Evening star., 1901-02-06
NO MORE. HAZING
Senate Takes Decisive Action Against
the Brutal Practice.
WAR REVENUE BILL TAKEN UP
Additional Tax Imbosed on Bucket
Shop Transactions.
THE POST OFFICE BILL

Soon after the Senate convened at II
o'clock today bill authorizing Jefferson
county, Ark, to construct and maintain a
bridge across the Arkansas river within
five miles of Pine Bluff was passed.
Bills also were passed setting apart a
tract Of seven acres of land near Central
City, Col. for a cemetery for Odd Fellows,
appropriating $4,000 for the preparation OF
a site and the erection of a pedestal for a
statue of the late Major General George B..
Mcclellan in Washington city, authorizing
the Arizona Water Company to construct
a power plant on the Pima Indian reserva-
ton in Maricopa county, Ariz, providing
for the construction of a bridge across the
Yalobusha river, Grenada county, Miss. !;
authorizing the Glassport Bridge Company
to construct and maintain a bridge across
the Monongahela river at Port Nue, Allie
gheny county, Pa.
Rigid Measures Against Hazing.
Consideration of the Military Academy
appropriation bill then was resumed, the
pending question being the amendment Of
fered by MI Allen (Neb.) providing that
cadets upon entering the academy should
take an oath not to engage in hazing, and
If found guilty of hazing be dismissed from
to hold a position either in the army or in
the navy of the United States.
Mr.. Sewel On. j. in charge of the bill
opposed the amendment, maintaining that
the provision against haZlnS IN the Dill
was sufficient.
In supporting the amendment Mr.. Allen
asserted that the brutal practice of assault
ing another who was his junior had been
carried to Il ridiculous extent at the Mill
tary Academy. and he believed it would
never be broken up until the most rigid
measures We're taken in good faith to put
end TO it.
After further discussion, Mr.. Allen with
drew his amendment and offered some
amendments making stronger the phraseol-
ogy of the committees amendment relating
to hazinS.
Summary Expulsion Provided For.
AS agreed to the hazing paragraph reads
as follows: That the superintendent of the
Military Academy shall make such rules, to
be approved by the Secretary of War, will
effectually prevent the practice Of hazing,
and any cadet found guilty Of participating
in encouraging or countenancfng such
practice shall be summariy expelled from
the academy and shall not thereafter be
reappointed to the corps of cadets or be
eligible for appointment as commissioned
officer in the army or navy"
The bill as amended then was passed.
Mr.. Aldrich Or. i called up the war
revenue reduction bill, and it was read.
III response u dll INJURY ny MI. SOck-
reli MOI, Mr.. Aldrich said written re-
port upon the bill had been submitted, but
he would explain the committees action
after he had perfected the measure.
PromissOry Notes and Bonds.
The first amendment added to the words
''prdmissory notes. (providing for the re-
peal of the stamp tax on such instru
ments) the words land any renewals
thereof"
The second modified the paragraph re-
moving the stamp tax on bonds, making
it read as follows: "Bonds of severy de-
scription not including, however, the bonds
provided for In the first paragraph of
schedule A of said act, or bonds for in
Identifying any person or persons, flrm or
corporation who shall have become bound
or engaged as surety for the payment OF
any sum of money or for the due eXecu-
ton or performance of the duties OF any
office or position, and to account for money
received by virtue thereof" The amend
meHts were agreed to.
Other Amendments.
The next amendment included "perfumery
and cosmetics in the section providing a
penalty for failure to affix stamps to me-
dicinal and proprietary preparations. 1t
was agreed to.
After the adoption Of some other amend
ments verbal in character, other amend
monlS were OHeTeu dllu dSICCu " loA-
lows: Providing for rebate upon unbroken
packages of cigars and tobacco; authorizing
the cancellation of stamps on fermented
liquors by perforation; reducing by one-half
the tax upon foreign bills of exchange; for
the appointment of a competent person to
secure the enforcement of the tax imposed
upon legacies and distributive shares OF per-
sonal property; providing that the pur-
chaser of an uncompounded medicinal drug
upon which the tax already has been paid
hal reUOirPd to further tax.
Additional Tax ON Bucket Shops.
The amendment of the committee fixing
the tax upon transactions in stocks through
so-called bucket shops was agreed to-,
with an amendment offered by Mr.. Mason
providing that a tax of cents Gnstead of /
cent? ION each 500 in value Of the mer-
chandise covered or pretended to be COW
| ered.''
A committee amendment modifying the
tax on cigars and cigarettes, In accordance
with the proposition made previously by
Mr. Platt COnn.) was agreed to.
Taxation of Insurance Companies.
| Mr. Allen offered an amendment exempt
| ing from the tax levied upon life insur-
| ance companies "any post-mortem assess
ment association organized and conducted
solely for the members thereof
| In response to an inquiry by Mr.. Jones
| (Ark), Mr.. Allison said the amendment
| would not apply to any Of the recognized
life insurance companies, mutual or other
| wise.
| Mr. Hoar (Mass.) urged that the taxation
| Of life insurance companies practically was
| indefensible, and in some senses vicious.
Mr.. Aldrich declared in reply that the
| four or five great life insurance companies
| In New York had assets greater than half
| the aggregate banking capital of the United
States They, he said, were doing bank
| ing and guaranty business and were justly
/ and properly subject to taxation.
THE HOUSE.
| Without preliminary business the House
| today went into committee of the whole
/ and resumed the consideration of the post
Office appropriation bill. Mr.. Loud (Cal).
chairman of the post office committee, who
Was member of the joint postal commits
sion, took the floor to discuss the questions
/ investigated by the commission.
With regard to the incidental questions,
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