The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-01-11
The Forty seventh CongresS...Sparring.
Between Morrill, aud Beck over
The Formers Tariff COM
mission Bill.
The Utah Contested Election Case be-
fore the hOuse...Liycly Express
sion of Sentiment.
Judge POrter'S Terrible Deaunciation
Of the Assassin and his Crime...
A Masterly Effort.
The Prisoner Covered thereby and
Loses his Self-Possession.
Judge CoN's Decision Regarded rs Un-
favorable to the Defense.
Other Foreign and Domestic News.
The Prisoner Covered thereby and
Loses his Self-Possession.
Other Foreign and Domestic News.


WASHINGTON, January l0.-Mr. BavarJ
from the Finance Committee, reported
with recommendation that it pass, the
Morrill, Tariff Commission Bill; and also
with an adverse report, the Garland Tariff
Commission Bill, He said he favored the
mode OF constituting commission pre-
scribed IN the former, namely, from among
civilians, ms tending to remove the
tariff question from the arena
of sectional or partisan feeling, of the
existence Of which Congressmer are fully
conscious. Proceeding to argue the neces-
sty for immediate action to correct the
incongruities and ineilicacy of the cxisting
tariil, he characterized it as class legislation
for the benefit Of few Asa provision OF
| legislation he repudiated the doctrine that
| what is wanted is tariff for protection
with incidental revenue, and argued thai
taxation, to be Just, must be uniform. ana
tc be uniform, must he uniyeral The para.
mount purpose III tariff of taxation shonld
be TO provide for the expenses of the GOV.
ernment and the incidental result of this in
| fostering our industry might be wisely con
sldercd, not as a controlling motive in say
ing taxes, but as one of its inevitable re.
suits. He did not propose now TO discuss
the principles of tariff taxation AT nny
/ length. They were soon to be acted on by
the representatives of the people. The war
taxes OF the present tariff were out of date
IN time of peace. In illustration of this he
referred to the duties on various articles
Upon the conclusion of Mr.. Bayard's re-
marks, the morning hour having in the
| meantime been extended informally. Mr.
ShermahS Funding Bill came up, but wps
temporarily laid aside without vote. snl
MIR. Beck took the floor and delivered n lon.
! speech in opposition to Mr.. Morrills bill
AT beck opposed the bill as cunning
scheme ot the monopolists for delay, TO
which they had rcsOrted not only as a
means Of preventing legislation bv the pres.
cht Congress, but of white-washing nil the
enormitieS of the high protective system.
! ne wanted To have immediate action on
I the tanfl, and asserted that all that n com
| mission would be likely to find out as TO the
| basis Of iudiciouS reduction of taxation
could be presented by Committee of thr
senate and furnished to the Wavs and
! Means Committee OF the House within six
weeks lhe nine men whom it was pro-
posed to have the President select might
refuse TO hear whatever did not suit them,
! -" "'"'N nv NC accountable Tor
! misrepresentation in their repori.
The evident purpose of the So.
called protcctioniSts, as shown hv tb. dc.
cidrauons OF their organs and conventions
was to have commission which would he
| committed to their interest. The declnro.
ton of the Senator from Vermont mir
| MORRILL, that the charges should he made
by friendly hands, and not by ill.informed
ana reckless revolutionists, was easily un.
! derstood. This, however was an impeaQh-
ment OF the integrity and common
stnsH ol congress- one House of
which was charged by the Constiul.
| tl3n with the duty of organizing
bills for raising revenue or changing tny39
! ton upon the theory that III, acsounta.
( bility OF its membe every two years
would make them careful. The success Of
| the infant Southern cotton industries hos
demonstrated that the protection of such
/ an industry, required to compctc with old
established ones, was not of so much Lenet,t
aS ncarncsS To the raw material and the
market for the product. Georgia i'm tLis
ulrectlon was more successfully com.
peting with New England than
would the latter in free con
test IN cotton products with Great
Britain, and he would checrfully vote TO
exempt all cotton machinery from tax. by
O.
| try, and he would also make iron cotton
! ties free, He would do this in compensa.
ton to cotton planters for the S6,OO0O0O of
which they were robbed by the unjust co,
ton taN ol lS65-tb, and to make them even
/ with New England manufacturers, who had
! for iiltcen years the benefit of n war
tariff After detailing ut much length
! the incongruities and INEQUALITIES
oil the present system and advocating n
tarih ;9rined 50 a. to he readily understood
anu adjusted ~ advllorcm principles as far
II gs practicable Mr., Beck closed
nY crltlclzng, with some severity
the rceomhcnd0tion of the Secrc.
tary OF the Treasury for the withdrawal of
silver certificates and placing of the cur.
/ rency IN the hands ol national banks Uc
! Incidentally referred 10 what he called the
ah'urdily ofany effort to abolish internal
/ taxation in view of the present wants of
the Treasury. '''"'' VI
Mr.. Beck occupied the floor for nearly
three hours, closing ut 4:lOp. m,
i He cwas uuentivcly listened to throurhout
! by an almost full Senate and some MON.
/ hers of the House.
| Mr' Morrill, rising 10 reply to few orth
! points made by Mr.. Beck, said he had not
I 3een ignorant OF lhst senator's intention 10
uesl sharply with his argument and IA,
4 unNut
as well as could be expected, that In
needed neither TO haul OF for repnir.
! nor TO wait TO find ammunition.
The Senator seemed to have iump.d
Into controversy for the purnoso oi
heading oil the growing prosperity of the
South, which had now TO some extent N,
least. embarked in the manufacture md
had so highly commended all the chief ,d.
vocatcs of tree trade, that he would doubt.
less indsce his party to follow In tnnt
direction. AS othe cotton tax of which
the Senator complains that was about the
only tax paid by The South, while Inc
North, East and West paid thousands OF
millions to support the govern.
ment lf he (MorrilD was n
southern man he would advocate n
policy to-day of levying an internal reyc.
nue. tax upon every pound of cotton pro.
du ed IN this country, except for family
use, and making drawback of an eonnl
amount on manufactured articles of thread.
yar,i, etc, sent abroad. He believed this
would in short time double the total Of
Southern exports.
Here the discussion. which had bee
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