Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-03-30
ONE MORE Amendment.
Senator Davis Comes to the Front
Again with a Bill to Solve
Porto Rico Middle.
IT PROVIDES ABSOLUTE FREE TRADE.
Extends the Internal Revenue Lava of the
United states the Island, Making 1t q
Distinctive District, and Provides for q
Collector with q Salary of $4,000 Per
Year-Other Features.

Washington, March Ex-senator
Davis, of Minnesota, introduced sub
stitute for the Porto Rican bill which
provides Tor free trade between the
United States and Porto Rico, and
extends the internal revenue laws
with amendments over the island.
The act is declared provisional and
shall not continue longer than March
1, 1902. The bill in full is as follows:
Section THAT Porto Rico is hereby
made an internal revenue district. That
the laws of the United States providing
Tor internal revenue taxation and cOllec-
ton. not locally inapplicable. are hereby
extended to and shall remain in force in
Porto Rico, excepting as herein other
wise provided, for the term stated in this
act The president, by and with the ad-
vice and consent of the senate, shall
appoint a collector of internal revenue
for said district, who shall receive an an
nual salary of $1,000, and whose Office
shall be at San Juan.
Section THAT, excepting herein
otherwise provided, Is per cent of all
the internal revenue taxes imposed by
the laws of the United States shall be
collected in said district. No stamp taxes
imposed by said laws upon written or
printed documents shall be collected in
said district. The secretary of the treas
ury is hereby authorized and directed to
make all needful regulations to carry
compensation of all officers and agents
necessary for that purpose.
Section 3-The amount of all taxes so
collected, less the necessary expenses of
collection, are hereby appropriated and
placed at the disposal of the president to
be expended under his direction for the
government of Porto Rico now existing
and hereafter to be established, and for
public education, public works and other
governmental and public purposes there
in.
Section 4EUpon tobacco not grown in
Porto Rico. and upon all manufactures
thereof and upon rum or other distilled
spirits produced from substances not
grown in Porto Rico, the full tax pro-
vided by the internal revenue laws of
the United States shall be collected.
Upon tobacco grown in Porto Rico, and
the manufactures thereof, and upon rum
and other spirits distilled made from
sugar cane or other agricultural prod
uct grown in Porto Rico, or from the
product of such sugar cane or other
agricultural product, the said tax of
10 per cent shall be imposed the same as
upon other subjects of internal taxa
ton.
Section 5-That the president whenever
he shall be satisfied that a local self
government has ben established in Porto
Rico adequate to raise and collect taxes
by its own legislation, shall have the
power from time to time by proclamation
to decrease the said per centum of tax
alton, or TO wholly abolish the same.
Section-That duties on imports or
exports shall after the passage of this
act be levied collected on any articles
imported from the United States into
Porto Rico or from Porto Rico into the
United States
Section This act shall be taken and
held to be provisional in it's purpose and
intended to meet a pressing present need
for revenue for the island of Porto Rico
and shall not continue in force after the
first day of March, 1902