Show THhNIS1THASA A OCIALISTIC AIR Reed Attacks the Income Tax Proposition I CLAMS THAT IT IS A TWOEDGED SWORD I Will Strike Poor Tenants as Well as Landlords Wolcott Makes a Strong Fight for His Resolution Looking to the Coinage of Mexican Dollars for the Chinese Trade Sherman Hatf No Objection Stir Created by a Motion Calling for Earlier Sessions d Ses-sions 0 Washington April 9The proceedings proceed-ings In the Senate today from the open to the of the session ing closing were ifull of interest The first point of time was to the swearing in of Mr Walsh as the senator from Georgia to serve out the term of the late Senator Gel quitt Two resolutions intended to facilitated facilitate-d J debate of the tariff bill were introduced intro-duced one by Senator Mills providing for an amendment to the rules so as to I permit of the previous question and j the other by Senator Allen providing I for the taking of the final vote of the bill on June 7 allowing three days for debate under the five minute rule Both went over without action Coinage of Mexiean Dollars The Wolcott resolution looking to the coinage of Mexican dollars for the China trade was discussed but action I on it was deferred until tomorrow I provides for the negotiation ofa I treaty with Mexico allowing the coinage coin-age of Mexican dollars at United States mints for export to China I Mr Wolcott addressed the Senate in I support of the resolution which he asserted as-serted did not touch or affect the gen j cr4 era question of bimetallism that it 1 1 was simply a suggestio to a friendly t I sister republic that QUJ i Me mints in the west should be in 01 ation in the coinage of silver which had been put in I circulation in the Orient Such a proposal pro-posal he said could not have been made of silver had there been more favorable fa-vorable legislation but the veto of the siegrniorage bill left us free to act on the resolution While the seigniorage bill was utterly important the lesson of its veto was invaluable I was important im-portant because it provided simply for the coinage of our idle lA silver without awaiting any pro qx islon for the future production of silver During the discussion of the repeal bill last summer men had arisen in both houses of Congress and avowed the undying friendship of the president for silver and asserting that as soon as siver infamous Sherman law was pushed a aside the first opportunity which presented itself would be seized for the introduction of a bill in favor of silver for which the president would stand sponsor If one thins was made clear by the veto asserted Mr Wolcott it was that the president was the active consistent consis-tent and implacable enemy of silver He has been consistent throughout and had never pretended to be anything any-thing else than an opponent of silver and he had the friendship of the trust companies and moneyed interests in whose nostrils the word silver has been a stench In some sections of the country the idea seemed to prevail that the president presi-dent was infinitely better than his party and the people in those sections seemed about to share the presidents contempt for the Democratic party by universally voting the Republican ticket tick-et Laughter For his own part he declared he should oppose anything less than the free and unlimited coinage coin-age of silver at the ratio of 15 or 16 to 1 Durint this unfortunate administration ad-ministration he said he did not intend to favor any halfhearted measure which did not look to the reinstatement reinstate-ment of silver I i was not necessary neces-sary to issue bonds let the men of the country meet the question like men He for one did not need a sop in the shape of a little silver bill thrown to him to induce him to give the secretary of the treasury 1 right to issue bonds for a definite purpose The resolution was introduced and supported A sup-ported because i had no connection with bimetallism Sherman Has Xo Objection Senator Sherman said he saw no objection I ob-jection to the resolution and that if arrangements could be made to carry j it out 100000000 of silver might be usefully employed j I j Senator McPherson opposed it and at his request i went over until tomorrow A little stir was made by an effort on the part of Senator Harris to obtain ob-tain an earlier hour of meeting and some definite understanding as to the discussion on the tariff debate but be fore he had concluded his remarks Senator Quay objected which brought a caustic remark from Mr Harris The latter went on to offer his propositions viz That the Senate meet at 1 oclock each day and after devoting one hour to morning business at 12 f clook the tariff bill should be taken up and general debate should continue contnue each day from 12 to 5 oclock I was clearly established that the Republicans cans were strenuous objectors and 11 Frye was supposed to voice the sentiments of that side of the chamber when he said For myself I can state what would be agreeable to me and that is the further consideration of this bill shall bi shal be postponed until next December ap plause and believing as I do its enactment enact-ment into law would do more harm to the country than the war did I will object to any proposition to hurry w1 it consideration in the Senate Senators Quay and Aldrich spoke in the same vein and finally Mr Harris made a formal motion that on and after tomorrow until otherwise ordered or-dered the Senate meet at 1 oclocJf vcoc Id Senator Lodge objected to the present i ionsidpration of the motion and under the rules it went over until tomorrow The Peffer resolution directing the committee on finance to prepare a bill repealing all laws which authorize the peeretary of the treasury to issue bonds was laid before the senate Senator Peffer spoke briefly in support sup-port of the resolution when Senator ildrrjll moved to refer it to the committee com-mittee on finance Senator Peffer demanded the yeas and nays and the motion was carried by a vote of 36 to 13 Hill on the Tariff Senator Hill then addressed the senate sen-ate ateThe political revolution he said which began in 1890 and culminated t In 1S1 2 was an expression of the popular iJ popu-lar will in behalf of certain governmental 1J govern-mental policies Measures and not men were largely the public sentiment i 1 in opposition to intrenchment upon the reserved rights of states throughout odious federal election laws some proposed pro-posed and others then existing it voiced the general demand for a discontinuance dis-continuance of the unwise and indefensible inde-fensible financial system of silver bullion bul-lion purchased by the government instead in-stead of the coinage contemplated by the constitution a system equally a hindrance to the return to bimetallism as well as a menace to a sound and wel stable currency i manifested a desire for a better administration of public affairs in greater economy governmental governmen-tal expenditures and the exaction of a higher official standard in the execution execu-tion of public trusts it demanded amore a-more safe dignified and consistent foreign for-eign policy and it condemned that abuse or perversion of the taxing power of the government which is known as the policy of protection for protections sake alone and declared in favor of tariff for revenue He then took up the foreign policy of the administration saying I is not denied some mistakes have occurred oc-curred Our foreign policy especially that relating to Hawaii i must be admitted ad-mitted has not met the expectations of the people A sense of humiliation prevailed when the project for the restoration res-toration of a deposed monarch was unfolded un-folded by the administration and gratification fication ensued when its abandonment or failure was reluctantly announced influenced largely by an aroused public pub-lic sentiment Thinks it a Blunder That unfortunate contemplated policy pol-icy was a blunder and a blunder is sometimes worse than a crime I was however the natural consequence which might well have been anticipated antici-pated from that other mistake in pacing pac-ing the department of state in charge of a Republican statesman distinguished distin-guished and estimable though he may be whose views have always been identified in opposition to the Democratic Demo-cratic party who was without sympathy sym-pathy for his traditions and purposes and whose political convictions upon the disputed public questions of the day if changed at all are carefully concealed I is to be regretted that the presi dent should not have been able to find in his own party some honored statesman states-man in whom he and his party could have placed confidence one of Democratic Demo-cratic instincts and training whose management of foreign affairs would have reflected credit upon the country and would have avoided the promulgated promul-gated unAmerican policy departure from Democratic precedentswhich was sought to be forced upon an unwilling un-willing people In this view of the situation our opponents must accept some share of the responsibility of blunders fairs committed in our foreign af fairsIn In other respects the present afl ministration of our government affords scant grounds for just criticism Federal Election Law He spoke of the repeal of the Federal election law as a fulfillment of the partys pledges and a triumph for the just doctrine of state rights and endorsed en-dorsed the repeal of the Sherman law Coming then to the main question the tariff reform he said that provision pro-vision should be approached with circumspection cr cumspection and with a realizing sense of the changed condition of the chanJed conditon country coun-try tryAn An extreme reduction of tariff duties at a time when the treasury was swollen with a surplus of a hundred million dollars when the country was reasonably prosperous and when all our industries were in operation and when all our workingmen were employed em-ployed assumed a different aspect and presented a different question when proposed now with a large and growing grow-ing treasury deficit instead of a surplus staring us in the face with our industries in-dustries paralyzed our manufactures closed our working men idle and following fol-lowing upon the heels of one of the most disastrous financial panics in our history What was safe and prudent and wise then i would be criminal folly to attempt now The present was no time for partisanship and Democrats and Republicans alike should strive to solve existing problems in a spirit of broad patriotism In the face of the prostration of private industries he continued and in the presence of such a paralysis of general business as the treasury deficit attests and prolongs this bill a framed by its authors and as passed by the House sought to double the deficit by discarding customs revenue and to fill the void with an income tax Tackles the Income Tax The rest of his speech was given up to the income tax question and his opening words defined his position in unequivocal and forceful language Against such a scheme he said unnecessarily illtimed and mische vioussuddenly sprung upon the country in the hour of its distress unDemocratic un-Democratic in its nature and socialistic in its tendencies enter the protest of the people of the state of New York They utterly dissent from any proposal I to get revenue for the general government govern-ment by taxing incomes Their dissent I is practically unanimous and altogether alto-gether inplacable i He intimated that the tariff bill was 1 constructed on lines laid down by the I administration that it was an anomalous anomal-ous state of affairs when the president i should be able to give Congress information infor-mation as to what had occurred in a maton occurre I committee of the House He said In these later days the distinctions between the functions and prerogatives of the executive department on one hand and the legislative department on the other do not seem to be always obsene The truth is the first Information Infor-mation which Congress had of the alleged al-leged details of the proposed bill was in the message itself But the strangest part of this unprecedented un-precedented proceeding was in fact that at the very date of the message to wit December 1 1893 neither the full committees com-mittees of ways and means nor the Democratic members thereof had agreed upon any income tax or upon other internal taxation The senor senator from Indiana Mr Voorhees calls this allegation a noisy and resounding charge Let me tell him it is not half as noisy as the constant vituperations we hear on every hand from blatant demagogues who are abroad in the land loudly inveighing in-veighing against the wealth of the country and impudently demanding its confiscation through every means which vent their devilish ingenuity can in Warns the Puhlic The public should not be misled into in-to the belief that only those whose incomes in-comes exceed 4000 are affected by this bill That Is a mistaken idea In the bl first Pace all those having incomes less than 4000 but more than 3500 are put to the annoyanceof making sworn returns and they neglect it at their peril In the second place it may be reasonably rea-sonably apprehended that some portion of the tax pad will reimburse itself by an increase of rents where the increase in-crease was derived from that source So poor tenants may 0 affected in some degree as well as rich landlords The bU seriously affects the rights and Interet of building and loan associations associa-tions throughout the country incorporated incorpor-ated under state laws The Senate amendments do not cure the defects complained of cmplaIned I Inquiring as to the source of demand he said Nothing was heard in its behalf on I thepart of the two great political parties par-ties in the campaign of 1892 Neither I Continued on Page 6J i d THINKS IT HAS A i SOCIALISTiC MRI I Co tinued from Page 1 I the Republicans nor the Democratic I platform proposed any such method of raising funds No prominent Democrat Demo-crat or Republican suggested any such measure Its approval was limited to the platform of the unformed Populist party and its advocacy was restricted to Populist orators He protested against the Democratic party being made a tail to the Populist kite and denied the right of a Democratic Demo-cratic Congress to make new principles for the party not sanctioned by its representatives in national convention duly assumed Voulil Degrade Labor I The substitution of internal or direct di-rect taxes for custom house taxation meant the reduction of the wages of American workmen to the European standard It meant the degredation of labor it meant the deprivation to our workmen of the comforts and luxuries of life to which they have been accustomed accus-tomed I I In outlining his position he said that one dollar of tariff taxation should be imposed wihere it is necessary for the needs of the government economically administered but whatever those needs are the necessary revenues therefor should be supplied from tariff taxation and that alone save and exoept the taxes taken upon liquors oleomargarine and tobacco to whitiJ the country for obvious reasons need not be disturbed To show the sectional section-al discrimination of the tax he referred erred to the income tax of 1863 and 73 which extorted from the people an aggregate sum of 34722982786 Of this sum the eastern states paid IS per cent the middle states 53 per cent and together they paid 71 per cent New York alone paid 30 per cent It has not been claimed that the per cen ages will be materially changed if this bill becomes a law I For my own part as a Democrat he said I prefer indirect taxation and tariff reform above direct taxes and I tarIff extinction I prefer taking foreign for-eign products rather than taxing home roducts I follow Jefferson in regarding regard-ing even the species of indirect taxation taxa-tion on home products by internal rev enue taxes as not good to be extended and the first to be rid of when their need is past Extreme Feature Dangerous If McKinleyism is socialism for the benefit of the rich and the income taxis tax-is socialism for the benefit of the poor no true American will look to the hair of the dog to cure his bite American Democrats will reject socialism of both kinds If my counsels were heeded I would surprise and satisfy the country by the conservatism in our progress in revenue reform The McKinley bill lost the country to our opponents by its extreme features in one direction and we should avoid the opposite extreme ex-treme He quoted from the speech of Senator Sen-ator Voorhees that the passage of the bill would produce a surplus and said that according to this statement the bill has jumped out of the frying pan into the fire From a deficiency there had arisen 1 in immoderate surplus One extreme has been exceeded by another The commendatory taking sugar iron coal and other articles from the free I list and making them dutiable and providing for a tax upon sugar estimated by official experts to realize real-ize 4182262361 an additional tax on spirts from which 10000000 is anticipated icipated Yet notwithstanding these large additons of revenue sources to thE hill the committee still retained the income tax mnm Where He Is At In conclusion he defined his position in these earnest words I stand ready to support any reasonable measure for tariff reform framed within the lines and based upon the principles which I have here particularly indicated and which were fully set forth in my speech in opening the political campaign in Brooklyn on September 19 1892 hI will cheerfully vote for the Mills bill and join you in making any material ma-terial reduction of duties therein I am ready to waive all minor reference of details which do not involve a question ques-tion of principle Mr President this is an important crisis in the history of the Democratic party The failure of the tariff revision re-vision means the defeat of the Democratic Dem-ocratic position it not the division and annihilation of our party Moreover More-over it means injury to the best interests in-terests of the country Let those who I insist on injecting into this bill this I odious and unDemocratic principle of an income tax pause and reflect upon I the possible consequences of their demands de-mands I They should realize it means the loss of the control of this Senate now j nearly equally divided between the two great parties it means the loss of I i the next House of Representatives it means the loss of the electoral votes of New York New Jersey Connecticut and probably every northwestern state i and finally it means the loss of the next presidency and all it implies Remember 1 K JO They should consider whether there is anything about an income tax so sacred so desirable so popular so just and so defensible that its maintenance mainte-nance is worth the risk which they are precipitating Let them remember I860 and ultra demands then made upon the Democratic party to which it could not honorably accede demands which led to our division and defeat I let them remember the triumphs of our opponents the civil war that followed the devastation the suffering suffer-ing the humiliation the force bills which threatened and all the incidents of the terrible years which darkened our partys and our countrys history from 1860 to 1864 when through wiser counsels moderate action and restored I confidence we were entrusted with I power again and reflecting upon all let them whether it these feelings say i is on the part of wisdom by the insistence I I insist-ence upon extreme demands to imperil < the success of our party again and thereby tend to retard the progress diminish di-minish the glory and endanger the best i and highest interests of our common i country 1 The conclusion of the speech was j j greeted with applause He Wants It Read j i Mr Harris then demanded the full i reading of the bill Heretofore he said the debate has proceeded by I unanimous consent without a full reading read-ing and as the bill will have to be read in full at some time he was anxious to have it done now The question was debated at some length and was becoming somewhat tiresome when Senator Manderson remarking re-marking that the discussion was being be-ing drawn out to an Interminable length moved that the Senate adjourn The yeas and nays were demanded and the Senate refused to adjourn i The Republicans continued lo occupy I the clerks with the ruling of citations for an hour and ten minute when Mr Hale moved to go into executive session and on a yea and nay vote the Republicans with two exceptions reframed i i re-framed from voting and no quorum being present the roll was called when fifty senators answered to their names A quorum being shown to be present the question recurred on the motion oL Senator Hale to go into executive session ses-sion Pending this a colloquy took place between Mr Harris and Mr Aldrich in which each sharply criticised the other The yeas and nays were again called on Mr Hales motion and the absence of a voting quorum being again shown a call of the Senate was ordered Fifty senators having answered to the roll call the question again recurred re-curred on Mr Hales motion 1 The yeas and nays disclosed no quorum quo-rum voting whereupon Mr Quay moved an adjournment The yeas and nays on this question > J 1 were called for by the Republicans I and the Senate refusing to adjourn I Mr Harris said that under the rules I it was not in order to instruct the I serg atarms to request the presence pres-ence of absent senators while the roll call showed the presence of a quorum I and he moved at 615 that the Senate I adjourn II I The motion was agreed to and the Senate adjourned until 12 oclock tomorrow to-morrow |