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Show JTlorrision's Tariff Hill. - Washington, March 24. The friends of the Morrison bill have held several conferences confer-ences already in reference to the matter of inadequate revenue in case the measure passes at this session of Congress. The plan of meeting such an emergency which meets most favor is the impositisn of an income tax scaled upon a basis of fixed rates upon the classification of incomes; imposing the least per cent, of tax on small incomes, and in a raising amount upon larger, upon the theory of making the burden bur-den of taxation light on the poor and heavier heav-ier upon the rich. Some of the members are in favor of a small land tax. The latter idea has greater strength among the Eastern free-traders. Thus far the present bill in committee has been adopted by a party vote, Messrs. Kelly, Hiscock, Heed, Brown and McKmley having agreed among themselves not to interpose any protracted opposition in committee. They will simply record their votes in opposition. Chairman Morrison says that, at the present pres-ent rate of progress in consideration of the bill, he will be able to report it by the first of April. He will then favor ample and general discussion. He scouts the idea that there will be proportionally a heavier Democratic Demo-cratic vote against this than ""there was against his last bill. He claims that he has reason to think otherwise. He counts, also, upon five Republican recruits from Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Kansas and Nebraska, and, possibly, from other States. There are no present indications that he has any other ground for this belief than a support of the abstract proposition of tariff revision in certain Western constituencies. |