Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-03-27

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Davis, of Minnesota, has introduced a
substitute for the Puerto Rican bill
which provides for free trade between
the United States and Puerto 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 Puerto Rico is here
by made an internal revenue district.
That the. laws of the United States
providing for internal revenue taxa
ton and collection, not locally inap-
plicable, are hereby extended to and
shall remain in force in Puerto Rico,
excepting as herein otherwise pro-
vided, for the term stated in this act.
The President, by and with the adj
vice and consent of the Senate, shall
appoint a collector Of internal revenue
for said district, who shall receive an
annual salary of four thousand dollars,
and whose Office shall be at San Juen.
Section 2-That, excepting as 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 writ
ten or printed documents shall be col
lected in said district. The Secretary
of the treasury is hereby authorized
and directed to make all needful regu-
lations to carry this act into effect, and
to prescribe the compensation of all
officers and agents necessary for the
purpose.
Section 3.-The amount of all taxes
SO collected, less the necessary expens-
es of collection, are hereby appropriate
ed 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 therein.
Section 4.-Upon tobacco not grown
in Puerto Rico and upon all manufac-
turers thereof and upon rum or other
dloIl11Co oD41lI LAOAh -
stances not grown in Puerto Rico, the
full tax provided by the internal reve-
nue. laws of the United States shall be
collected. Upon tobacco grown in
Puerto Rico and the manufacturers
thereof, and upon rum and other spir-
it's distilled or made from sugar cane
or other agricultural products grown
in Puerto Rico, or from the product of
such sugar cane or other agricultural
products, the said tax of 10 per cent.
shall be imposed the same as upon 9TH
er subjects of internal taxation.
Section 5. That the President,
whenever he shall be satisfied that a
local self-government has been estab-
lished in Puerto Rico adequate to raise
and collect taxes by its own legisla-
ton shall have the power from time to
time by proclamation to decrease the
said percentum of taxation, or to Who'll
ly abolish the same.
Section 6. That no duties on i'm
ports or exports shall after the pass
age of this act be levied or collected on
any articles imported from the United
States into Puerto Rico or from Puerto
Rico into the United States.
Section Z. This act shall be taken
and held to be provisional in its pur-
pose and intended to meet a pressing
present need for revenue for the is
land of Puerto Rico and shall not
continue in force after the first day
of March 1902.
Senator Foraker. in charge of the
Puerto Rican bill, announced at to-
days session of the Senate, that be-
ginning with to-morrow's session, he
would press the measure to a vote as
Ooh as possible.
Senator Hanna, chairman of the Re-
publican National Committee, speak
ing to a question of personal privi-
lege, vigorously denied an interview
with a Republican member of the
House of Representatives, whose name
was not given, published in a Wash
ington newspaper, alleging that the
passage of the Puerto Rican tariff bill
would be in pursuance of a deal" by
which the Republican National Com
mittee was to get a big contribution.
Mr.. Hanna denounced the statement
as "a malicious lie," and hoped it
would be investigated.
The Alaskan civil code bill was I'M
der consideration during the greater
part of the session. An amendment
was agreed to, fixing a license upon
almost every kind of trade and COM
merce in the District of Alaska, the
licenses ranging from $40 to $500 per
annum. The measure had not been dis
posed of at the conclusion of the ses-
sion.