Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1894-02-07
A WEEK IN ooNGNEss.
1he Progress Made Towards the Fur thcr Decentralization of Business.


 Struction during the past week during a greater part of which tim, the House has been in a chaotic condition. The consideration o the Wilson bill has progressed un. der the five minute rule. The ob. lection that has been manifested ln the House by members of the dem ocratic party towards the Nlisoh bill has been rather astonishing Such died iu the wool democrats aS Congressman DenSOn Of Alabanha, Sperry of Connecticut. Slpe anu Beltzhoover of Pennsylvania lien drickS of New York, and dozen others. have made speeches de- poupcinc not only the Wilson bill but tbe framers of tho bill in the most hitter terms. They all declared tbat of the two bIlls-the Wilson i'm or the Mckinley bill-they would much prefer the Mckinley bill. They also declared that fl the Wilson bill become a law 1t will ruin inc industries of the country. In this connection 1t may be inter esting to know exactly what some of these gentlemen said: By what commission does the Democratic partv come into this House and fly the flag of free trader, the single taxer. the Populst, and the Com munist.H demanded Joseph C. Hen dricks. democratic congressman from Brooklyn, New York. "When | went on the stump in 1882, he de- claned, ''I told my people that the Democratic party was a conServa- tive party, and would deal with the tariff in modification, but the action of this house during the past two weeks has demonstrated that those promises were false" The state ment made by Mir. Sibley, demo cratic member from Pennsylvania. was probably more striking: My right hand shall wither and my tongue clesve to the roof of my mouth before l vote for bill that will destroy the industries of my district" " exclaimed Representative J. C. Sibley as ke acclaimed against the Wilson bill m open house. Similar statements have been made frequently in the House during the discussion since these two gentle men have seen it to take the lead.
 In spite of the declarations of these gentlemen, however, the Dem ocratic party has marched steadily on its road of destruction. The protection afforded American workingmen m the coal mines, the iron mines. and the tin mines has been abolished by the democratic party. But even this was not enough to satisfy the more radical members of that party. By an overwhelming vote the Democratic party removed inc bounty paid to American pro ducers of sugar absolutely and also placed that article upon the free list. Under the stimulation of a bounty of two cents per pound to producers of sugar by the govern ment under the Mckinley law, the amount of sugar produced in this country was wonderfully increased during the first two years that that law was m existence. During the last year the amount of sugar pro duced in this country, including cane, beet, sorghum and maple amounted to five million pounds. During the last two years in which the Mckinley law has been in opera ton the amount of sugar produced in this country has been almost doubled
 The internal revenue features of the bill have been at last reported to the house. The bill, as predicted in this correspondence, places a tax of two per cent on all individual in- comes over S4,0UO per annum and also tax of two per cent on the net earnings of corporations. It also places q tax of one dollar on thou sand on cigarettes, a small tax on playing cards. and a tax of one dol lar a gallon on whiskey. The fight over the income tax promises to be a long and bitter one in the house as the northern democrats are bit terlv opposed to the imposition of such a tax, denouncing It as inquisl- torial, undemOcratic and un-Ameri- can. There can be no doubt now however but that the income tax bill will pass the house. No matter how objectionable it may be to some members of the house and no mat ter how loudly they denOunce 1t, when the final vote comes they will all follow in the line of the cuckoos and vote solidly for the bill DO mat ter how objectionable and infamous certain parts of 1t may be. 4 tax on sugar or a tax on incomes are the only two ways of meeting the enor- mous deficit in the revenues caused by the great reduction which the Wilson bill has made. Since sugar has been placed on the free list it - becomes inevitable that a tax shall be placed on incomes as the only means of raising the seventy millions of dollars which 1t is calculated will be needed to make up the deficit in the revenues.
 The fight in the ranks of the dem Ucratic party has been of a very amusing character from the repub- tican standpoint. or course the re- pubHcans have offered repeated amendments to the bill hoping thereby to modify as much as pos sible the obnoxious portions of the bill but have met with constant de- feat.
 Congressman Boutelle has been endeavoring to get his Hawaiian resolution up in the House nearly every day this week but Speaker Crisp in his usual American way has constantly refused to permit Mr. Boutelle to call it up. Mir Boutelle is making a brave fgh against heavy odds. and the prinei- pal odds against him Is the convic- tioR in the minds of the Democratic party that the more this Hawaiian scandal Is stirred the more malodor- ious it is for them and the more ruinous it will be for the prospects of the Democratic party in the autumn election. O. P. AUSTIN.
 .f |. Fisher. agent Domestic Sew