Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-02-17
FORTY-THIRD CONGRESS,


! Court of Claims. Judi ciary.
| Nj. Logan introduced q bill establishing
rules and articles for the government OF the
army of the United States. Military Affairs
! saturday he would ask for half an hour foY
| the Committee or Foreign Relations.
! Mr.. Anthony, from the Committee on
/ Printing. repcrlSd a resolution TO print 1000
/ extra copies OF the Presidents Louisiana
message. Passed.
/ MessrS. Scott and Cameron presented peti-
| CnS from -tiZeUS Of Pennsylvania in "a vor
| OF granting aid To the Northern Pacific AMI
! Texas Pacific railroads. Referred To Com
| mittee on Railroads.
Nj Sherman, from Committeeoa Military
! Ahalrs. reported House joint resolution ap-
! pointing managers o. the National Home
| i,r disabled VOLUNTEER soldiers and sailors.
! Passed.
Tie calendar Of general o7lers being taken
| up, the Committee on tiVIi Service and Ra-
/ trcnChment was called.
| Mr.. Wright. the chairman of the commit
| tee, asked that the committee be passed over
| una! reXt saturday. a an important bill
| one bill reOrsaniZing the Treasury depart
! menD which passed the House yesterday.
! had to-day been sent to his committee. II
| was essential that this bill should pass AZ
! thlS session, and the committee would bring
| il up on Saturday. The request OF NJ
! Wright was then agreed to.
| Mr Jones, from the Committee on the Dis
| met OF Columbia, reported back the memo
| RAJ OF the fire department of the District of
| Columbia. with The request that il be r.
| Ierred to tie Committee on Appropriations.
Mr.. Lewis called upb bill explanatory OF the
acl OF June -, isIr, for the government of the
| District of Columbia i'm respect 10 The clean
/ ing OF the streets and sewers. After being
| read il was laid over.
! Mr.. Anthony introduced resolution to
\ pint $50 additional copies of the ariny and
| navy registers of 1875. Printing.
| MIR Howe called up his motion 10 re-
| consider The passage Of the bill donating a
site to The Peabody School al 81: Augustine,
Mr. Boutwell, said he was opposed TO the
| bill because this school excluded colOTei
| children, and he was also opposed to the do
HatIon of public lands here and there.
| The motion 10 reconsider was carried bv
| ayes 30, noes -, those in the negative beside
| the democrats being Me>sTS. Boreman. Gil
| bert, Lewis, Morrii, va Sargent, Sherman
and SETaeuc.
The unfinished business. being the re>ol,,-
tion for the admission Of M. Pinchback
came up, when
Mr.. Morton said that he would ask the
Senate 10 remain to-day until this question
was disposed Of
Mr.. Ferry Conn, hoped the request Of M
Morton would Eot be regarded by the senate.
The Senator from California (MT. Sargent
had occupied the floor on Monday anu Tues
| day when this question was up, and now 10
| insist, when there has so far been no discus
| sion, on q question graver than almost any
other that has arisen in this body i'm his Mr..
| F.'sl recollection, That we shall stay here all
| night and talk 10 empty seats, is monstrou>.
| He Mr. F. desired to submit some remarks
| upon this question. which would be brief.
but in his feeble condition he could not do l.
| in The small hours of the night To insist on
depTiving him and Others of n fair hearing.
| TO which they Were entitled, on one OF The
| gfaVeSt questions ever brought here, 5 moi
Just.
Mr.. Sargent alluded TO the fact hat both
| on Monday and yesterday his remarks had
| been cut short by the action i'm regard TO Mr..
Hooper. He then resumed his speech.
| Mr.. Ferry, of Conn, said he felt that il was
| should give briefly, as he would be compelled
| TO on account Of his health, the reasons why
| he could not vote for the resolution for the
| admission of Mr.. Pmchback. He had listened
| with painful anxiety 10 the words Of the Sen
atOr from Indiana tMortOn), to see if there
| was one single reason why he ShO3ld vote
| for Mr.. Pinchbacs: but The Senator hal
| rot. in fact, touched upon the real question
| at issue. He then referred 10 the report OF
| the Committee on Privileges and Elections.
| i'm 1873, and in reference to the credentials OF
| Mcmillan and Ray. Both of those creden-
| tials were regularly signed by persons claim
| Ing 20 be the governor and secretary OF state.
| and with the seal Of the state atfachet.
| EVclNthing said by the Senator 10 the
| credentials OF Pinchbacll holds OF Mcmillan.
ard why had not the committee taken NJ
| the credentials Of Mcmillan iasteaJ 0I
| iincEDack;
| HOUSE OF REPRE- The
| House met at II O'Clock a. IN.
| Mr.. Randall. pa at the conclusion Of tiie
| reading Of the Journal promptly demanded
| the regular order.
| Dir. Dawes Mass moved to suspend The
! rules 10 90 into Committee OCthe Whole on
THE TARIFF AND TAX BILL.
| and, pending that, that al general DEBATE be
| limited to three and a quarter hours. which
| latter motion Wa agreed 10 by YOfe ol 8 10
| -, and the fOrmer by a vote OF % 10 ~. So
| the House went into Committee vi the Whole
| Mr.. Hale Me- in the chair.
| Mr.. BuTChard tIll.) was recognized as en-
| Titled TO the floor. and said thaL for the first
| time since the war the House was met with
| the proposition to increase the revenues. and
! the question al once arose, was there
! any necessity to increase the revenues >
| Was there necessity 10 Increase the rev
! Cnues TO meet what the expenses should be-
! de proceeded TO show that there was neceS-
/ Sity for increased revenues. and argued that
| the necessities Of the government would re-
! quire an Increase OF twenty million dollars
| The great question that now confronted the
| House was, by what means shall this large
| amount of additional revenue he raised?
| Was the bill as proposed the best means? IL
! was suggested 10y some that tea and coffee
| should be taxed. He, for one, had no Obec-
! tion TO that. He had never voted To take 'tb..
| tax off, But he thought the bill as reported
| would meet all the demands. According 10
| has estimate. under the bill eighteen millions
| would be raised from distilled spirits: -four
! millions additional from the increase on to-
| baccO, and about nine millions from sugar.
| That would be additional revenue OF over
| thirty millions. The next item was the res
| t0ratiOn of the horizontal tax of ten per cent.
| This he was compelled to oppose, because the
| restoration or that TAX would disturb too
/ many of the industries Of the country with
| out an adequate compensation in the amount
| of revenue received. He protested against
| The restoration OF the tax in the name Of The
| abOriHg classes of the country.
| Mr.. Cox ny opposed the bill, 3Dd argued
| ihat TO increase the tax on distilled spirits
| would not cause any greatly increased
| amount OF revenue. He showed the iuctla-
| tiOns OF the tax on distilled spirits, AMI then
| argued that the greatest amount OF revenue
| was received when ii was lowest. He would
prefer taxation on tea and coffee, but above
all he would prefer economy. and If time
/ were allowed him he would show that the
| House had not economical. In his Judgment
| our whole tariff system was a gigantic frlui.
| He believed enough money could he raised
| rom tea and coffee to supply all the demands
| of the sinking fund. and that seemed to be
| the whole object Of the BILL
| Mr.. Earning -(Ohiol opposed the whisky
| tax. and showed Oy the business OF his dis
| trct that the increase would be ruinous.
| Mr. Chittenden IN " said the bill was
| unjust, arbitrary, and inefficient, and il
| should not pass. The proper statistics and
| facts had not been presented, and Mr.. Dawes
/, argument al favor of the bill the other day
| had only crystalized his opposition TO il. The
| last section Of tue bill was, in his opinion q
| bold ard glaring fraud. The committee had
| been duped into adopting ii. III is stupen-
| uOus bid for endless new inventions OF reye-
! me frardS He denounced the bill as a COM