Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-01-31

lhe FOrtifiCatiOnS Appropriation
Passes the House.-Po ostoffice
Bill Up Next.
Washington, Jan. 31.-The senate COM
11ittee on finance today reported num-
ter of amendments to the war revenue
Production act. A new section, relating
to stock transactions, provides that a
bucket shop shall pay stamp tax of 1
fcent on each 800 value of stocks bonds
1 and other securities covered. Rebate
/ provisions relating to tobacco We're
1 added, a new section providing for the
Iappointment of a competent person TO
enforce the tax on legacles and distribu-
tive personal property. Existing laws
[relating to the tax on bills of exchange
We're amended.
The committee has gone as far as to
4 exempt from taxation all invoices by
car or vessel representing actual ship
/ ments or receipts of produce. Upon the
i delivery and deposit of produce in ele-
Ivators or warehouses the committee has
4 decided there shall be no tax. But the
4 committee has not yet disposed of the
Il tques'tion of taxation or exemption OF
\ ga leg or transfers or agreements to sell
or transfer after the produce has
i Preached the elevator or warehouse
III is the desire of the committee to tax
all speculative transactions and to bear
Idown bard upon bucket shop or wind
| sales, but the details are not yet ar
ranged and the action of the committee
can not now be predicted. Ii is believed
however. that in the final draft OF the
4 bill all speculative sales, in 30 far as the
committee can find way to define
them will be compelled TO bear the
i stamp tax.
The senate then resumed reconsideration
OF the conference report upon the army
REPRESENTATION bill. Objector Pettigrew
81 course addressing the senate upon It
The House.
Washington, Jan. 81. - The house
Eassed the Notifications appropriation
fill today and Immediately took up the
postoftice appropriation bill.
4 Congressman Dalzell, from the com.
lnittee, reported a substitute for the sen.
4 ate resolution for counting the electora
Vote. Mr.. Dalzell explained that thu
law passed in 1887 prescribing the meth
Cd in which the vote should be counted
and declared it had not been followed
The senate had adopted an old. abro.
gated resolution under which the count
i lad been made prior to 1887. The house
4 substitute was in the language of the
Ilaw. There would be no declaration by
The presiding officer. but simply state
metn of the vote which the law declared
s to be sufficient 1t was adopted
The Qualifications appropriation bill
was then taken up.
House Passed edAgriculturnl Bill.
Washington, Jan. 31.-The anti-polyg-
amy crusade which resulted in driving
! Mr.. Roberts. Utah's representative,
from his seat at the last session had an
echo in the house yesterday during the
consideration of the agricultural appro-
l,riation bill When the section making
the appropriation for agricultural coll
| leges of several states was reached, Mr..
Lands. of Indiana. offered an amend
fnent providing that no money should be
secretary of agriculture was satisfied
tdtion practiced polygamy.
| The amendment came as complete
surprise.
Mr.. King, who succeeded Mr.. Roberts,
| tried in vain to head it off with point
of order, and then inveighed against 1T
az simply an aftermath Of the Roberts
erusade. He insisted that polygamy
was a thing OF the nast.
| Mr. Lands replied by alleging that
1.-TWO of the professors of the Utah Agri-
cultural College were polygamists, and
that one of the trustees had seven wives
and thirty-five children
Upon this showing the house adopted
the amendment, whereupon Mr.. King
retaliated by Offering an amendment
providing that none of the money should
go to agricultural colleges in any state
whose instructors or trustees have en-
sgaged in lynching or been guilty of
adultery or fornication. He afterwards
ll'iodified it SO as to apply only to the
Horticultural college OF Indiana 1t was.
of course. Overwhelmingly defeated
Subsequently when the bill was re-
ported to the house the Lands amend
lr1ent was stricken out by vote of SO
ITO 49,
The friends of the farmer" were very
much in evidence during the day and
again an aggressive opposition led by
Mr.. Mahon. of Pennsylvania. voted into
litke bill an additional appropriation OF
100000 for farmers bulletins
There was also considerable discussion
OF the irrigation of the arid lands in
connection with the paragraph provid-
ing for an investigation of that subject.
The bill was finally passed
raNNEs I,ENnu<r,rs sryern,-.
Democratic Senator Says 1t is a Bill
to Permit ship owners to Loot the
TREASURY.
Washington, Jan. s1.-The shipping
llbill was kept at the front in the senate
thruout yesterday. No appreciabie
progress was made. most of the time
being occupied by Mr.. Turley, of Ten
nessee and Mr.. Jones, of Arkansas, in
speeches opposing the bill and severely
arraigning its alleged favoritism. Mr..
Jones declared 1t should be entitled "a
bill to permit a select coterie OF ship
owners to loot the United States treas
ury." After the speeches the formal
reading of the bill was completed. but
the consideration of amendments was
not entered upon. Early in the day an