Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-03-02
THE LAST FAILURE OF TIE I'M
RECEIES.

Beetles.
The New York san arraigns the pres
ent Republican Congress in the following
strong language
At the opening of the Forty-seventh
Congress, the President and the Secre-
tarv Of the Treasury recommended IN the
strongest terms a reduction of taxation,
alleging as one reason for it the enor-
nous surplus in the Treasury.
s.The time has arrived, said the Presl-
dent, "when the people may justly de-
mand some relief from their present on
erous burdens, and that, by due economy
in the various branches OF the public
service, may be readily afforded. l
therefore concur with the Secretary OF
the Treasury in recommending the aboli-
ton Of all internal revenue taxes, except
those upon tobacco in its various forms.
and upon distilled spirits and fermented
liquors"
After his appointment as Chairman OF
the Ways and Means, MIR. Kelley IN
formed the House that he would soon
bring in a bill to reduce the internal
taxes between seventy and seventy-hye
millions of dollars.
The plunderers and iobbers, who want
ed the largest possible surplus in the
= Treasury as a foundation for their
schemes, Immediately opposed this plan.
Being in a majority of the party, they
called a caucus and compelled MIR. kel-
ley and the committee to abandon the
proposed reduction.
Public opinion revolted at this course,
and then Mr.. Kelley and his associates
reported and passed a bill reducing the
taxes on the capital and deposits OF ma
tional banks 1892, lis; on other banks,
So, 1872, POS; on bank checks, S2,253,4 All;
on matches, S3,27S, $50, and on proprie-
tary medicines, 81, 226, 502-in all, sl6,-
S92, $50.
This was the manner in which the
Chairman Of the Ways and Means re-
deemed his voluntary pledge; this was
the answer given to the recommendations
of the President and of the Secretary of
the Treasury, and this was the response
to the popular demand for relief from
oppressive taxation. The Republicans
passed the bill, and the Senate allowed
it to go over, seeking refuge behind the
Tariff Commission project.
Instead of economy, the Republicans
adopted prodigality as their rule. They
increased the appropriations seventy-tive
millions over the preceding year. They
squandered money in every direction.
They voted eighteen millions for the
River and IIarbor steal. They dehed
opposition, and went to the country upon
the results OF the last session.
As a logical consequence of this reck-
less course, the Republican majority was
swept away and was replaced by a Dem
ocratic majority equal to that which was
brought in by the tidal wave of 1874.
Hundreds of thousands of honest Repub-
licans contributed to that defeat, in
tending by their votes to teach their
desperate leaders a stern lesson.
Congress met within a month after the
elections. There was still an opportunity
to make amends for past delinquencies.
The country has watched with interest
and with anxiety the events of this
session. The monopolists have seized all
the approaches to Congress. They have
dictated the bills and the amendments.
They have Unanswered in the lobby to
prevent legislation in the Senate and in
the House, unless it should conform to
their wishes. The whole session has
been wasted in an improbable discus
sion. and in these closing days the Re-
publican leaders had the temerity to
repeat the folly for which they were
punished at the Fall elections, and to
emphasize it by the omission of all relief
for the people.
The Internal Revenue bill, which the
House refused to consider, proposed a
reduction of forty millions, nearly one
half of which is on banking capital, de.
posits and checks, and the remainder on
tobacco, cigars, patent medicines, per-
fumery and matches.
This impudent proposition was prompt
ly and properly thrust aside when the
managers attempted to drive it through
under a suspension of the rules. The
Republican leaders have shown them
selves incapable of meeting the require
ments of the country. They are con-
trolled by sinister influences that have
been shamelessly exhibited during this
whole Congress. Their doom at the next
Presidential contest is already sealed.