Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-04-06
TOBACCO-TAXES.
And Yet Our Cesar Gives No sign.


1T rom ONE nt.AItl ttIAf ~ flaN '.ht-i
WAsruNarov, April 5.-As Speaker Reed
has not yet shown The slightest inclination
90 recognize eny ono of the members from
Virginia or North Carolina on Monday 70
move under q suspension Of the rule, the
rercal Of tho tobacc0-taXcs 70 viii prove or
interest - quote few lines from
fhe speech of the man from blaine
IN the last Congress on this particular sub
iect. l. viii Zoe remembered that Dir.
Reed was foremost ia demanding that Mr..
CARLISLE, Mr. Mills. and other Democrats
elould give M their tariff bill entirely until
the tobGcCO-ta1c4 could DO repeated by the
passage OF a separate bill. Talk was
cheap then, aud the big blusterer
rom the Plnc-tree state lad no great
faith in the ability Of his party TO capture
control of tine House. JIG knew also
that The Senate would not do moro for tho
interests Of the to04cCo-groW sections
tlan the lest House proposed, hut he was
in both a deyilish aud q frettul mood.
WHAT HE SAID.
Here is what he said on the floor during
tn Last Conrrcss:
I'VE gre III agreed at least upon this
side of the House that the surplus should
he reduced. and we stand ready now, be-
fore the holidays. to make one reduction
in which the other side OF the House are
arreed. and thai is in relation to the to-
bGcco-tsx: and hope that en- opportunity
Will he given Va before we separate by the
powers that be and are TO be to vote there
on and show 60 the country some DISPOSE
ton 3rouer and 1table in this mater
On the same day that he delivered him
self " these remarks he was told that he
would have ample opportunity to vote tor
revenue reduction. and then 1t was that he
propeiled his heavy, rotuud form down the
main ai-le. and 18th his lace flushed un IL
tlc veins stood out Ike blsters on bis
cuit he roarrd ar TIE top OF his voice, with
hlsusualpcculiar twang, " Why not now"
-HE WORD VOW"
So much emphasis vas placed upon the
word now Tat the echoes Of ms voice
were fairly heard coming back from the
other end of the spacious nall.
Strange TO say, the Speaker isn't by
enthusiastic at present on TINS point, anu
when ne knows, 700. that the Mchlnley
bill does not 60 as FIX IN reducing the To-
bIccO-taxCs by O0Jj.O00 rs did tho NILS
bill. The Republicans did great deal Of
blowing end prom sing two years ago when
tobacco was the subject of discussion, and
In eject they sand Just give IA control
If oil tne branches of the Government and
we will wipe out the tObacco-taxes IN .
hurry. Wen show you now to get rid OF
those Internal taxes"
BURROWS.
Mr. julius Cesar Burrows. of Michigan.
who is now and who was in the last Con-
gress a member Of the Ways and Means
Committee, was tearing around Virginia
last year stumping the State in the interest
OF little boss Malone. and Burrows made
the repeal Of the tObaccO-taxes his song
everywhere. Re knew then that at a Sc
cret meeting OF thecommittce OF which he
is now and was then q member motion
was made 70 abolish the acknowledgements
duties. and both he and General Tom
Browne, IF Indiana, voted against the
propos ton. The political sentiment IN
the State in which Mr.. Burrows lives IL
81 Il 10 be against a repeal OF the tobacco
tax In toto. Many Of the leading Republic
cons do not hesitate TO declare here that
none OF that tax ought to 20. and they are
figuring on keeping half the tax on
smoking and chewlng-tOb acco in order to
raise money in Virginia and North Carolina
70 help pay the heavy pension bills that
are demanded By the eS-s0idiers OF the
Union. That is pretty well understood
here among public men. and tho leglsla-
ton of this Congress isn't going to be IA
voralle 10 the South. Tobacco, sugar,
rice. and all southern products are to be
Disseminated against, and the interests
which help the Republican party are 60
ing to be protected and fostered.