| Show OPPOSED TO BOUNTIES Fichti nir the sugar industry with a vengeance WASI washington INGTON feb II 11 the democrats of the west it appears are to make a serious attempt to repeal the provisions of the mckinley law providing lor for bounties on oil sugar representative scott of illinois introduced a resolution instructing the ways and means committee to report a bill providing for such repeal repeat and asserts with will confidence that a majority of democratic members will favor such a bill the resolution declares that since july last the claims for bounties amounts to millions million of dollars imposing a grievous burden upon taxpayers taxpayer the payment p of this bounty is contended to be agist a gift or r gratuity by the government to one class of of dersons persons engaged in a private enter enterprise 8 c a burden of which is aiato iato to bo be borne largely 2 by the tile poorly paid raid wheat corn cotton an and other arrieu agricultural tural products of the country together with a vast army of wage earners it further cites the decision of tile supreme court by justice miller that to lay with one hand the power of the government on the property of citizens and with the other bestow it upon favora favored individuals to aid private enterprises and build up private fortunes is none the less robbery because it is done done under the form of law the resolution has been referred to the ways and means committee mr scott in an interview said them the sugar igar bount bounty esis is contrary to the constitution and violates violat eye every principle rin ciple of republican gov ern crement merit ar if it t is considered american patriotic and arid honest to donate money out of the treasury to enrich private enterprises p n es there is no just reason why corn wheat 1 t and other great industrial interests ell should 0 ul not riot be given giyen a bounty chairman springer of the tile ways and means committee thought thou 11 t the tile resolution should have gone to t the le appropriations committee as the law makes a permanent appropriation for sugar bounties and the way a to reach the question is to repeal this 1 law chairman thought the subject properly belonged to alie ways and means committee A permanent appropriation has been made for air fourteen years to meet this bounty agn account of this it requires independent legislation and more pr properly belongs to that committee notwithstanding wit standing tills this opinion of holman Ho linan however the resolution is likely to be referred back to his committee |
