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
rebate. The time which remained |
OF the session would not permit IA
deliberate consideration of the /
many amendments offered and vet |
TO be offered by the opposite side,
aid which they had de ciared their !
intention to discuss without limit. !
he hoped this course would be |
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 ORly Ostensible,
particularly that in regsrd to hoop
iron and cotton ties. 1t was cues !
tlOnable whether there WAS really !
reduction in the sugar duties. 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tariff, admitted to be out of date,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 a bill.
Sherman said the other side had
embarrassed the progress of the bill
by dilatory tactics in Offering
amendments. They had preferred
to re1uce the tobacco tax 10 the
amount of $6,OOO,OOo rather than
to allow any necessary reductions of
the bill to he made, and they
would have to bear the responsible
ity of a failure of the effort which
had been earnestly made to relieve
the people of 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 SUI
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 OBJ
posed to any relief tor people unless
they were permitted 10 dictate the
character OF that relief. He remem-
bered when there came to the loyal
north of Kentucky threat to wipe
out the legislation OF the war; and
again when, after Maine had gone
l wrong in the presidential election
how the voice Of Kentucky FOL
, tariff for revenue only" had saved
e the country from the sorrow and
5 disaster of democratic administra.
] ton. Once more the cheap, easily
, seen through buster and blun1er OF
2 the senator from Kentucky had come
to the rescue of the republican party
Beck replied that ne hoped the
D senator from Massachusetts, when
: he went home, would tell the people
a of that state his little bill to take of
{ S30,000,000 taxes was meant to re
: lieve the poor, suffering, doWntTOd
den banker, the patent medicine
: man and watch manufacturers, anC
e that 1t gave no relief worth speaking
d of to anybody else.
II After further talk, chiefly Of
y personal nature, between HOar an,
II Vance, the matter went over with
J. out action, and the Senate pasSe
the joint resolution providing ten
q porarily for the expenditures Of gov
IS eminent.
s. The House adjournment resOlU
Is ton was laid on the table for fQtur
Is action,
1T After executive session, ad
lie journed.