The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-12-16
The Amendment Inserted to Tax
Them Stricken Out.
TIE PENSION BILL ENACTED,
Measure Which Carries an Appro-
nria,ion OF S1i5, ,145.23O Was
Rushed Through in Exact
iy Thirteen Niinucts-
Hawaiian Delegate
sworn In.
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to-day passed The war revenue reauclioh
3ill. The opposition sought to recommit
tile bill with Instructions to report back
a measure reducing the revenue at IettSt
s7o,oGO0C0 and including a provision for an
income tax so drawn as to escape an ad-
verse decision of the Supreme Court. Inc
motion failed 131 to $50
nhereupon the bill was passed without
the concurrence of the minority, who re-
Trained from voting.
The amendment placed in the bill yester-
day to tax express receipts vas defeated
on an aye and nay vote in the House-123
to 139.
The pension appropriation bill, carrying
S145. .23O, was passed in exactly thirteen
minutes.
HAWAIIAN DELEGAT
Robert ". Wilcox, the delegate from Ha-
waii, was sworn in Immediately dter the
approval Of The Journal.
After the oath had been administered,
many members came forward to congratu-
late Mr.. Wilcox.
The consideration of the war revenue
reduction bill was then resumed.
mir. Powers, Of Vermont, offered an
amendment, which was adopted, providing
tllat the Inheritance tax should not De
levied on the estates OF persons who died
prior to June Is, 1898.
MI. NewIands, of Nevada. offered a mod
iticauon Of the amendment he presented
yesterday TO tax industrial corporations
whose gross receipts exceed s50oo09 One
twentieth of one per cent. upon such re-
ceipts, and requiring such corporations to
file complete statement as TO their re-
ceipis. taxes, wages pads, 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 corpora tons. is
it not?" demanded Mr.. Pierce, of Mon
tana.
Its purpose replied Mr. Newlands, is
both TO raise revenue and secure nforrna
ton upon which to base regulative legis-
lation.''
Mr. Grosvenor. of 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 Of
the House.
'If you viii frame an amendment that
will reach every corporation. Or every in
come, l will vote for it, observed Mr..
Newlands amid applause.
Mr.. Grosvenor said he might favor an
income tax if it We're constitutional. but
he said il was futile to discuss an income
TAX after the decision Of the Supreme
Court.
Mr.. Sulzer, Of New York. was in favor
of compelling the big corporations to bear
their share Of tax burdens. The amend
ment lost, 10 to lc3.
TAX ON TEA
Mr. Fitzgerald of Massachusetts, moved
to strike out the tax on tea. he chatac-
terizel the tax as unjust ana eNtof'!oi.ste'
Mr. Payne opposed the amendment. ! ,.na .1e
tax on tea, he said. raised ahouS SjVo''V"
of revenue, and for ten years haa Dee'
asked fer by the tea t.'2de, IAe a''ei''
mcnt WIS defeated, - 10 is
After the bll had hcea read NJ. Ley
Of New York. offered as a substitute ior
the bill a bill fixing the tax on peer az
sl50 pe!. barrel, SIX cents upon to3acSo
and snuff, and repeating all the other seS-
t,uns Of the war revenue act. Inc SUI
stitute was defeated without division
After the bill hnd been reported to the
House. Mr.. Payne demanded separate
vote on the SIN tn amendment, plac nS
tax OF one cent on each express package
On Il aye and nay vote the House re-
versed its action of yc.5te1d;.y and DC
feated the Smith express rese pit tax
amendment l25 to 139-
MOTION TO RECCG:SIIT.
Mr.. Richardson, of Tennessee, on beha1
OF the minority. then moved 10 recommit
the hill with instructions ITO forthw tn
report a bill reducing The revenues under
the war revenue act at least the sum OF
SI0.ceo. .02o-the taxes remaining to be aroor-
toned as TO more equally and Justly d.s-
tribute the take, and to remove them
from the articles most nearly the neces-
sar:es of life and which enter most gen
orally into consumption. "
The committee also will include in the
bill a provision 50 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 lcw
The motion To recommit was lest. l31
10 10. The bill was then passed, the Dem
ocrats ref"a!ning from voting
On motion OF Mr.. Barney. CT Wisconsin,
the House then Went ba elk into COMMITTEES
of the whole and took up the cons. dera-
ton of the pension appropriation bill AR.
Barney stated that there was no new leg
islation in the Oil. It was an exact ce3y
of the bill Tor the current year both as
to language and amount. 1t carried S145,-
1i5 $50. bat the bill WIS read through and
passed without debate or amendment in
exactly thirteen minutes At S:Ss5 the
House adjourned.
III the Senate.
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