The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-01-05
SHERMAN ATTACKS THE PRESl-
DENTS MESSAGE.
Mr.. Voorhees,, of Indiana, Dons His
the Lists with Honor.


| ter from Alton & Co., publishers, OF Au-
| gusta, Maine, urging the necessity of
| the issue of fractional currency. Mr..
Frye, who presented it, stated as a fact
| astounding to him that this firm often
received in its business ~ ,00O day in
payment of fractions of a dollar.
By Mr.. Hale, a petition against any
change in the fishing treaties and in
favor of the rights of American fisher
men, under existing treaties and legisla-
tion.
BY Mr.. voorhees,, in favor OF the pres
ent tariff on lumber.
BY MIR. Cullom, several petitions of
the Illinois State Grange indorsing the
Interstate Commerce law; favoring
Government control of telegraph lines
denouncing gambling in futures; favor
ing the restriction of immigration as
proposed in the Reagan bill opposing
the abolition of the whisky and tobacco
tax, and favoring the placing of salt,
lumber, sugar, ETC., on the free list.
Among the bills introduced and re-
ferred were the following:
By Mr.. Cullom, amendments to his
postal telegraph bill.
BY Mr.. Blair, to encourage the holding
of national industrial expositions of arts,
mechanics and productions Of the colored
race throughout the United States in At
lanta, Georgia, 1888 and 1889.
Mr. Brown offered a resolution de-
claring that the practice Of the Govern
| For hn fsplt tI.r1AS.
quarters of a century of its existence,
when it collected the necessary revenues
at ports or other boundaries by tariff, ex-
cept in case of war or other great enler-
gencies, when internal revenue or di-
rect tax laws were imposed, but which
were repealed as soon as the emergency
ceased also that the present internal
revenue laws we're enacted as war
measure, and that it has now become the
imperative duty of Congress to enact ap-
propriate legislation for their repeal at
TIE earliest day practicable. He asked
that the resolution be laid on the table
and said that next Monday he would
submit some remarks upon it.
The Senate then took up the resolution
for the distribution of the Presidents an
nual message and was addressed by SEN
ator Sherman.
SHERMAN ATTACKS THE PRESIDENT.
Sherman then criticised the message
for its failure of all reference to foreign
relations, and to interesting questions on
national affairs, and for postponing all
things celestial or terrestrial until the
surplus revenue be disposed of. 1t was
an extraordinary message. There was
nothing new or strange about Treas
ury surplus. President Jefferson and
President Jackson had met it in their
day, and Republican administrations had
on many occasions since the war grap-
pied with it either by the payment of the
public debt or by the reduction Of taxes.
The Democratic party had had control
of the House of Representatives for
many years anu had not originated or
proposed a reduction of taxes The
| only Republican Congress in ten years
had by the act of March, 1883, largely re-
duced both internal taxes and customs.
| Why had not the President followed the
| example of his predecessors by using the
| powers conferred on the Secretary of the
Treasury and applied the surplus to the
reduction of the public debit II the
President had regarded the surplus as a
danger, why had he not brought his in
fluence to bear upon Congress to provide
a reduction of taxation and why had not
Congress applied remediess
| SPEAKER CARLISLE ATTACKED.
The only answer was that the con-
trolling majority of the Democratic
ported unless it contained provisions
which would greatly injure or destroy
domestic production.
If it had been the desire to reduce
taxes without reducing American pro-
duction the task was easy; but the
nous power with the hearty support OF
the President) to prevent even the re-
porting of such a bill. Even without d
reduction of taxation the surplus rev.
enue might have been applied for great
national objects but for the vetoes OF
the President; for the failure of the Sec
retary of the Treasury to exercise the
plain discretionary powers conferred
upon him by law, and for the failure ol
the Democratic House of Representatives
to make appropriations for some of th'
highest national objects. Among thess
Sherman mentioned the Blair Educa
tional Bill; the Dependent Pension Bill
the River and Harbor Bill, and othel
legislative projects. If the appropri
ations had been made for these purpose
and for court defenses the present con
dition of the Treasury. which now 5.
alarmed the President, would not hav
existed.
GLITTEKING GENERAIlIIEs.
Mr. Sherman was willing to correc
the irregularities of the tariff and to re
duce the surplus, not by the vicious AM
indiscriminatIng process Of horizonta
reduction, but by such methods a
would relieve the taxpayer without in
luring the laborer or the great produc
tive interests of the country. He prs
ferred that policy which looked to tn
interests Of the American people, rathe
than to those OF foreign nations. h
preferred the policy Of reducing price
by home competition, rather than by foI
leign competition; Of cheapening IA,
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