Show = = CUTTING DOWN AXES c Ways and Means Committee Decides to Report sS Re-port Bill to Reduce th Collections t Thirty Million Dollars This Will be Done by Reducing the Stamp Taxes Included in Schedule f A of War Revenue Law About Twenty Millions and Those in Schedule B Four MillionsBrewing and Tobacco Interests Fight I J r ing to Secure Further Reduction of Six Millions Ii J 1 a TRIBUNEJ3UREAU l 501 Fourteenth Street Ifa Washington D C Dec 1 1900 J The Committee on Ways and Means has decided to report a measure to reduce r re-duce collections tinder the war revenue 1 Jaw about J30000QOO annually This j will be done by reducing the stamp o taxes Included in schedule A of the I Jaw about 20000000 and those In bchcdule Br about 4000000 rd Among the stamp taxes that will be I l cut off under schedule A arc those on telegraphic dispatches telephone messages I t mes-sages notes mortgages bank checks and drafts bills of sale loans certificates Jri certifi-cates of all kinds warehouse r cclpts j I express and freight life and fire Insurance rz Insur-ance policies cte Schedule B comprises 1 com-prises the taxes on medicinal proprietary propri-etary articles perfumery etc z There Is a light on between the brewing brew-ing and tobacco Interests lo secure the 1SD further reduction of 6000000 to makeup tT make-up the proposed total The committee Is divided between the two Interests The big brewers want a reduction of a dollar 11 barrel but will hardly get II 1zr Jl Is I possible J the committee may let the beer and tobacco taxes remain and 1 make the additional reduction somewhere 10 some-where else It may be on whisky as the 1M lato Internal Revenue Commissioner S m Wilson stated olllclally when last before be-fore the Ways and Means committee A that a smaller lax on whisky would tend to stop Illicit dlslilllng and probably prob-ably result In producing more revenues Anyway this alternative proposition is 1T under consideration rn1i |