The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-08
TARIFF VOTE
 COMES TODAY Senate Will End Its
 LaborS. HOUSE NOW AWAITS BILL Bailey's Income Tax Amendment
 ls Lost. Eaerts ts-Amena CerDoratien Tax Pro. vtsien 0nly slightly ssccesfuI- UaAerwod of Alabama May
HOUSE NOW AWAITS BILL

Washington, July 7.-with . general
 understanding that the nnai vote in the Senate on the tarfn bill should be taken by { o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
 the Senate adjourned at 2 o'clock this evening in pleasant anticipation of the early conclusion of the labors of the special session of Congress. Because of the possible effect on the tobacco schedule, there was no effort to obtain formal assent in open senate 10 the proposition to fix time for q vote.
 The day was . busy one. and the prospect is that tomorrow will be squal- iy so. It is expected that the will will receive practically all the Republican
 votes. while 1t Is understood that prob aby all of the Democratic votes with the exception of that of Senator Me-
 Emery of Louisiana will be cast against it,
 When passed, the measure will be hurried over to the House as expediti- | ously as possible. It is expected the House wil be in session Friday morn ing in the hope of receiving It. The income tax question, including the corporation tax provision and in- heritance taxes, received much atten- ton and the straight income taxers | were afforded the opportunity upon which they have so long insisted to get direct vote in favor of the income l tax as opposed to the corporation tax. Reject Baiieyss Elan. | Senator Bailey moved his income | tax amendment as a substitute for the Finance Committees provision. A vote
 was taken upon 1t and 1t was rejected | a ~R lAf afM M u | 2S to q.
 With the corporation tax provision | thus established as part of the tarir l bill, there was considerable efort to amend it. In one notable case. this effort was successful. Senator Ciapr | (Minn.), who has been a severe critis of the provision ever since It's intro. | duction because 1t excluded holding companies, renewed his criticism today, and was supported by other Senators.
 The result was the accepsance of an
 smendment offered by Mr esapp strik- ling out the exemption 2f s1oh com- every efYort would be made to retain l the amendment in conference. Senator Daniel offered new plan | for taxation of corporations with gross incomes above s300.o00 at the rate of 1-4 of l per cent upon their gross in. comes.
 Referring lightly to the 'Pretended weariness" of the Rhode Island Sena, tor. he described him as ''wizarG' at | whose sign Insurgents marched with
 tread of Roman soldiers to bring him victory"
 MT. Daniel continued to speak on va | rious phases of the amendment until ! o'clock, when, by previous agreement, l the Vice-President announced adjourn. ment.
 Customs Court Diseased. Next to the income tax. the discus-
 sion of the customs court was the big feature of the days work. The court
 was s/attacked as in the interests of the
 cities in which 1t would sit and of the
 Government and as opposed to the inter-
 ests of the importers.
 While the court provision was under
 consideration, Senator Deliver read Q
 letter from United states Judge La- | combe of New York, stating that the Federal courts were not overcrowded, and could handle the customs business
 without becoming congested. Immediately after that Mir. Aldrich | read another letter under date of July
 22. 1908. signed by Judge L4acombe, and other New York Federal Judges. in which 1t was stated that if the cus- tOhAio Cd5C6 WONc tO Oo dppoAiCu 10 the United States Court of Appeals, their
 dockets would become very much crowded.
 The debate over the court provision
 resulted in the acceptance of the Finance Committees provision. Senator LaFollette today indicated a disposition to ask to have the whole bill held up until he could so through
 it and select the provisions to which he desired to offer amendments. He
 was. however, persuaded to desist from this course.
 Finance Committee Wins. The reserved amendments, presented
 in order. went down one after another
 before the onslaughts of the thoroughly organized finance committee. Senator Bulkeley obtained a reduction of the duty on cheap watch dials, and the committee also permitted a provision
 for the free admission of machines
 used for the spreading of tar and oil
 on strets and roads.
 The tobacco tax provision will be the
 principal subject of consideration to-
 morrow. There is 6 bare possibility
 that complications may arise over this
 provision. which will delay the hour
 of the passage of the bill. but the op.
 timists express a firm conviction to the contrary.
 It has been decided that the Senate
 will be represented in the conference
 on the tariff bill by eight members. five
 Republicans and three Democrats, all
 of whom wil be selected acording to
 seniority of membership on the Com
 mittee on Finance. This rule of selection will make Sem
 ators Aldrich. Burrows. Penrose, Hale
 and Cullom the Republicans, and Dan.
 iel, Money and Bailey the Democratic
 members.
 Speaker Cannon has given no indica-
 tion of his choice of representatives
 of the House in the conference. 1t is
 generally believed, however. that he
 will select Mir Payne (N. Y.l, Dalzeil
 (Pa.), Mccall (Mass.), Hin (Conn.
 and Boutell (Ill.). Republicans, and
 Clark (Mo.). Underwod (Ala). and Grigsg (Ga.), Democrats.