The Tax on Flour

The item in the tax bill now before Congress levying ten cents per barrel on flour, has been stricken from the bill through the influence of a delegation of New York millers.  We have not noticed the grounds on which the action was based, but we presume it was the impossibility of competing with the Canadian millers if this tax had been levied.  The West has abundant reason for congratulation at the action of Congress on this important subject. – Chicago Tribune.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, March 18, 1862, p. 2