, 1875-03-04

1ptAi.. II
OF those non-yoting, Mossrs. Scuunz, T1r-
ToS. HAnvEY, aud Lgw1s and perhaps Is-
CALLS md CAErESrEn, would havo voted
against tho bill, milking 81; 60 that in full
Senate tho bill could not have been passed,
antl that, too, under circumstances Of tho
/ most extraordinary character. Tho pressure
| to force tho passage Of this bill WIS unpreco-
s1ented. 1t proposed a gigantic robbery,-nn
annual dividend Of thirty or forty millions Of
dollars to ono clRgs n cash bonun Of 90 conts
gallon to every holder or ownur Of whisky
casll bonus Of 1 to i per cent on the value
of all tho woolen, cotton, paper, iron and
steel, lend, tin, zinc, copper, and other metal
goods, and OH manufactures Of glass, in store
in tho country. The bill hnd tic support
Of every whisky -<1istillcr in tho United
States sua Of nll the owners Of spirits. It
added $4,000, 600 cash to the value Of the
whisky Oh hnud, and exempted it from tasa-
ton. Al this clnss Of persons, nnd they aro
numerous in every Congressional District,
were represented on tho floor Of both Houses
OF Congress urging md pushing this hill.
Livery manufacturer Of carpets and wooden
goods Ut every description, every 1nnnufac-
tnrer OF cotton goods, every manufacturer Of
glassware, and evc1y manufacturer Of iron
mud steel wnre, was represented on tho floor
of tho Sc'ate, III person, by attorney, by let
ters, and by dispatches, urging and pushing
the pastsago Of this bill. Every merchant and
dealer in carpets and in cotton, wooden, pa-
per, glass, iron, steel, ind othor mctnl goods
was represented in Washington by those urg-
ing and pushing this bill ind MI tho sugar
rctincrs aud sugar-producors in tho Unitotl
States were urging aud pressing tho pagsago
OF the bill and yet SO INDUSTRIOUS md bare
fucel was tie robbery that it passed
by bare majority III both Houses. In
tho Senato it received ulo votes Of a number
Of Senators whose official Ito hns now OK.
pired, a1ad who, it IL to DO hoped, will bc
hoard OF no more officially forever. It WINS
supported also by the four gontleIuon Official
" representing Florida md Arkaslsas, and a
fifth from Aluhaiua, but between whom and
their constituents there is no possible CON-
munity Of interest,
Nor wee this I'LL. rho river and 1Iarbor
bill, with its fG,coo, oU0 Of pluutlcr, intended
for distribution ainong minority Of tic
Congressional Districts of the country, was
held in reserve, aud Senators wcro warned, in
decided and emphatic terms, tllat, unless tho
Tux bill woro first passed., tho lIarbor bill
should not DO allowed to come to vote,
The sugar-retiucrs in whose interest tho
people OF the count.y have been numerically
taxed for fourteen years., wera prosont urging
this bill. This class If pessons arc among
tho werlshieat and ,uost palnpered by lsrotec-
tion in tho country. This bill proposes to
a'id to tho annual tax Oh sugar $50, ,OOu, 600,
Of which ss.'0o,u00 aro to be paid to tho
United states aud tho other 423 900, 600 to
tho sugar-ro'iness. They wcre represented in
both Houses of Congress by their attorneys
auting IN members.
Every man in the United Suites who WAS
interested in this gigantic ucAcu,e Of robbery
wGa represented but the peoplo, who are to
bo robbed, had few 1uombess 10 speak word
III their behalf.
Despite all these extraordinary circutn.
stances, the I'LL would hayo failed; tho Sau.
ate and tho HOUSE would haye recoiled from.
the enlistment Ut such All outrage Lad not
the Secretary Of tho Treasury, armed with
hss immense patronage and power, appeared
in tho Senate and personally and for hours
lnportuned Senators to vote for the bill,
aTowing tllnt unless 1t were passed he would
laye to Eosign, or TINT he would azbit.,rily
refaso to make expenditures authorized by
Law. And Jts, to the assdis Ut Senators, ths