National Republican., 1884-03-21
iNIu VIZ
adjourned at 5p. m.
THE IInIrSE.

Mr.. Turner called up the Virginia contested cleo
tion case Of Garrison against Mayo tho report de-
clar ng the contestant Mr.. Garrison, entitled to
seat
hr, Mayo the sitting member, was heard in his
own behalf. He admitted that IL the act Of the
general assembly Of Virginia requiring the pre-
payment Of captatlon tax were constitutional
the report of the committee absolutely correct
But he believed that the act was unconstitutional,
and void, and that II the votes Of the persons who
had been rejected for not having complied with
that law were counted he would be found 10 be
entitled to the seat The attacks made upon him
by the so.called democratic party in Virginia were
made because the party to which he belonged
believed that the war was over and taught the
children TO believe it, To say that he was rejoeed
at the restoration of the union and the abolition
OF slavery was treason down south, and he was
called "desotter" after the war. That was the
spirit that animated the fight in Virginia; that
was the state Of things whereby his state had been
dlsgraced. The people OF Virginia were not muir
derers. They did not go deliberately TO work 70
kill anybody, white or oolored but the demo
on false issues until strife was stirred up in tho
hearts OF the ignorant of both classes
Mt Ranney, member OF the 1iie Gommittee or, on
unanimously in favor of the conclusions deduccd
from the report the minority controyerted many
of the positions taken in the report itself.
Mr.. Turner defended the report from Mr.. Ran
ney's criticisms. II might be open to criticism,
not for what 1t contained, but for what II did no!
terms, 1t reflected on the state board of Virginia.
In response TO that, ho put upon record bis ever
%se Ss penpn iS msyo was S
tue state canyassers Of Virginia. Since March,
lSsJ the frank, kind, ingenious gentleman Mr..
Mayol had drawn his pay aud held the high dis
tinction Of member solely as the appointoe ofthe
board of state Canvassers.
Mr.. J. s. Wise defended the board Of cauvassers,
which had been accused oil getting up pettiiog-
ging scheme. They had aprecedent for their &c
ton In the Of Goodo vs.. Plat In 1874, when
democratic house upheld a similar action on the
part of democratic board ofcanvassers, notwith
standing the report OF the election committee
taking an opposite view. When the gentleman
from Georgia talked about lettifoggng schemes
let him remember that the precedent for them
came from the democratic party in Virginia. He
tisanship, no faction, bias could make him for
get that he had sworn to do justice but when the
gentleman from Georgia cast aspersions on the
board of canvassers, he felt impelled to defend
them because he knew them to be honorable men.
Mr.. Turner replied that the gentleman might
call facts asporsions. On his part he had simply
endeavored to characterize those fncts as they Hp
peared on the face oi the record II the facts as
persed the genuemans friends the gentleman
must blame the facts and not him.
The resolution declaring Garrison entitled to
the seat was unanimously adopted and the gentle.
man appeared and took the onth of Office.
On motion OF Keller, the conference report on
the military academy.appropriation bill was taken
up and Il was agreed to- The bill asipsssed appro.
Mr.. Ryan asked consent to refer the senate bill
for the eradication of the foot aud mouth disease
to the committee on agriculture, with leave to
report at any time.
Mr.. Mills objected to the latter part of this re.
quest, and the bill must take the usual course.
The morning hour having been dispensed with,
the house, without opposition, at o'clock, went
into committee OF the whole (Nir Dorsheimer of
New York, in the chair on the bonded extension
bill.
Its features were explained by Mr. Miller, de.
caring that failure to pass the bill meant bank.
ruptcy and ruin to many OF the most important
and Influential firms in Kentucky and throughout
the IL bankruDtpV and Only a the
manufacturers but to the Innocent holders of
whisky; 1t meant bankruptcy and ruin TO many of
the leading banking interests of the west. As
result of the tax agitation the whisky interest
had been obliged 10 come to the last congress and
ask for relief and tho COMMITTEES on ways and
means, of which the gentleman from Pennsylva-
mia N1r. Randall was a member, had unani-
mously reported back bill for unlimited extern
sion.
Sir. Randall called the gentleman's attention to
the fact that though there had been no minority
report, the bill had not been favored by all the
members OF The committee any mole than all the
members of the present committee were in favor
of the pending bill, although there was no minor
iIy report. lie had been absent during the vote,
and therefore was not recorded OH either side but
tue gentleman had no right to assume that be-
cause he had been member of the ways and
means committee he had been in fGvor of the bill.
Mr. Chace said that he was convicted of the
fault of not having voted against the bill but it
was because it had been rushed through, and he
had not been aware oil what was being done. He
now repented of his action
Mr.. Willis then reviewed the course of the bill
In the last congress, NUu declared tldt, though
Secretary Foger had objected to 1t, he had done
so simply because the extension was unlimited.
From financial standpoint he asked members
to look around them and see the condition of the
country. There had been shrinkage in grain
and in stocks in the last few years amounting to
billions OF dollars. There had been a shrinkage
Of S60,000000 in the value OF this warehoused
property. As a plain, economic question. rec.
commended by the secretary OF the treasury. and
the commissioner of internal revenue he asked
the house to pass the bill. He was going on to
show the amount OF tax derived from whisky
when he was interrupted by Mr. Milliken. with
| the question as TO how many taxes whisky had
made.
Mr. Willis replied that the question had no con-
nectlon with the pending bill; but II gave him the
opportunity to say that much of the opposition to
the bill came from men who wanted to make
whisky free He stood here for dear whisky.
Mr.. Blount sad that, though a member of the
committee on ways aud means. he had refrained
from bringing in minority report, preterring to
| state his objections TO the bill in open house.
The house was asked to extend the time for the
| payment of tax Oh 70OOO,UOO gallons of ofwhisky,
the sum Of money involved amounting to S66, ,0OO,-
900. The present depression in the whisky interest
| resulted from over production. but over produce
| tion was not peculiar to that industry. lie ex-
| pressed his sympathy for the troubles of the
dstilers, but he opposed the bill on the principle
| ehd them S66,0O00OO. If the government did not
need this tax for puollc purposes IL had no right
to collect it, The tariff was war tariff and should
| be reduced. The government had no right to
| continue IT in order to lend money to anybody
who was in distress. He was surprised that
the gentleman from Kentucky LMr. Willis
| had stated that this was u contest between
| those who wanted to restrict the manu- iaCture oil
whisky and those who wanted to give Unlimited
distillation, because seven -tGltiS OF the whisky
which was knocking At the doors of the house fol
| relief came from his district IL did not beht the
| gentleman to declare that those who are opposed
| to the bill were in favor OF unlmilei Utilization
| ofwhisky. Even by the genteman's own statement
| there was more III the country now than could
| be consumed. If this were true, tho gentleman
| was mistaken in his temperance movement. lie
did not believe that this hill was going To remedy
| avItU IA Nuk ha t,ff fAl
on the contrary, he believed that the extension
would only aggravaie the evil, and tina
| the proposition was not IN thS
interest Of public policy. The allegation
| that the legislation OF the country had beer
| hostile to the distillers would not bear eXami
internal take. While he did not concur In 1t en-
| tirey. the time was not far distant when the
| country would be in II condition to repeal thOst
| taxes. suppose that in 1857 they were repealed
| BY that time the taxes on bonded whisky III thl
| bill passed. would amount TO S2OD,OOOIOOO, anC
congress would I've asked TO grant rebate of thost
taxes. 1t would be argued that as the intefna
| revenue law had been repealed TO compel a pay
meuJ of these taxes would De absolute contsca
| tion.
! Mr.. Reese regarded the bill as the worst species
| of bad legislation that he had ever known pre-
| sented to the American congress. The owners OF
| the whisky were no more entitled to relief than
any other class Of peeulat RS, and this measure
was wrong in principle and dangerous as pre-
| cedenI He was in favor OF repeal of the whOl,
| internal revenue SYSTEM not on the idea that 4
| would enable prOteCtiOnistS TO get higher duty
| but because he did not believe there was any au'
| thOrily for 1t, except in time Of war
| Mr., Cox, OF New York, delivered an elaborate
speech on the general subject of the tariff nnC
| lnNu Ia al hH FU al