Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-01-09

Any bill passed by Congress under
present conditions NJ least. must neces-
sarily represent each compromise.
He did not believe that the country
would underrate the difficulties con
fronting those who now attempt to re-
wise and reform our tariff system.
Among these d ifiiculties were the drop
ping away Of friends Those zeal for re-
! form was 10 proportion 20 TIE square OF
the distance from their owl localities
and their own industries, and other
/ friends who differed in judgment as to
| the methods now TO DC pursued. SO,
/ also, the great commercial distress
which has 10 recent mouths come upon
! the country. paraiyzing 80 many indus
! tries and throwing SO many thousands
/ out Of employment, made the task OF
REFORM THE MORE DIFFICULT
while II made the necessity for the re-
I form more Imperative than ever. At
what time could taxes be lessened with
! greater justice and greater humanity
! than at a time when thousands are
struggling for the bare neCesSaries Of
/ life, and when could we, with greater
timeiiness and benefit, strike some Of
J the fetters from production and trade
| than when production is suppressed 10y
/ its burdens aud trade hampered by It's
/ restrictions. A third difficulty In the
\ way Of reform now was the emptiness
! or the treasury. We are called upon 10
/ reduce taxes at time when govern
| meat receipts are running so low that
/ daily revenues have ceased to meet
/ daily expenditures
He believed he could not better CON
sumo the time OF the House in opening
! this debate than by giving the story OF
/ our depleted treasury and placing The
] ffaHI
/ where that responsibility Justly be-
/ lonGed.
During the four years OF the last ad-
ministratiou we had plunged headlong
from an overlooking treasury 70
bankrupt treasury, and that,
| too, without lessening OF the
! burdens OF taxation upon the people,
/ but rather by a most substantial aud
/ oppressive increase OF the taxes The
last report OF Secretary Fairchild esti-
mated the surplus revenue for 1850 at
at SlOf, 900. 600. The first report OF
Secretary Window acknOw edged a sur
/ plus revenue for that year Of slOj 600.
600. When the Cleveland administra-
tion went ont Of Office on the fourth
day OF March, 1859, II turned over 10 its
successor
AN AVAILABLE CASH BALANCE
amounting, in the form OF treasury
! statement used ia t'fe past two years,
10 Sls5, 600, 600. During the Harrison
| ad ministratiOn the form OF treasury
statements was twice changed First
| by MIR Window, who succeeded to this
cash balance, TO conceal the surplus
and later, by Mr.. Foster, TO conceal the
! bankruptcy OF the treasury.
The FifJy-First Congress dealt
with the treasury surplus after
the true and conditional methods Of
protection, which was to lessen or aUol-
ish those taxes which pass directly and
uudiminished from the pockets Of the
taxpayer to the public treasury, and to
Increase those taxes which were inter
cepted la their passage from the pock-
cts Of the taxpayer TO the public treas
ury by the private toll g8therer.
The Mckinley dill reduced the inter
nal revenue taxes on manufactured to-
I bacco, abOlishing special taxes on deal
| ers and manufacturers Of tobacco, and
| wiped out the duties on raw sugar,
which for years past mad been our chief
| revenue producing article on the Gus
toms list. Both OF these taxes were i'm
a Just and proper sense revenue taxes,
aud neither of them should have been
touched, So long as the rates of duty
upon clothing and other necessary arti-
o,e9 ol p''on were 50 enormously
r.t, ,.o,
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essi,, 5o, - - o'''o nee
h,,, ''s,i. 49, a. W. d eue ',Ch'
,ho ,,o"t, .','r "s@''e ,aAe' were IaId on
,,',I,s,,,,-thIa va 'i1 pO'I man. so
J,,o,,,,o .,o,. W ~ n,oI'n anu ms pro-
to eiya ,Io ..-,3-ss al VIZ uuVaAeu
froo traat,s.-, lva" NInSn man
,,,oeo ni,csd ~ O"' "o" axes
All. 49, ~ 1P' az. 9aucers'
80 - 80, ~ -oH poi hls
co,er H. ra 'o' -uI us 'ao's
fron tho to- t, - renewed
N order ~, ba 80, Da,' I'' sO'si HiDeu0
NN"E j." 'Ah MUCH MORE TANEs
TO the 0eueiclaries ~ that bill These
/ released, taxes would have yielded us.
10 the Interim since their omission.
more than $50. 600 600, and would have
saved US from any danger OF treasury
deuclL
The magnificent surplus turned over
~ the Cleveland administration was
thus scattered. large portion of lt