The Washington herald., 1913-09-10

bill will be in the hands OF the Presiden
for his signature in the last week in Sep
! tember, ut the latest.
The conference committee will hav'
jurisdiction only of such paragraphs II
the bill as have been amended by the
Senate and OF the new matter introduced
by the Senate, and of paragraphs tha
! the Senate has stricken out from the
| House bill. But n glance at the bill
| shows that there is much work ahead
! for the conferees unless the spirit OF con.
cessiOn is stronger in them than is gen.
| orally believed.
Income TnX Shange.
The income tax has been radically
changed by the Senate, and is by no
means satisfactory TO the Representa-
| tives who stood sponsors for it in the
| House. Some of the House leaders have
| raised the fundamental objection to the
| bill the Senate has left il, based on
their belief that it will not produce the
necessary revenue TO meet the expenses
| OF the government.
The Senate leaders have figured out to
their own satisfaction adequate returns
! from the law 10 meet expenditures. But
the House leaders say that these esti-
mates are incorrect and Chairman Tn
derwoOd had fortified himself with data
which, he believes, will prove that tn.
bill will lead 10 deficit. The Senate
made sweeping cuts in rates. especially
ia the metal schedule. The House con-
ferees probably will struggle to restore
some OF these dIties and particularly the
revenue duty that the House put on farro
manganese. pig iron. and inEots binets,
and other products of the steel industry.
The Senate lenders estimated that they
would derive about 100000 in revenue
from restoration of the tax of tI.IO 4
gallon on wine spirits used in the sweet
wine industry OF California Since the
passage of the Mckinley law these spir-
its have been free or have borne a nom
inal tax of only cents a gallon. The
California delegation made war on the
proposed tax, and when the Senate leaders
finally retained il in the bill ii was with
the understanding that it was purely
tentative and for the purpose of giving
the conference committee the subject
matter out of which il might carve a
paragraph that wCIId be unobjeCtunaEIe.
The amendment TO restore the TAX on
wine spirits was introduced ty Senator
Pomerene OF Ohio and the California
wine growers charged that the legislation
was inspired by their Ohio competitors,
md they retaliated by securing the i'm
position OF a tax of . cents n gallon On
the Chic product, baseG on the percent
age of sugar and water contained there
tkreshed ont in conference.
The cotton futures amendment will be
new matter to the House and will in all
probability be either eliminated or re-
written. The Senate made a sweeping
of the administrative fea-
lures reported by the House. and pro-
vided for a joint commission of the two
Houses to revise and codify the customs
law and report TO Con- |
gress not later than next February. The |
excluding the products OF |
labor and child labor is another |
matter that Is likely to lead to some cor !
troversy in the conference. as well as the |
elaborate retaliatory clause adopted by |
the Senate in lieu OF the maximum ami |
minimum features of the PayneAldrich |
aw. which authorizes the President 10 |
impose duties on certain specified articles |
by way Of reprisal against countries that |
discriminate against the products OF the
United States.
Many of the important administrative
which were worked out with !
great care by the Ways and Means Com
nittee and approved by the House. have
been eliminated by the Senate as 'op-
Iressive"
Free Art Differences.
One of the sharp issues between the
House and Senate probably will be IN Ic-
ard to the question of free arts. The
House was more liberal in encouraging
of art treasures than the
senate has been. The controversy is an
Id one, and, as Senator Lodge pointed
ut i'll the Senate last Saturday. the Il adj
ional Democratic policy has been to en-
ourage the free importation of works of
rt. Il
1t is evident that the Democratic lead
rs in the House believe that the Senate
as gone too far in enlarging the free I
ST Many articles " hich were made !
uitable by the House that have been |
ut on the free list by the Senate will [
be restored by the confer S
nee. This is especially true OF some OF I
ne agricultural products. There has
cen considerable nervousness in the {
enate in the closing hours of debate over S
lie attacks made by Republicans because a
, many products of the farm were free e
sted. h
The cotton and the silk schedules prac- 5
cally have been rewritten by the Senate, y
nd are declared to be unsatisfactory to Il
Ie House members In The last hours of t
lie consideration of the kill in the Com Il
ittee of the Whole an amendment was o
ported and passed to paragraph S2G of
e silk schedule, a paragraph that COM o
'ises only five lines, and imposed q duty b
10 per cent on woven silk fabrics by Il
hich the fiat rate of - per cent was sup
anted by an elaborate system of specific o
tiles that requires six pages of the tariff 81
II to describe. o
The average ad valorem in the bill as Ii
passed the Senate approximates 26 per CT
mt. This is a decrease of 2S per cent d
ON existing law and nearly per cent C,
wer than the average carried by the h
Ouse bill. 1t was claimed, after the Il
i passed, that the Senate's reduction tC
cant loss in revenue of more than
100000. This, Senate managers said, e.
1uld be more than offset by additions nj
lde in a number of schedules affecting W
siness industries, the increase in the pi
come tax, the revenue tax imposed in m
ne makers, the placing of bananas on II
e double list, and the taxing OF cotton
lures.
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