Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-10
LAW MAKERS At WORK.
A Bill introduced by Coke Providing
for Board of Arbitration on the
Greer County Controversy.
Brown OF Georgia Advocates the Repe a!
OF the Internal Revenue system.
Beck Will Reply 10 Him.
mental Capitalization sche me-Impor-
tant sills introduced In tho Houae.
Piftieth CoDgreIs.
THE SENATE.

Riftieth CoDgreIs.
THE SENATE.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.-In the Senate s
large number Of petitions were presented.
Bills were introduced and referred, by
Mr.. Sherman, to establish q bureau Of
authorizations and to regulate and prohibit
the importation, manufacture and sale Of
adnlterated articles Of food and drugs.
By Mr.. Coke for board Of arbitration
on the controversy between the United
States and Tt Xas relating to Greer county.
The Senate then took up the resolution
offered by Senator Brown few days ago
on the sui iect Of the internal revenue
system, and that Senator addressed the
Senate upon it.
He gave the history Of the various in
! ternal revenue measures and said they
were all passed during war periods, but
the system of 1861, unlike the others, has
been continued beyond the emergency,
and is now in existence twenty three
years after the war. The discrimination
against tobacco and whisky by the inter
nal revenue system, he said, consti-
! ,utes a strong objection to it. II
lroor men make whisky without
q AiSOh0O sAOy A0SS w w J akit oh0 slNJ
can't get license to make whisky in less
amount than twenty gallons every three
days. Thus protected against foreign
whisky in the custom house by 50 gal
lon duty, and from the home dIstiller by
restricted license, the whisky moncpo-
| st has an easy time, aud against the .is-
tie distiller he has the whole power OF
the courts, including spies, collectors,
marshals, district attorneys and the AL
bsnY penitentiary. Il is said internal
| revenue repeal will turn whisky and to-
| bscco loose without taxation, that neither
| is necessity but both Injuries, and 1t is
better to lower the tariff and give the
poor free trace chains and free wool hats,
which are cheaper than they ever were
before, than TO give them free tobacco and
free whisky. ToDacco has become
q necessity, and even II g
IfHgAsy, the poor will have it, and
fthe money for tobacco is taken FROM
family support. Every dollar Of tax
therefore on tobacco that is taken
Off gives poor man SO much more
to support mis- family and will probably
be greater relief than any other act leg
isistion could furnish which does not
redu;e the tax to Z grester amount. TIE
same rule applies substantially
to whisky. Il may be denied
it is necessity and yet there
are few families who do not use i.
and will continue to use it ct any price.
When we put 8 80 cent tax on what costs
20 cents a gallon we put tax on 800 per
cent on what lsboring men will have and
a relief in this matter will help the poor.
The Senator declared the International
n6sa 70 bn
tenn Of espionage, injustice and wrong
that ought to have been abolished long
ago. MIR. Brown moved that the resolu-
ton be referred to the committee on
finance.
Mr.. BECK objected to that reference On
the ground that that committee had no
House OF Representatives could alone
initiate bill for the reduction of taxes.
he wished to have the resolution lie Oh
the table so that Senators could be heard
on the opposite side OF the question.
The Senate had just listened to a defense
Of Georgia moonshiners, and TO an sttsck
on the government and its officers. He
wished chance to reply to it.
The resolution WAS laid on the table
and the Blair educational bill was then
taken up.
Mr.. Vest opposed the bill. II he was
called upon, he said, to frame title he
would call it san act to erect monument
encourage mendicancy in the southern
states" He WAS not surprised that the
Republican Senators warmly supported
it. When the sufcage Was given
70 the ignorant negroes Of the south IL
III q I hol aNt
the Republicans that it would give them
A great deal Was heard now OF the mag
n.nimity ard generosity on the part
OF the Republicans who sup
ported the ren0inga bill, but
vet, when Is result of the giving suffrage
to the ignorant negroes swarm Of white
carpet-baggers like vultures swept down
Cd thst unfortunate region, and when the
southern states lay PROSTATE and writing
at the feet of these Adventures, there
was no sympathy with them on the part
of the Republican leaders in the presence
of that CHASTITY spectacle. He expressed
his surprise and regret that the Demo-
cratic Senators who had given their lives
to an eloquent defense of q strict con:
struction OF The constitution and of
Jefersontan doctrine that Gil the powers
OF appropriation were given to Congress
under guarantee of the constitution,
were now found to have surren-
dered oil the landmarks of
their party in the presence of the great
temptation in the proposed law. II the
dead were permitted to take any interest
IN the affairs of the living, what ne asked
must be the surprise of the msjsstic spirit
of John G. Calhoun when he saw his
former followers, the strict construction
ist and states right Democrats of the
south yelling in both houses Of Congress
for the old flag and an appropriation.
In his judgment the enactment OF
the pending bill would be 8 greater
calamity to the southern people than war,
pestilence and famine. II it were not for
the money temptation In the bill 1t would
stand no more chance Of the votes Of
Democratic Senator's than q donation
from the devil would stand in Christian
congregation. The bill breathes the
spirit Of centrali zstion and pateTnal gov
eminent in every section and line. It
should bring joy shd unlimited