The Ways and Means Committee of the House is the one from whose initiative a yorenue bill naturally comes, and this committee is divided sharply on the sugar question, with the chairman and its most experienced members strongly against con~ cession to Cuba in the matter. Besides this, the Speaker of the House is throwing his powerful influence in the scale against Cuba. On the other hand Presi~ dent Roosevelt feels keenly that this coun try should do something for its island ward, and believes that a reduction of the sugar duty in its favour should, in all ju tice, be conceded. Within the past few. days the lines have been drawn very sharply. It is probably true that the President has with him on the question the majority of the Republican party in both House and Senate, and the trouble will probably be more to prevent an open break in the party than to secure actually the passage of the desired measure, The Repeal of the War Taxes.
'A bill is now before Congress for the repeal of the so-called war taxes, whose imsition was the result of the Spanish war.
is proposed to do away with all the taxes thus levied., beginning on Ist of July this year, with the exception of that on tea, which is to end with the Ist January, 1903. The exception is made in order to give opportunity to merchants who have a stock of tea on hand to dispose of it SLARKE'S B 4] PILLS sre warranted warranted
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