Daily Kennebec journal., 1900-12-15

When the House met. Barney, WIS,
from the committee on appropriations.
reported the pension appropriation bill.
The House then resumed the conSld-
Grafton of the. war revenue reduction
| bill
Maddox. Ga. the first speaker, dc
voted himself to an attempt to rcfute
the statements made by Grosvenor,
| yesterday, regarding the preparation
of plates for the issue of bonds just
| prior to the advent of the Cleveland
administration in 1893. He produced
| figures to show that the $SS, 900, 600 sur
it was defeated by So to "a, after charg
IS that it's purpose was to crush out the
small brewers. Another defeat occurr-
cd in connection with the amendment
oncred by Mr Smith Of Michigan. Th"
| bin abolished the one cent stamp tax
on express receipts and telegraph mes
sages, but retained the tax on railroad
and steamship freight receipts. Mr..
| Smiths amendment restored the tax
on express receipts and altered the
folm Of the section so as to compel
81 90 per barrel was then adopted without
division
| Stewart n Y. offered an amendment
that unless the beer sold was made eX-
clusively of malt and hops so pronounced
by treasury inspectors. the tax upon it
should be 81 per barrel. The amendment
was defeated, , to Il.
Corliss. Mich, offered an amendment to
require the cancellation OF stamps by
perforation He said the object Of the
amendment was to prevent fraud. 1T was
Payne then offered as an amendment
the nill passed by the House At the last
session fixing the size of the beer pack
lages He said it abolished one-siNth and
lone-ei9hth barrels. The amendment was
opposed by Fletcher. Mimi. Barney
! Wis., Davidson. Wis. and Greene. IA.
also opposed the amendment. The amend
ment was defeated 10 to 81.
Newian offered an amendment pro-
viding that every person. corporation or
firm engaged in manufacture whose gross
receipts exceed S5o0.uO shall pay an eN-
else tax of one-tenth of l per cent on
such receipts above S5t0.OD ana snail
make true and accurate returns annually
to the commissioner of internal revenue.
The amendment was lost, 80 to 1l9.
kitchin, n. c.. offered an amendment
to reduce the tax on manufactured to-
bacco and snuff from l. to cents per
pound.
II. c. Smith Mich. offered n substitute
for the section requiring railroad and
steamboat companies to afhX l-cent
stamp to every receipt. bill OF ladlng'
etc including in the substitute provision
for tax of l cent upon express receipts.
Smith made a direct reference to a SEN
ator of the United States who is connect
ed with one of the express companies and
declared that when the law was passed
that senator had advised the company
not to pay the tax.
Payne replied that the express COM
panies had found that they could not pay
the enormous tax and live. 1t was differ
ent he said. with railroads which
r shipped in large quantities. He expressed
, regret that Smith had seen fit to make q
,I att nj
United States.
, Swanson. Pa. supported the amend
ment. Moody, Mass. declared that if tht
amendment prevailed about 10 small ex
). press companies operating in New Eng
. land would be driven out of business. Thc
: only equitable tax on express com 9anies
he said. would be q tax on gross receipts
Mccall. Mass. also opposed the amend
: ment lie explained in detail the opera
= ton of the local express companies il
Massachusetts and :hC 92e-c-s effect o