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Show THE TOBACCO TAX. A RESOLUTION GIViNC AUTHORITY TO REFUND IT. Will lie Reported Hy the Wayt and Mesne Committee on Tomorrow, the Democratic Member Opposing. Washington, Dec. 8. The ways and means committee have voted to report without amendment the bill authorizing authoriz-ing the secretary of the treasury lo refund re-fund so much of the tax collected on tobacco which shall be In the hands of dealers and manufacturers January 1st as was abolished by the recent tariff act. The committee also voted to report a resolution declaring that nothing in the tariff act should bo constructed to impair im-pair the provisions of the Hawaiian treaty. The Democratic members opposed op-posed the resolution. |