Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-05-24
NO CHANGES MADE
In The INCOME TAX
Senate Democrats Expect No
Alterations

of the Underwood tariff bill is likely
to be proposed by the senate finance
committee or democratic caucus, ac-
cording to leaders considering that
part of the bill
Senators Williams, Shively and Gore
have the income tax in hand. Though
their committee room is piled high with
protests and suggestions from many
sources, the measure is believed 90
have been we'll handled and the objeC
tons made to it in it's original form
are thought to have been sufficiently
met in amendments before the bill
passed the house.
Among the loudest protests coming
now are those from mutual insuran :e
companies conducted for profit, but
the house amended the original bill in
relating to insurance companies and
insurance policies and the senators on
the finance committee believe it is
sound Complaints from railroad and
other holding companies that the law
will tax them twice on dividends paid
are reported to have been held I'M
sound by members of the committee.
Executive Session.
Senator Penrose failed eoday to get
up his resolution providing for publ
cation of the list of tariff questions to
manufacturers, proposed by Senator
LaFollette, the senate going into ex
ecutive session before the tariff was
reached.
Early in the day the finance com
mittee majority wramed an amendment
to the resolution proposing a longer
list of questions in which some
Senator LaFollette's queries were in
cluded. The resolutions will relate TO
production of raw material and trans
portation costs here and abroad pro-
portion of tariff duties which cover
cost differences here and abroad and
the proportion which amounts to a
manufacturers profit and other ia
riff problems. Senator Simmons said
there would be about % questions in
all, but he would withhold the list I'M
til he is certain the republican leaders
will bring the matter up again.
Vice President Marshall called en-
the finance committee chairman and
discussed with him the tariff and its
prospects in the senate. The vice pres
ident said he did not discuss rates or
schedules and Chairman Simmons
said the conference was merely info
NAL, and had to do with the handling
of the bill when it reached the senate
floor
Discussion of the tariff on raw ivory
proposed in the Underwood bill before
the Johnson subcommittee disclosed
an unusual situation Representative
of cotton exporters in protesting
against the proposed 20 per cent duty
on tusks, declared it would break up
their barter trade in cotton with Afri-
can tusk dealers. For years they have
been shipping thousands of dollars
worth of cotton to the African traders
and bringing back in payment therefor
ivory tusks, which they in turn soil
to piano manufacturers.
1t was claimed that with a duty on
ivory, Italian cotton traders would get
this business. Amendment of the bin
in regard to the importation of feathers
also was considered by Senator John
ston's subcommittee. Importers ask
ed that importation of feathers of game
and pest birds would mean the letting
in probably of all birds of plumage,
with the exception of the humming
bird Other bird lovers pointed to the
unsuccessful attempt to eradicate pei
i; gic sealing by international agree
ment, as warning against an attempt
to protect birds by international agree
ment.
Senator Stones subcommittee had
before it representatives of silk and
wooden manufacturers, protesting
against those schedules. The sub-com-