| Show SEN SENATE IE VILL VOTE ON TilE TUE INCO INCOME T TAX AX MONDAY MONDA G AFTERNOON 0 11 Senators Will Have to Get Down to Business When Everyone Else Eise Is Celebrating the Aldrich Presents His Maximum and Minimum Rate Amendment a Substitute for the Bill Which passed the Mouse House I I II I 7 d o 0 0 o 0 Washington July rJ 0 o 0 Senate this afternoon 0 0 the and minimum 0 o 0 provisIon so as to a no 0 D 0 t Ico 0 of nInety t days for th tinS 0 IN 0 position of the rate 0 a 0 after aCter the minim m rate haq ha 0 0 been in force 0 J o 0 0 I Y July Income tax ax question was brought up In the tho senate today and an agreement was wa reached to yoto voto at 1 next Mon lIon Monday day afternoon OIl Senator Browns providIng for tor the sian Efon to the states of an amendment to I the constItution authorizing the Im position or of m an Income ta I The agreement to vote on ln come tax Is he equivalent to lo a declara decara declaration tion that the senate wIll proceed with I its on the tho fifth of July Juh de the observance o of the h holiday everywhere else The Tho senators were slow In gather gathering Ing today Senator Aldrich was In his eat at the tho beginning of the session and ns as soon as the tho routine business I permitted he called up tho ho tariff bill But before an any progress could ho bo homade I ma made Senator Brown took the th floor to press his Income ta tax proposition He nEk asked d that a vote Yoto bo be taken Immedi Immediately I atel hut but encountered opposition from Crom quarters Senator ri n being especially antagonistic After Arter debate the Nebraska chraska senator ng Qed to postpone action and pre the proposition for a vote yote on There was no especial Lion tion and the tho vote yote was accordingly As A soon ag the agreement to vote ote was made macic the tariff bill was wag taken up Dud and Mr lr Aldrich his hl inal mui und arni minimum r rate te amendment Mr lr Aldrich proceeded to explain lie senates s for forthe the tle original maximum and minimum ot the bill as It passed the house The fhe house provided for a spec increase or of the tho rates rales of dut on trous articles fixed hy by the bill billIn billIn In case of the failure of the country from which nay given article should come to grant to the lae Imports from the tho United tho same iame terms given given en to importations from the most favored nations The senate commit committee tee on c presented a providing for an Increase of 25 per cent over ocr the rates or of tho bIll against countries which by export bounty or otherwise discriminate Co against the United States The amendment am en d men t provided that the additional rate should go Into effect Immediately unless the dent should after l 1 1910 1110 iss proclamation a that no such dis discrimination crimination exists Tue Tho amen nt also Provided a duty of five cont centi a pound on coffee undo and ten cents a pound on tea coming from othor R t aUn against the products of the Unit United ed d States TIle The measure as IY reported by the finance committee was further I amended to except the Islands of Guam and anI Tutuila as ac well as the Philippines from Crom its operation Stat StatIng lag Ing that lie he regarded t this is provision as the most important part or of the tariff bill Mr III Aldrich read a st state statement ment showing the maximum and mini mum laws of other countries Since that statement was prepared he says Prance Franco had adopted rates of tarIff that varied aried on an average of fifty per percent percent cent Moving to strike from the amend amendment meat ment the tariff on ten tea Senator Daniel criticised the amend meaL Mr Ir Daniel criticised the proposed legislation ns as n authorizing the president lent dent to make treaties with foreign powers without submitting them to the s senate nate When hon the amendment is agreed to ho said the senate Is eliminated as a treat making power so far as these commercial matters mallers are con concerned corned It Is becoming more and more common to eliminate the tha senate from the exercise of Its powers Senators Nelson Curtis and Root speaking in favor of the elimination of the dut duty on tea and coffee Mr 11 Dm Dan lois leis amendment to strike out out that pro provision vision Islon was accepted b by Mi II AldrIch and agreed to Senator Aldrich agreed with Mr Root that there was no to lo hold a club over the countries that thal ex cx export port these articles to the United States Culberson of offered an amend amendment amendment ment to make nonpartisan the ap of the tariff commission and to pay the members salaries of annually Mr Ir Aldrich said experts were to be selected and he did not he be behove hove politics would he be considered b by bythe the president In that connection From the papers said Mr Ballo Bailey the director of the census Is malting making his appointments for san reasons If i I that Is true trite it Is the first time lime It has been heen done In the his history tor tory of this country In of the report he said he would not trust the executive author authority It ity to make the appointments without some restrictions Mr rr Aldrich said he lid did not believe bellec census appointments wore were being made mado for political reasons q I know the president of the United States too well lie he said to believe belice he would permit anything of that kind Declaring the trend of the times was toward nonpartisanship Mr Root said the ery purpose sought by bythe bythe the Texas Senator would be defeated by dividing these appointments be between tween Republicans and Democrats lie He pointed to the record of the president as a guarantee that he would not be influenced h 13 partisan motives Ve re are united In our esteem for forthe forthe the president said Mr Ir Money Ioner but bitt under Uw the of providence lie he mIght lie and wo we might have a bad badman badman man like the presiding officer of the senate nate and he might mal make e partisan appointments Vice PresIdent Sherman joIned in Inthe the thC smile that thal became general as the proceeded to show the tho temp temptation o of men to make ap appointments with a partisan bIas blas I Then there is the tho the finance committee he add He has never neer been charged wiTh mi being good Sunday school boy bor I IlIe lIe has never neer been shot at as an an angel gel flie dIscussion of Mr Ir amendment was incidental and when It was concluded the contro over oyer the minimum and maxImum pr provision was as renewed Senator Shively discussed at length the maximum and n minimum provis provisIon Ion declaring the tho maximum rate rato would be the real I B a Yot vote or of 17 to 13 the amendment I offered by Mr Ill Culberson was reject rejected ed Mr Ir LaFollette being the tho only Re Republican Republican publican who v ho voted with the Demo The amendment to four the number of members of any anyone one party which might aught he be appointed as experts to ad advise the President in inthe inthe the matter of discrimination uy by other countries An amendment b by Mr 11 Gore substituting the provision of the Dingle Dingley act authorizing the negolia lion tion of reciprocity treaties for fOI the tho maximum and minimum clause was defeated G 6 to 39 |
