Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-04-28
RUSH TO SPEAK ON
! TARIFF REVISION
House Debaters Held Back to
the Last to Obtain Largest
Audience.

WASHINGTON, April 2S.-A rush
of speechmaking on the final day of
general debate on the tariff bill made
lively proceedings in the House. Most
OF the members had held back with a
view to getting the larger audiences
expected with the closing of the gen.
eral debate and the shifting of the
consideration of the Underwood tariff
revision to a reading of the measure
under the five-minute rule beginning
tomorrow.
Chairman Underwood has not
changed his view that the bill should
be disposed of in the House within
a week from today, and that the
sugar schedule is not likely to offer
much real trouble. He hoped that
unless the fight of the anti-free wool
advocates spreads, the bill will
emerge from the Senate substantially
In the form in which it stands.
Representative Rainey, of Illinois.
who had charge OF the agricultural
schedule of the bill as a member of
the ways and means committee;
Representative Murdoch, of Kansas,
the leader of the Progressives, along
with Representative Chandler, of
New York. and others of that party
and some of the noted Republicans,
were on today's speaking program.
Mr.. Rainey declared that the bill
represented the dawn of a new era
in the governments fiscal policy,
s'making lighter the burdens of taxes
upon consumers and compelling great
Wealth to contribute it's fair share
toward paying the government ex-
penses." He pointed out that no
government that had adopted an in
come tax system and given 1t a fair
trial had repealed it.
I'VE make the tax highest upon
the great incomes and lowest upon
the small incomes, taxing 425,000 in
all and expecting to collect from them
at least $40, 600, 000." He said the tax
would reach 10000 incomes that
amount to between $4,000 and $1,000 a
GEAR, from which the government
expect to collect only S630,000, an
average of IS per income, and would
reach 100 incomes amounting to more
than 81, 900 each per year, from
which a collection of nearly 100000
Is expected.
Mr.. Rainey said he knew of no
swolen fortune which had not been
made possible by the favors of gov
eminent, and that a protective tariff
conferred upon protected interests the
right not only to levy taxes, but to
collect and distribute them in divi-
dends to the holders of watered
stocks.
NEARLY everything the consumer
buys is taxed. and the taxes he pays,
II he buys American goods, do not
find their way into the treasury of
the United States" said Mr.. Rainey.
He declared that the revision would
end the alliance between the pro-
tected wooden mills of the East and
the wool-producing States of the
West.
Democratic Leader Underwood,
framer of the bill, contends that the
United States is entirely within Its
rights in the provisions of the bill
against which foreign nations have
protested. The clause which would
grant a per cent. tariff preference
on goods imported in American ves-
sells, and which has caused protests
from number of nations, Mr.. I'm
derwood says, is to encourage the
building Of American ships, and he
believes it violates no treaty.
REPRESENTATIVE Payne. ranking Re-
publican member of the ways and
means committee, defended the
Payne-Aldrich law, and declared the
Underwood bill as a tarlff-for-reve-
nue. measure, ga signal failure
IF this bill becomes a law as 1t
now stands the next four years will
be years Of weary waiting" he said.
THAT the proposed bill is a re-
vision downward, l frankly admit"
Mr.. PAYNE concluded.