The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-07-25
Wit on the Tariff.

les made one of his usua~.e
he haraugues. He s5 ne g. IS 80
Ie- Missouri would be
es very short TIM a.
e. present governor
k minority of the #
$ state. He said a
re things that were -. 49, E
re enough or bad enough to 20,
ID the wire with. When he con,
Y, ded, Mr.. Caruth of Kentuck tooil
r the floor and paid his respets -, Is
/ Mr.. Neidringhaus in the folloSe
Y language:
t a want to proceed now, Mr..
a Chairman. As ] listened to the
y speech of this remarkable gentle
: man from Missouri, (Mr. Neid-
S ringhaus) I felt that I ought to
l have risen to a point of order. 1t
g is stated that upon an occasion in
: the Texas legislature a man was
| delivering an obituary address,
and in the course of it said that
the deceaced left a front room va
cant in the house of the Widow
Brown on the hill, where themem-
bers of this yer legislature are
boarded at a uniform price of $3.50
a week, Washing not included.
Laughter Thereupon another
member rose to a point of order.
Whether that was my friend Mr.. /
Kilgore OF not I do not know, but !
he rose to a pint of ORDER and
the speaker said the gentleman
will state his pint Thereupon
the gentleman said, Are it in or !
der for a man in a speech on to a e
dead man to ring in boarding n
house kept by his aunt and fur L
nished by himself?" Great laugh 1
ter. Now the question that ran I,
through my mind during u
speech of the remarkable mezi
from the city of st. Lou MI.
Neidringhaus) was wb1lier 7
in order for .him here IN sIFs. s..
Use his own business affairs. [ as e
glad to see that the gentleman ds s
sires to stand up for American Ia +,
Dor. He says that we are paying u
too much foreign labor. 1 agree -
to that statement to the extent Of :,
admitting that we are paying S. o.
600 a year too much for the SER y
vices of the gentleman who is, I =,
believe originally from Westpha- 4,
liza, North Germany. Laughter. h,
L had intended to have proceed a.
ed to the consideration of this bill :,
in the order of its schedules and :
had gone to the chairman of the n
Committee Of the Whole House to 9
have my name put down among
those who were to offer amend
ment. But lol and behold, there
was multitude before me. want
ed to offer an amendment in re- ID
gard to the tariff on grayestones. tr
Laughter. The "rising sun" of II
Massachusetts craftsmanship (Nlr.
Morse) had previously gone to the
Committee on Ways and Means
and, upon his statement, had got ca
ten that complaisant committee to u
raise the tariff ON granite from 20
TO so per cent; that is, to raise the
.arif on gravestones $50 per cent.
"Mr. Chairman, I thought that M
The grasp of the tax gatherer tn
stopped at the edge of the grave, mi
hat when we passed to another fr'
and it was to a world where 81
wicked cease from -
he he, weary I ~ E4 ~ :
beyond the tomb, notwithstaf
hat they have taxed the shroud
which the corpse is clad, notwit6S
standing they have taxed the cofin+ q
IN which he is placed they come We
along to tax the gravestone that is in
erected over him. My Godl tn
where is tito end Laughter. be
trust that in the great hereafter
when we shall stand before the III
seat of God we shall at he
least find that @Salvation is free" 81
Great Laughter fu
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