The Washington weekly post., 1900-12-11
WEEK IN CONGRESS
Wednesdays Session.
cen,,nuee rrem second Page.

shall reduce the amount OF the nuuHii-5
pad for sailing and speed premiums. tha
! reduction 20 be pro rata among the ships
subsidized. Thus all vessels enjoying the
subsidy would be on precisely the same
plane and would receive perfectly I'M
I partial treatment.
The Secretary OF the Treasury wednes-
day sent 20 Congress the annual est
mates Of the expenses OF the government
/ for the coming year They aggregate
ss2s. i.767. This is a slight decrease from
the total estimates Of last year. The ap-
prOprlatlons for the present year are
&s8. 555.3e2 The estimates cover every
branch OF government service. and by
/ departments are as follows: Legislative.
si0956. 700; executive t2s3. ieo; State Depart
ment. SZl25.iis; Treasury Department,
SIS $50 1856. War Department, sl76.65s3i5;
Navy Department. 81, S,Sl3.24S; Interior De
partment. Sl70, ,7Ss.7e5; Post-offlce Depart
ment. s.. 81. .SI; Department OF Agricul-
ture, 81 66sG 90; Depa -ment Of Labor. SlT.-
So; Department OF Justice, Ss.S93.I .I70.
The details Of the war and navy esti-
mates, including rivers and harbOrs. have
been published. The balance relates chiefly
| 10 the current needs OF the various
branches. The public building estimates,
$4,000 ana over, are: New York, rent OF
old eust0m-house, SS7l, ,0f7; Altoona, Pa,
courthouse and post-ofiiee, SO 600; An
napolis Nd. Post-office, $1,000; Baltimore,
Md, custom-house, $4,000; Butte, Mont,
p0st-ofIice. 5000; Cleveland, Ohio, post
Office. custom-house. and courthouse,
$4,000; Clinton, Iowa. post-office. 5000;
Elmira, N Y, pOst-office and courthouse
$lS5.00o; Fitchburg. Mass. post-offiee,
S50.co0; T. lena, Mont, public building,
s129 79l; Indianapolis, Ind, courthouse and
p0st-office. $4,000; Kansas City, Kans.,
post-ofiice. $50,00; Lawrence, Mass, post
office. $4,000; Los Angeles. Cal. court
house and post-office $4,000; New York
custom-kouse. 100000: Norwich. Conn,
post-office, $1,000: Oakland Cal, post
Office, $4,000; Omaha, Nebr. courthouse
custom-house. and post-office, $4,000
Salt Lake, Utah, courthouse and post
Office, $1,000; San Francisco post-ofiice
courthouse, &c, H,l55G55; Tampa. Fla,
courthouse. post-office, and custom-house
| 10000; Wilkesbarre. Pa, post-ofticer
S75OC0.
Marine hospitals: New York, purchase
of site and buildings or purchase of site
| ard erection of marine hospital, S25OOC0
Honolulu, II. l., marine hospital, 100000
The total for rivers and harbOrs, inelud-
ing continuing contracts, is $3S,SSl,Sl7.
The total for pensions is $l4,0oOO0; for
fees and examinations, So9,oOO, and for
pension agencies, $685. .23e.
| New consuls are estimated for as fol-
lows: Nuchwang and Hangchow, S,OoC
each; Port Limon, Costa Rica, $2000; Mos
cow, $1,000; ManZanillo, Cuba, 81, 500.
The total amount for Indian affairs is
S, ,250.571.
Some of the local estimates in the bill
are for the government hospital at St
| Elizabeths TO the amount Of $342,500, as
against $Sl3,20O for the present year; for
the Columbia Institution for Deaf and
Dumb 10 the amount of s61, 800, as against
$57, 500 for the present year, and S0S,O4O foI
the Smithsonian Institution, as against
S4O7, $40 during the present year.
Ii is proposed to change the present law
so as to compel the preparation of govern
ment estimates at least a month before
Congress meets each year, and a para
graph of general legislation has been in
serted in the legislative appropriation bill
TO accomplish this purpose as stated yes
terday in The Post. This year the esti
males have been delayed, and were not
before the Appropriations Committee til
noon yesterday. The proposed change re.
cites tha. each of the executive depart
ments shall have it's estimates ready by
October Is annually, and in case of any
failure ii becomes the duty of the Secre-
tary of the Treasury TO prepare by No
vember such estimates as he considers
requisite for the delinquent department.
Bills introduced in the Senate.
Among the bills introduced in the Sen
ate Wednesday were the following:
| By Senator Pritchard, the bills prepared
bv the commission appointed by the Pres
ident providing for revisions of the paten
and trade mark laws.
| BY Senator Hale, to revive the grade Of
vice admiral in the navy.
BY Senator Thurston. creating an add
tionaI judicial circuit. TO be designated a!
the Tenth. and to include the States o
Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming
Utah. and Montana, and creating Cour
of Appeals for the circuit.
BY Senator Warren, permitting the fre'
admission of honorably discharged sol
diers and sailors into any hospital of th'
United States for medical or surgica
| treatment.
Tax on Sparkling and Other Wines.
| Chairman Payne, of the Ways and
Means Committee. Wednesday introduce,
the bill reducing the taxation under tht
war revenue act, after the Republican
members of the committee had agreed OF
the form Of the measure and the article
| 10 receive the reduction tax. The bll
provides an aggregate reduction estimateI
/ at SAC. 600, 3iS. The chief items of this re
duetiOn are the stamp taxes. amounting
to 81. 600 600: beer, 9SS2 7l2; cigars, $3,lS9
76i; proprietary articles, emitting wines
$3.9iS. .2SS.
The bill provides a discount of 20 Pc
} cent in the tax of s. per barrel on beer
| In lieu of the present 7l-2 per cent re
! duction making the new rate $l.60 pc
barrel
The sections of the war revenue act tax
, ing commercial brokers, eustom-hous
r brokers, circuses. theaters, and other ex
hibitiOns are stricken out.
+ The rate on cigars is made S. instead o
: $500 per 1909 weighing more than thre
: pounds per thousand
r Schedule retains the stamp tax ol
corporate stocks. bonds, &c. sales, &c, a
exchanges or boards of trade, freight re
ce.pts, certificates of profits, entry o
goods at custom-house. and entry 70
; withdrawal of goods from custom bond
e ed warehouses. With these exceptions
. the stamp taxes under schedule A ar
/ stricken out.
2 Schedule B. which required stamps ol
! proprietary medicines and preparations
8 perfumery, and cosmetics, chewing gum
Sc is amended so that sparkling an
other wines are the only products requir
ing stamps
Section > OF the war revenue act. relat
ing TO taxes on legacies. is amended b,
: adding at the end OF said section the fol
lowing; Provided, that nothing in thi
4, section shall be construed to apply to be
! quests or leEscies for uses of religious
/, literary, charitable, or educational char
acter, inclu ag works OF art"
Section 80 OF the act is amended as Q
administrative features, and sections Il
II. is. is and - are repealed, as they re
late to administrative features no longe
necessary. Section IS Of the act is amend
"a 10 read as follows:
section IS. That for the purposes Of this se
! ,hs words missed -Four shah he taken and COZ
strusd % mean the food product resulting from u
D | srindisg oF mixing together of wheat. Whel
aoar as the pFineipal constituent, with any eth.
grain or the rr0dact Of any other grain. or oths