Morning journal and courier., 1894-04-10
SENATOR HILL SPEAKS.

WAshlN4Tohy ApEu 0.-1ne senate chamber was crowded to-day with people anxious to hear Senator Hills speech. The places reserved for ths president and vice president were occupied, as also were the places in the diplomatic gallery. Back of the public gallery many people stood up, and if any person left the gallery his place was speedily occupied from the out side. Many members of the house came over and occupied chairs and sofas in the rear of the senate chamber while senators Of both political parties remained in their seats and gave the New York senator close attention. It was an audience to in- spire an orator. When the time came for him to begin Senator Hill advanced one read from printed slips and spoke with great deliberation and marked emphasis.
 The speech was chiefly devoted to an e1 tsns.ve and bitter attack on the income tax feature of the Wilson bill.
 He arrsigned the president on his Ha- waiian policy in the most severe terms, and also said that the foreign policy had not met ths expectations of the people
 He spoke of the repeal of the federal election law as a fulfllment of the party's pledges and triumph for the just doctrine of state rights, and endorsed the repeal of the Sherman law.
 Coming then to the main qusstion-tsri6 reform-he said that revision should bs 3D. preached with cireumspsotion and with e realizing sense of the changed condition of the country since 1887 and 1890. The rest of his speech was devoted main. ly to the income tax question, and his open ing words defined his position In une q uivo- cal and forcsful language.
 Against such . scheme" he said, ''un- necessary, ill-timed and mischievous-sud- denly sprung upon the country in the hour of It's distress, undemocratio in its nature and socislistio in its tsndencies-I enter the protsst of the people of the state of New York. They utterly dissent from any proposal to get revenue for the general government by taxing incomes. Their dis sent is practically unanimous and altos eth CT implacsble."
 An income tax was objectionable be- cauee from its very nature 1t must be in- quisitorial in its imposition and collection. "rbis bill proposes suicidal policy when 1t eeeks by its extreme provisions to discard numerous reasonable tariff duties and thereby imperil many industries and create c deficiency in necessary revenues, simply for the purpose of sffording an op portunity or excuse for the substitution of an income tex. There is an ample field for genuine tariff reform without a resort to such an unwiss and dangerous experi ment.
 .The substitution of internal or direct taxes for custom house taxation meant the reduction of the wages of American work men to the European standards. It meant AL l ce IaI fk lav, rivstion to our workmen of the comforts and luxuries of life to which they have been accustomed" .- It was his belief that the complete sub. l stitutioa of internal, direct or income taxes for tariff taxes would prove utterly | ruinous to the business interests of this | country under existing conditions abroad. l "No American statesman of rank. ex- cept Mr. Cleveland, has deemed 1t eligible,
 since our war experience of an income tsx
 made manifest that hitherto in the north
 ern states 1t was generally odious. It Is a
 novelty in American politics to make its | offensive. It Is like making religion i'm
 moral and urbanity noisy in order to com
 msnd and propagate them.
 'tNo such federal sggrandikament wal ever projected-no such insidious and
 deadly assault upon state rights; state
 powers and state independence as federal
 income tax.
 "That taxation of incomes in the United
 States would be sectional and class taxa
 ton is precisely why 1t comments itself tc
 some men of European tradition. Theil
 advocacy is sincere, and has one small ex
 cuse, that through our own stupidity snd
 negligence some parts of our tariff sohed
 ules have beeu shaped to enrich few
 Carnegiss with texts for sermons on tri
 umphant democracy and the best use of
 wealth.
 eff the contention that the rich should pay all tho taxes and the poor be exempt ed therefrom, is we'll founded, then 1t ma, l we'll be urged that the rich should monop
 olizs the su frsgs and offices of the coun
 try"
 He maintained that the necessities of th , government did not require an incom, |, tax, and quoted from the report of th
 secretary of the treasury In support of hi
 assertion.
 After MT. Hill had spoken the senst got into legislative muddls over the de mand of MT. Harris to have the tariff bill
 read in full. There seemed to be an ap
 prehension on the republican side ths
 there was some snare or pitfall conceale, in the proposition, particularly as MT. Hal ris would not let the matter lie over til | to-morrow, and 90 c sors of flibusterin . ! was set asoing and was kept up till 6:30 when MT. Harris' object being attained th , | senate adjourned.