The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-03-21


which the distlllers were afflicted. Or
the contrary, he believed that tn,
extension would only aggrayate til,
evn, and that The proposition wa,
not IN the interest OF public policy. Tn,
ahegatlon that the legislation of the coun
Try had been hostile 10 distillers would moi
pear examination. There was q growing
disposition to repeal the internal-reyenut
.aNes. While he did not concur in il en-
tlrely, the time was not far distant wher
the country would be In a condition 10 re.
peal those taxes. Suppose that In 1881
they were repealed? By that time the
taxes on bonded whiskey III this bill
passeD would amount to goo, 000, 900, and
congress would be asked TO grant rebate
Oh those taxes. Ii would be argued that
as the internal-revenue law had been re-
pealed, to compel the payment Of these
taxes would be absolute cOntiscatlon.
MI. Reese, OF Georgia, regarded the bill
as the worst species Of bad legislation that
nc had ever known presented to the Ameri-
can Congress. The owners OF whiskey
were no more entitled to relief than any
other class OF spectators; and this mea-
sure was wrong in principle and danger
Gus as precedent. He was in favor OF a
repeal OF the whole internal-revenue sys-
TEN; not on the idea that il would enable
the protectionists TO get higher duty, hut
because he did not believe there was any
authority for 1t except in the time Of war.
Mr.. Cox, Of New York. delivered an
elaborate speech on the general subject
OF tariff and revenue laws.
MIR. Cox had not time TO deliver the
whole OF his exhaustive speech, and OBJ
tanned leave to have much OF IL printed in
the Record. In one portion he touches
upon the approaching campaign in the fol-
lowing words :" believe that IL the po-
litical party 10 which | belong-thc party
which, with all its frailties and short
comings and backslidings, is still the party
OF the poor man, as distinguished from the
party OF wealth-were to 20 before the
country in the next presidential canvass on
the issue OF free trade rs. tariff protection,
1t would in all probability be defeated at
the polls, for there is no class OF voters
whose minds are more tainted with the
tariff hercsies OF protection than the labor
ing classes, who are the most injured by
them. But on this issue give me defeat
again and again rather than victory gained
against the toll, blood.sweat, and comfort
of my fellOw-men. | would rather be on
the side OF right than have such a victory"
Mr. BrOadheqd, OF Missouri, brought the
debate back to the bill under discussion
with short speech in support OF the bill,
which he favored on business principles.
There was now in the Treasury, with
drawn from circulation, surplus OF $780,
600, 900, and he did not think that the cur
rency should be further contracted by adj
dtion 10 that surplus OF revenue which
would be derived from 4j,000,000 gallons
Of whskey. The bill was a just, fair and
right one, and failure to pass it would cause
great distress.
Mr.. BelfOrd, OF Colorado, favored the
bill because it would prevent 27O,000,0 900
from going to swell the surplus which was
kept at the Treasury out Of the hands OF
the laboring men.
Mr. Herbert, OF Alabama, said that he
wished the bill to be defeated by n square
vote, so that the men who were interested
in the manufacture of whskey should at
last come to understand that they must
abide by the law p; that they could expect no
further special legislation for their benefit.
II stormy days had come they had invited
it; If they were in peril, they were RESPONSE
BILE, Just as all other businessmen were re-
sponSible.
Pending action the committee rose.
As tomorrow is private-bill day, and it
will require a two.thirds vote to take up the
bonded extension bill. il is not probable
that its consideration will be resumed be-
fore Saturday.
Adjourned.