| Show 4 i I 1 waz P ia M k 0 1 t t f I 1 az TIT 5 I 1 I 1 7 1 11 1 t t ip g ii aita 62 Z 19 wal tz uw U on I 1 1 R i sz W 4 WV NM N M nt r 1 7 A t C 1 I f d F iOP ioppa A 44 DA 6 4 f 0 4 3 O p k f 4 1 r 55 i Z shanae anar via HI tio 1 fetuu r act V aw adequate I 1 miyei doty on woop tor P position I 1 au la xo 1 1 itar chiago chronicle may 6 okli twister atif chandler em enlarged largel the sphere elee I 1 of his i activities having enjoyed a season of repose after tying a series of knots in theoti of the british non lion he now forges to the front it is so no vulgar plebeian petition from the herd begging congress to make us all happy if not virtuous it is IL a petition humbly offered by grave and reverend senators to their own committee on I 1 finance thirty one senators who have signed it solemnly beg the committee in case they considerate any revenue bill during the present session to support the addition of a it clause providing tor for an adequate duty on wool herein chandler exhibits himself in the character ot of a statesman inventor who thinks of things which are simple that the wonder ever grows growa why nobody has ever thought of them be fo fore re he reminds one of a certain member of a state legislature the lower house had cleared away everything that was ready to be acted on one morning and someone moved to adjourn the member referred to took the floor and supported the motion in an elaborate speech he was very much out of order of course but the house tolerated him and then adjourned probably it would not have had the collective sense to adjourn if he demonstrated that the thing could be done without fracturing our institutions so in this case the members of the finance committee including morrill aldrich aidrich and john sherman never would have thought of wool it if chandler mentioned it and induced thirty other thoughtful senators to help him mention it members of the finance committee are so stupid As it la is we may depend upon it that wool will not be negle neglected eted if the takes a revenue bill in hand this session then chandler will be the first in the hearts of his shepherd countrymen come to look at it perhaps chandler has some idea beyond that of making himself solid in tee the sheep pastures one or two republican senators have been so lost to all sense of party duty as actually to say that they would vote tor for almost any kind of a tax that anyone might propose to raise sufficient revenue chandler and his thirty fellow petitioners petition ers do not want sufficient revenue just now a deficit suits them better than a surplus therefore they take this method of giving notice that if anybody proposes any kind of a tax for revenue only they will antagonize it with the most offensive and burdensome of protective taxes the tax on wool here no doubt we approach the true inwardness of the chandler petition |
