Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-01-30
IO MAKE GLEN SWEEP
Ways and Means ommittee De.
cides to Recommend Repeal
Of All Wa Taxes.
The Repeal Wi Be Complete.
With the Eception OF
MixetFlour.
Will Reduce te Revenue Over
$75,OOO, 900 hnually..Wash.
ineto News.

washington, an. 3o.-The house
committee on wys and means mas
unanimously Authorized CHAIRMAN
Payne to repor bill repeating All
Spanish war reenue taxes, except the
tax on mixed bur.
The repeal axes effect on July l.
1902, except ne duty on tea, which
takes effect n Jan. /, 1903. Payne
made a statement showing the total re-
duction woule be s77Ooo,ooo annually.
The delay inthe repeal of the tax on
tea is for thepurpose of those who have
stocks on h;nd to dispose of them be-
fore the repal takes effect. Payne says
the countr, will start upon the next
fiscal year With $4,000 600 in available
cash.
Amendments were offered by Now
lands. to except from repeal the tax
on petroleum and sugar retiners and by
Richardson to repeal customs duties on
trust made goods. Defeated by party
votes. The repeal will affect the re-
manning special taxes imposed by the
war, viz: On bankers, brokers, grain
dealers, pawnbrokers, custom house
brokers, theaters, museums, etc., Dill
lard rooms, bowling alleys, playing
cards, dealers in and manufacturers of
tobacco. The reduction on fermented
liuuors will amount to sixty cents per
barrel; on tobacco and snuff cents,
bringing the rate back to 6 cents per
pound Sugar and cigaretts will be
brought to the same rate as before the
war. Other reductions include leg
acies, excise taxes on persons and firms
engaged in refining petroleum and su-
gars; special taxes of banks, bankers,
en- parlor car, sleeping car berths, etc.
The rate on beer is now $3.50 per
barrel and will be brought down to 81.
The present duty on tea of 10 cents per
pound will be repealed.
The restriction of recent hearings to
beer and tea led TO the belief that the
reduction might be confined to these
two articles, but the sentiment or the
majority now appears to be favorable
to a much larger reduction. AT the con-
ference it was the prevailing view that.
as Cuba has been the cause for incur
ring the war revenue taxes, the burden
should be removed from this country
before considering the extent of relief
10 be granted to Cuba. The question of
what percentage of reduction in tariff
rates could be made for Cuba was not
considered at the meeting last night,
ewing to the determination to leave this
until after the war revenue reductions
had been accomplished.
At hearing given by the interstate
,yr,fc in n "a
Of the Investigation begun at Kansas
the Atchison, j. NJ. Johnson, of the
Rock Island, and ]. NJ. Monroe, traffic
manager of the Union Pacific, admitted
that the published tariff rates on grain
moving in and out OF Kansas City.
NO., had not been observed. They ex-
planned the methods by which the lower
rates actually were accorded and con-
tended that these concessions were
necessary. They conceded that there
were favored shippers on most OF the
transcontinental lines, but claimed the
practice was the natural result Of the
competitive conditions of transconti-
mental traffic.
The most serious cutting of rates,
they said prevails between Kansas City
3anQ CnlcuRO. Lie "llHtSSSS admitted
that at time when the published
rate from Kansas City to Chicago was
/: cents per hundred pounds there was
practically no grain moved at a rate
above cents, and more or less of this
trafac was carried at the rate of 6
cents.
DR.. III. W. Wiley, chief of the bureau
of chemistry. department of agricul-
ture, was before the ways and means
committee yesterday in connection with
the Cuban reciprocity question. His
statement covered the scientific phases
of the production of sugar from beets.
cane, ETC., and the development OF the
respective industries. BY means of
charts he showed the comparative in
significance of the beet sugar industry
in 1885, when most of the sugar was
made from cane. Since then conditions
have reversed until now the greater
part of the sugar production is from
beets. Much the larger part of this
production was in Europe, the product
IN America being comparatively small.
Dr. Wiley expressed the opinion, how
ever, that the beet sugar would never
extinguish the cane products, as the
latter had certain special uses.
z. j. Livernash. of San Francisco,
yesterday concluded his argument be-
fore the senate committee on immigra-
ton, begun last Monday, in behalf of
the Chinese exclusion bills. He had not,
he said, discovered, after diligent
search for information, any intimation
that the trade between the United
States and China had decreased owing
tic the attitude of this government on
the exclusion question.
In response to Il question by Mr..
Penrose, he said that the arguments
g. advanced by the southern cotton pro-
ducers that their trade with China
would be severely crippled We're not
well founded, because it had been
proven that sentiment was not con-
trolling factor in trade.
Answering a question by Mr.. Pen
rose, he said that payments for the
successful smuggling of Chinaman
into the United States range from $50
to $500 or $1,000. In the case of a wom-
en as high as $500 was paid, where the
object was to engage her in immoral
practices.
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