New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-01-15
spREMIER" MILLS DEPOSED
rpEE TRADERS IN THE HOUSE dunn
roUNpED BY COwLES's MOTION.
REVENUE BILL RTTERRED TO RANDALL
coMMITrEE-wHAT THE OUTCOME MAY BE.
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vvrNrus pIII REFERRED TO RANDALLs
commrrrEE-wHAT THE. OUTCOME MAY BE-
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w.shncton. jan Alt was bitter cose, but
pm,e,s Mills and his Democratic associates Of the
WAYS and Means CoRmitsce were ioroo1 W swain" !.
ne vote OF 100 to OIL the House eApressco s oecuou
dsa,mroval of the revenue POLICY advocated Dy fres
dent Cleveland IN his last Two annuai messages ahe
a. want Of confidence IN the majority Of the Ways and
,s.ns .s now constituted IL was not party vote,
Or. tor mora than twenty DEN ocrats were recorded
=, a.. .e7rmatve and at least eighteen OF them were
man vho OF thIr own voltion or under the stress oi
Fx ecuttve persuasion, or buuidozngs voted ior tho
anarkIa nterns bill last July. The affirmative Dem
or,,,c vote was extremely Significant for 1t showed
.sd reg5ons Ike Kentucky and Texas, the homes
nsct,velv of the free-trade Speaker and the free
trade chairman Of Ways and Means. To say that
toh a, them were dumfounded and indignant, or thar
Rrcckinridge McMillin, Bynm and the other free
trade leaders furious, is only family 10 describe
the sensations produced by the vote referred TO on
motion made by Cowles, Democrat of North Carolina
He IS an active member OF the small etcup OF southern
and border State Democrats who a great deal
moro about repeal modification Of the Internal
Revenue laws than they do abpit tariff revision
They fully realize that Mills and his colleagues are de-
termined IL practicable, to enforce the Presidents
rule ruin. policy in regard to revenue legislauoh'
and the move OF to-day was u prOUoSb against H.
When the call Of States for the Introduction OF
bills was In progress Mr.. cowles sent up bill
which he desired to have read for the
1rst time The reading disclosed the fact that
the bill proposed to repeal the tobacco tax and thai
1t also embodied the Internal Revenue provisions con-
tanned In the so-called Mills bill After the reading,
the Speaker pronounced the formula Referred 70 'no
Committee on Ways and Means"
Mr.. Speaker" said Mr. Cowlcs, I" I move that The
bill be referred to the Committee on Appropriations
Immediately noisy chorus Of protests went UP
from the amazed and angry Freetraders The speaker
was compelled to put the question, however, the yeas
and nays were demanded and the Free-trsders could
hardly believe their when the result was an
nounced 100 for the motion to Oh against It Among
the Democrats who voted the Affirmative were Bliss
Cummings t. J. Campbell and Greenman, OF New
York; Forncy, Alabama; Pidcock, NewJersey'; BUCK
aew and EImcntrout, Pennsylvania Caruth and Iaui-
bee Kentucky o'Nein, Missouri; Hare, Texas Cowies
McClammy, Simmons and Johnston, North Carolina
o'Ferran Virginia; Gambler, Georgia; Dougherty'
Florida and Glass, Tennessee.
The result made all the moro signincant py tne
fact that q bill, which, undcr the rule, would have
gone TO Chairman Mllls's committee was sent by thirty
eight majority a record vote to Chairman RANDALL
committee. In other words, the House deposed
Mills and enthrened Rsndall-the same Randall who
opposed the Dark Lantern bill and who was I" to be
kicked out Of the Democratic party after Cleyelsnds
reeecons He evidently had received no hint OF the
proposed notion but he voted With Mills BrecRnrdge
and the rest against 1t. Chairman Randall therefore,
is free from any impuiaon OF selfshness In the mat
ter at all, and II he felt ssted at the result he
was careful not TO show it. With bis usual magnanim-
ity toward defeated faction Of his own party, he
will probably suggest TO the speaker and his premier
that they can possibly regain the confidence Oh tne
House by bringing forward from Ways and Means
proposition to repeal certain internal taxes and thus
obvlate the necessity of any action by his committee
on the subject of revenue legislation. II Mills and
his. associates. accept this advice, well well
and good: II not, the Appropriauons Com.
mittee probably will report such bill OF
the Democratic members Of Appropriations u IS be-
lieved that fve-Messrs. Randall, FOran Feix camp
bell, Forney and Gay-would favor IT. and u is not
known that any of the Republican members would
oppose II IL the provisions for the beneht OF moon
shfnerss were eliminated. Mr.. Randall is OF the
opinion that two thirds of the House would vote for
the repeal Of the tobacco tax.
1t Is not expected that Speaker Carlisle and the
other feerade leaders win decide upon their future
course IN the matter until after consultation with
President Cleveland, who has also been left In the
lurch by to-day's proceedings. The defeat OF Mills
was startling enough TO make some Democrats think
that tho Randall Democratic tail VS. getting ready to
wag the free-trade Democratic dog
Randaips health is better than 1t was iast summer