Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-06-23
. WASHINGTON NOTES

committees IS substitute Tor 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 adj
NIT 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,
IL to 49. Senator Aldrich said that
President Taft has endorsed the Phil
ippines 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
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. 1t became known
that President Taft disagreed with
the supporters of a tax on incomes
and would lend the administration 8
influence to bring about their defeat.
But the income tax faction, number
ing ali of the Democratic Senators
and number of progressive Repub-
licans, variously estimated at twelve
to nineteen, have been keeping up a
bold front, refusing to be diverted
from their purpose by the suggestion
of different forms for corporations
taxes. !:
The Senate Saturday covered q
multitude Of subjects in connection
with the tariff, but made final dispo-
sition Of nothing Of Importance. Be-
ginning at 10 o'clock, the income and
corporation tax questions received
attention for some time and ulti-
mately were postponed, with the un-
derstanding that they should not be
taken up again until after the tariff
provisions proper should be finally
settled.
Senator Aldrich, of the committee
on finance, brought in the commit
tees amendment to the wood pulp
paragraph, which proved to be pro-
vision for doubling the duty on wood
pulp coming frort countries which
undertake to prohibit the expectation
of logs to this country.
Senator Beverdige presented an
amendment for the cutting in two If
the House ad valorem duty on cash
registers. Mr.. Aldrich also present.
ed the finance committees side pro-
vision.
There has been deposited in the
library Of Congress and placed on
exhibition in the Manuscripts Diris-
ion, the original engrossed "Perman-
ent constitution Of the Confederate
States of America" 4
The constitution was adopted
March II, 1856, by the Confederate
Congress at Montgomery, Ala, and
signed by delegates from South Caro-
line, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mis-
sissippi, Louisiana and Texas. When
the capital was moved to Richmond it
was carried to that city and upon the
evacuation of Richmond was sent
with other papers farther south
where it was rescued by Mr.. f. G..
DeFontain at Chester, S. c., from a
band Of looters.
Mr.. DeFontaine kept this and other
documents for some years and in 1883
il passed into the hands of Mrs. G.
W. j. DeRenne, whose son, Mr.. W.
J. DeRenne, of Savannah, Ca, nov
owns It and has recently deposited it,
as loan with the librarian of Con-
gress.
Vigorous criticism of the tariff bill
in its entirety was made in the SEN
ate Tuesday where, technically, the
Philippine amendment to the bill was
under discussion all day, by Senator
Owen, who declared that the bill was
written to serve the purposes Of the
masters of monopoly in this country,
which> was to make the rich richer,
and the poor poorer. He said the
bill was contrary to the will of the
American people. Senator Burkett
declared that the finance committees
action in changing front over night
On the subject of tobacco importa-
tions from the Philippines looked to
him "like game of petty politics. "
Late in the day Chairman Aldrich
presented the finance committees
amendment to the silk schedule.
President Taft discussed with his
Cabinet the plan for a tax upon the
undistributed net earnings of cor
porations and expressed satisfaction
over the finance committees plan to
bring it to a vote in the Senate.
The Senate Thursday ADOPTED the
window-glass schedule, placing
lower duty on such glass than is pro-
vided either by the Dingley law or
by the House bill. Because of in
tense competition by German manu-
facturers, the duty on illustrated post
cards was increased 325 per cent
above the Dingley law. The sched-