The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1888-01-06
Senator Browns ReSOIU-
tiOER to Repeal Internal
Revenue Taxes.
FLOOD OF BILLS AND RES
OLUTIONS POURED U8s0N
THE HOUSE
white and CoIGred Troops
at War Near st. E.Ouis.
OTHER NEWS FRAM ALL PARTS
OF THE WORLD.
Congress.

Congress.
WASHINGTON, D. c., January 4 -
SENATE BY Mr.. Blair-To cn,
Courage the holding of an indus
trial exposition of the arts, mechan,
les and productions of the colored
race throughout the United States
in Atlanta, Ga, in 1888 and 1889.
Mr.. Brown offered a resolution
declaring that the practice Of the
government was correct for the first
three quarters of its existence when
it collected the necessary revenue
at ports and other boundaries by
the tariff, except in the case of war
or other great emergencies, when the
internal revenue or direct tax laws
were imposed, but which were re.
pealed as soon as the emergency
ceased, also that the present inter-
nal revenue laws were enacted as a
war measure, and that it has now
become the imperative duty of Con-
gress to enact appropriate legisla>
tiou for Their repeal at the earliest
day practicable. He asked that the
resolution be laid on the table and
said that next Monday he would
submit remarks upon it.
The Senate then took up the reg.
o4ution for the distribution OF the
Presidents annual message aud
,.as "tl,iIe-aei by Senator Shcr-
man.
At the concIugion OF Mr.. Shec,
mans speech Mr.. Voorhees, adj
dressed the senate on the same suD-
jact. The subject @! taxation, he
said, was as ol as tae government
itself, and yet it vas as fresh and
full of interest to-day to the laboring
masses of mankind as ever at any
former period Of the worlds history.
The contraction of the volume OF
tha currency had always been a pol,
icy marked by disasters and suffer
ing and accursed by every friend of
the general welfare of this country.
But when that abominable policy
was still further aided and executed
by snatching Gas it were) the money
OF the people from their very hands
st the rate of ten millions a month
without necessity, excuse or pallia-
ton, every honest mind had to re|
volt against such Wanton robbery
1t was crime against every home
every fireside and every living man
and woman in the United States.
1t was crime, national in its proper
tions, gigantic in it's strength, omni-
present in its visitation and brutal
in its rapacity. And yet the day
before recess the Senator from Colo.
RADIO (Teller) had Cnesred at the
idea of the surplus being Of any
consequence, and the Senator from
Ohio (Shsrman) had also declared
(not by cable from Paris, but on the
floor Of the Senate that it was fort
innate ter the country that there
was Il surplus of five hundred and
ity millions in the treasury. /:
would be for that Senator, ii he
should becon.c the Republican csn'
didate.. for the Presidency next sam
mer, to explain t.: the peoyi,, Why il
| w.3 fortunate I'll It their moleV Wa:
gathered into tho treasury in excess
CT al uses, prescriptions .n,! nant.
| o. he government, inste Il 3i re-
manning III tbs pockets OF ;its peo
/ pie. There was in the Republican
press md ameng Republican ooii,i
clans d determined. persistent a;:c
brazel. campaign of meEdacitY OF
thjs subject, and it would coutinn,
in thn councils ard fed yorl
Of the Republican party, cay bi
day, n ,ruing, noon 1nd night, unit
the frosts of next November came Il
mither and blast alike their false
hoods and their hops.. He denied
tn&t tie Presidsat had departed
one ot ar little f'nm The declaration
Of The last democratic platform OF
the subject If t~xa;inn. That de
ctaraii0a had beert aoid, expiici
AZ peremptory 1t was made in
tcw plain, strnng words, the mean
lng af Hhich it was impossible t,
perrert o. misunderstand Incl
dental prote ,tion to home manufaC
tureTs had always been the polio
of the Democratic party. 1t Wa
recognized in the last Democrat
national platform He rejoiced il
evsry element OF American succes.
He was proud Of the inventive gen
! ius of tho country and of its va,
establishments where skilled labo
r abounded He looked with deligt
: on the cotton mills, the coal mine
2 blast furnaces and rolling mills
! the south as we'll as on those of Ne
England, Pennsylvania and man
western States. He would encoul