Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-06-10
COyFEPEES have AGREED.
Continued from First Page.

ton OF receipts from stamp taxes.
The Senate recedes from it's amend
ment imposing stamp taxes on articles
scic under q trade mark or any name
or designation not open to general use.
The provision for the coinage OF the
silver bullion is as follows:
COINAGE OF SILVER BULLION.
Tha. the Secretary Of the Treasury
is hereby authorized and directed to
coin into standard silver dollars as ra-
pidly as the public interests may re-
qure, to an amount, however, OF not
less than one-half million dollars IN
each month all Of the silver bullion
now in the treasury purchased IN ac-
cordance with the provisions OF the act
approved July IA, 1890, entitled, AN
act directing the purchase of silver
bullion and the issue Of treasury notes
thereon, and for other purposes the
said dollars when so coined shall De
used and applied in the manner and
for the purposes named in said act.
The following proviso has been adj
ed to the bond provision:
Provided further that any portion OF
any issue of said bonds not subscribed
for as above provided may be disposed
of by the Secretary Of the Treasury at
not less than par under such regula-
tions as he may prescribe, but no COM
mission shall be allowed or paid there
on and a sum not exceeding one-tenth
of one per centum of the amount or the
bonds and certificates herein author
lied Is hereby appropriated out OF any
money in the treasury not otherwise
appropriated to pay the expense OF pre-
pairing, advertising and issuing the
same.
A tax of 50 on all beer, lager beer,
ale, porter and other similar fermented
liquors brewed or manufactured and
sold or stored in warehouses or remoV-
ed for consumption or sale for every
barrel containing not more than 81
gallons; and at a like rate for any
other quantity or fractional parts OF
a barrel with a discount of ~ per cent.
on all sales by collectors to brewers OF
the stamps provided for the payment
of the tax An additional proviso was
added as follows by the conference:
That the additional tax imposed in this
section on all fermented liquors stored
in warehouses to which a stamp had
been affixed shall be assessed and col
lected in the manner now provided by
law for the collection of taxes not paid
by stamps.
Bankers employing a capital not ex-
ceeding s25000 $50; employing cap
ltal exceeding $4,000, for every addi-
tional thousand dollars, 50, surplus in
sluded in capital The amount of such
lnnual tax to be computed on the basis
# the capital and surplus for the pre-
reding fiscal year. Savings banks hav-
ing a capital stock and whose business
is confined to receiving deposits and
loaning or investing the same for the
benefit of their depositors and which do
no other business of banking, are mot
subject to this tax.
Bowling alleys and billiard rooms, S.
for each alley or table.
In lieu of the tax now imposed by
law, a tax of IL cents per pound upon all
tobacco and snuff, however prepared,
manufactured and sold; upei cigars
and cigarettes, the following taxes to
be paid by the manufacturer: $500 per
thousand on cigars weighing more than
three pounds per thousand; one dollar
per thousand on cigars weighing not
not more than three pounds per thou
sand; $3.50 per thousand on cigarettes
weighing more than three pounds per
thousand, and $3.50 per thousand on
cigarettes weighing not more than
three pounds per thousand; provided.
that in lieu of two, three and four-ounce
packages of tobacco and snuff now AL
thorized by law there may be packages
thereof containing one and lwo-thirds
ounces, two and one-half ounces and
three and one-third ounces respective
ly and in addition to packages now au-
thorized by law there may be packages
containing one ounce of smoking to-
bacco
The compromise proviso in regard to
the taxation of the stock on hand is as
follows:
There shall be assessed and collected
with the exceptions hereinafter in
this section provided for upon all the
articles enumerated in this section
which are manufactured, imported and
removed from custom house before the
passage OF this act bearing stamps af-
fixed to such artisles for the payment
OF taxes thereon and cancelled subse-
quent to April A. 1898, and which arti-
Giles We're at the time of the passage of
this act held and intended for same by
any person, tax equal to one-half the
difference between the tax already paid
On such articles at the time of removal
from the factory or customs house and
The tax levied in this act upon such ar