Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-04-25
FILLieusTER,No.
The Republican Scheme 10 Deplete the
Treasury to Reduce the Surplus.

The Republican Scheme TO Deplete the
Treasury to Reduce the Surplus.
The proposition to deplete the Treasury to
the extent of $l6,OOO,00O, principally for the
benefit of the high-tariff States of New
York, Pennsylvania and Ohio, came into
the House Of Representatives so inauspi-
ciously that the Chicago Herald begs its
readers to give the matter some special at
tention, as the Presidential campaign will
be sure to recall the legislative events of
the present moment
The success of the direct tax refund
would prepare the way for refund of &c.,
OOO,OOO OF cotton tax, or whatever amount
should be accepted as a refund. With an
increase OF pensions and a reduction of sur
plus, the advocates OF the tax of three dol
lars and fifteen cents on five-dollar pair OF
woolen blankets would be able to declare
that no reduction of taxation is necessary or
practical
The direct refund is Republican meas
ure, and is thoroughly in keeping with the
genius Of centraIsm, high tariff aud grow
ing bureaucracy, against which all patriots
should make protest. The bill has passed
the Republican Senate, where it found as
much favor as did the Blair bill to spend
S7,OOO0OO for scbOol-houses in the Dismal
Swamp, ard for other purposes The House
the various committees, secured promise
from tho Judiciary Committee that it would
not seek TO pass the Direct-Tax bill. Cas-
well, Republican member of the commit
tee, subsequently sought to secure from the
Committee on Rules a special direction to
take up the Senate's grab.
As the Herald has striven to show, the
House was surrendered to Randall, Cannon
and Reed when Speaker Carlisle appointed
Randall chairman of Appropriations, for
that chairman is by custom placed on the
Rules, with two Republicans IN the minor
ity Of five members. The Speaker, the
Ways and Means, the Appropriations and
the minority make the roll-call full. Why
Carlisle sold out his party and the President
has never been satisfactorily explained to
the Democracy of the West
When the Caswell request came before
the Rules, Mills was sick. The request was
in the interest of high tariff. The Speaker
opposed the request. Randall, Reed and
Cannon approved the grab and, as on the
very first vote on the Rules Committee,
last January, the party in power was de-
feated by the minority, through the alli-
| ance of Randall with his Republican
| friends. The Committee on the Judiciary,
having received a special absolution from
its promise, brings in the bill under the
leadership of the dean of the minority, Ezra
b. Taylor, of Ohio Republican, ably
coached and seconded by Reed and Ran
dali.
Here, then, is the Republican bill of a
Republican Senate, foisted on Democratic
House through a breach of promise by an
| anti-Democratic Committee on Rules, and
the bill is under the charge of the chief Re
publican Of the Judiciary Committee.
1 Thara hn ivo l. ,l.~
ment in the House, who believed the bill
should not pass, only the sacred right OF
insurrection. The leader of the flibusters
was Oates, fourth membor of the Demo
cratic majority of the Judiciary Commit
tee, the body which brought in the bill.
The despotic and undemocratic, un-Jeffer-
sonisn character of the House of Repre-
sentatives under Randall's rules is to be
seen in the fact that there has been no op-
| portunity for debate on this bill, although
| day after day was spent in the calling of
rolls Mr.. Taylor held the floor, proposing
one hours consideration, under q call for
the closure. To filibuster was serious
matter, when three hundred and twenty-
i've Congressman sat impatient with the
feeling that time is going by and the cal
endar growing long. But what remained!
The Democratic party can not accept the
1 sJlgma OF COOKING the treasury against tax
reduction. Mr.. Oates moved that the House
adjourn to Friday at five o'clock p. m. Mr..
Breckenridge moved to make it 4:30. Mr..
Dibble felt that four O'Clock would be bet
ter parliamentary hour. With all these
rollcalls projected the fight began, running
soon into the complication on the matter of
excusing Mr.. McMillin, of Tennessee, which
was avoided by all parties as a decidedly
dangerous matter upon which to rule.
| When Carlisle appointed Randall he cast
reproach upon true Democracy. If the
Democratic House shall allow the Senate
grab to go through under the whip of the
Republican minority it viii remain to be
proved that the Democrats have only one of
the three coordinate branches of the Gov
ernment-the Presidency. AS for the re-
duction of taxation, a taxation three times
greater per capita than that of Russia, the
legislators are ready for all other measures
ahead Of that