The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-06
10 REFUGE TIE REVENUE
CHAIRMAN PAYNE HAS COMPLETED
HIS INTERNAL TAXA
TION BILL
BEER TAX CUT 90 PER CENT
MANY of the Obnoxious Stamp Pro-
visions of the Old Law
Are Abolished En-
tireIy.
BEER TAX CUT 90 PER CENT

WASHINGTON, Dec 5-Chairman
Payne, of the ways and means commit
tee today introduced the bill reducing
the taxation under the war revenue act
AFTER the Republican members OF the
committee had agreed on the form of the
measure and the articles to receive the
reduction of tax. It is intended to
have the full committee act on the bill
tomorrow and to put it through the
house before Christmas.
Inc bill provides an aggregate reduc-
ton estimated at $40,C0O348 The esti-
mated reductions in detail, as given out
by Mr. Payne, are as follows:
Beer, $9,S32,712; cigars, SO, 1S9, 764; special
taxes (reduction) commercial brokers'
$l3S, z81; custom house brokers', SIS, 1877: cir
Gus, $u, IA; theaters, $47,17S; exhibitions
not Otherwise provided, $S4,21S; total spe-
3 Schedule A--Bank checks, $1,000 900;
certificates of deposit, $500, 900; drafts, in
postal orders, $50, GOO; foreign bills Of
$l6O 600; express receipts, 81, 200. coo; tel
graph MESSAGES 4agS, $3153oe0; bonds of in
demnity, $250,000; certificates other than
or prot1tS, 100000; charter party, 100000:
brokers' contracts, $100, 600; conveyances,
$3,OOO,OOO; telegraph dispatches, $50, 600; in
surances s., 900; leases, 100000; mort
cages, $500, coz; passage tickets, 5000, 600:
power of attorney, ETC., $780, 900; protests.
$4,000; warehouse receipts. $250O00; total
a. Schedule B, 4,54S, 2S3: less wines, $780,
GOO; legacies, charitable, ETC., $500, 900;
grand total, SAC, coz, 34S
BEER TAX CUT.
The bill provides a discount of 20 per
cent in the tax of 81 per barrel on beer.
in lieu of the present " per cent reduc-
ton, making the new rate $1.60 per bar
rell
The sections of the war revenue act
ia
house brokers, circuses, theaters and
other exhibitions, are stricken out.
The rate on cigars is made So, instead
of $500 per 1000, weighing more than
three pounds per 1000.
Schedule A retains the stamp tax on
corporate stock, bonds ETC., sales, etc,
at exchanges or boards of trade freight
receipts, certificates of profits, entry of
goods at custom house and entry for
withdrawal of goods from customs bond
ed warehouses. With these exceptions,
the stamp taxes under Schedule A are
struck out. Chairman Paynes state
ment gives in detail the stamp taxes
omitted under Schedule A.
Schedule b, which required stamps on
proprietary medicines and preparations,
perfumery and cosmetics, chewing gum,
etc, is amended so that sparkling or
other wines are the only products re-
curing stamps.
Section %, of the war revenue act, re-
lating to taxes on legacies, is amended
by adding at the end of each section the
following: Provided that nothing In
this section shall be construed to apply
to requests OF legacies for uses of a re-
hgious, literary. charitable or education
al character, including works of art
Section 30 Of the act is amended as to
administrative features, and sections 10,
IL, Is, 10 and 20 are repealed, as they
relate to administrative features no long
er necessary.
Section So of the act is amended to
read as follows:
Section 80. That for the purposes of
this act. the words mixed -four shall
be taken and construed to mean the
food product resulting from the grinding
or mixing together of wheat, or wheat
-four as the principal Constituent, with
any other grain or the product of any
other grain or material, except such ma
terial, not the product of any grain as
is commonly used for baking purposes:
Provided, That when the product re-
sulting from the grinding or mixing to-
gether Of wheat or wheat flour with any
grain of which wheat flour is not the
principal Constituent as specified in the
foregoing definition, is intended for sale
or is sold or offered for sale as wheat
flour, such product shall be held to be
mixed flour within the meaning of this
act"
The bill provides for redeeming rev.
enue stamps heretofore issued and not
used.
The concluding section provides that
the act shall take effect thirty days after
its passage.
Chairman Payne has called meeting
of the ways and means committee for
tomorrow morning, when he expects to
have the bill reported to the house. He
wilt then seek to have the bill consid-
cred after the army, oleomargarine and
legislative bills are disposed of, with
view of securing action before the holt
days.