The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1913-05-01
DEBATE OVER TARIFF
ENTERS FINAL STAGE
in The LOWER HOUSE
Bill Will Be Placed On Reading
For Passage Tomorrow
Clean Up This Week.

washington, April pa rush OF
speech making on the final day OF
proceedings lively in the House today.
Most of the members had held back
With a view to getting the larger au-
dlences expected with the closing of
the general debate and the shifting of
the consideration o. the Underwood
tarlfr revisions 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 antifree wool advocates
spreads the bill will emerge from the
Senate substantially In the form in
which it stands.
Rainey Leads Off.
Representative Rainey, of Illinois,
who a charge of the agriculture Sec
ton of the bill, as a member of the
ways and means committee, Represen-
talve Murdoch, of Kansas, the leader
of the progressives. along with Repre-
sentative Chandler. of New York, and
others of that. party and some of the
big guns of the republicans were on
today's speaking program. Mr.. Rainey
declared that the bill representing the
Nv &C. W ~ Y SId LIZ SONSII-
ment's fiscal policy making lighter the
burdens of taxes upon consumers and
compelling great wealth to contribute
its fair share toward paving the gov
expenses"
He pointed out that no government
that had adopted an income tax system
and given it fair trial had repealed it.
I'VE make the tax highest upon the
largest incomes and lowest on the
small incomes" he said, taxing 425,
900 in all. and we expect to obtain.
from them at least $70,0 600, 900. He said
the tax would reach 10000 incomes
that amount to about $4,000 and $1,000
a year from which the government ex-
poets to collect only s640,O00, an aver
age of SIS per income and would reach
100 incomes amounting to more thar
$1,090,000 each year, from which a COL
lection of nearly $4,000. 900 is expected.
The Tariff Tax.
Mr., Rainey said he knew of, no
swollen fortune which had o been
made possible by the favors of the
government and hat a protective
tariil conferred upon protected inter-
ests the right not only to levy taxes.
but to collect and distribute them in
dividends to the holders of watered
stocks. Nearly everything the con-
su1ner buys is taxed and the taxes he
pays, If he buys American goods do
not find their way into the treasury
VI tiS oiileu IoldleS, SdlQ ME. fSdlQey.s
He declared that the revision would
end the alliance between the protected
wooden mills of the east and the wool
producing states of the west. This"
he concluded, sis not a free trade bill,
but it will fail of its purpose if it does
not bring about a freer exchange be-
tween the products of this and other
countries. each nation section pro-
ducing what it is best adapted to pro-
duce and trading its products for the
products of other sections and nations"
uPHoLDs SUBSIDY RIGHT.
Washington. April 2S.-Democratic
Leader Underwood. Trainer of the new
tariff bill contends the United States
is entirely within its rights in the pro-
visions of the bill against which foreign
nations have protested. The clause
which would grant a 5 per cent tariff
on goods imported in American vessels
n which has caused protests from a
number of nations. Mr.. Underwood
says. is to encourage the building of
American ships and he believes it vio-
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