The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-30
INf War REVENUE BILL
Tho Republicans Resort to a Man.
euvor to Get It Through.
INCOME TAX VOTED DOWN
ungSsy O0ered m Entirely New Bill
= Q 0~ubststuee-It Included
An the COMMITTEES
Amendments.


day passed the wal revenue bill with
the republican members OF the ways
and means committee added. In order
to accomplish this a parliamentary
maneuver was necessary. as the whole
time for amendments was exhausted
by the minority in trying TO amend the
bend feature of the bill. Mr.. Dingley
offered a. q substitute an entirely new
bin containing these amendments after
the bill had been reported to the house.
This was an old parliamentary trick
frequently resorted to years ago. The
Morrill, tariff law was passed in this
way in its original form after IL had
been loaded down with amendments
in committee OF the whole. Many
amendments were offered to the bond
feature Of the bill, ranging from a
proposition for the substitution of an
income tax provision to an authorize
ton for an issue of $3.50. 900. 900 of green
backs. But all were voted down. Al
the last minute the democrats decided
to OFFER a motion TO recommit, with IN
structions to report back the income
tar proposition as an 10
the bill. instead of as a substitute for
lnC OOIo PtoBttttfoAH
to the fact that a number of democrats
declined to vote TO strike out the bond
proyision. The motion was defeated,
ia to l7s. Four republicans voted with
the democrats n popuiists on THIS
vote. But on the final passage OF the
bin, which vas carried. ISL to 13l, the
democrats and populists, with six ex-
ceptious, voted solidly against the bill.
The democrats who voted for the Dill
were: Messrs. Cummings, Mcclellan
and Griggs of New York: Fitzgerald OF
Massachusetts,; McAleer OF Pennsyl-
vania. and Wheeler of alabama. TWO
republicans, Messrs. Linney OF North
Carolina and Thorpe of Virginia voted
with the opposition. Quite a NUMBER OF
democrats declined to vote.
The house convened at 10 O'Clock this
morning to allow two hours more gem
eral debate on the revenue bill before
the bill was taken up at noon Tor
amendments under the IN
rule. Bland discussed the bond feature
of the bill. to which he said democrats
could never agree. They could not
asree to the issue of any more coin
bonds. which would be construed un-
der the republican administration to
mean nothing but gold. So long as the
minis were closed to the coinage or
one-half the money metals OF the
world, the democrats only under CIR
cumstances of extreme stress could
consent to the issue of such bonds.
He urged the ACCESSIBILITY of the i'm
mediate coinage of the silver seignior-
The house. during the afternoon, con-
timed debate on the war revenue Dill.
Debate was slow and unintelestins
ON behalf of the minority. McMililh
offered an amendment TO strike OUT .he
bond provision. Walker OF Massacha-
.etts offered an amendment To make
the bonds redeemable after one year
and payable after three years. Out IL
was defeated. -
Mr. Newland. sill. rep, New, argued
that the war would be confined TO the
nayies of Spain m the United states,
and that its duration would depend
unon how Ions Spain could maintain
upon the sea the guerilla warfare she
has been accustomed to wage upon
land. He thought the war should be
vigorously prosecuted n apparent
extravagance O might prove econo-
my in the end. BY the terms OF the
bill two-thirds of the taxes were TO De
laid upon consumption and one-third
upon the current transactions OF pusi.
ness. Not a dollar was TO be raised
from the accumulated wealth of the
country This was unfair, he said.
Mr.. Grosvenor, REP o., said that at
such a crisis as this there We're, as
stephen Douglas said. about TWO
classes in the country-patriots ana
traitors. He was willing TO accept the
suggestions emanating from n demo-
cratic side, however wild and lmpracti-
cable. in good faith. He would not i'm
pugn or even suspect a lack OF patri-
otism. Mr.. Grosvenor then proceeded
to crificise some of these suggestions.
SpeakinC of the bond feature he de-
clared thai the bonds would be taken
by the people of the country not only
as a profitable investment, but as evil
dence to the world that this country
propose to free Cuba in the face of
Spain. Austria or any other country
that saw Mt co interfere.
The other speakers before noon were
Messrs. Curtis. rep, Kan. Shafroth,
sill. rep, Colo, and Brown, rep, o.
At noon the house went through the
formality of a~djourning and
ing. Then. under the order, the bill was
taken up for amendment under the
five-minute rule. Under the arrange
ment made, the bond sections of the
bill were first to be open to amend
ment. Mr.. McMillin. dem, Tenn, Of
fered on behalf of the minority the
amendment TO strike out section %. the
bond provision, and insert in lieu
therein the income tax amendment
II il Identical with the income tax pro
vision of the Wilson tariff law. with
the taxable income reduced from $44.
600 to $42, 900 per annum. and the pei
cent increased from 2 TO 3 per cent.
Mr.. Walker, rep, Mass, offered as
an amendment to the original section
a provision TO change the terms OF
the bonds so as to make them re
deemable n year after he date OF
their issue and payable after thre,
years m upon the expiration of sever
years or due on a certain day within
three years, as the secretary of tn.
treasury might elect Mr.. Walker de
clared that his amendment would saw
b people from $40. o00. 900 to $50. 900. 900
Mr.. Walker declared that the bill
should be recommitted and that ever,
republican should vote for the motion
Mr.. Berry, dem. KY, called atten
ton 20 the remarkable coincidence tha
by This bill il was proposed to issuu
500. 00o. 900, the amount which Secretar,
Gage had recommended for the purpos
OF redeeming the greenbacks- Their