The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-12-18
BILL TO REDUCE
TAXES IS PASSED
The Minority Refrain rom
Voting on 1t.
rnnr COD IMn0ME TAX
Fight FOR INCOME TAX
It's Inclusion in the Bill Defeated by
1856 to 131.
EXPRESS RECEIPTS ESCAPE TAXATION
Pension Appropriation Bill Passed. The Senate
Again Wrestles With the Hay-Paunce-
fote Treaty. Lodge Hopes Tor a
Vote on il Before Holidays
Vote on it Before Holidays
(Rv the Associated Press.)

(Rv the Associated Press.)
Washington, Dec. 1.-THE House tooaS
passed the war Revenue Reduction Bill
The opposition sought to re-conIn1t Tue
bill with instructions to report back a
measure reducing the revenue at leaSI
$40. 600 900 and including a provision LOT
an income tax so drawn as to escape ah
adverse decision of the Supreme court.
The motion xxailed-151 to 1'9' 1herenpon
tho hill wag passed without the concur
renee of the minority who refrained from
voting. The amendment placed in the DIil
Yesterday to tax express receipts was de-
feated on an aye and nay vote IN the
iIouse-125 to 139. The Pension Appro-
~priation Bill carrying S145,14o,Z5o was
passed in exactly 13 minutes.
Robert w. Wilcox. the delegate from
Hawaii was sworn in Immediately after
the approval of the journal.
After the oath had been administered
many members came forward to con-
graduate Mr.. Wilcox. The consideration
of the War Revenue Reduction Bill was
then resumed.
Mr.. Powers (Vt.) offered an amend
ment which was adopted, providing that
the inheritance tax should not be leVled
on the estates of persons who Cleo prior
to June 18th. 1898.
Mr.. Newlands New offered a modin-
cation of the amendment he presented
yesterday to tax industrial corporations
whose gross receipts exceed $500 900, one
twentieth of one per cent. upon such re-
ceipts. and requiring such corporations
to file complete statements as to their
receipts, taxes, wages paid, etc. His pur-
pose. he said. was to reach the great -ag-
gregations of wealth.
THE real purpose Of this amendment is
to apply an inquisition to corporations,
is it," demanded Mr.. Pearce (Mo).
Its PURPOSE replied Mr.. Newlands,
..is to both raise revenue and 10 secure
information upon which to base regulatlVe
legislation"
Mr.. Grosvcnor (Ohio), opposed the
amendment. He expressed the hope that
the House would not attempt to make in
roads upon industrial corporations without
investigation by the proper committee o.
the House.
IF you will frame an amendment tina
will reach every corporation or ever!
income | WILL" observed DIR. Newland'
amid applause.
Mr.. Grosvenor said he might favor al
income tax if it were constitutional. bu
he said it was futile to discuss an in
come tax after the decision Of the Su
preme court.
Mr.. Sulzer was in favor OF compellin
the big corporations TO bear their shar
of tax burdens.
The amendment was lost-75 to 105.
Mr.. Fitzgerald (Mass.) moved to strik
@o~f NOV 101,n1 n
tea. He characterized the tax as unjus
an eXtortionate.
Mr.. Payne opposed the amendment. I'll
tax or tea, he said, raised about 50, 000,0 OF
of revenue and for ten years had bee
asked for by the tea trade. The anaent
ment was defeated-55 to &c.
After the bill had been read, Mr.. LeN
N. ", offered as a substitute for Il
bill a bill fixing the tax on beer at 81.
per barrel, six cents upon tobacco al
snuff and repeating all the other section
of the War Revenue Act. The substitu
was defeated without division.
After the bill had been reported to t
House, Mr.. Payne demanded a separa
vote on the Smith amendment, placing
tax Of one cent on each express pachas
On an aye and no vote the House T
versed it's action of yesterday and d
itotC thb IIiAt tHb 49,
amendnent-125 to 1873.
Mr.. Richardson CTenn.) on behalf
the minority, then moved to re-comI
the bill with instructions to "forthw
: report a bill reducing the revenues unt
the war revenue act at least the s.
of $40. 0O0. 000-the taxes remaining TO
apportioned as to more equally and JUS
distribute the taxes and to remove tn
from the articles most nearly the nee
sariee of life, and which enter most G,
orally into consumption"
The also will include in
bill a provision SO framed as to accompl
the lust ends of an income tax, and
escape the decision of the Supreme co
of the United States in the cases grt
ing out of the Wilson tariff law.
The motion to was lost
to 155. The bill was then passed,
Democrats refraining from voting.
On motion of Mr.. Barney (Wis.)
House then went back into
tho whole and took up the considera
of the Pension Appropriation Bill.
Barney stated that there was no
legislation in the bill. 1t was an e;
copy Of the bill for the current year,
as to language and amount. 1t car
$140. 14o. go.
The bill was read through and pa:
without debate or amendment in eXa
is minutes.
AT 3:35 r. NJ, the House adjourned.