunged
again next year into the agony of o
tariff agitation. If it was just 1t might
endure.
In answer to question by Mr.. Allen,
Mr.. Cannon said the amount to be paid
by the government in export bounty
under his amendment would be Si7,-
9i4,5 $50. He argued that the American
farmer was obliged to sell his wool and
cotton Mt the low prices prevailing in
free trade countries of the world while
he bought his supplies ut the high
rates Of protected market
Mr.. Butler, of North Carolina, also
spoke Of giving the farmer equal bene-
Ats with other classes under the bill.
Only half page Of the bill, covering
four brief and comparatively unimpor.
tant paragraphs Geo to aS9 were dis
pOseu Oi uurinR the uuy'
THE UNION PACIFIC QUESTION.
WASHINGTON, June 10.-Senators Har-
ris, of Kansas, Pettigrew, of South
Dakota, and Morgan, Of Alabama, pro-
pose to force, If possible, some action
by the administration on the Union
Pacific question. They have prepared
q resolution which will be presented
in the senate to-day or Friday, declar-
ing that the president has the right to
use the sinking fund OF the Union
Pacific. Central Pacific and Central
Branch to take care of the bonds Of the
roads upon which interest has de-
faulted. They maintain that, under
the law of 1887, the president has full
authority TO use the sinking fund to
protect the interest Of the government,
and this, they insist, ought to be done
at once