The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-08-18
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oTwo million dollars year lost to Vir-
.s,;a because northern Democrats In Con-
Sress refused 10 vote for General Mahone,s
nroposed reduction Of the tax on tobacco"
The vote on that proposition has been
repeatedly published, not only In the OaS-
pGtch, but In many other Journals. Why,
then, should respectable paper resort to
such method Of injuring the Democratic
party in Virginia as the Courier has resort
od to in charging upon the Democrats OF
the United States Senate an offence which
was really committed by its own allies, the
Administration scnatorsi We have I'M
dcrstood that the editor OF the Courier is a
gentleman OF veracity. We will assume,
therefore, that he has been misled, and VIII
once more put upon their round the real
facts in the case. The Congressional he
cord Of July 25th last throws all the ight
upon the subject that is needed. Wequote
from IL:
Tbs Presiding Officer (Mr. Cameron, OF
Wisconsin, in the chair) The question is
on agreeing TO the amendment oil the oena-
for from Virginia Mr.. Mahonel, on when
The yeas and nays have been ordered.
The roll-call having been concluded, the
result was announced-yeas, Is; nays, 90
as follows: I'm oa.u,
YrAs.-Beck, Brown, Butler, Call, Cam
cron Of Pennsylvania, Farley, Grover,
Jonas, Kellogg, Malone, Morgan, PugD'
Ransom, Vance, Vest, VOORHEES,, walker,
Williams-1S.
NAYs.-Aldricb, Allison, Anthony, Bay
ard, Blair, Camden, Chilcott, Coke, Con-
ger, Davis Of Illinois, Dawes, Ferry,
Frye, George. Hale, Hampton, Harris,
Hawlcy, Hoar, ingalls,, Jackson, Jones
Of Florida, Logan, McDill, Mcmillan.
Maxey. Miller Of California, Mitchell.
Morrill,, Pendleton, Plumb, Rollins, oauls-
bury, Sawyer, Sherman, Slater, Van Wyck,
Windom-3S.
So the amendment was rejected.
Thus il appears that CAMERON, OF Penn
sylvania, and KELLOGG are the only two
Republicans who voted with General Ma
HONE to reduce the tobacco tax to eight
cents. But General MALONE is not entitled
TO the credit OF securing even these two
Republican votes. Long before the General
became United States senator, CAMERON
voted with the Democrats TO reduce the tax
TO sixteen cents; and KELLOGG voted for
the reduction in order to defeat the bill it.
SELF, which contained provision reducing
the tariff upon sugar.
Only three Republicans voted for the re-
duction, including KELLOGG and MALONE,
two southern senators. Now, isn't it likely
that the Republican party will abolish the
tobacco tax if they are continued i'll power
another four years?
On the other hand, fifteen Democrats
voted TO reduce the tobacco tax to eight
cents-fye times as many as the number OF
Republicans who so voted.
Look at the negative vote. Thirteen
Democrats voted against reducing the tax
to eight cents, il is true; but what OF that
Twenty-Five Republicans voted against it.
The Republicans in caucus voted to re-
sist as q party the reduction of the tax.
This fact alone is sufficient to end all con-
troversy. II the Democrats had gone into
caucus on the subject, Il majority would
have voted to reduce the tax, there being
amongst the Democratic senators fifteen
affirmative votes on the question and only
thirteen negative ones.
II the tobacco tax is to be abolished at
all, it will be done by the Democrats. They
ought to, and we hope will, put into their
next national platform plank in favor OF
abolishing the entire internal-reyenue sys-
TEN. That's the way to get rid Of the to-
bacco tax.