The Portland daily press., 1894-04-19
SENATOR MoRRILL's SPEECH.
Comparative Senatorial Brevity Contain
ing Many Strong Points.

Comparative Senatorial Brevity Contain
ing Many Strong Points.
Washington, April Ex-senator Morrill,
of Vermont today addressed the Senate
on the subjectef the tariff bill.
Mr.. Morrill, began his speech by prom
Use that he would not weary the unoc-
pied mahogany chairs of Senators but
would observe Comparative Senatorial
breYity.p He knew how vain it would
be for him to seek to ''deprive the cigar
symposium Of its usual quorum in the
coat room."
He spoke of the increase of American
manufactured products from $1,000 o0,,,
O005in 1880 to s., 0OO,0 200, 900 in 1890, and
said that growth eclipsed any progress
i've growth of this OF any other country
in the worlds history. In 1890, he said,
under Republican regime, the four and
one half million Of employees. with many
more millions of their dependents, were
| happy, and over six thousand millions OF
capital appeared safe and prosperous.
In 1894 the half-born Democratic tariff
bill, now in the Senate, like Millers
''tawhy lion," paving to get free ms
hinder parts, threatened to MAIN ana
cripple the whole of our vastly extended
manufactures, and much Of them to alb
s0lutely destroy, by an Intentional and
vicious surrender to foreigners OF the
American market. This impending hos
tility had for tdany months been multi
plying great army of the unemployed.
Steam engines had had a rest. Dividends
had been cut in twain, or had wholly
ceased Bankruptcies only seemed to
flourish. And now, as If to fiatten out
all hope for the future, not only were tne
rates of duties to be stubbornly docked,
but the specific was to be feeklessly SUI
perseded by the exploded ad vatorem
system, under which duties largely de-
pended upon the integrity OF the frequent
want of integrity in the foreign valuation
set forth in the invoice.
Coming down to the question of the
income tax, Mr.. Morrill, said The APP
pearance here in the United States Con
gtess, at time of profound peace, ora
e-sJraddling income tax bill, un hef-
aided by the platform Of either OF tle
great parties of the country ana only
commended by the unsavory example OF
the Old World eligarchieE in distress,
must be reckoned as blunder of unu s.
ual magnitude, even for a Democratic
administration. Certainly we have not
the excuse of the oYertAxed European
nations, sorely burdened by the enor-
NOUS imperial armies and royal navles,
nor the lame justification that our sys-
tenn of.raising revenue with all the past
experiene III it's favor, was inadequate
and must be superseded to obtain more
revenue by the rigors to which the sub
jects Of Germany, England, Austria and
Italy have been, not uncomplainingly,
compelled to submit. The charge of An
excess of revenue, lately iterated
against protection, is already aban-
doned by the party whose dominance it
is expected will cease March a., 1898, but
which is now on wild hunt for revenue
to fill the vacuum to be created by a
Democratic tariff.
"If more revenue, instead of less, had
been desired, and not the creation of a
deficit, solely to make room for an une-
aual income tax; more would have been
easily obtainabie from light duty on
some of the. articles in the long list
now, free. or by an increase OF taxes on
malt liquors, and that without the ad-
dition Of dime TO the cost of collection.
It IS to he hoped that the income
scheme mas not been Inspired by a will
ihgness on the part OF it's pro-
ieetors akin TO that of Artenius
Ward that all of his wife's relations
should enlist OF be drafted in our late
war. And vet it looks like thrifty local
scheme to grant to Others, rather than
10 its projectors, the honors ae-
cruing to ali contributors to an income
tax" -
In conclusion, Mr.. Morrill, said:
"Shetiid this bill, aidedsby the eeHcur-
rent action of the Senate, ever reach the
dignitysof law enacted by Congress,
/ should profoundly regret it on account
of the dire calamities, with which it's
tariff chapters are pregnant. Through.
out the world it would also be regret
ted by the friends Of free POPULAR gov
eminent that The great republic Of the
United States,s though everywhere at
peace, should forfeit it's ancient reputa-
tion of treasury properly supported and
seldom empty, and suddenly earn the
poor fame Of being UNEQUAL to the Leg
islative task of proposing a revenue
measure for the ordinary support of the
government without frantic and des-
berate resort to an income tax-the re-
sort only OF nations which are always
wrestling with financial deficits. Surely
we cannot afford to decorate the annals
of our repu bile with vile copy of this
foreign excresenee.n
Mr.. Cameron, Republican, of PennsyI-
yania, spoke in opposition to the bill.
He said the whole country west of the
Mississippi had been sacrificed on the
silver issue, and now they were going
to sacrifice the whole country east of the
Mississippi on the tariff in order to open
new markets for foreign capital in for
elgn industries.
Mr.. Quay, Republican, gave another
installment Of the speech he began Sat
urdsay. The Senate after an executive
session, adjourned.
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American Marines Burned to Death.