Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-04-29
Representative From Hi
nois as a Member Of the
Ways and Means Com
nit Attacks Protection.
EAUDS THE INCOME
TAX PROVISIONS
Says That Swollen Fortunes
Have Been Made Pos
sible by Protection; Coun-
try Did Not Benefit.

Of speech making on the final day OF
general debate on the tariff bill made
proceedings lively in the house. Most
eof the members had held back with
view to getting the larger audiences
expected with the closing Of the gen.
eral debate and the shifting OF the
reconsideration Of the Underwood tar
|iff revision to reading Of the mea-
sure under the five minute rule, be-
ginning tomorrow. Chairman Under
wood has not changed his view tnat
1.-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
Z that unless the fight Of the anti-free
I 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 agriculture
section of the bill is member Of the
!, ways and means committee; Repre-
sentative Murdock Of Kansas the lead
er of the progressives along with Rep.
resentative 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 represented the
& dawn of new era in the governments
fiscal policy, making lighter the bur-
dens Of taxes upon consumers and
compelling great wealth to contribute
its fair share toward paying the gov
nernment expenses" He pointed out
that no government that adopted an
#income tax system and had given 1t
fair trial had repealed 1t.
1--WE make the tax highest upon the
great incomes and lowest upon the
small incomes" he said, taxing 1885
100 In all and expect to collect from
&em at least $4,000, 900"
Sa3sS lie said the tax would reach 126,000
|S|a hes that amount to between $4,000
Id $4,000 year, from which the gov
ernment expects to collect on $630,OO0,
an average of five dollars per income,
and would reach one hundred incomes
amounting to more than $1,000,000 each
year from which collection OF
nearly $6,000,00O is expected.
Criticizes Protective Tariff.
Mr.. Rainey said he knew of no
swollen fortunes which had not been
made possible by the favors OF the
u government and that protective tar
liz conferred upon protected interests
the right not only to levy taxes but
to collect and distribute them in div1-
dends to the holders Of watered stocks.
NEARLY everything the consumer
buys is taxed and the taxes he pays,
If 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 protected
woolen 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 pur-
pose il it does not bring about a freer
exchange between the products OF this
and other countries, each nation AVID
section producing what it is best
adopted to produce and trading Its
products for the products of other
sections and nations"
Country Within Its Rights.
Democratic Leader Underwood
framer Of the new tariff bill, contends
the United States is entirely within its
right in the provisions Of the bill
against which foreign nations have
protested The clause which would
grant q five per cent tariff preference
On goods imported in American vessels
and which has caused protests from
4 number of nations, Mr.. Underwood
Gays, is to encourage the building Of
American ships and he believes it
violated no treaty.
The French protest is against the
provision that foreign manufacturers
and exporters shall submit their books
to United States agents when demand
ed. This clause Mr.. Underwood de-
clares does not mean that the United
states is going to try to learn the
secrets Of foreign manufacturers as it
will be used only in cases where there
is reason to suspect that goods have
been underyalued.