Connecticut western news., 1894-04-12
THE TARIFF DEBATE.
SENATOR HILL MAKES A SOMEWHAT
 SENSATIONAL SPEECH.

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 wAsHINeToN, April l0.-The proceedings In the senate from the opening to the clos ing of the session were full of interest. The first in point of time was the swear ing in of Mir. Walsh as senator from Georgia to serve out the term of the late Senator Colquitt.
 The chief interest of the day centered in Senator Hills speech. That the tariff question has not lost all its fascination was shown by the large crowds drawn to the senate. The speech was mainly di- rected against the income tax although MT. Hill spoke of the Humiliation" of the Hawaiian question, which he s1.,ributed to the fact that the head of theState de- partment was a Republican. He opposed federal income tax, but had no objection to state income tax laws.
 Senator Hnrs Speech.
 He intimated that the retention of the income tax feature in the tariff bill would result in the defeat of that bill, but if de- feat met the whole bill the responsibilities must fall on those who favored the income tax. He was ready to vote for the Mills bill or any other Democratic measure, and predicted that the failure of the Demo cratic party to reform the tariff would re- suit in the defeat, the demoralization and the annihilatiou of the Democratic party. The passage of the income tax, however, would lose every northern state to the Democrats, and the result would be that not only would they lose the house of rep resentatives, but the presidency as well.
 The senate galleries were packed when Mir. Hill began his address on the tariff, in which the usual arguments were ad- 'vanced. The sensational portions of his l.s and Secretary Gresham.
 In speaking of the foreign policy of the administration he said: Tt is not denied that some mistakes have occurred. Our foreign policy, especially that relating to Hawaii, it must be admitted, hasn't met the expectations of the people. A sense of humiliation prevailed when the project for the restoration of deposed monarchy was unfolded by the administration, and grati- fication ensued when its abandonment or failure was reluctantly announced, infu- enced largely by an aroused public senti- ment
 Hawaiian Policy a Biundsr. That unfortunate contemplated policy was a blunder, and blunder is sometimes worse than & crime. 1t was, however, the natural consequence which might we'll have been, anticipated from that other mis- take in placing the department of state in charge of a Republican, distinguished and estimable though he may be, whose public services have always been identified in opposition to the Democratic party, who was without sympathy for it's traditions and purposes, and whose political convic- tions upon the disputed public questions of the day. If changed at all, are carefully | concealed.
 ''It is to be regretted that the president should not have beeb able to find in his | own party some safe and honorable states man in whom he and his party could have | placed confidence-one of Democratic in- stincts and training, whose management | of foreign affairs would have reflected | credit upon the country and would have avoided the promulgation of an un-Amer- ican policy-a departure from Democratic precedents-which was sought to be forced upon an unwilling people"
 He spoke of the repeal of the federal cleo | tions law as a fulfllment of the party's pledges and a triumph for the just doc Urine of state rights and indorsed the re- | peal of the Sherman law.
 | No Time Fer Partis.nship. Coming then to the main question-,ar- | if reform-he said that revision should be | approached with circumspection and with | realizing sense of the changed condition | of the country since 1887 and 1890. | An extreme reduction of tariff duties at time when the treasury was swollen with a surplus of sl00 900, when the | country was reasonably prosperous, when all our industries were in motion and all our workingmen were employed, assumed different aspect and presented different question when proposed now, with large | and growing treasury deficit instead of a surplus staring us in the face, with our | industries paralyzed, our manufactories l closed, our workingmen idle, and follow ing upon the heels of one of the most dis astrous financial panics in our history. | What was safe and prudent and wise l then it would be criminal folly to attempt now The present was no time for parti- sanship, and Democrats and Repu blicans alike should strive to solve existing prob lems in spirit of broad patriotism. In the face of the prostration of private I industries and in the presence of such a I paralysis of general business as the treas I ury deficit attests and prolongs, this bill as framed by it's authors and as passed by the house, sought to double the deficit by discarding customs revenue and to fill the | void with an income tax.
 Income Tax Denounced.
 | The rest or ms speech was gwen up pS the income tax question, and his opening words defined his position in unequivocal and forceful language: Against such 6 scheme-unnecessary, i'll timed and mis- chievous, suddenly sprung upon the coun. try in the hour of its distress, un-Demo | cratic in it's nature and socialistic in its tendencies-I enter the protest of the peo | pie of the state of New York. They utterly dissent from any proposal to get revenue for the general government by taxing in. comes. Their dissent is practically unan- imous and altogether implacable."
 He intimated that the tariff pill was con
 structed on lines laid down by the admin istration; that it was an anomalous state of affairs when the president should bt | able to give congress information as tc what had occurred in committee of the
 house, and said that ''in these latter days the distinctions between the functions and
 prerogatives of the executive department on the one hand and the legislative de
 partment on the other do not seem to be
 always observed
 "The truth is that the first information
 which congress had of the alleged details | of the proposed bill was in the message
 itself. But the strangest part of this un
 precedented proceeding was that in fact al
 the very date of the message, Dec. {, lseS
 neither the full committee of ways and
 means nor the Democratic members there
 of had agreed upon any income tax oi
 upon other internal taxation"
 When Senator Hill concluded his speech,
 he was greeted by a burst of applause
 which was quickly checked by the vics
 president, There was a sudden exodus oi
 visitors from the floor of the senate cham
 Der, and many left the galleries.
 
 Threw on the Bioodhounds-
 JACKSON, Miss, April 9.-Charles O
 Summers, the detective sentenced to tn,
 penitentiary for five years for stealing
 $500 from the Southern Express company
 at Meridian, Miss, m 1888, has escaped fol