St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-27
The house of Representatives.

onc Couiluittee OIL PENSIONS, reported JOINT
resolution providing that the 1925, 900 unex-
pended appropriation for the relief of des-
titution in the district overlooked by the Mis-
sissippi river and its tributaries.
| Mr.. Rice opposed the resolution. Relief
| should be granted by the localities them
selves. It was by self reliance that strength
came, and it was continued cuddling and
| nursing that brought weakness. Let the
| government put down its foot upon these
| importunate clamors which were ever rising
higher and higher.
! Mr.. Dunn spoke in favor of the proposed
amendment increasing the appropriation to
| $4,000, and depicted especially the unfor-
tunate condition of people living along the
Mississippi in Arkansas
Mr.. Jeffords did not consider $500, 600
sufficient.
Mr.. Keifer called attention that the resolu-
ton made no appropriation but simply ex-
tended the benefit of the previous appropria-
ton to another class of people and made
brief constitutional argument in support of
the power of congress to make such an ap-
preparation.
Mr.. Rice, in reply to Mr.. Keifer's const-
| tutional argument said he had been in the
house too long to raise constitutional OBJ
lection to any bill which men wished to put
through. AS well seek to dam the Mississip-
with paper dam as to keep men from
overlooking the treasury by any constitutional
argument.
Mr.: Ellis spoke in support of the rcsolu-
ton and the joint resolution then passed.
Mr.. Keifer introduced bill for the erection
Of a pedestal for the statue of the late Presi
dent Garfield in Washington. Referred.
The house then went committee Of the
whole, Mr.. Dorsheimer in the chair, ON the
bonded extension bill.
Messrs. Pussy, Mccormick, J. D. Taylor,
Brown, of Pennsylvania, Warner, of Ohio,
and Cox, of North Carolina, opposed the
measure. Mr.. Worthington favored the bill,
and thought it somewhat surprising that hian
tariff men and temperance men should com
bine to defeat it.
Mr.. Dunn made a severe attack on the
pending measure which, he said, his obser
vations had proved to him was favored only
by three members of the ways and means
committee, Morrison, Hurd and Blackburn.
By what caesarian operation was this
thing taken untimely from that
committee and brought into the house? Bills
ought to come with the sanction of a major
ty of committee. In the last congress toe
house had passed similar bill, but now
the veil was torn off the measure, and its
formity was exposed. The people of the
country demanded the repeal of internal
taxes, but instead of this the committee on
ways and means broughtin bill, which sur
rendered the revenue but left an army of oc
cupation in possession. He ridiculed the idea
of Morrison and Hurd, champions of tariff
reform and free trade, bringing in a measure
for the protection of still another set of peo-
pie. His heart sank within him at the sight
Here was the free trade party legislating to
keep up the price. Of what? Necessities?
No; whisky. That was to be
protected under this new hot
house process. Under this new discovery,
this new invention, protection, which de-
ceived the very elect, and led them astray.
The Democratic party by solemn compact
entered into last night, proposed to reduce
the revenues S31, 100000. 1t proposed to
more 1t propose in this bill to give away
$75, OOO,0 1t proposed to pension Mexi-
can veterans, and that would take So, 000,0 900
more than had been estimated. In short, if
the programme were carried out there would
be a reduction of S189, ZOO, 900 in the face of
an estimated surplus of only $4,000, 00C.
Let congress go to work and reduce taxation
as the people demanded. The leaders might
wrangle with each other; they might turn
from the path of duty, but the people would
march on. They intended to have reforma-
ton of the government, reduction of taxes
and the expulsion of bad men from high
positions.
The committee rose informally for the pur-
pose of limiting general debate.
Mr.. Blackburn moved it be closed in an
hour and half tomorrow. The motion was
agreed to, and the committee, having re-
sumed its session, was addressed by Mr..
Hewitt, of N. Y, in support of the bill.
This bill seemed to him to be in the right
direction. 1t was not the right thing. 1t
did not go far enough. 1t did not touch the
heart of the question, but it was the entering
wedge, which was going to bring congress
face to face with the question, whether 1t
would continue to tax raw materials. 1t was
for this reason he would vote for this bill.
Taxation had nothing to do with morality.
He had been brought up to believe that taxa
ton was for revenue, and for revenue only.
applause on Democratic side.) But there
had been in this country school, which
had been dominant which believed
taxation for protection, and it had taxation
for protection until it divided sthe coun-
try into the very rich anu the very poor. And
now, when the system is breaking down,
when light was penetrating into the crevlces
which had been home protection, there were
earning good strong advocates for free raw
material. Now it was necessary that this
party, which had exhausted all the possibil-
ties of taxation for protection
should invent new ospel, and
it had been announced yester-
day; ''Taxation for moraity;''
taxation for revenue, with incidental
morality Uaughter.) That idea was
worthy party of great moral ideas. If the
government could be supported on its vices,
and revenue system could be devised,
which would compel those states who depart
ed from the ways of virtue to pay the ex
penses, then there would be produced new
development, truly admirable, and worthy
to be welcomed as tine beginning of the mile
mum for, instead of the country being divid-
ed into rich and poor, it would be compelled
to pay the expenses. Having founded
government on the great basis of human
vice, the Republican party could econ omisc to
| its hearts content, for no schools or churches
would be needed, as morality would he the
| pauscea for all the country's woe. Naughtcr.)
| He had said that taxation had nothing to do
| with the moral question. 1t was just as
| legitimate to produce whisky as to
| produce pig iron. In the eye
| OIL tue Jaw LHey were equaiiy IepuIauc aHu
valuable. AS pig iron maker, he was at
loss to know whether the production of iron
or alcohol was the more useful to the human
race, and yet, if any man to-day were to pro-
pose tax on pig iron he would be hooted
! out of the house, as he ought to be. The
production of alcohol was either lawful
business or not. If not, it ought to be stop
ped, but if it ought to be
stopped On moral grounds it did
not belong to the general government 10 stop
| it. 1t became matter of police regulation
which the states should settle. The tax on
j alcohol should be abolished altooether The