Salt Lake Times | 1890-04-09 | Page 1 | The Direct Tax Bill

THK DIKF.CT TAX HII.!.. Its Friends Show Anxiety hi Kefrard to lis Fate. Washington, D. C, April 0. The friends of the direct tax bill are beginning begin-ning to show anxiety in regard lo it. It was the popular opinion that il would have safe and easy passage through the legislative clianue.ls, but it appears uow to be stuck somewhere. Six weeks iigo it went through the senate without dif-iictilty dif-iictilty and has been on the house calendar cal-endar for nearly a month. Tho majority and minority reports are ready and in the hands respectively of Representatives Caswell and Oates. The former is exceedingly anxious to call it up, but it is hinted that Mr. Cannon Can-non and the economists on the republican republi-can side of the house who are interested iu preventing a treasury deticit. have au anchor fastened to it that w ill keep it right where it is for some time to conic. Speaker Reed is suspected of being in sympathy with the economists on this issue, and il i this suspicion that ere-ales ere-ales the deep feeling of anxiety on the part of the friends of the bill.