The record-union., 1894-06-23
Do1NGs IN CONGRESS.
Yesterdays Proceedings in the Sena-
and House.

Yesterdays Proceedings in the Senate
and House.
WASHINGTON, June 22.-The House
bill to incorporate the Supreme Lodge of
knights of Pythias was reported favor
ably and Immediately passed by the Sen
ate to-day.
The following bills were also passed:
ApproDriating $40, 900 for tests of Am eri-
can timber by the forestry division of the
Agricultural Department; making the
first Monday of September Labor Day
legal holiday.
The House bill granting the citizens of
Sausalito, Cal, certain rights over the
Lime Point Military Reservation.
Kyle took the floor to speak on the
tariff. He made a general argument
favoring the income tax, dwelling on the
decline of farm values in the West. He
argued that the protective system was re-
sponsible for the concentration of wealth
in the hands of the few. and that it is just
and equitable that the few should bear
share of the burden OF taxation which
their wealth made them able to bear.
Senator Call of Florida shocked the
spectators in the gallery by removing his
shoes and elevating his sky-blue stock
ings to the neighboring desk while he
famed himself with palm leaf.
At the conclusion of Kyle's speech Vest
offered four additional amendments to the
one was to reduce exemption from $1,000
to $4,000, and exempt from the operation
Of the tax building and loan associations
making loans only to shareholders. An
other provides that in reckoning the
profits Of corporations for taxation, the
actual operating expenses, losses and in
terest on fixed Indebtedness shall be ex-
cluded.
The other amendment provides that the
tax shall not apply to insurance business
conducted on the mutual plan.
Teller supported the income tax propo-
sition. He quoted the utterances of the
leaders of the Republican party. Oliver
p. Morton, Senator Sherman and Senator
Morrill,, who advocated the tax in the
past.
Sherman followed Teller in opposition
to the income tax.
Patton, the new Republican Senator
from Michigan, followed in a set speech
against the general features of the tariff
bill. He spoke of the income tax features
in particular. He argued that the income
tax levied during the war had proved a
failure. The Democratic party, he said,
in its long minority opposition without
responsibility, had attracted to itself
many impracticable and destructive
theories. Now that it had attained power
it was plagued with these, and had been
compelled to incorporate many of them
in the BILL The discrimination against
the farmer and wool-grower in the tariff
bill, he said, bore a special severity on
Michigan. He said that the bill is covered
with the stain of a great scandal, by
which the sugar trust gets S30,000,000. and
it represents a series of bargains un-
equaled in American politics. He de-
picted the tariff bin as whole as being
sectional in the extreme. and referring to
its disapproval by Democratic Senators
who yet gave it support. he said: 81 re-
call and refer the Senators on the other
side to the example of one who was as
great as he was patriotic, and who be-
lieved in the principle OF protection and
commercial independence. Compare for
one moment the utterances of these latter
day statesmen with those of George
Washington in the Constitutional Con-
vention at Philadelphia, when he said:
IF we offer to the people what we our
selves disapprove, how can we afterwsrd
defend our work? Let us raise stand
ard to which the wise and honest can re-
pair: the event is in the hands of God "
Allen repelled the idea covertly and
openly advanced by the opponents OF the
income tax that the Populists had no re-
gard for property. lie declared vehe-
mently that Congress was in the hands of
the money power. By the legislation
forced by moneyed influence fabulous
and dishonest fortunes had been built up
in this country. For weeks railroad
magnate had sat in committee-room at
the end OF the Capitol trying to shape inn
portant legislation. IF you want proof