The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1888-01-11
AT THE CAPITAL,
BY A STRICT PARTY VOTE lAMap un,
BIZ REJECTED.
The Committee Recommend the Postno,.,
of an Appropriation of Postal TeIe.
graph Other Notes.
In the senate

Saver, from the postoffice commits.
reports with accommodation Of i,
definite postponement of, the lstts,.
and resolutions for an sppointmen,
of select committee on postal fol.
graph" The resolution was ind
tinitly postponed. Senator Edmund,
said that he did not wish this ac,io,
understood that property of specs,
inquiry into the subject at Soma
session, had been decidaS
adversely. Among the bill, intro.
duced and referred were the follow.
ing:
BY Senator Teller, to grant ,bs
right of way through the Indian re,
eryation to the Rio Gr.nde Pacific
and the Denver and Rio Grand, rail-
ways.
By Senator Edmu d., to incorpc.
rate the Maritime Snip Canal Com.
pany, of Nicaragua.
The bill to credit and psv t. tn,
several States and Territories and tina
Di. trict of Columbia all monies col.
lected under direct tax act OF August
1861, reported by Senator Morrill, trol,
committee on finance on the 18th OF
December was taken from the caler.
dar and considered. Senator Berry OF.
tered an amendment directing in cases
where taxes WAS collected from cit.
liens, direc ly or by sale of property,
that amount sfhll be paid TO the GOV.
ernor of the state in trust for such
citizens, whether the. state be or b.
not indebted to the United
States.
Senator Sherman argued that III,
amendment would create great en-.
barrassment in the execution of the
bill.
Senator Berry explained the purpose
of the amendment and advocated III
adoption.
Senator Beck said the amendment
had been talked over iuiormely
among members of the finance com.
mittee, and that they were genersly
opposed to II. thinking it would beil
the way of final settl meut, and thsi
a better way was to h we the MONEY
paid ID the states and cave the Gil.
zens TO pursue their remedy agsna
them.
Senator Salisbury opposed it. Ii
proposed to take $1,000 600 out Of
the treasury and to distribnte
not to the poor people of the sewers
states, but to owners IF real espte
who pad this direct tax. He
was opposed 10 shy distributor ot
any surplus,in order to keep high pro
tectsble tariff, but his Observation
taught him that where there wa,
money in the bill, aud where ths
peop e of the states to be benetiltedby I
the bill, it was perfectly useless to Or
pose It's passage Senator ShermM
| withdrew his objection to thil
amen dmen,, but it wa.
further opposed by Senators Plumb
and Mcpherson. Senator ChandtE
wished to know whether the purpOSi
of the bi was to or, dit and pay N
each state, no. only the amount whili
ii paid directly from its own tres
ury for it's proportion of ths
direct tax, but also th%
amount collected by the Unitef
I -
as in many OF the Southern STATIC
by seizure and sale of their properB
1t occurred 10 MIN that if his g0E
ernment went il to the business ofEE
iuuding direct tax at ali, 1t should II
to southern states and find heirs
those from WON it had collected hN
and pay them back the money iust.!
. of turning the amount over IN gro
TO the states and leaving individus
, the resolution was rejected, yeas
| nay IS.
SENATOR Berry said that as III
amendment had been voted down, rs
did not think the II was u Just 0fS
and he hoped the bi would not PHI
: sem tor Beck stated that all dllsN
taxes must be uniform, aud it VOL
be necessary either to collect ana
tax from the st,tes which had II
paid it, or refund to those itN b
which had paid it amounts resp ~
lively bv them. The latter was w III
the bill proposed to do. M
Senator Gray favored the pai'lM
OF the bll but argued tnat as Inc s,5
had dealt directly with the go'sMs
: melt so the general goyernnss
should deal directly with We
states, IN refundin g the amour NH
he moved to strike OUT the prop%s
ton in the third section, that W.T.
the tax was collected either dlre'I
= or by sale of property the sam'
paid were 10 be held in trust lot
d benefit of heirs of those '"R
y whom they were collected. he SW
:, slider ed that proviso as hslnp" M
d bill.
Senator Chandler argued WIZ
states where there was collecletsI,t
individuals by seizure and ssle u e.
property, or where the s'arS