The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-08-04

the TAX on snuff. tobacco, from Is
TO ? cents per pound, and allowing
a rebate. The time which remained
OF the session would not permit "a
deliberate consideration of the
many amendments offered and vet
TO be offered by the opposite side,
aid which they had dt ciared their
intention to discuss without limit.
He hoped this Course would he
abandoned and the proposition
he now made be accepted.
BAyard replied that his associates
and himself were not prepared tc
to accept the proposition. He re-
viewed the history of the measure
showing its proportions had grad
ually developed until finally it came
from the Senate republican caucus
with important charges. Some of its
reductions were ONLY Ostensible.
particularly that in regsrd to hOop
iron and cotton ties. 1t was cues
tiOnable whether there WAS really
a reduction in the sugarduties. The
readjustnent of the burdens Of
tariff, admitted to be out of date,
unequal, unreasonable and full of
errors, was the most important
question before the country, and the
other side now proposed to abandon
the work of their own councils. to
let the tariff go, and take up this
little shameful apology for bill.
Sherman said the other side had
embarrassed the progress of the bill
by dilatOry tactics in Offering
amendments. They had preferred
to refuge the tobacco tax TO the
amount of S6,O00,000 rather than
to allow any necessary reductions of
the bill to he made, and they
would have to bear the responsible
ity of failure of the effort which
had been earnestly made to relieve
the people of a considerable portion
Of the burden of taxation.
Beck characterized Sherman's
charge, that tie democrats had en-
barraSsed or delayed the bill, as an
abSurdity. The amendment he pro-
posed had not been regarded as su-
perhuouS, or unnecessary, and there
had been no intimatiOn that his own
course and that of his associates in
committee on finance, and in the
Senate had not been dictated in the
utmost good faith and by cOnsidera-
ton for public interests.
Hoar said it had not been con-
tended that the taxes to be taken off
by the bill ought not to be done
away with. The democrats were op-
posed to any relief tor people unless
they were permitted 10 dictate the
character OF that relief. He remem-
bared when there came to the loyal
north of Kentucky 4 threat to wipe
out the legislation OF the war; and
again when, after Maine had gone
wrong in the presidential election,
how the voice of Kentucky for
tariff for revenue only" had saved
the country from the sorrow and
disaster of democratic administra-
ton. Once more the cheap, easily
seen through buster and blunder Of
the senator from Kentucky had come
to the rescue of the republican party.
Beck replied that ne hoped the
senator from Massachusetts, when
he went home, would tell the people
of that state his little bill to take off
| $30,000,000 taxes was meant to re-
lieve the poor, suffering, downtrod-
den banker, the patent medicine
man and watch manufacturers, and
that 1t gave no relief worth speaking
of to anybody else.
After further talk, chiefly of a
personal nature, between Hoar and
Vance, the matter went over with
out action, and the Senate passed
the joint resolution providing tenn
pOrarily for the expenditures of gov
eminent.
The House adjournment res0lu-
ton was laid on the table for future
action
After executive session, adj
journed.