Gilpin observer., 1913-04-10
TAX ON NECESSITIES CUT;
LUXUR|ES RAISED IN TARIFF BILL
REDUCTION ssooooooo
$1oo.oooooo FROM INCOME TAX MEAsURE-PREsIDENr
RECIPROCITY
Opening Day Events In Congress
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Opening Day Events In Congress-.
sixty-third Congress convened in
Washington at noon Monday.
Champ Clark elected speaker OF
Yrssdsn. aSS's @soss ~ ss maiHs5sy
would read his own message to law
Tariff revision bill presented to
One Of provisions calls for free su-
Entire measure will cut $4,000, 900
from customs revenue.
Income tax bill Introduced in Con-
gress
ooA Measure eaa is expected to yield $780,
Washington, April 9.-Congress,
opening in extraordinary session Mon
day under Democratic domination,
was enlivened by the activities of the
Progressive organization IN the House
and an invasion of pctition-bearing
suffragettes. But even these novelties
were overshadowed by the prepara-
tions for the precedent-breaking event
Of President Wilson delivering his tar
iff message by word of mouth to the
nations lawmakers.
Organization OF both houses OF Con-
gress was partly concluded. Speaker
Clark was reelected over James r..
Mann (Rep), and Murdock and other
officers OF the House also were re-
elected.
Bills and resolutions to reform the
nations currency system. to prevent
floods in the Mississippi river, to pro-
vide for RELIEF of flood sufferers, o
build government railroads in Alaska,
and for host of other purposes, ha re
been introduced in both houses of
Congress.
shington.-Removal of all tariff
from many articles OF food and cloth
ing; broad reductions in the rates of
duty on all necessaries of life; an in
crease of tariff on many luxuries and
a new income tax that would touch
the pocket of every American citizen
whose net income exceeds $4,000, are
the striking features of the new Demo
cratic tariff revision bill presented to
the House.
Sugar would be free of duty in 1916.
the bill proposing an immediate twen-
ty-five per cent. reduction and the re-
moval of the remaining duty in 1916.
Raw wool would be made. free at
once with correspondingly heavy re-
duction in the tariff on all wooden
goods.
All these other articles are put on
the free list, namely: Meats, flour,
bread, boots and shoes, lumber. coal,
harness. saddlery. iron ore. milk and
cream, potatoes, salt, swine, corn,
corn meal. cotton bagging, agricultu-
raj implements, leather, wood pulp,
Bibles. printing paper not worth more
than 2hc per pound. typewritecs.
sewing machines. typesctting ma
chimes. cash registers, steel rails.
fence wire, cotton ties, nails, hoop and
band iron. fish, sulphur, soda, tanning
materials, acetic and sulphuric acid ;,
borax, lumber products. including
broom handles; clapboards, hubs for
wheels, posts, laths, pickets, stoves
and shingles.
These principal items were taken
from the free list and taxed: Rough
and uncut diamonds and precious
stones. furs, coal tar products, ten
per cent; volatile oils, twenty per
cent; spices from 1c to &c per pound.
The new rates are estimated to re-
duce the customs revenue approx
hately $50 100000 year. This is ex-
pected to be made up by the income
tax.
Protection to the farmer would be
cut throughout by more than fifty per