The Arizona sentinel., 1897-07-17
4, v.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent )
WASHINGTON, July 13, 1897

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 Probably no ameg dment added to the tariff bill by the Senate will give more general satisfaction than that which imposes tax on every certificate of stock and bond other than those issued by the Govern ment, National, State or Municipal
 In addition to raising revenue to a large amount from class who will not find it bNrden, this amend ment. if it remains in the bill, as 1t probably will, will drive the places known IS bucket shops" out ct business, because to fail te pay the tax on each transactiop will be to acknowledge tbat they do not aotu- ally sell the stock, but merely ac- cept bets on whether the price will go up or down, and to make thd. proprietors amenab'e 10 the laws against gambling; to pay the tax will bankrupt them. It will prob ably also lessen the business done in the gi.lmate stock exchanges. because the tax will add to the expense of buying and selling stock for speculation, but there are thou
 sands who will regard it great blessing to the country if stock speculation as business was entire
 " broker up. It's Q business that produces nothing useful and adds nothing to the real wealth of the country, while 1t annually demora lizes and drives to the dogs thou sands of business men who might continue to be useful citizens If 1t were not for stock speculating.
 The last democratic Senator to find cut that Senator Chandler i> always loaded, was White, of Cali 1 fornia. Mir Chandler was making few remarks on the reciprocity amendment to the tariff bill, which
 was reported from the Finance Committee and adopted by the Senate, when Mir. White tried to be funny" by asking him if lie had been commissioned by the Finance Committee to occupy the floor until the next amendment was ready. Quick as flash, Mir. Chandler responded, with an ex- asperating smile: "Oh no! l have been asked merely to occupy the i floor to look out for anything that the Senator from California may say worthy ot notice. As nothing of the kind has occurred, 1 will con- tinue to con6ne my remarks to re- ciprocitv." Mir. White dropped into his seat and sought consolation by putting extra vigor in the move ment of big palm leaf fan, while Senator Tillman, who had received  his dose of Chandler drops several days before, made no attempt to conceal broad grin.
 It is learned from authoritative source that President Mckinley may send special messag9 to Con
 gress in few days, strongly recon mending legislation for the ap- pointment of Commission to investigate and report upon the reform needed in our present cur rency system. If this message is sent to Congress, it will not be with the expectation that the matter will be acted upon at tEe present session, but fer the purpose of get ting strike in the coal mines is part of a Democratic scheme to carry Ohio. He says the idea of the Democratic instigators of the strike
 IS that it will cut off the supply of
 coal and result in at least partial
 paralysis of the big manufacturing industries of Oifio. Then they vii!
 charge the Republican party with the responsibility for that condition
 of affairs and will make an attempt
 to hold up Senator Hanna as an
 oppre.sor of Labor. Mir Scott
 added that he did not believe the
 scheme would succeed, and that the
 strikes would do the Republicans
 of Ohio little, if any harm