Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-06-24

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Most of the Senate s attention Mon
day was given to discussion Of Philip
pine sugar and tobacco tariff, finance
committee s substitute FOR the House
provision being considered. It was
argued on the one hand that the
American sugar trust and not the
Philippine producers would benefit
Thereby, and on the other that to ad-
mi. into the islands sugar free Of
duty would open the way for its free
admission into this country, An
amendment to admit sugar into the
Philippines free of duty was lost,
Ill to 49. Senator Aldrich said that
President Taft has endorsed the Phil
ipplnes paragraph.
For several days it has been recog-
nized by the opponents of the income
tax question that the only way they
could make certain the defeat of the
proposition would be to offer some
i thing in its stead, which would be ac-
ceptable to the country. -
Tax on net earnings Of corpora
tions, gross receipts Of corporations,
dividends Of corporations and other
forms of corporation taxes were
brought forward one after another
only to meet rejection from advocates
Of the income tax. It became known
that President Taft disagreed with
the. supporters Of a tax on incomes
and would lend the administration s
influence to bring about their defeat.
But the income tax faction, number
ing all of the Democratic Senators
and number Of progressive Repub-
licans, variously estimated at twelve
, to nineteen, have been keeping up q
| bold front, refusing to be diverted
, from their purpose by the suggestion
, Of different forms for corporations
, taxes.
| The tariff bill reached an eventful
, stage in the Senate Saturday. A num-
! Der of items in the free list
' were disposed Of Works Of
: art over twenty years old were
) placed on the fre7 list by vote of
q So to Is. The starch industry re-
: ce1ved protection by revisal Of the
: committee recommendations by
1 which tapiloca and sago -four Will be
y subject to duty Of one cent pound
! when not imported for food. Crude
! potash, potash carbonated, caustit
q potash and radium were placed or
:. the free list.
= The latest innovation in the United
q States navy was the decision to equiv
= the battleships Florida, Utah, Dele
q ware and North Dekota with auto
q matte electric elevators for the U.s.
- of officers.
Beyond the statement that the De
partment of Justice has assigned tw'
= agents to duty in New York under in
structions to examine into the condi
= tions under which>the recent compro
. mise was affected by the American
T. Sugar Refining Company and th
le Pennsylvania Sugar Refining Com
= pany, no official information can b
n obtained here regarding the purpos
Of the administration It is, of course
a. understood that the special agent
Il are looking into the allegations tha
lg the compromise disclosed condition
ID in the original settlement between tn
u two corporations involving vio}e
r ton of the Sherman antitrust law.
N A local paper prints what purport
70 A
&c General Bonaparte, which in effec
ed amounts to declaration that durin
his administration the Departmer
Of Justice was without the evident
necessary for successful prosecl
ck ton. But officials Of the Departme1
ed Iof Justice, when pressed for stat,
c,r ment Of its intentions, declared tn,
he the proceedings in their present stae
,e- must be regarded as confidential.
he Vigorous criticism of the tariff bi
er, IN its entirety was made In the Sci
n ate Tuesday where, technically, Il
nd Philippine amendment to the bill W,
mt under discussion all day, by Senat,
Owen, who declared that the bill ",
written to serve the purposes Of Il
pc. masters of monopoly in this countr
It. which was to make the rich richie
th- and the poor poorer. He said Il
ID bill was contrary to the will Of Il
a American people. Senator Burke
ed 0eciared that the nnance committee
of faction in changing front over mig
or on the subject Of tobacco import
n tions from the Philippines looked
!. him "like game of petty politics,
Late in the day Chairman Aldri