The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-04-28

Me. opposed Il, and, after further
discussion, the consideration of the
bill was postponed uatil May 18th.
The House then went into commit
tee Of the whole, Mr.. WellboTn Tex
in the chair, en- the river and larbor
bill.
TIE paragraph accepting from the
State Of Ono the MuskinGUm river
improvement gave rise 10 much oppo-
sition, and Mr.. Reagan Tex moved
to strike ii from the hill.
Mr.. Hewitt n. " supported the
motion. The government, he said.
was the coming dumping ground Of
al the improbable enterprises OF the
several States The States we're trying
to shift the cost Of the maintenance of
local enterprises TO the broad shout
ders of the people Of the country. He
was utterly opposed to such aproposi.
ton.
Mr. Willis Ky said that the ques-
zion of free transportation was the
question of the hour, and il nv any
appropriation of $4,000 the United
States could free the commerce of the
Muskingum river he could not see the
dreadful results.
Mr.. Henderson [Ill,l opposed the
motion to strike ont.
Mr.. Anderson Kss. spoke in favor
Of an amendment which was ruled
ont on a point of order looking to the
acquisition by the United States OF the
Ere canal.
Mr.. Breckenridge Ark agreed
with Mr.. Hewitt in saying that all
taxes were burdens on the people.
But the tax on the productions Of The
people, which supplied the Golfers OF
the Federal Government was no more
a burden than the tax on their COM
MERGE. Ii the &300,000,000 men
gathered from them to support the
government wss a burden, how great
must be the burden Of 5000 900, coo
which they paid 10 corPoralions.
Mr.. Hepburn Iowa thought that
the appropriations in the pending bill
would have little effect in bringing dis
tress 10 an end or relief to the Coun 'ry.
One OF the causes for the distress was
tbs fact that the people were afraid
nj those who were now in authority.
There had been go much of PROMISE.
so little of Performance, on the art Of
the Democratic patty that the people
looked to the future with distrust. TO
enumerate few Of it's pledges: The
people had been told, especially by
his colleague Mr.. Weaver. that here
tofore the government had been run
in the interest of men of wealth and
great corporations, but that no wealthy
people were TO be conserved in the in
terests. As proof of this the gentleman
had called attention to the fact that the
President sympataizsd with the set.
tiers on the frontier who we're stand.
ing around the Territory OF Oklahoma
that the monopolies were in there
under The rule of the Republican
party, and that now they were to be
turned out aud the settlers were to q
in. A few days ago his colleague had
been compelled to say, with humilis
ton in his manner, that all of those
loud sounding promises had been un
true; that the settlers were still stand
ing outside, looking 10 the land q
promise from which the Piesiden"i
electors prevented their entering. lht
people had been told that the volume
of currency was t. be enlarged, blu
instead OF that, before the President
had taken his seat, he had recon
msnded that the oliver branch of tn,
currency should be stricken down
Not content with that, in the yer!
first report made by the Secretary o
the Treasury, that officer had recon-
mended that all the greenbacks shoult
be destroyed. Immediately ter tina
the gentleman t ON Illinois (Mr. MOI
rison) had come in with a proposition
to disturb all of the labor interest
of the country. No man knew wher,
that would end. No man could tel
where the disturbance was 10 cease
No man could forecast the future.
The motion to strike out was los
and the committee lose, and the II JUS
adjourned.