The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-16


bill. The opposition sought TO recommit,
the bill, with instructions to report back
measure reducing TIE reVenue ut least
%IQG00,Ge0, and including provision for
an income tax SO drawn as to Cscapc
an adverse decision of the supreme court.
The motion failed. l31 to 155. Thereupou
the bill was passed without tie con-
currence of the minority, who refrained
from voting. The amendment placed in
the bill yesterday to tax express re-
ceiDts was defeated on an aye and nay
Vote in the house, 12J to 1872.
The pension appropriation bill, carry
ms $li5.220, was passed in exactly thir-
teen minutes.
THE INHERITANCE TAX.
Mr.. Underwood CAIa) moved to reduce
the amount of property exempt under
the inheritance tax from $1,000 to 5000
Mr.. Payne On. V, in charge of the bill.
said that personally he thought the in
heritance tax should not have gone in
the original act, as the states generally.
especially the Eastern states, levy heavy
inheritance taxes. But if it was TO re-
main, he was opposed to reducing the
exemption to 5000. The amendment was
lost, % to S3.
Mr.. Powers Wt) offered an amend
ment providing that the inheritance tax
would not be levied on the estates of
o.
1t was adopted so to As.
CORPORATION TAX REJECTED.
Mr.. Newlands CNev) offered an amend
mcnt Of the amendment he~pcoposed yes.
lerday to tax industrial corporation
whose gross receipts exceed $500, OC0 one
twentieth of ! per cent of such receipts
He said that the purpose was to tax
aggregated wealth.
Has the gentleman changed his mind
since he said the pending bill would
raise too much revenue?" asked Mr..
Payne.
My objection to the pending BILL re-
sponded Mr.. Newlands, 'is two-fold 1t
raises too much revenue ami it does not
raise 1t from the proper source
Mr.. GrosVenor (O.) opposed the amend
melt- He expressed the hope tnat the
house would not attempt TO make in
roads upon industrial corporations with
out investigation by the proper commit
tee of the house.
by take industrial corporations? If
yoa will frame an amendment that will
reach every corporation or every in
come, l will vote for it, said Mr.. New
lands amid applause.
Mr.. GrosvenOr said he might favor an
income tax if it We're constitutional but
he said it was futile TO discuss an in
come Oak after the discussion of The
supreme court.
Mr. Sulzer On. " supported the New
lands amendment. He was IN favor Of
compelling the big corporations to bear
their share of the tax burdens. He ia
Fored a graduated corporation tax.
The amendment was lost-I5 to 1G5.
TEA TAX RETAINED.
Mr.. Fitzgerald CMass) moved to strike
out the tax of 10 cents per pound Oh tea
Mr.. Payne opposed the amendment. The
n fEan lfae I
OF revenue, and for ten years had bacn
asked for by the tea trade The amend
ment was defeated-55 to &C.
After the bill had been read, Mr.. Lewis
IN. " offered a substitute, fixing the
tax on beer at $50 per barral; cents
upon tobacco and snuff, and repealing all
the other sections Of the war revenue
act. The substitute was defeated with
out division
After the bin had been reported to the
house, Mr.. Payne demanded a separate
vote on the Smith amendment, placing a
tax of l cent on each express package.
Mr.. Underwood (Ala) demanded SON
arate vote on the Powers inheritance tax
amendment, which specifically exempted
the estates of persons who died prior to
June 49, 1898.
EMPRESS TAN THROWN OUT.
On an aye and nay vote The house rc.
Versed its action of yesterday and de-
feated the Smith express receipt tax
Rmendment--125 to 49,
The Powers amendment was adopted-
81 10 81
Mr. Richardson (Tenn.) on behalf of
the minority then moved to recornmit tho
bill with instructions ito forthwith rc-
port a bill reducing the revenues under
the way revenue act at least the sum or
sIeO95.t00, the taxes remaining to be 50
aoporCohed as to more equally and justly
distribute the taxes and to remove them
from the articles most nearly the necas
saries OF life, and which enter generally
into consumption.
%hc committee will also include in the
bill provision so framed as to accom-
plish the just ends of an income tax. and
yet escape the decision of the supreme
court Of the United States in the cases
growing out of the Wilson tariff law"
MINORITY NOT IN IT.
Mr.. Hopkins Qll) observed facetiouslv
that the motion was subject to q point
OF order
1T instructs the committee. to report
back an income tax measure that will
circumvent the decision of the supreme
court, he says, and plainly requires the
commttec TO perform an impossibiltty. -
The motion to recommit was lost-131
to 155
The bill was then passed. the Demo-
NAdlS ICAtdllliHS from voting.
THE PENSION BILL.
On motion of Mr.. Barney CWis.) the
house went back into committee oF the
whole and took up the considerat ton of
the pension appropriation bill Mr.. Bar
ney stated that there was no new leeisIa-
ton in the bill. 1t was an exact conv of
the bill for the current year, both as to
language and amount. 1t carried $l45.-
145 $50
The bill was read through and passed
without debate or amendment in exactly
thirteen minutes.
The speaker announced the resignation
of Mr.. March On.) as a member of the
Booz investigating committee, and Mr..
Dick -(O) was appointed in his stead
Mr.. Dick becomes chairman of the COM
mittee.
At S;a5 p. m. the house adjourned.
TO INVESTIGATE BOOz
Representative Dick, of Ohio, who was
appointed today in place of Representa-
tive Marsh of Illinois, as chairman of
the investigating committee on the Booz
case is disinclined to serve and saws
he will consult Speaker Henderson before
determining his course In case he ac-
cepts. the committee will meet early
next week and arrange a programme OF
procedure.
The military court of inquiry into the
alleged hazing of Cadet Booz Will go, on