Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-21
AT THE NATIONS CAPITAL
HARD RAPS AT THE WHISKY
BILL IN THE HOUSE.

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Mr.. Mayo Compelled to Surrender His
/ Seat to Mr.. Garrison-AIr. Turner
Again Gives Evidence of His Ability
/ During the Debate-A Fruitless Day in
! the Senate.
/ WASHINGTON, March 2O.-In the Sem
ate to-day bills were introduced and ap-
prOpriately referred as follows:
By Mr.. Riddleberger-To provide for
the erection Of public buildings at For
tress Monroe and Newport News, Va.
By Mr.. Communicating to the pay of
/ retired naval officers.
! DAY WITHOUT RESULT.
/ The Senate resumed consideration of
/ the bill increasing the salaries OF United
States District Judges to $1,000. The
I pending question was on Mr.. MOrgan's
amendment providing that the increase
shall only apply to Judges hereafter ap-
/ pointed. At , O'Clock. while Mr.. Morgan
held the floor, the bill went over, and Mr.
/ Blalr's bill to aid education was again
/ taken up and occupied the remainder of
/ the days session, without the success of
/ any amendment or vote being reached
on the bill itself.
/ The conference report on the military
academy appropriation bill was agreed to
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IN THE HOUSE.
/ In the House to-day, Immediately after
/ the reading Of the journal, Mr.. Turner, of
/ Georgia, called up the Virginia contested
| election case of Garrison against MavO.
| the report declaring the contestant, Mr.
/ Garrison, entitled to the seat. Mr.. Mavo.
| the sitting member, was heard in his own
! behalf. He admitted that if the act of the
/ General Assembly Of Virginia requiring
/ the prepayment of the capitation tax were
/ constitutional, the report of the commit
tee was absolutely correct, but he be-
/ lleYed that the act was unconstitutional
and void, and that if the votes Of persons
who had been rejected for not having
complied with that law were counted he
would be found entitled to the seat.
The attacks made on him by the social
/ ed Democratic party in Virginia, We're
| made because the party to which he be-
! lOnged believed that the war was over.
! and taught their children to believe it,
! To say that he was rejoiced at the restora-
| tion Of the Union and the abolition of
| slavery, was treason down South and he
was called deserter after the war. That
was the spirit that animated the fight in
! Virginia. That was the state of things
! whereby his State had been disgraced.
! The people of Virginia were not murder
! ers. They did not 90 deliberately to work
| to kill anybody, white or cOlOred. but the
! Democratic party did array one class
| against another on false issues, until
! strife was stirred up in the hearts of the
| ignorant eff both classes.
! Mr.. Ranney, of Massachusetts. men,
| Der of the Committee ON Elections. said
that, while the committee was unani-
| mOusly in favor of the conclusions de-
duced from the report, the minority con
! trOyerted many of the positions taken IN
! the report itself.
MIR. TURNER ON THE DEFENSIVE.
| Mr.. Turner, of Georgia, defended the
| report from Mr.. Ranney's criticisms. 1t
might be open to criticism, not for what
| it contained, but for what it did not con-
| tain. 1t was ass9iled because, in implied
! terms, it reflected on the State Board of
/ Virginia. In response to that he put upon
record his everlasting contempt for the
! pettlfOgging scheme by which the return
! of Mr.. Mayo was cOnsummated by the
! State CanVasSer of Virginia. Since
! March, 1888, that frank, kind, ingenious
! gentleman, Mr.. Mayo, had drawn his nav
! and held the high distinction of a member
! solely appointed by the Board Of State
! CanYassers.
j. 5. Wise, of Virginia. defended the
! Board of CanYassers, which had been ac-
| cused of getting up pettifOgging scheme.
/ They had precedent for their action in the
! case of GOOde VS.. Platt, in 1874, when a
| Democratic House upheld similar action
on the Part ola Democratic Board of Can
! YasSers, Notwithstanding the report Of
! the Elections Committee taking an oDDo-
| site view. w hen the gentleman from
! Georgia talked about pettifOgging schemes
let HIM remember that the precedent for
! them came from the Democratic party i'm
| Virginia. He expected to vote to unseat
| Mr.. Mayo, because no partisanship. no
faction, no bias, could make him forget
that he had sworn to do justice; but when
| the gentleman from Georgia cast asper-
sion 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 aspersiOns. On his part
he had simply endeavored to characterize
those facts as they appeared on the face
OF the record. If the facts aspersed the
gentleman's friends, the gentleman must
| blame the facts and not him.
MR.. GARRISON SEATED.
The resolution declaring Mr.. Garrison
entitled to the seat was unanimously
adopted, and that gentleman appeared and
took the oath Of office.
The conference report on the Military
Academy appropriation bill was then
taken up, and was agreed to. The bill, as
passed, apprOpriates $314, ,j16.
The morning hour having been dis
! pensed with, the House, without oppOsi-
ton, ut O'Clock, went into committee of
the whole, with Mr.. DOrsheimer, of New
| York, in the chair, on the bonded extern
sion bill. Its features We're explained by
Mr.. Willis, of Kentucky, declaring that
failure to pass the bill meant bank
ruptcy and ruia to many of the most i'm
pOrtant and influential firms in Kentucky
and throughout the West. 1t meant
bankruptcy and ruin not only to manu-
facturers, but to innocent holders of
whisky. 1t meant bankruptcy and ruin
to many of the leading banking interests
of the West.
MIR. BL0UNT OPPOSES THE BILL.
Mr.. Blount, of Georgia, said that though
a member of the Committee on Ways and
Means, be had refrained from bringing in
minority report, preferring to state his
objections to the bill in open house. The
House was asked to extend the time for
the payment of the tax on 10000, 900 gall
Ions of whisky, the sum of money in
vOlved amounting to $66, 100000. The pre-
sent depression in the whisky interest re-
suited from over production, but over pro-
ductiOn was not peculiar to that industry.
lie expressed his sympathy for the trOu-
| bles Of distillers, but he opposed the bill
on the principle of public policy, regard
ing it as proposition to lend them $685.
100000. If the government did not need
right to collect it. The tariff was a war
tariff and should be reduced. The gOy-
ernment had no right to continue it in or
der to lend money to anybody who was in
distress. He was surprised that the
gentleman from Kentucky (Mr.
Willis) had stated that this
was contest between those who wanted
to restrict the manufacture of whisky
and those who were to give unlimited
distillatiOn, because seven-tenths of the
whisky which was knocking at the doors
of the House for relief came from his
district.
THE UNLIMITED DISTILLATION THEORY.
1t did not betit the gentleman to declare
that those who are opposed to the bill
were in favor of unlimited distillation of
whisky. Even by the gentleman's own
statement there was more in the country
now than could be consumed, If
this were true the gentleman was
mistaken in his temperance movement
He did not believe that this bill
was going to remedy the evil with which
distillers were afflicted. On the contrary.
he believed that an extension would only
aggravate the evil, and that the PROPOSE
tion was not in the interest of public
policy. The allegation that the legisla-
tion of the country had been hostile to
dIstillers would not bear examination.
There was a growing disposition to repeal
the internal revenue taxes. While he did
not concur in it entirely, the time was not
far distant when the country would be in
a condition to repeal these taxes. Sup
pose that in 1887 they were repealed
whisky, if this bill passed, would
anao,1pf 70 SOO0 900 OOO and Nourrose