Mr. WRIGHT. I move to amend by striking out the words “shall give notice thereof in writing to” in line 2682 and inserting “ who shall receive notice thereof in writing fromf so that it will read: and every such person having in chargeor trust. any disposition ofreal estateor interest therein.sub ioot to tax or duty under this act. who shall recoivo notice thereof in writing from the assessor or asst assessorof the district where the estate is situate. within 30 days from the time when he shall have taken char Oof such trust and prior to any distribution of sai real estate, togetherwith ii.description thereof. I think when we em lay and pay an officer of the Government it is iis hounden duty either to take less pay or discharge his whole duty. How would it. operate where an administrator of an estate with a very limited knowledge of the law shall have been selected? As soon as the 30 days expire. the officers of the law will go and complain of him, and he is at once subjected to the payment of the penalty of $500 named in the section, a part of which I have just read. We ought to use some caution in amatter of this kind, and I simply propose by my amendment to change it from devolving the duty upon the administrator, who may be ignorant of the law, and transfer it to the officer of the law whose duty it is to see that no man ese apes t ie performance of the duty which is required by law. A word more and I have done. A year or 2 ago, when we had the Army bill up, I vent ured to make the remark that there were too many tinkers about it. Now, it seems to me that that remark will apply in some measure to this bill. I fear me much that proper consideration has not been ven to the various provisions of this bill.While I have the highestrespect for the amiable chairman, and the competent committee who have had this matter in charge, it seems to me that in going over what we supposed to be the lain provisions of a just law, we have turned)it by proposed amendments into a sort of metaphysical disquisition and the Scotchmans definition of metaphysics, I think, will a ply here: “When the man thats listening dinna ken what the speaker means and the man thats speaking diuna ken what he means himsel, tha s meta “ pheesics."