Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-04
FIFTIETH CONGRESS.
Senator Kenna Gives Sherman q Row
land For His Oliver,
Disputing All His Propositions an
Showing His Inconsistencies.
Sherman Admits the Internal Revenue
Taxes Are the Most Willingly Paid.

Kearney Addresses q House Commits
on the Chinese Question.
WAsHNeToN, February 2.-Mr. Spoone
presented q petition from the president o
the johnson & Fuller Manufacturing Com
pany of Madison. Wisconsin. for the aboli
don OF all import dutiel on asricultura
machinery, such as plows, harrows and ha.
presses.
Among bills reported from eommitte'
and placed on the calendar, were the-fol
lowing: To provide for an Indian schoo
at Carson City, Nevada; giving to th'
Washington Il Idaho Railroad Compan,
the right Of way through Ceur d'Alen'
Indian Reservations; authorizing the con
| struction OF q large bridge across the Rec
River of the north.
Among the bills introduced and referred
| were the following:
By Mr.. Butler: To provide for justices
of the Supreme Court for New Mexico au.
thorized to determine the validity of Span.
ish and Mexican land grants.
Mr.. Dolph gave notice that he would
next Tuesday call up the bill for tho pay
ment OF the unpaid balances OF the Oregon
and Washington Indian war claims oi
1856 and address the Senate on tho sub.
ject.
Mr.. Riddleberser made several attempts
to expedite business so as to reach his rsso-
Int f<,vo Sn ~
the British treaty, but the Plumb resolu.
tion for investigation of the condition Of
the postal service took precedence, and the
debate on this resolution was resumed.
The Senate decided when it adjourns
to-day it will be until Monday.
Mr.. Ingalls, has announced the appoint
ment of the following special committee on
the Pacific Railroad funding bills and the
Presidents message and commission re-
ports: Messrs. Frye, Hawes, Hitchcock,
Davis, Morgan, Butler and Hearst.
At 2 O'Clock to-day Senator Kenna Sc
cured the floor in reply to the tariff speech
be said, justified the belief that the speech
was exhaustive of tho resources of the Sen.
ator from Ohio. and the party of which he
was the leading representative, which could
be invoked in criticism of the Presidents
message. The Senator from Ohio had dis
missed the solemn warning OF the President
with q wave of the hand. He had treated
the large and growing treasury surplus as
matter neither requiring attention nor
justifying apprehension. The great states.
man whom Sherman had quoted did not
share such an opinion. Sherman had
garbled the words which he quoted from
President Jefferson, SO as to justify his own
opinion. Jefferson had solemnly invoked a
oh sy,% %ho o,1in Ia - %hn1 II kN
avert the danger Of a surplus. Cen
eral Jackson, Daniel Webster and
Ea succession OF Republican Presi-
dents and Secretaries Of the Treasury
kaS
by President Cleveland. The Republican
statesmen voicing such opinions had not
been denounced as free traders. The voice
of responsible officials of the Government
was united in it's expression of the dangers
which President Cleveland has called upon
Congress to avert. No patriotic American,
excepting, possibly. Sherman himself, will
calmly contemplate the unnecessary with
drawal and boarding OF money. Senator
Sherman had protested most vigorously
against the Presidents declaring that the
internal revenue should not be done away
vita. In 1867 Senator Sherman himself
had expressed much thu same opinion that
he now severely criticised. In 1870 and in
1882 he had
ELoQUENTLY AND ToRCIBLY
maintained much the same views. Senator
Sherman had charged that the treasury
surplus was due to the Presidents failure
to exercise his legal functions. This charge
was based mainly on the fact that the
President had opposed shipping subsidies.
Upon such criticism the President could
well afford to meet the issue. Senator
Kenna then proceeded to the discussion in
detail OF the effect upon the revenue and
upon domestic interests of judicious re-
vision of the tariff, disputing almost every
proposition advanced by Sher
man, and maintaining that the Presidents
pointed the way, not only to
relief from burdensome taxations and ex.
cessive revenue, but also to increased pros
perlty and correction of innumerable evils
without disregard for any OF established
interests of the country.
THE TRUE SOLUTION
of the difficulty, he said, is a fair and just
medium which shall produce the revenues
the country needs-no more or no less-ac-
cording to the plain dictates of common
cratic platform in the spirit OF fairness to
all interests. Sherman had declared that
to lift the burdens of the laboring man and
to give him equal opportunities in the
great struggle of life would be to degrade
him. To show the Senator's Inconsistency
on that point, he referred to the law of
July 4. 1864, passed under the special
patronage of Sherman, allowing immigra
tion under contract. In very recent years
the honorable Senator voted against q bill
to restrict immigration OF the Chinese. He
afterwards pleaded for limitation OF the
term OF exclusion to five years, and finally.
voting for the last bill, he insisted
EVERY SKILLED LABoRER IN CHINA
should be excluded from it's operation.
While our excess of import duties has had
q tendenty to build up and foster monop-
oily, it has had a like tendency to invoke
Tree competition to labor and reduce work.
ngmen to a minimum of compensation.
Yet laboring men are blandly told they are
to bind themselves hand and foot forever
and forever to system which gives them
all free trade and competition, aud to 9TH
ers-the privileged few-monopoly and
profit. he (kenna) was mistaken in the
intelligence of the American laborer if he
allowed that condition longer to exist. A |
bill to reform the tax system and reduce |
taxation would come from the House, and |
be did not doubt it would be framed in a |
spirit of conservative fairness to all Sec
lions and all interests. The
CRY OF THE DEMAGoGUE
that the President and his policy were |
aiming at lessening the just reward of labor |
vas as indecent as it was false. The svs-
tenn of taxation in this country for the last !
twenty years has been the standard |
menace and source Of constant injury to |
he laborer himself. Who would deny that |
The system which had prevailed under a
Republican administration in this country,
and for years past had made more strikes,
lriven men from employment, filled the
country with more tramps, aggravated |
more distress, created more discomfort and |
produced more starvation and death than |
any other system the country ever saw71
Was it not time for change; and yet when |
the President of the United States con. |
fronting bravely the solemn requirements |
Of his high Office and daring to preserve
PATRIOTIC REGARD