Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-03-14
AT THE CAPITOL TO-DAY.
THE INTERNAL REVENUE LAWS,
Senator Brown Advocating Their Repeal.
THE DISTRICT MILITIA BILL.
Under Consideration in the House.
The senate.

The senate.
Among the petitions and memorials received
and referred were the following: From Ohio
Vermont and Montana, for increase OF duty on
wool, and for protection OF the wool and woolen
industries. From Maine, for the equalization OF
soldiers pay In the late war. chat IS to make up
TO them the difference between gold and currency)
From Bath, Me- board OF trade, in favor OF re-
turning the tOnnage-taX to ship-Owners. From
IinnOis, asking legislation against the formation
vi lrusIS ana combinations; and that the tax on
tobacco and spirits be retained until the war debt
Is paid.
BILLS INTRODUCED.
Among the bills introduced and referred were the
following.
BY Mr. Telier-To promote the interests of agri-
culture Dy irrigation and to encourage the settle
ment OF the arid lands Of New Mexico.
BY Mr. Chandler-In relation to promotions In
MIR. Riddleberger, from the committee on naval
affairs, reported bill for the relief of the Abe
marie and Chesapeake Canal Co.
ADVOCATING REPEAL OF THE INTERNAL-RKvENUE
LAWS
Mr. Brown (Ga.) called up the resolution offered
by him on the 4th OF January, declaring 1t
the imperative duty Of Congress to repeal the
internal-revenue laws at the earliest day
pracucaoie. and proceeded TO address the
senate In advocacy OF it-Occupying his
seat while he read his speech from manuscript
He was not the said) prOtectiOnist per Sc, but
ne would raise the money needed for the econOm-
Justed as TO give American capital and Dor all
possible incidental protection and so that the
heaviest burdens should be put on articles OF lux
ury and the lighte5t on articles of necessity. He
was opposed TO the practice OF direct taxation by
tne General Government, and to running two sys-
OF them was marked by expressions and
domiciliary vexations. Speaking for the peo-
pie of Georgia, he said that while
abolition OF the revenue system they did not wish
10 crush American manufacturers or to reduce the
COMPENSATION OF American labor. He quoted from
the democratic national platform OF 1854 and said
that ne and his state stood on that squarely.
Under 1t tarn reduction must be carried ont so as
9 the OF by hs Of
articles imported In 1880 was $50 OSS 6:S3 while
the value OF manufactured products In the United
seven times as much as the dutiable Imports The
farmer paid tariff duties, therefore, ON only one
twenty-seventh part Of the manufactured goods
tariff protection on what he raised as he paid on
the goods he bought. Ii those now employed in
manufactures were thrown back upon farming the
TACT would disarrange the whole system inereas
Ing farm products unremunerauvely and adding
10 the cost OF manufactures. The capital and
wool, six, iron and Steel cotton, chemicals,
Jute and hemp, china, glass, leather, paper
and adav o tobacco (Which articles produced over
ssIs,OOOOO0 OF revenue) would be ruined by taking
protection away from these industries; while to
abolish the internal revenue was only 10
few employees. The democratic platform settled
the line OF duty il such glarfng antirhess of
interest as that. The clash OF insolvency entailed
the reduction come: fhe issue was H-Ve one
between three and four millions OF labor
nine "whisky barOns" The effect OF a tariff in
stimulating manufactures was shown he saId in
the ,he case OF Bessemer steel Fourteen years ago
s2S ton had caused large American production
and had reduced the price to s33 n ton The tariff
f3l ton. The English manufacturer had TO get
$50 ton to save himself; In this market, or else
lose ts ton at present prices. Before the war
During the war southern rice being cut on,
rice had gone up to sl4 per one hundred pounds
He combatted the idea that tarin hurt the farm
ers. During low tarin, from 1856 to 1860. refined
sugar, he said, was worth 16 cents pound, 1t is
now, under high tariff, worth from ) to 61S. CAL
Prices OF necessarieS had fallen and those OF LABOR
had gone up. The farmer had a tariff on live stock
bread stlns, hax &c. fruits, hay, hops, grain pro-
tables. wool, and Others or these articles there
had been last year one hundred and nifty millions
worth imported. II the tariff on these goods, as
was claimed, raised the prices OF hOme-raised
products OF the same kind by the amount OF the
duty, as was claimed in the case OF manufactured
eue 'nen nT0tec,e, aae farmers got tremendous
year was :'O,5:}6 bushels, and the duty lOc.
bushel. The total corn production in this country
was 1896, 10000 bushels. Ten cents bushel
tarln prOnL ON corn alone would make Sl93.
617,6OO protection profit TO the farmers-a greater
bonanza than the whisky ring enjoyed. Under
this falaci0us rule as applied by the free-traders
to manufacturers, the farmers on the above pro-
ductions would get net increase of price of
competition fixed the price, and small importa-
tions did not increase It. He argued that manu-.
featuring establishments furnished consumers TO
farmers, and afforded a market for their products
While the farmer paid little tariff duties
for he bought few luxuries, he was
largely benefited by tariff that built up manu-
flr pral md a OFT rtCf ynoS e1o
southern farmer suffered from was not the tariff
but the practice OF an all-cOtton crop, and the
purchase OF supplies from the West with Inability
to borrow money from the banks on real estate
security. He concluded by discussing, with con-
siderable elaboration, the lesson afforded by the
growth In the North, with fewer natural advan-
tages than the South under a wide and successful
system OF manufactures fOstered by q plan OF
tariff protection; and he urged the South TO
weigh well the problem, and to consider
carefully before checking the present prosperous
advance OF Southern manufactures by injudiciolls
raised the cotton and had the coal and iron. To
manufacture them at home was the best way to
utilize her natural resources. Let the South, he
said, adopt the policy that had enriched the North
Let the iniQuitOus tnterna-revenue system be re-
pealed aud the tarfn revised so as to impose
higher rates on Injuries and lower rates on
platform OF 1884, upon which the only demo-
cratic President had been elected In twenty-five
years.
THE UNDERvALUArIoN BILL.
Senator Brown finished the reading Of his speech
at 80 O'Clock. and then consideration Of the un-
LIBERALIZATION bill was resumed.
Nominations To-Day.
The President sent the following nominations to
the senate to-day:
POstmasters-John F. Cashen, at New Rochelle
n Y; j. Henry Browne, at Tompkinsvtlle, N. Y.
Navy-MaJor Chas. Haywood, Marine CORPS to
be leutenant-colOnel; Capt. McLane 1flton
C0sten, Marine Corps, to be captain; second Lieut.
Francis E. sutton, Marine Corps, to be LIST euten-
ant
House OF Representatives.
Speaker Carlisle resumed his post OF duty this
morning and was greeted with round OF applause.
On motion OF MIR. Anderson {Kan.) q bill was
passed granting right Of way through the Fort
Riley military reservation In Kansas to the Kansas
Valley Railroad Co.
Mr.. O'Ferrall (va.) submitted the report of the
OF WOrthingt0n against Post, and iu was placed
upon the calendar. 1t confirms the right OF Post
to the seat.
Mr.. O'Neill (Pa.), from the committee on the H.
brary reported bill approprating 900 TO aid In
the erection OF monumental column to cOmmem-
crate the battle OF Trenton Committee Of the
whole.
THE DISTRICT MILITIA BILL.
In the consideration morning hour the Rouse
resumed the consideration OF the bill placing the
militia OF the District OF Columbia on the same
footing as The militia of the several states
lThe debate and action on the bin are reported
elsewhere In THE SrAR.I
The District Appropy1aslon Dill.
CITIZENS BEFORE THE Hous1 coANITTEE.
M. b. II. Warner and ORA. Garnett, Lincoln