Show SQURE TAKES illS TURN AT THE iAII1i1 F Usual Black Picture From a Republican Brush SAYS PEOPLE DO NOTe NOT-e WANT ANY CHANGES Might Have Been Good Doctrine Once But Not Now Jousc In the House the Knife is Unsheathed Unsheath-ed and Considerable Money Saved Johnson Springs a Resolutjpn of Censure But is Turned Down AttorneyGeneral Oliley Replies to the House Resolution for Information In-formation Concerning Liability of Western Railway Stockholders Washington May 2The Senate proceedings pro-ceedings were rather dull today most of the afternoon being consumed by Senator Squire qf Washington who made a carefully prepared speech in general opposition to the tariff bill Before he began Mr Lodge of Massachusetts undertook to enact the role of tormentor He threw out some exasperating challenges to the Democratic Demo-cratic side but the Democrats refused to be drawn into a controversy and finding his efforts unsuccessful he turned the floor over to Mr Squire Before the tariff bill was taken up Mr Hoar tried to pass his antilottery bill but it met considerable opposition from Senators Vest and Gorman on the ground that it was interfering with raffles and drawings at church fairs and made participants guilty of felonies Ultimately the bill went over without action Squire Talks Tariff Mr Squire began with a reference to a statement of Mr Mills in Which the latter declared that we must pass this bill He took issue with the Texas senator and declared that if some measure of tariff reform had been formulated and passed immediately after the advent of the present administration admin-istration it might have been said that the Democratic party was complying with the will o the voters expressed in the election of 1892 But such a measure had not been prepared and the feast to which the people had been invited had actually grown cold The people had also learned that there wias poison in the feast offered He declared that the facts which the election returns re-turns had pointed out ought to convince con-vince apy reasonable man that the attempt at-tempt of the Democratic party to change the system of revenue in respect to protection to American industries was not what the people wanted Is it the duty of this Congress he asked to carry out the contract < anted ant-ed Is it the duty of this Congress he asked to carry out the contracts with the people which has been annulled an-nulled Will the Democratic senators take advantage of the terms of the party platform to favor the wishes of extremists and doctrinaires Doesnt Like the Income Tax The present system was now to be supplemented by two extremely odious features one an inquisitorial income tax and the other a tax on every breakfast break-fast table Those burdens are prepared simply that taxes may be taken off the foreign goods sent here to compete with the products of American forests fields mines and factories The fctores system of national na-tional economics ought not to be the football of political parties Changes affecting the whole people ought not to b violent and sudden Business should be taken out of politics Extreme measures like this should be suppressed and he hoped that eventually event-ually a bill would be agreed on more feasible in its provisions He asserted that from the letter of acceptance of Mr Cleveland no radical changes such as here presented would be proposed pro-posed Should this become a law he said the day on which the president shall shal affix his signature to it will be the day of doom for American wages No man who takes the trouble to acquaint himself with the facts can be blind to the truth that the country has prospered pros-pered under the policy of protection and that labor has as a general thing been well paid and contented Industries of Washington A considerable portion of Senator Squires speech was devoted to a criticism icism of the income tax His discussion discus-sion of the schedules was devoted mainly to those of his own state and he said Free lumber means the sacrifice of our lumber industries to those of British Brit-ish Columbia free coal even with the Senate amendment means poverty for our miners free iron meansthe postponement of the development of the magnificent deposits within our borders free wool means the destruction destruc-tion and abandonment of the sheep industry The reduction on hops from 15 cents per pound to 2 per cent ad valorem leaves our hop growers at the mercy of the foreign producers In the same line he spoke of prunes as a growing industry of the Pacific coast He then took up these various items and discussed them at length and concluded by saying that he believed be-lieved that many of the amendments that had been made by the Senate committee were merely Intended as traps to catch votes enough to secure its passage by the Senate with the I idea of killing them in conference I adjourned After executive session the Senate i I |