The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-06-12

army Vi Inc u DlLeQ States maze pCS1l-
BILE and secure the aconclni& tioa o.
large private and corporate fortunes al
over the country, and lGstiuctinG
the Scommittee of ways aud means
| to report to The House bills
first repeating all laws providing for in
ternal revenue taxation, and ievok,ng
all of said tax except that now collected
on spirits, distilled IN whole or III part
from gram. and upon malt liquors
second, providing for the levy aud col
lection Of a gra uated tax upon all IN
@ Imes of persons, corporations. assOoia-
tions and trusts of $500 and upwards
per annum, the proceeds 0f laid income
tax to be devoted exclusively to the
payment of pensions; third. proyidir g
that all articles or products now
manufactured or produced in tie
United States shall enter ports of the
United States fres of all import duty.
The b ouse, at the conclusion OF the
oall of States, took up the bill 10 in
crease the police force of the District of
Columbia.
Grosyenor took the floor, comment
ing sarca IDEALLY upon the fact that all
great questions in the House had been
laid aside in order TO enable that body
to consider bill increasing the police
f rec of the District. He referred 10
the fact that surplus was still accumu-
laEing. tnat the Fl seal year was nearing
its close, with the appropriation
bill SILL uadIsposed of, aud 6nslly
came to the gist of his remarks.
II the gentlemen were ind, ted for In
teIhgence and for telling the whole
trath and the jury kept to the old
custom. il would write on the back o.
the bill 'Jgnoramus." (Laughter.l All
he had 10 say to the gentlemen in CON
clusion was dig, dig little; dig under
ground, there's sunlight IN the sky"
MIR. StribHle, of Iowa, and Mr..
Dingley, of Name, critic zed the com
mittee on the alcoholic traffic for not
having report of m, asure to regulate
or present the sales of liquors in the
District of Columbia.
The bill then passed.
Woodburn, of Nevada, made a bitter
personal attack upon Cox, of Ne " York,
taxing for his text extracts from OK s
tariff speech, in which he characterized
Nevada as a "rotten borough aud rldi-
culed It's representative in the House
Inc gentlemen, he said. callej Nevada a
POTION borough" but he defied the
gentleman to name any instance of the
purchase of the legislature of that
State; he defied the gentleman to name
any time in her history when there has
not been an honest vote honestly
counted. Nevada never had to
boast of Connolly. Sweeney,
Cardcza, Field or an
lngersoll, anu it was To her credit that
(Laught-r.) She needed no Canada on
n ar HI n har fhfnuac -,
politicians, unlike the State of New
York, the capacity of her ballot boxes
was limited by the quantity of the
vo es cast, and if the Blair bill became
law, his constituents will not get cents
where the gentleman s constituents will
get dollars. If all the corruption fund
that would bs expended to carry the
Empire State for Cleveland were
put into Virginia City. it would
not cause perceptlble influence on any
one of the four wards. He had always
heard that the gentleman was the wit
and humorist of the Hou g. but he was
never cOnyirced of it until the gentle
man delivered his speech on the tariff.
He remem bered that when Ben Butler
''snoo fled" the gentleman into silence,
the people believed he would for
ever cease to be the funny man
in Congress, but the gentleman
had evidently become jea Gus o.
Allen, OF Mississippi, and in & desperate
effort to regain his shattered rep ia
ton, he had selected his Wcodburn 81
name for humorous analysis. Ii his
name were the same as that gentleman
from New York, he would have the
good sense never to permit It to be the
subject OF criticism on the fioor OF the
House. lie had r'ai modern and
ancient and sacred and profane history,
and he had tailed to find that
name of Cox ever associated with
a decent or conspicuous achievement.
The Almighty had ntyer destined 10
iumortalize man bearing the name OF
Cox. He then quoted Cox's remarks
ealogistic of the Celts and derogatory to
the Ssxons. and commented upon tn
marvellous change which had come oyer
the sentiments of the gentleman since
he wrote The Buckeye Abroad" From
this bouk he quoted to show that in
1854, Mr.. Cox had held views deroga-
tory to the Celts, and he de
clared that q Buckeye in Ohio was
totally different from the Buckeye
when he placed his carpet-bag in Tam
many Hall. The gentleman was Or
J6kyh duU AK Il fASs W. jOuuIU tuGQ
went on To an analysis of Mr.. Cox
middle name of Sullivan, and denlec
that gentleman's claim that he was
descendant OF General Sullivan of revo
lutonary fame. In conclusion, he re-
piled to the charge in regard to A.
s. Hewitt having. apologlzed t.
a British minister because the Hous.
pissed a resolution of inquiry as to the
trial Of the Anne Ian citizens by the
British court, but mis- time having ex-
pired, he stated that he would take the
floor tormorrowAnpon a QUESTION foi
priVilega Of addressing the House on
the subject.
Cox said he had been advised by his
friends on both sides of the House to
payne att sntionnto This goHseus %. For
many wears this book, THE Buckeye
Abroad" mas ben Fquoted against him
on rnaby. subjects. Though "a youi g
man, he had in, that book,yinaica e.
as every. voting a me -icauA sfsusdi, the
doctrine If our colistltution as tovrell-
gious tolerat,on. He had paid 4 visit !.
Irel md I'd had paid tribute to. the
people OF that countrys Il he genilemail
SHOULD have made the atteck upon the
tar If bullet which had gone by, and the
gentleman did not kEow eLougn at this