The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-04-25
HOUSE,

The committee on election submitted
a report in the case of Frank vs.. Glover
Ninth Congressional district OF Missouri
It finds the contestes, Glover, entitled
70 the seat. Calendar.
Bills were reported and placed upon
the calendar for the erection of public
bulldog at Cheyenne, Wyoming, and
incr aasing the appropriation for the
purchase of site for public building
at San Francisco.
Mills, Texas, asked unanimous con-
sent that al gentlemen might be al
lowed to print in the Record any re-
marks upon the subject of the tariff,
but Reed objected.
Then the House went into committee
of the whole on the tariff DILL, the floor
being accorded to Mcmillan, Of Ten
nessee.
Mcmillan opened with the declara-
ton that whoever advocated the present
tariff favored tariff not for regenue, but
for surplus, and tariff for trusts. Com
menting on the surplus, he said: I'VE
are drawing money from commerce and
looking it up in the Treasury at such a
rate that it is only a question of time
when stringency will set in. We are
robbing not only commerce OF its life
blood, but the people of the means OF
the means of paying taxes to their gov
eminent. The annual Surplus is only
about $4,000, COO, so that if ell the
internal revenue laws were repealed, it
would leave a deficiency in our taxes of
$50, OOU,O coo. What is this to be raised
from2 Shall We reimpose the tax on tea
and cotfee2 No; there is not man
who would retax coffee to untax
whisky. Shall we increase the duties
on wooden goods, rice or sugar. No;
for the peopel would not, should not,
tolerate any such legislation. In other
words, reduce the tax on that without
which men can live and prosper, or
upon that which is essential to their
comfort, and it narroWs itself down to a
contest between the drunkard's belly
and the poor mans back. In that fight,
do not hesitate to say that espouse
the cause of the back. The present law
taxed the poor mans articles highly,
and placed low rate on Injuries. The
-Eommitte3's bill is so framed that the
tax will Dear most heavily on luxuries,
and those things without which people
can live, rather than upon the neces-
saries of life"
worst to the merchant marine, and
crushed the seafaring industry. Yet
the gentleman proposed to pay sub
sides out of the treasury, or, in other
words, levy tax On those who live in
land, to make money for those engaged
in the carrying trade.
He turned his attention to the sub
iect of trusts, and said: "For years We
nave had these halls ringing with state
ments that, bye-and-bye, home compe-
Gition would give rs the lowest possible
prices. The Welkin 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 the delusion will be dis
PEELED. While the government has
thrown up it's tariff walls without, mo-
nopoIists have joined hands within, for
the purpose of putting up prices and
plundering the people through de-
vices known as trusts, etc. We
have a steel rail trust, which
cost the people of the country last year
millions of dollars. l have no appre-
tensions as to who will be the victor in
the battle about to be waged between
legitimate taxation and that oppressive
taxation which is invoked to aid the
trusts and make pooling profitable. The
people have waited long and patiently.
but they are aroused. Their voice
comes laundering through these halls
demanding a reduction of taxes. The
procession for the relief of taxpayers is
moving. There are but two places
about this procession-one after 1t, the
other under it. Seek, to-day, whether
you prefer to follow and aid it, or go
down under /: and be crushed by it,
During the course of his speech, Nc
MILAN declared that the internal reve-