The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-12-06
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ceeded. the bill being preserved in the
main as framed by the Republicans
The estimated reductions in detail as
given out by Mr. Payne are as follows:
Beer, 1882, TIP; cigars, SO, 1879, 764; spe-
cia1 taxes (section p commercial
brokers, $138,2S1; custom house brokers,
IS, 1877; circuses, $11,744; theaters, SAT lts;
exhibitions not otherwise provided, $S4,-
21S; total special tax, $2s7, $50 - 80
Schedule A-Bank checks, 100000;
certificates of deposit, $500, 900; drafts, in
land, $500, 000 promissory notes. $780,
600; postal orders, 1000; foreign bills
of exchange, 100000; exports bills OF
lading, 800, 600; express receipts, $1,000
900; telephone messages, t$315, 900; bonds
of indemnity, $250,000; certificates other
than of profits, 5000, 900; charter party,
100000 broker contracts, $1O0,OO0; con-
veyances, So, 600, 900; telegraph dispatch
es, $500, 600; insurance, $3,O0000O; leases,
100000; mortgages, 100000; passage
tickets, 5000. 600; power of attorney, $lOO,-
600; protests $25 900; warehouse receipts,
$250,O00. Total schedule A, $22,242,000.
Schedule B-S4, 54S. 2S3; less wines, $780,
000-$3. 94S, 283. Legacies. charitable, ETC.,
Grand total. s4O.oOO.s4S
The bill provides discount of 20 per
cent on the tax of two cents per barrel
on beer, in lieu of the present IL per
cent reduction, making the new rate
$160 per barrel.
The sections of the war revenue act
taxing commercial brokers' custom
other exhibitions are stricken out.
The rate on cigars is made So instead
of $3.50 per 1000, weighing more than
three pounds per 1000.
Schedule A retains the stamp tax on
/ corporate stocks, bonds, etc, sales, etc,
at exchanges or boards of trade, freight
receipts, certificates of profits, entry
of goods at custom house, and entry for
withdrawal of goods from customs
bounded warehouse. With these excep-
lions, the stamp taxes under schedule A
<.1- aT1-r0,e noe
statement gives in detail the stamp
taxes omitted under schedule A.
Schedule B which requires stamps on
proprietary medicines and preparations.
perfumery and cosmetics, chewing gum
etc, is amended so that sparkling or
other wines are the only products re-
Quiring stamps
Section % of the war revenue act relat-
ing to taxes legacieS, is amended by
addine at the end of said section the fol-
Provided, that nothing in this section
shall be construed to apply to bequests or
legacies for uses of a religious. literary,
charitable or educational character, in
GLIDING works of art"
Section 80 of the act is amended as to
administrative features, and sections 10,
H. Is, 10 and 20 are repealed, they re-
late to administrative features no longer
Section IS of the act is amended to read
as follows:
Section s5-That for the purposes of
this act, the words mixed -four shall be
taken and construed to mean the food
product resulting from the grinding or
mixing together of wheat, or wheat flour.
as the principal constituent, with any
other grain, the product of any other
grain. or other material except such ma
terial not the product of any grain, as is
commonly used for baking purposes:
provided, that when the product re-
sulting from the grinding or mixing to-
gether Of wheat or wheat flour with any
other grain. or the product of any other
grain. of which wheat wheat flour is
not the principal constituent as specified
in the foregoing definition, is intended for
sale, or is sold, or offered for sale. as
wheat flour, such product shall be held to
be mixed flour within the meaning of this
actf'
The bill provides for redeening revenue
stamps heretofore issued and not used.
The concluding section provides that the
act shall take effect thirty days after its
passage.
The committee voted to report the bill
as introduced with an amendment making
the act take effect on its passage instead
of thirty days thereafter.
All substitutes and amendments by the
minority were defeated to 8.