The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-27
SENATOR DAVIS SUBSTITUTE.
TO MAKE PORTO RICO INTERNAL
REVENUE DISTRICT.

Provides That the Internal Revenue
Collected Shall BE Used TO Pay the
Expense of Running the Island.
crease or Abolish Such Taxation.
No Duties on Imports or Exports to
. he Collected.
Washington. March Ex-senator Davis Of
Minnesota introduced a substitute for the
Porto Rican bill in the Senate to-day,
which provides for free trade between the
United States and Porto Rico and extends
the internal revenue laws with amend
ments over the island. The act is de-
clared provisional and shall not continue
longer than March /, 1902.
The bill in full is as follows:
Section l. That Porto Rico is hereby
made an internal revenue district. That
the laws of the United States providing for
internal revenue taxation and collection,
not locally inapplicable. are hereby eX-
tended to and shall remain in force in
Porto Rico excepting as herein otherwise
provided, for the term stated in this act
The President by and with the advice and
consent of the Senate, shall appoint col
lector of internal revenue for said district
who SHALL receive an annual salary Of
$1,000 and whose office shall be at San
Juan.
Sec. 2. That, excepting as herein 9TH
erwise provided, Is per cent OF all the in
ternal revenue taxes imposed by the laws
of the United States shall be collected in
said district. No stamp taxes imposed by
said laws upon written or printed docu-
ments shall be collected in said district
The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby
authorized and directed to make all need
full regulations to carry this act into eff
feet, and to prescribe the compensation OF
all officers and agents necessary for that
purpose.
Sec 3. The amount of all taxes so col
lected, less the necessary expenses of
collection are hereby appropriated and
placed at the disposal of the President
to be expended under his direction for
the government of Porto Rico now exist
ing, and hereafter to be established, and
for public education, public works and
other governmental and public purposes
therein.
Sec. 4. Upon tobacco not grown in
Porto Rico and upon all manufactures
thereof and upon rum, or other distilled
grown in Porto Rico the full tax provided
by the internal revenue laws of the Unit
ed States shall be collected. Upon tobacco
grown in Porto Rico and the manufac-
lures thereof, and upon rum and other
spirits distilled or made from sugar cane
0gr other agricultural product grown in
Porto Rico or from the product of such
sugar cane or other agricultural products
the tax of fifteen per cent. shall be i'm
posed, the same as upon other subjects
of internal taxation.
Sec. 5. That the President, whenever
he shall be satisfied that a local self-goy-
ernment has been established in Porto
Rico adequate to raise and collect taxes
by it's own legislation, shall have the
power from time to time by proclama-
tion to decrease the said percentum of
taxation, or to wholly abolish the same
Sec. g. That no duties on imports or
exports shall, after the passage of this
act, be levied or collected on any articles
imported from the United States into
Porto Rico or from Porto Rico into the
United States.
"Sec. 7. This act shall be taken and
held to be provisional in its purposes and
intended TO meet a pressing present need
for the Island of Porto Rico and shall not
continue in force after the LIST day of
March, 1902"