Show REVENUE FOR ISLANDS H Tariff Bill for Philippines I Presented the House 1i i 1 1 I WHAT MAJORITY REPORT SAYS j I p Measure Is Intended to Restore the Status Which Existed Prior to tho Late Decision of the Supreme Co tin t-in the Diamond Rings Cases I for Continuance of Revenue Necessity enUQ Which Shall Be Both Ample and Certain Is ImperaUvcrBill Is for Internal Revenue Collections j j Washington Dec > ISChalrman I Payne of tho Committee on Ways and Means today presented the majority report on the p lllpplne tariff bill Its It-s This bill is designed to raise revenue for the Government and for the benefit bene-fit of the Philippine archipelago It Is intended l to restore the status which existed prior to the late decision of the Supreme court In the diamond rings case Prior to that decision the Government Gov-ernment had been collecting duties on goods coming Into the United States from the Philippine archipelago at the same rates as those provided in our tariff laws for like articles Imported from foreign countries The court holds that the Philippine general tariff Jaw does not apply This bill extends the rate now existing upon Imports 1 from foreign countries to articles brought In from tho Philippine Islands AC1 OF THE COMMISSION In tho Philippine archipelago the United States Philippine commission prepared a tariff act after much care and study Their object has been and is to raise sufficient revenue to support I sup-port a government in the Philippines to provide amply for the education tho people to open up the highways of commerce both foreign and domestic domes-tic and to provide ample police force for tho preservation of order These different forms of tariff In force there liave produced a surplus of revenue t after paying the expenses of tho government gov-ernment This bill proposes In the ilrst section to make this Philippine tariff a part of the statutes of the United States REVENUE IS NEEDED The necessity for a continuance of revenue which shall be both ample and certain Is imperative If we continue the police and constabulary system which has been inaugurated and which Is doing so much to restore and conserve order In the Island It will call for a large Increase appropriations appropria-tions We have enrolled 150000 schoolchildren school-children In the public schools Of this number more than one half are without with-out any school accommodations It Is necessary that we build suitable houses I nt once Ten thousand adults were at last accounts enrolled for night jichoola and we are told that this number has since increased probably to at least 35000 These people anxious anx-ious to learn our language and better their condition must be amply provided t pro-vided for Four thousand teachers have been employed nearly all of them recently and their salaries must be paid This work of education must not be crippled even for a short time for lack of funds NEEDS OF ISLANDS 1 Our Government has gone to work systematically through the commission for the improvement of tho harbor at I Manila They hove let the contract after public advertisement competitive com-petitive bids to the lowest bidder This contract calls for the expenditure of 3000009 in the near future Roads are being constructed and the building of roads in this tropical country is expensive ex-pensive These are but a few of the many Items of expenditures which arc imperative All these expenditures are preparing the way for a reduction of the army and In the end will prove of direct benefit to tho taxpayers of tho United States TONNAGE TAXES The bill also provides for the collec lion of tonnage taxes on vessels plying I between the ports of tho United States and the Philippine archipelago It fur thur provides that vessels not of the United States may ply between these ports notwithstanding our coastwise navigation laws until the 1st day of January 1905 when It la believed these islands may safely come under the operation of our present statutes and ess 160nbor the United States be 3 employed in our commerce with them REMEDYING A DEFECT At present our own people who ship goods to these Islands are handicapped by the Internal revenue tax and duties I paid upon foreign gopds Imported here I and used in the manufacture ot art des sent to Philippines The sixth clause of the proposed bill is designed to J remedy this The fourth section provides that all the duties and taxes collected tinder the act shall not bo covered into i the general fund of the treasurv Jof the United States but paid Into the treas ury of the Philippine lelandB to Vbc I used and expended for the use and 1 entCr the islands S ino object of the bill is to Jl1l1ct a Prsslng emergency practically and efficiently We present the tariff act L of the commission is the best that can I be devised ft act in the limited time Jcft Lot actVIEWS VIEWS OF MINORITY tnRtTC ntative tehardson Presented to the Bouse the minority report on the i Philippine tariff bill signed by nil the Democrats of the Ways and Means i committee except Mr Robertson The report says In Part The measure Js bpt another step 1n tho wellmarIied hue of impeLJalism It Is ehncllng a policy of i nia1tsm pure colo and the worst form policy of that We are opposed to our Gov ernmLtt attempting to hold t tortlorfcs I us colonies I and treating the lnlabi tants thereof as subjects and Imposing unon them a government of force This Is i the method oC the empire In stead ot that of the republic Vej op Dose the whole policy of the r majOrity In n daJng with the Phl1lpPtno rchJ vclaoO We believe that S the instead ot t effort they arc making to set in 8hould and hold long permunent 3inc have colonle5 InnugUmtpd there 55 n Policy assuring to the t falnnds people ot those Ultimate stable lndOJ1ondenco SO lI1mcnt ind their I But even 1C there la to be I nHUed an ad change in our InslJtutlon and I our Corm or I departure GOcrml1 Dt nnu a Wide Cram the old landmark o Political truth that nIl governments I 1J18Lttutoc1 among lU n derIve their I t just powers from tovCrnld the conRcnt ot the I and It It be Qclmltlcd Wo are to cmbarlt upon the dangQroJB that I and desperate nolhw of y cOlony haldl1 nndfU S uhJeet gpymnlJ16 to S Which 110 none ot we agree even rum not wi Q coul 1 glvo our UEisent to the S the passage ot pending mcaSUIc rho cQlonlal lan sot Up by this biB In unjust und 11Hheftl S In the extremeS extreme-S COMPARISON OF TItADE I PhilipPines A comparis oCtho Whdo SHOWN with the I with the cost ot maintaln big the army Is i lunde wIth the thou that osser at the 3hlh1ppj05 end oc next Year the rrr States 45OOOGOQO W1I1hae cost the United It S i 1 PUsctIng I of the Ways d J t i 10 lJ Means committee today Representative Representa-tive Robertson Dem La announced that he would vote for the bill In the House and Representative McCall Rep Mass announced that ho would vote against It With these cxceptlona the Republicans of the committee expressed ex-pressed themselves in favor OL tho measure and the Democrats opposed tot to-t and by a vote of 7 to 5 on party I lines Messrs McCall and Robertson answering present but not voting |