Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-04-25
WASHINGTON.
Tariff Takers in the
House.
THE SENATORIAL REPORT.
The Mills Bill Under Discussion
New Bills Proposed De
partment Notes.
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WASHINGTON, April 24.-The House
Committee on Elections submitted
their report in the case of Frank VS..
Glover, Ninth Congressional District
of Missouri. 1t finds the contestee,
Glover, entitled to the seat.
Bill were reported and placed upon
the calendar for the erection of public
buildings at Cheyenne, Wyoming, and
increasing the appropriation for the
purchase of site for public build
ing at San Francisco.
A resolution providing for the in
vestigation Of the strike on the Chi
cago, Burlington and Quincy Railway
Company was reported back and
referred to the Committee of the
Whole.
Mills, of Texas, asked unanimous
consent that all the gentlemen might
be allowed to print in the Record any
remarks upon the subject of tariff. but
Reed objected. Then the House
went into a Committee of the Whole
on the Tariff bill, the floor being ac-
corded to Mcmillan, Of Tennessee.
M'MILLAN's SPEECH.
Mcmillan opened with q declara-
ton that whoever advocated the pres
ent tariff favored tariff, not for reve-
nue., but for surplus and tariff for
trusts. Commenting on the surplus,
he said: 'We are drawing money
from commerce and locking it up in
the Treasury at such rate that it is
only question of time when strin-
gency will set in. We are robbipg
not only commerce of its life-blood,
but the people of means of paying
taxes to their Government. The an
nual surplus is only about $50, 0,000,-
900, 80 that if all internal revenue
laws were repealed it would leave
deficiency in our tax laws of $50 ,000,-
600. What is this to be raised f ON
Shall we reimpose the tax on tea
and coffee? No; there is not man
who would retax coffee to untax
whisky. Shall we increase the duties
on woolen goods, rice or sugar? No;
for the people would not, should not,
tolerate any such legislation. In
other words, reduce the tax on that
without which man can live and
prosper, or upon that which is essen
tial to his comfort, and it narrows
itself down to a contest between the
,drunkard's belly and the
POOR MANS BACK.
"In that fight 1 do not hesitate to
say that l espouse the cause of the
back. The present law taxes the
poor mans articles highly and places
q low rate on luxuries. The commit
tees bill is so framed that the tax
will bear most heavily on luxuries
and those things without which the
people can live, rather than upon the
necessaries of life."
Mcmillan declared protection to be
worst to the merchant-marine, and
that it crushed the sea-faring industry.
Yet the gentlemen proposed to pay
subsidies out OF the Treasury, or, in
other words, levy a tax on those who
lived inland to make money for those
engaged in the carrying trade. He
turned his attention to the subject OF
trusts, and said:
"For years we have had these halls
ringing with statements that bye and
bye home competition would give us
the lowest possible prices. The well
kin has been made to ring with the
declaration reiterated and reiterated,
until even those who first proclaimed
it have almost gotten to believe it.
But look at
THE UNFORTUNATE SITUATION
And let the delusion be dispelled.
While the Government has thrown
upits tariff walls without, monopolies
have joined hands within for the pur-
pose Of putting up prices and plunder-
ing the people through devices known
as trusts, etc. We have a steel
trust which cost the people of
the country last year millions of
dollars. l have no apprehensions
as to who will be the victor
in the battle about to be waged be-
tween legitimate taxation and that
oppressive taxation which is invoked
to aid trusts and make pooling profit
able. The people waited long and
patiently, but they are at last aroused.
Their voice comes laundering through
these halls demanding a reduction of
the taxes. The procession for the re-
lief of the taxpayer is moving. There
are but two places about this process
sion-one after it, the other under it..
Seek to-day whether you prefer to
follow and aid it, or go down under it
and be crushed by it."
During the course Of his speech,
Mcmillan declared that the revenue
system, against which the gentleman
from Pennsylvania (Kelly) inveighed
had not been inaugurated by the
Democratic party.
Kelly admitted that the Democratic
party had not enacted the law; but
declared that it had made it necessary
for the Republican party to provide
the sinews for that war, and thus
forced that party to resort to internal
taxes and all the hardships resulting
from them.
Mcmillan replied that the gentle
man from Penr sylvania not only in
augurated the internal taxes of'which
he complained, but he put the tax on
railroads and on the incomes and
capital deposits of banks; but these
latter had been removed, and those
viii h the gentleman said worked
hardships had never been removed.
The gentleman had not done the very
thing which he said the Democratic
party has been responsible for not
doing. He (McMillan) remembered
the gentleman coming before the
House and saying he favored the
repeal Of the system, but that his
caucus determined otherwise and he
bowed his neck to the yoke. Zap
plause on the Democratic side
Kelly-Has not that been done by
your Democratic caucus? [Applaust
on the Republican side.]