St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-05-04
SENATOR'S DENOUNCED
For REPRESENTATION in Passing
the Tariff Rill.

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NEW YORK. May 3.-A mass meeting
was held in Cooper Union tonight. to
protest against the diIatoriness Of the
senate in passing upon the Wilson bill.
All was not harmony at the meeting,
and the income-taX question was what
marked the dividing of the ways. The
storm broke when Frederick z. Cou-
dert took issue with James
Carter and ,roundly denounced the
income tax measure as bad,
dishonest ana undemncratic. Half of.
the large crowd Kissed and interrupted
this expression Of opinion, the others
cheered and applauded and hurled back
the eplthets applied to MIR. COudert by
his opponents from the body of the hall.
An old man jumped up, shook his fist at
Mr.. Coudert on the platform and
shouted: 1--WE were paying the taxes
while you people were robbing u.s."
At this point there was tumult. A
chorus of "put him OUT" burst out and
every one jumped up. Half dozen
police rushed up and seized the old man,
carrying him to the rear of the hail.;
Confusion reigned for some minutes.
Finally MIR. COudert put every one in
good humor by saying that. bad as the
income tax was, he was willing. to
swallow 1t for the sake of the tariff.
Ex-Secretary of the Treasury Fairchlld
called the meeting to order and de-
nounced senators responsible for the.
delay in the action OH the tariff bill. He
thought the income tax an unwise
measure.
James Carter delivered the principal
speech of the evening. He defended the
Income tax as the most just and eQuita-
BILE form OF taxation. There were mani
festatlons of approval and disapprOval
when he said this, foreboding of the
tumult that broke forth when Mr.. Cou.
ter. Mr.. Carter also denounced Sena.
tors Hill and Murphy for their attitude
toward the Wilson bill. This seemed to
please the large audience hugely.
MIR. Fairchild introduced Oscar, S.
Strauss, ex-minister to Turkey, who
said: 1.-THE senate of the United States
for the past three months has done lDore
TO diScredit the government OF the peO-
pie of this country than all other cir
cumstances combined which have con.
fronted the cation since the beginning.
While hunger, misery anO starvation
are IN the land and more than million
wage-earners are out of employment,
the senators abuse their privileges to
obstruct legislation and delay the de-
cision upon which depend the neces-
saries OF life to hundreds of thousands
of men, women and children"
Referring to Senator hill, he said:
1.-THE DAY has passed when a man can
parade as patriot and fling his princi-
pies to the wind and shout 1 am a
Democrat The triumphs of such men
will he an infamy to the party"
Resolutions in substance as follows
| were passed:
That we should prefer more con-
sistent and courageous measure of tariff
reform than is now pending; but we
urge that it be passed to final vote. SO
that we may be released from the ex.
tortionS and expressions of the Nc
| Kinley tariff.
THAT while we are opposed to the
income tax provisions, We are more op.
| posed to the existing system of tariff
taxation. which casts upon the working
classes nine-tenths of the burden OF
taxation, and an enormous Tribute fol
the benefit OF few.
"That we desire the income tax
clause to be stricken out. We deem its
| retention no excuse for the vote of any
| Democrat against the bill as Whole,
| and demand that every Democratic sen:
| atOr and representative vote for the re.
peal of the Mckinley law.
''That the defeat of the billsby Dem.
| ocratic votes would be disaster &c
the nation and an act Of treason to The
| Democratic party" s
The meeting then adjourned.
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