The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1870-07-14
Decided Against the Country.

4 verdict against the people is the virtual
meaning of the midnight vote of Tuesdays
session, by which the Income Tax was perpet-
uated until the year 1872 Il appears that
this great wrong might have been avoided II
it tad not been for the absence from his seat,
at the most important moment IN ths history
of the Tax bi |. of the venerable and clStlh-
gushed 81 OF Lochiel, Senator Cameron =
Why he deserted the cause he had faithfully
served up TO TIE hour OF its hnAl issGe, Is not
clear though m explanation may possibly be
found therefor in the concluding line of our
Washington special dispatches OF tuesday
night. II reads as follows
'TaE TAX ON So RECEIPTS is ABOLISHED.
The contest in the Senate finally turned on
the question whether few large corporate
bodies should he compelled to pay fair and
impartial tax their gross receipts, or "heth-
er they should be relieved from such pay ment
by The continuance OF the tax on incomes. The
railroad lobby never worke ed more energetica-
IL nor more successfully; the gross receipts are
uptaxed Every selfish interest in the coun-
try arrayed itself in the Senate to defeat the
almost uIiiyeI pal protest OF the people against
the inicuitUus lucome levy. The President,
regarding the claims of the hordes of assessors
and collectors who had labored in his behalf,
recommended in his late message that the tax
be COP. inued the assessors ard collectors
themselves besicged Congress in theiI own be-
half and, fually, the railroad corp rltlohs
sent their lobbyists TO Insist on the abolition OF
the gross receipts tax. 1t is believed that the
patriotic Seer of Lochiel is more largely in
terested in the gross receipts of at least one
railroad, than aly other person sitting IN the
Senate. On inc ONES his payments have never
been ex.ravagant; on gross receipts, however,
he has been q pecuniarE sufferer.
1t may be suggest ed that the Great Chief of
Winnebage who Fever deserts a friend or a
principle, did not know that final vote ould
be taken, on Tuesday night, On the cOntinu-
auce OF the Income Tax but in contradiction
OF such theory appears the Seer of Lochiel's g
well known powers OF second sight, by which
he is enabled to see as far into the future as
/ men of less gifted minds see into the past He
it was, who Prophecled; at the dawn of the Re-
! bellion, that egro would before the Seces-
| sioE question was entirely settled, occupy JEFF
! ferson Davis seat in the Senate. At least he
| said he did, and, in confirmation of it, is not
! Senator Revels Negro, and does he not oc-
/ cupy Jefferson Davis Senatorial place
/ If the Great Seer could foretell the rise and
/ progress of Revels ten years before either oc-
( CURED could he not foresee that in half an
+ hour his vote would be needed TO Prev the
/ ipfiicton of the odious Income Tax upon the
country To suppose otherw ise liz to disbe-
! lieve in the theory of second sight, or to deny
! the gift Of foreteliiug events to Senator Cam
! eror.
lie DID know that his vote would be needed
! and with this knowledge he deserted his col
! leagues at the last hour and by such sertion
! the country must endure for two years longer
the unjust and inquisitorial Income Tax The
responsibility rests upon Senator Cameron and
upon one else.
The foregoing article is taken from the
Philadelphia l"qnirer, good Republican au
thority, and what it says in reference TO the
duplcity Of Simon Cameron on the Income
tax bill. is ali true, and is fully sustained by
the official record of the proceedings of th,
Senate. 1t only proves that Cameron is
trickster and demagogue. VIII ;ch is nothing
new. We desire only to add, that wi il,
many honest Republicans in the Senate votet
TO repeal the odious and unjust income tax
the Democratic members unanimously voteC
to wipe it out of existence, and it has only
been retained by the overwhelming Radica
maj ,rity in the Senate, which has since beel
concurred in by the House. We will do GU
member, Mr.. M1rrel!. the simple justice t,
say that he voted in favor of abolishing thi
hateful tax. Some good, it would seem. cal
come out Of Nazareth.