Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-04-06

question If it was not unusual to author
ize foreign powers to direct American
citizens, and Senator Morgan pointed
out that a similar arrangement had been
entered into between Great Britain and
the United States to suppress the slave
trade. Several senators asked time to
consider the bill and see it printed with
the senate amendments. Senator Nor
gan asked unanimous consent that the
bill be considered after Senator Voor-
hees' speech, which was agreed to, and
the matter went over till later in the
day.
Voorhees, Opens Debate.
The tariff bill was then taken up and
Mr.. VOORHEES, opened the debate.
Senator VOORHEES, after a few intro
ductory remarks upon the iniquity and
injustice Of a protective tariff and a re-
view Of the reform proposed by the SEN
ate bill, said:
Such a constitution as this, so full of re-
lief to the people and Of strength, safety
and honor to the government, may we'll
atone for the imperfections and short
comings alleged against the pending
measure and will constitute the rock on
which the temple Of tariff reform will
be built, and against which, in the
ame]iorated future, the gates Of a~varice,
oppression and fraud shall not prevail.
With such a beneficent and stu
pendous result now plainly
within the reach Of the American peo-
pie and almost ready for their eager
enjoyment, I envy not the fate of the
party, or the man, or the set of men
who shall constitute themselves a
hindrance and an obstruction to its
speedy fulfllment.
Has Some Faults.
Faults and imperfections can, of
course, be alleged and pointed out; con-
cessions are apparent which have been
unwillingly made in order to secure its
passage; articles on the free list as they
came from the house have been made
dutiable under the duress of a small
majority here, yet, deeply as I regret
the necessity for these changes, I do not
hesitate to say that the bill, taken as a
whole, as it now stands, with it's COM
bination of lower taxes on the neces-
Sd14C5 Va ,4A4OS IN uU Nv 6ou10 Ul1ll0 ILL
creased revenues for the government,
will be hailed as a substantial measure
of reform and relief by the great pro-
ducing masses Of the American people.
Mckinley Law a Crime.
The enactment of the Mckinley law
in 1890 was a gigantic crime, not only
against every workingman and woman
e so hoG11nifho Sfofoc Int o1o1 D-o:n,
every individual manufacturer and
against all manufacturing interests. 1t
was not so designed by its authors, but
such was its real and inevitable char
acter. It declared a policy so fagitious
in principle, SO rotten in morality
and SO ravenous in its exactions ON the
absolute wants of life, that it's possible
duration was only a question of time
when the mex election by the people
should occur, and yet the vast manu-
featuring interests of the country were
tempted and seduced into accept
ing its delusive brides and into
an eager adjustment OF. themselves to
its alluring, through evanescent
and short lived provisions.
M r.sVoorhees defended the ad valorem
system as fairer, honester and mors
easily understood than specific duties,
and then turned his attention to the
sugar schedule. This article he called
the great revenue raiser of the govern.
ment.
The Income Tax.
Speaking of the proposed income tax,
which he warmly upheld, Mr.. Voor.
hees said:
The proposition contained In the
pending bill to levy a tax Of 2 per cen,
on all net incomes Of corporations and
OF individuals in excess Of 81, 600 pc,
annum is 80 just and equitable towards
the hard working taxpayers of meage,
resources throughout the entire counlr
that not a word in its defense or ex
PLANTATION would seem necessary here o.
anywhere else. But the narrow anG
corroding selfishness of riches has beer
aroused by this simple measure of Jus
tice into q fierce resentment.
For no earthly consideration would
paint an unjust picture of the dangerous
pretensions and intolerable o;
accumulated wealth not manifest in thi
country, but, speaking in the fear O.
my maker, I devoutly believe that tn,
limit of endurance has been reached
that the time has come for a test to b,
made between the power of boarded
money and the power Of productive
labor; that the people from this tim
forward, more than before, will organ
ize and take rapid and heroic measure
against Jne continued ana DruJaI alcUa
ton Of the plutocracy, against the para
mount influence of wealth, against tn
rule and, supremacy of the rich in shan
ing the financial policy of this govern
ment in their own interests.
Mohican at Port Townsend.
PORT TOWNSEND, WASH, April 9Th
United States steamship Mohican ha
arrived from San Francisco. She is th
first to arrive of the Behring sea pBtrc
fleet which is to rendezvous here an
leave for the north before May 4. Tb
MOhic0n ia aWaitinO or1ars