The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-16

- money the Government is going to need and
we shall not know before the session OF Congress
ends Besides I don't know anything from whleh
the tax ought to be taken Certainly not from Deer
tobacco"
How about the tax on checks and telegraph mes
sages and express packages?" asked. Those are
the features of the law which cause inconvenl-
to the greatest number of people,
And those are the taxes easiest TO eolIect anu
surest" said the Senator. I'VE shall not touch them
Not at the extra session in the spring 2?
change in the law for year anyway
DO you think the war taxes will be made perma-
1t is likely that some features of the law will be
and the Philippines That will admit free sugar and
a number of articles from which we now derive a
some way. The taxes levied in the war revenue bill
now bringing in about half Of the twenty-nve 10
I. called the Senator's attention the attacks on
the war revenue law which Senator Jones, chairman
of the Democratic National Committee, is making
Allison The people to whom he is appealing are
not the people who send many express packages or
kilograms or sign many checks. Yet these are the
three taxes which bear most individuals: OF
senator Allison said he did not believe the army
scandal going to have any weight In the coming
the people We're not going to hold
the Republican party responsible FOR them;
party is making its fight along the old lines-free sill
YER free trade, antitrust and so on
"Then the silver issue is not dead?"
mot ALL If the Democrats got into power they
That is stll the issue They have failed to get up a
party division the subject of expansion and for
all that any tell the issues of 1896 will
be the issues the Presidential election OF 1907
saw Senator Lodge at his beautiful home over
looking the sea Nahant. Part of his property
used for time by the War Department coast
signal station because the Senator's grounds border
the cliff at the end of the point of land
which Nahant stands. The location is almost ideal
In it's picturesquenesS The Senator's house stands
back a little way from the cliff on the highest point
of ground, commanding view of the ocean three
sides. When I called the Senator was in the act of
receiving a Spanish flag taken from of the ships
DESTROYED at Santiago, which grateful constituent
serving on the New York had brought him from
Cuba The presentation brief and then the SEN
ator showed me into his coZy little sun parlor on
the south side of his house and talked with about
the new immigration problem that confronts u.s.
I asked Senator Lodge if he believed any modif-
cation of the immigration laws needed to cover
the colonial conditions.
"The problem has not presented itself to be-
fore" he said, but should that when annex
Porto Rico to the United States Porto Rican be-
comes citizen of this country and and
go as he likes in any part of it,.
''It is possible, then, for employers, If they
to do to bring much cheap contract labor
as they like from Porto Rico after it has passed
under the control of the United States?"
I think shall have very little to fear in that
direction in Porto Rico said the Senator, with
laugh st see the price of hack hire there has gone
UP from 81 hour to SO alreadJ. The Porto Rfcans
in the first place are not likely to want to to