The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-07-16

phalt paving from to Is per cent
Senator Flint, in reply, said that free
| asphalt meant further strengthening
| of the asphalt trust.
Mr.. Burton's amendment was de-
feated, 81 to 80. A deluge of amend
ments continued to come from Repub
licans and Democrats, but with auto
matte regularity Mr.. Aldrich caused
them to be laid on the table. e
Flint Over Old Issues
1t appeared that the senatorse were
practically fighting over in the sen
ate all of the issues that had been
contested while the bill was in com
mittee of the whole.
An amendment by Mr.. Dixon, of
Montana, raising the exemption clause
of the inheritance tax; an amendment
by Mr.. McLaurin. placing farm imple-
ments on the free list, and an amend
ment by Mr.. Beverage making mop
erative the drawback provision of the
tariff on tin plate, were successfully
laid on the table, through the efforts
of Mr.. Aldrich.
Mr.. Aldrich said he had no doubt
that the appropriations necessary for
the tariff commission provided by the
bill would be made
Mr.. Beverage expressed great pleas
ure over this statment, and Mr.. La
Toilette added that he intended to
rivet down that assurance, as well as
to strengthen the tariff commission
provision generally.
The uncompleted tax provision was
the first subject of the days consider
alton, and Senator Daniel resumed
the speech he began yesterday. His
remarks were in defense of his
amendment levying tax of one-quar-
ter of 1 per cent on the gross receipts
of corporations having a capital stock
of more than 100000.
Aldrich on the Job
Mr.. Bacon suggested that the Vir-
ginia senator change his plan for tax
ing corporations to make it apply also
to corporations that have gross re-
ceipts of more than 100000 annually
On suggestion of Mr.. Daniel, Mr..
Bacon offered his amendment as an
amendment to the proposition by the
Virginia senator. On motion of Mr..
Aldrich both amendments were laid
on the table.
Other amendments to the corpora
ton tax amendment were quickly dis
posed of in the same way.
perfected by the committee then was
agreed to, and Mr.. Aldrich announced
that with the exception of the to-
bacco tax the bill was perfected so
far as committee amendments were
concerned
Mr.. Bacon offered an amendment
to the bill providing for special tax
and for the regulation of sales on
stock exchanges, and insisted on
strict adherence to parliamentary
rules in disposing of it.
At the first opportunity Mr. Aldrich
moved to lay. the amendment on the
table, which was agreed to by "A to
"a.
The tobacco tax amendment YVES
laid before the senate after the dis
posal of the other measures.
Tobacco Schedule Adopted
Senator Bradley's amendment per.
hitting tobacco growers to sell their
products without the payment of =
tax, was accepted, and the tobacco
tax schedule as whole was adopted.
The measure is practically the SAM
as that which passed the house. It.
removes the tax of cents pound on
the tobacco grower as a vendor and
thus removes what is supposed to he
the cause of the night rider attacks
ih Kentucky and Tennessee.
An amendment proposed by Senator
Curtis, of Kansas, providing for coun-
tervailing duty on crude oil from any
country imposing duty on American
oil, such duty to be One-half of the
duty levied on American oil, was
adopted by a vote of A to 81.
Senator Burton said the purpose of
the amendment was to prevent oil
ing in free from Mexico, where, he
said, the Standard Oil Company had
three refineries.
Senator Gore offered an amendment
providing that importers of crude
petroleum shall not be entitled to the
drawback provision of the tariff bill.
Senator Aldrich and Senator Curtis
promptly accepting this provision, it
was made a part of the amendment
offered by Mr.. Curtis.
The Curtis amendment was then
agreed to.
Mr.. Stone offered an amendment
placing hides, leather and shoes on
the free list. It was, on motion of
Mr.. Aldrich, laid on the table, As to
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VTo,> R,,olo~u Tav Diane Much Amended