Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-02-28
The Hon. John F. House.
he New York Word SAYS

The New York Word says.
Mr.. House, OF Tennessee, yesterday
bit the nail on the head, as he has
a habit Of doing, when be reminded
the Republican majority OF the House
that the bill which they were trying
to suspend the rules in order to pass
was the same pretense of reducing
taxation with which they went to the
country last autumn and asked the
country to sustain them 10 making
against the opposition of the wicked
and obstructive Democrats. The
country made its answer by bundling
enough OF these patriots out OF their
places to secure the wicked and OBJ
structive Democrats a good working
majority in the House. Let the Re-
PUBLICAN party 20 before the country
liz it darOs with this bill, said
Mr. House, in answer TO the demand
made at the last election for relief from
taxation.
The New York Herald's Washing
ton correspondent has this 10 say
about Colonel House!
THE halt hour allowed for debate
before the vote was taken was lame
and inpotent on both sides, except
for a five minutes speech by Mr.
House, OF Tennessee, who made the
fOrcible point that this bill of MIR
Kelley was, with the exception of the
lowering of the tobacco tax, precisely
the bill which the Republicans trieC
to force through last session"
Mr.. House said turning to the Re
publican sideI On this bill you ap
pealed to the people last fall, and OF
it you were defeated. You offere,
, them that aud they rejected it, an,
you with it; they tore up your banI
! checks, burnt your matches unde
t your noses, broke your patent medi
2 cine bottles over your heads an,
refused to take TIE sham ready relic
you offered them, and now you com
1 again and add to it quid OF Tobacco
ia hope that that will make it 2
9 down, You propose to relieve ever
! industry except the peoples indus
e tries. Periumeries, patent medicine.
G bank checks you will make free, bu
}; the office holders, the gaugers an
y inquisitOrs you insist on retaining
S and, under pretense of relievin
e the farmer OF a part Of his tobacc
tax, you have arranged to plant a sp
d at every farmers door to see that h
o does not sell more than a beggarly 10
s pounds Of his tobacco crop without
s paying tax and to inform on him an
g fne him if he does"
;, That was a very fair presentation {
y the case, aud the House vas dslighte
o with il,
d The Washington correspondent
9 the Philadelphia Times writes thu
d about Colonel House,
0 Tho Democrats oontended that th
l proposed relief was not what the peopi
It desired, as il did not lift the burden
y from anything used by the laboriu
i Glasses, but was in the interest Of cal
d ital. Mr.. House, of Tennessee, mao
% the best speech Of the day on ii
's Democratic side, in which he declare
d that the people had at the last eler
10 ton torn up bank checks and draft
10 burned sulphur matches under Il
10 noses Of the Republicans and broke
the patent medicine bottles over the
IT shoulders aud kicked them out
10 Office for proposing such relief. H
~ remarks we're greeted with prolongt
At applause, and this was increased wht
Z Republican representative, NJ
+ Dunnell, OF Minnesota, arose and su
a. taincd his Tennessee associate"