National Republican., 1883-02-20


$s0,O0O,0o0 in bounty to the manufacturers
The internal revenue had been reduced on,
hall, and to-day, twenty years after the war
the imp0st taxes remained ns they were
Notwithstanding this, here was a bill brough
in to relieve the banking capital of the coun
try and tobacco chowers at the expense o
the people. II was offered here in order {,
give quid OF tobacco to some people, will
every livelihood of their biting at the bait.
MIR. Dunnell said that when the forty
seventh congress came together there was al
expectation everywhere that there would b,
y substantial reduction in the revenues o
the country. The treasury had asked for IL
tho people had demanded it. The country
had expected that Of the $500O0,000 raised
from the duty on sugar there should be al
least reduction of $20,000,000 The grca
commercial interests expected % reduction o.
the duty on iron and steel. The committc,
of the whole had reduced the duty on stec
rails from S2s to SO per ton, but as soon u.
that was done the declaration had been made
that the pending tariff bill must not gC
through. The house was now face to face
with the policy declared in New York IN
October prior to the meeting of the forty.
seventh congress, that the reduction Of
revenue must come from the internal
revenue, and from that alone must II come
and the house was going on writing history
for this congress to that cIcst.
Mr.. Mckinley asserted that the surplus
revenhe in the treasury was $l47 900, 900
which could be with safety reduced $50 900, 900
lt was proposed in the pending bill to reduce
the revenues more than $41 100000. Every
one admitted that whether the tariff were
revised or not this internal revenue must be
reduced.
Mr., Morrison. Why not put them toge,hcr7
Mr.. Mckinley. I find that Just two wears ago to.
Jay the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Carlisle)
and did not tut II with the tnrifl, There is no
statcsmnnshir, there s 10 business sense in saying
mat because we have not finished the tariff bill
we shall not relieve ourselves of the burden OF
Inter ,al taxation, which everybody admits ought
10 De and in time VIII be removed.
Mr. Curtin said that he would vote with
pleasure for q bill to abolish entirely the
sy9tem of internal taxation, but he was pre-
pared 10 vote for the pending bill, which
removed burden of Sll,0O0,000 from the
people, in the expectation that tho next con-
gress wonld take Off all internal taxation and
abolish all the offices.
Mr.. House called the attention of the
country to the spectacle presented to-day.
For the last month, day and night, the house
had been discussing a tariff bill, and now
came back the same old proposition of last
session, the old scapcgoat which had been
expected to bear the sins Of the republican
party into the Wilderness. Laughter That
party had gone before the country, but the
people had thrown its bank checks in its
face, burnt its Matches and broken its bottle
of ready relief over its head Let the rcpub-
lican party go before the country, if it dared,
with this bill in answer to the demand made
at the last election for relief from taxation.
Mr.. Hatch criticised the bill as relieving
capital, but not taking any burden Of taxa
tion of the labor of the country.
Mr.. Blackburn said that IL was well known
not aNaNs NnrtA yy,gsa Ill A
this congress IL was to come through the bill
now pending in the senate, as IL was a physi-
cal impossibility to enact the house bill into
o law. If this internal revenue bill were
passed it was the last of any chance for
turiff revision. Gentlemen might as well
aIlmit the fact and play with open hands.
Mr.. Carlisle contended that whenever con-
gress touched the internal revenue tax it
ought to be abolish IL entirely, and thereby
get rid of the horde of office holders now re-
quircd TO enforce the law.
Mr.. Browne opposed the pending bill, be-
cause it proposed to make n reduction of
twenty-one millions of dollars on the tax on
tobacco, while the duty on sugar remained
Mr. Kasson advocated the motion. If he
thought that the passage Of this bill would
have one feathers weight to prevent the re-
vision of the tariff, he would stand there and
oppose 1t. He has urged ON both sides more
prompt action on the tariff bill He should
from day to day, by every effort known to
try to cary through either the
senate or the house bill. He was for reducing
internal revenue taxation; he was for reducing
the tariff. If he could not get both, he would
take one.
The motion to suspend the rules and pass
the bill was defeated-yeas 1862, nays 97-not
the necessary two-thirds in the affirmative, as