The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-05-13

payment by oheck or draft. represented
by certificate Of deposit, or otherwise,
whether payable on demand or Al some
future day"
Persons affected by these provisions
are required to make monthly returns.
Evasions OF payment for 10 days are
punished by the addition of 10 per cent.
and for attempts at knowing evasion, a
penalty of 1000 is provided. Taking
up the bill at the beginning, more m
portant amendments are as follows:
Stored beer. ale. etc, are Exempted from
operations OF the act: the discount on
the beer tax Is decreased from 5 to 2hs
per cent: for the house provision for
stamps on beer. etc, a simpler Is
substituted.
A license is imposed on bankers. etc.
as follows: On ankers employing a
capital of $50. 900 or less. 500 for each
license. and 81 for each additional w.
900 OF capital, savings banks being ex-
empted; brokers. $50; pawnbrokers. $40;
commercial brokers, $40; custom house
brokers. 80; foreign insurance agents,
$50; proprietors of thesters, museums,
concert halls. circuses, 500 each: other
public exhibitions. SO; bowling alleys
and billiard rooms, s. per table.
There are a great many changes in
the tobacco schedule. The tax on
manufactured tobacco. snuff, ETC., Is
increased from ~ to is cents per
pound; the tax on cigars weighing
more than three pounds per thousand
is reduced from 81 to $3.50 per thou
sand; On small cigars from 81 to 81;
on cigarettes from 81 to $1.50 per thou
sand. The house provision taxing to-
bacco on han is stricken out. There
is a reduction of the tax OF tobacco
dealers. manufacturers, etc, whose an
nuaI sales fall below ST. 900 to Sc from
-
dlers are exempted from the opera
lions of the act. There are similar re-
auctions on the licenses of cigar manu-
f%acturers.
The penalty for a violation of sec
ton four. relating to adhesive stamps,
Is increased SO as to make the offense
a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of
$500 or Imprisonment for a year or
both. Imprisonment is also added as
n OF the penalties for issuing or ac-
cepting unstamped documents. Indeed,
this addition is made to almost all the
provisions for violating any portion of
the bill.
The provision in section II. relating
to Geographic messages. which, in the
house bill, except free and press mes
sages. is amended so as to include
these by making h provision apply
TO all messages.
HI schedule relating to drugs and
n1eulClneS Is amended as 10 pTONlue lot
a tax on prescriptions.
The changes made in schedule A
relating to stamp taxes. indicate that
the committee devoted very careful
attention to II. n as a consequence
almost every line is changed. After
the first paragraph of this schedule,
the following is inserted as a pro-
vfso:
THAT in case of sale. where the evil
dence of transfer IL shown only by the
books of the company the stamp shall
be placed upon such books. and where
the change of ownership is by trans
fer certificate, the stamp shall be
placed upon the certificate. and in
cases where the transfer is by delivery
or certificate assigned in blank. there
shall be made and delivered by the
seller to the buyer. a memorandum or
bill of such sale to which the stamp
shall be afixed and every bill or mem
orandum or sale before mentioned
shall show the date thereof, the name
of the seller. the amount of the sale
and the matter or thing to which IT
refers" rs
When business resumed in open seq
sion the senate refused to concur In
the conference report on the bill re-
lating to the purchase of army sup
plies and new conferees We're named
The railroad arbitration bill vas
again taken up. After the adoption
of the Hosr amendment and several
minor amendments. n bill was
passed, 81 to 3.
The conference report on the bill
authorizing the furnishing of supplies
TO the Cuban patriots was agreed to.
At 6 .. m. the senate adjourned until
Monday.
ANY person or persons violating or
seeking to evade this provision shall.
upon conviction. be fined not less than
$500 nor more than 81, 1000. or be i'm
prisoned not more than six months, or
both.
Upon each sale. contract. agree
ment or other evidence of q sale of
any products or merchandise at any
exchange or board of trade, either for
present or future delivery for each 800
in value of aid sale, one cent, for
zach additional 800 or fractional part
thereof in excess of 800, n cent"
A proviso Is added requiring stamps
TO the necessary amount be fixed to
the memorandum or other evidence of
sale. The penalty Is the same as the
previous proviso.
The house exemption Of bank checks
under $40 is stricken out. leaving all
stamp of two cents. The rate on do
nestle bills OF exchange. of less than
500, Is reduced to two cents. and two
cents is added to this rate for each
additional 500. This provision is made
applicable to postofice money orders.
The rate of foreign bills Of exchange
Is made double the rate levied on do
nestle exchange.
A uniform rate of l cent Is required on
all bills of lading, manifests, receipts,
etc, for packages issued by railroad
steamboat, express companies, etc. A
tax Of 1 cent is also imposed upon con-
versations over the telephone lines
where the charge exceeds Is cents. The
rate on indemnifying bonds il increased
from 25 to 90 cents. The provision fol
taxing deeds OF conveyance is changed
the consideration ie below $500 and
adding so cents for each additional $500
A uniform rate OF 1 cent Is made or
telegraphic dispatches. the official dis
patches of telegraph and railroad com
panies and of official government dis,