Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-06-21
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Senator Hill Makes a Bitter Assault
on the Income Tax.
Wolcott Denies by Gable Specializing
in Sugar Stock-Civil Service
Rumor Denied.

in Sugar Stock-Civl Service
Rumor Denied.
Washington, June 21.-A rumor is in
circulation at the capitol to-day that it is
the intention of the civil service COM
missioners to prosecute all federal office
holders who attend political conventions.
This is denied by Civil Service Commis-
sioner Roosevelt, who says that the COM
mission has no authority to take such
action.
There was fairly good attendance in
the galleries, in anticipation of the open
ing of the income tax debate, when Vice
President Stevenson called the senate to
order to-day. Some preliminary routine
business was transacted. Then the tariff
bill was laid before the senate. As soon
as the clerk read the first section of the
income tax provisions Senator Hill, who
had assumed the leadership in opposition
to those provisions, took the floor and
delivered carefully prepared speech
against incorporating the income tax in
the tariff bill.
Senator Hill said: eve have now
reached the consideration of one of the
MOST IMPORTANT FEATURES
of the pending measure, important not
only because the tax which it seeks to
impose will equal in the aggregate about
one and one-ffth of the whole fedora
taxation of the United States, but because
of the peculiar nature of the burden al
we'll as the vast and varied interests which
it iniuriously affects. With all due re-
| spect to what has been said in favor o.
this tax bill by distinguished senators i,
is confidently submitted to the senate
that the arguments presented in opposi
tion to the necessary justice and advisa
bility of any such tax have never beer
successfully answered. The arguments
have been evaded, but not refuted. II
the first place, considered from the
STANDPOINT OF POLITICAL ExpEDlENo,
it is unwise to incorporate the income ia,
| in the reform bill. There we're homes
differences enough already existing
! among our party friends relating to legiti
mate tariff legislation, which necessaril,
had to be reconciled, without going out
side OF our way to seek fresh causes o
contention in an effort to incorporate
this tax, an experimental scheme of tax
alton at best, upon the measure for tn
revision of the tariff. The Democratic
party was substantially united in tariff
revision, but it was we'll known that ir
reconcilable differences of opinion exist
ed concerning the propriety of
RESTORING A WAR TAX
in time of peace, and yet in spite of sue
recognized differences and in the face o
protests of Democratic constituencie
and against the advice of public mel
who never faltered in their devotion t.
true Democratic principles, this income
tax feature has been engrafted upon thi
measure and we are persistently aske
to accept it against our better judgmen
as condition of obtaining any taril
legislation. 1t would have been goo
politics to have avoided this unnecessar
issue. Prudence dictates that this cor
gress should not attempt to formulate
NEW DEMOCRATIC DOCTRINES
to which it has not been committed
Rather should it carry out the pledge
already made. Perhaps" Senator Hi
proceeded, ~ overestimate the import
ance of party platforms and appreciat
too keenly the binding obligations {
party pledges. believe it the solem
duty of political party to redeem th
promises upon which it obtained powe
and that reputation thereof sooner O
later will bring disaster upon it at tt
hands OF the betrayed and indignant pee
pie. For one protest against the repr
diation of the Democratic party in ordt
to adopt and carry out the
PROMISES OF THB poPuL1sT PARTY.
81 am tempted to suggest" continue
Senator Hill, 'that the Democrats I
Oregon thought to test the popularity I
the income tax among the business me
and editors of that state by inserting
their platform a clause favoring that ta
and, awakening to their senses after ele'
tion, they discovered their ticket Il
third in the race; that their party ",
demoralized, and that they had divide
themselves instead of dividing their Of
ponents. The most disastrous defei
ever experienced by the Democrat
party of Oregon was the result of subst
tuting new-fangled Populistic principle
for the good old principle of true Den
ocracy. Here and now I venture tt
prediction that the same result will fc
low the same effort everywhere"
PETITION OF WALL STREET.
Senator Hill presented petition fro
"a number of prominent business men
New York City, asking that the incor
: tax be stricken from the tariff bill. T
petition was signed by Evan Thom,
VIM. Steinway, Louis Windmuller, J. E
ward Simmonds, s. D. Barber, W. Baya
: Cutting, Jno. H. Inman and Alex. =. o.
81 do not wish," said Senator Hill, g
; drive such men out of the Democrat
party by unwise legislation in the no
of supplying their places with dyr
miters, Co1eyites, socialists and all
ragtail and bobtail elements of the CO
munity, who would be attracted to us
our proposed
RAID UPON THE WEALTH
of the country. This is essentially a v
tax. Heretofore we, as Democrats, ha
clamored against it and others like
Look at the spectacle which we now p