Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-09
poor woman's snuff, Mr.. Bailey said:

4 poor woman Snuff, Mr.. Bailey SAID:
perhaps you will say that a wo-
! man should not use snuff. won't say
she should, but the fact is that some
| do and it is also true that these wo-
men are usually the poor class.
For my part l would as soon a wo-
man would dip snuff as smoke cigar
cites. | can see little difference"
Protesting against the proposed ad
vance in the internal tax on tobacco
and snuff. the Texas senator said:
you Republicans think you can do
anything because you are convinced
that the country is afraid to trust the
Democratic party. Well, I guess the
country is afraid of us. If it were not.
it would have turned you out long
ago." said the senator waving his hand
to take in the Republican side.
but you may go on" continued Mr..
Bailey, multiplying burdens until the
people in their righteous wrath turn
ycu out The time will come when the
people will say that it is better to be
governed by fools than rascals You
will tempt fate too far You fail to lay
any tax on the incomes of the rich and
exact tribute from the poor by taxing
/ their tobacco"
At this point Mr.. Daniel returned TO
| the Senate. Mr.. Bailey yielded tho
| floor to the Virginian who spoke at
length against the tobacco amendment.
| Quoting from the testimony of Jacob
| Wettheim president Of the Cigar Max
| ers Association and president of the
| largest independent corporation in the
world, Mr. Daniel sought to prove that
| the sufferers from the advanced rate
J would be the weaker competitors of the
big factories.
The strong factories, said Mr.. Daniel,
will take the tax from the labor and
| the material.
| In consequence of these facts, Mr..
| Daniel gave notice that he would move
to amend the finance committees
amendment by striking out the propos-
ed eight cents on tobacco and SNUFF and
retain the existing six cent tax.
These tables demonstrate that the
| tax on tobacco has never affected the
price of leaf tobacco said Mr.. Bev-
eridge presenting an elaborate state
ment prepared by the department of
Commerce and labor in reply to. Sen
ator Daniel and others who had claim
ed that the imposition of an increased
tax imposed a burden upon the farmer
producing tobacco.
| The protests by the American To-
baco Company. he said, showed how
the trust viewed the effect of the tax.
1t would, he said, transfer from the
trusts treasury to the treasury of the
United States, $9,5OO,OO0 annually.
Insisting that the tobacco trust did
have power to shift it's taxes on this
people. Senator Bailey declared his be-
lief that men who take by force are
about as honest and respectable as
men who take by fraud"
Il am not sure" he said, 'that the
tobacco trust that levies upon the peo-
pie ought to enjoy our favor any more
than those night riders who seek in
that way to regulate their affairs"
By "a to 81 an amendment. by Mr.
Daniel to reduce the tax on tobacco
from eight cents to six cents a pound
was rejected. H.
BY So to rs the committee tax
amendment was then agreed to. AID
rich having accepted the amendment
to remove the six cents a pound on
leaf tobacco it was viva voce vote
agreed to. s
This is practically the same provi-
| SION dS THAT WIICIl pdSSeO Inc I1OuSc
1t removes the tax Of six cents q
pound on the tobacco grower as q, ven
der and thus removes what is sup
posed to be the cause Of the might
rider attacks in Kentucky and Ten
nessee. There is little doubt that the
provision will remain in the bill.
The tobacco schedule as whole was
adopted by the Senate.
An amendment. proposed by Curtis
of Kas. providing for a countervailine
duty on crude OIL from any country
imposing a duty on American oil such
duty to be one-half of the duty levied
on American oil was adopted by vote
of A to 81. >s,a
An amendment by Newlands Great
ing a tariff commission. the adoption
of which he urged in a long speech.
was tabled. 30 80 y: ~
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