The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-04-22
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Continued from the Second Edition.
WASHINGTON, April 22-Mr. Chandler continued
remarking that Great Britain never could, and we
never expected her to, pay these claims in Court,
and that the United States Government now simply
proposed TO her that If she would renquish her title
TO any part OF our continent we would forgive her
the debt Her title to any American territory would
not good it was based entirely upon the fact that
the diseOverers had raised the British nag upon it.
She had the right OF conquest but that involved only
the rights possessed by the conquered not one iota
more.
1t might be said that in the purchase OF Louisiana
from the French we had virtually acknowledged this
right, but the nation then was weak. To-day in
stead OF a purchase we would merely say to the
French that their presence there was an ntolerabe
nuisance and they must leave SO with Canada.
Now that Dominion had become an intolerable nui-
sance 1t cost us oday to protect our from
tier from smugglers alone more than ten millions OF
dollars annually, while our Treasury suffered from
that cause to the extent OF forty millions year.
the nuisance IL would be abated.
Referring TO the existence OF the Canadian Do
minon as antagonlstic to our institutions, he said
that II the British Government designed to continue
indefinitely her sway there she must be prepared to
maintain 1t by such a force as would Withstand the
Government Of the United States He hoped, in the
interest OF humanity, that the rumor OF the sending
OFT OF an armed force TO suppress the Red river in
surrectionists would not prove true, as their ult
mate destruction would certainly follow. An army OF
less than one hundred thousand British regulars
would be utterly futile, and II the American people
should protest, these would not be better than
q force OF one hundred.
House.
Continued from The Second Edition. LA
Mr.. Brooks IN. " sustained the amendment
offered by MIR. Butler as OF the greatest importance
to the railroads and to the iron workers all over the
country. The country needed more railroad iron
than Pennsylvania and the other rolling mills could
supply.
syllable used in way TO do more harm than that
little OF two letters inserted where the gentle
man from Massachusetts proposed TO insert It. The
gentleman from New York, and great many Others
seemed TO have Pennsylvania on the brain. Her
interests, however, were not specially involved in
this amendment, but IL was fraud on the revenue
and on the interests OF the country.
Mr.. Judd onered general substitute liking duties
on sugar, salt COAL ana pig and scrap iron at one
third less than existing dutesand on coffee tea and
al manufactures OF iron except r. Il. iron, at 10th
less provided, no manufacturer OF iron shall pay
less than 3b per cent ad uatorent on all wooden or
cotton manufactures, and on railroad iron at one
tenth less: provided, that no wooden or cotton
manufactures shall pay ess than 80 per cent ad
UaLOYen. Also, TO reduce the income tax to three
per cent. on incomes over S25OO, and to repeal ali
special taxes and taxes on sales except special
taxes on dstillers recti1eTs liquor dealers brew
ers, manufacturers and dealers in tobacco, cigars
and snun, and banks and bankers.
The Chairman decided that the substitute might
be offered now, but could not be considered or voted
until all the sections those subjects had been
passed ON. The question was then taken on Mr..
Buffers amendment, and II was rejected-ayes, 65s
nays, 6S.