Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1887 — BUSINESS QUESTIONS [ARTICLE]

BUSINESS QUESTIONS

Matters Which Need the Immediate Attention of Congress. At the New York Board of Trade meeting Wednesday resolu'iens were adopted calling npon the National Board of Trade to carefully consider the following questions: 1. That the business men of all parties, both Protectionists and Free Traders, should unite in demanding early action by Coagreß3 to reduce the present enormous revenues in a wav to least eniparrass existing indu'dricys. 2. While desirable to reduce internal taxes, it was not desirable to abolish the internal revenue system as a whole. 3. That the Government should give subsidies to American steamship liner. 4. That every legitimate means to forward the merchant marine should be used, including the enactment of the law now pending in Congress known as the tonnage bill, applying alike to sad and steam vessels engaged in foreign commerce. 5. The necessity of a judicious National anti-adulteration law. 6. That the internal revenue tax upon alcohol used in the arts and mansfactures should be abolished. 7. The adoption of a postal telegraph system, and to urge its consideration upon Congress. 8. The consideration of the subject of commercial union with Canada. 9. The question of refunding a sufficient portion of the National debt to constitute an adequate basis and security for a permanent National currency under the present National banking system. 10. That the to the Constitution of the United Slates to allow the President to veto separate tem, in annual appropriation bills should be adopted. 11. The Congress should be urged to enact a bankrupt law embodying the general principles of the Lowell bill.