The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-06-29
WASHINGTON.

s. Option ana New Mexico Adinisssol
II Bills.
The fight over the income tax extende
through Friday, Saturday and thus sar thi
o week, though II paGsAl on test vote yestel
e day to be the strongest part of the bill. Bot
/ houses adjourned Monday Immediately afte
/ assembling as Il mark Of grief ut the assassina
|, ton ofthe French president. TheFrench cham
h bers did the same after the assassination o
V Garfield. Hill took the lead and had som
q exciting collOquies with Messrs Allen of Ne
braska, and Harris of Tennessee. His init
: nation that the latter was showing planta
$ ton manners was met by the counter charg
o that his manners were those of the slums 0
: New York. lie offered all manner of amend
: ments designed to make the tax more genera
. or to eliminate its worst features, but on ev
| cry roll call he was voted down by Il substan
. tial majority, in spite of the fact that the Pop
ulists occasionally joined the Republicans il
his support. Finally rs "A result of his tao
, tics the committee itself Withdrew It's owl
:. amendment reducing the exemption limit tt
$3,0O0 Finally, the salaries of United States
: judges were exempted from the provisions O.
the bill, and then, on motion of Hill, the pres
, ident of the United States was exempted
Hill asked that this be done for zone of my
constituents" and Vest remarked that as Thu
| was the last president New York would give
the nation, they could afford to do so much
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state, county, municipal and town bonds from
taxation, but it was rejected.
Hill made a speech every dav and his strong
est argument was not against the justice OF
the advisability of such a tax, but the unfair.
ness of hitching it to the tariff bill and bind
ing up the fate of so iasportant measure with
an experimental scheme like this, one on
which the country has passed no yer.
dict and which Eat least ought to
be required to stand on its own merits as a
separate measure. He srraigned the party for
hin for The a. renea Of tbe tate y hank taxi and
thnn ,f foiStinn n"n tLooo , th;s nonnlistic
in an extended speech Friday. He admitted
the fact that he had favored an income tax in
1871 but tried to make distinction between
the conditions existing at that time when the
government was carving two billion dollars
of interest bearing debt, and the conditions of
today. He also argued that profits i'm legiti-
mate enterprises were being,reduced to a min
imum and that if wealth was to be singled
out for assault it should be the wealth of the
sugar trust which was paving the enormous
dividends upon its watered stock. He said
that he had opposed the repeal of the sugar
duty in 1890 and upon general grounds was
in favor of its restoration how because it fur
There was something of a break Tuesday
when Senator GRAY declared that he had
reached the point where he could not sacrifice
his principles to eXpediency and he and SEMI
tor Pugh of Alabama, voted for one of Sena-
tor Hiifs amendments. proposing to exempt
fax. Rut the section went through neyerthe-
less with Republican aid on the Vote.
Senator Hoar is now leading Renublican
filibusterinp AGAINST continuin0 the years
annronriations over into the nexf fiscal wear,
The sole reason of course is spite over the
tariff bill.
The house yesterday passed the bill for adj
mission of New Mexico.
The House passed the general deficiency
hill Tuesday and also the bil MAKING labor
day n legal holiday.
The informer Sill has concluded his testi
monv before the COMMITTEES investigating the |
armor plate frauds and unless he is lyinS fer
ribly the Carnegie comnanies. instead of
being fined n few tbo,sand dollars bv Mr..
Cleveland. should have been made TO refund
every dollar received for hotched work and
To have forfeited their contracts The most
of his testimony can be verified. and he speci-
fies every niece of bad armor that was deIiy-
cred TO the government. and MS If can ali he
pot ot and examined and nrohabjy will he in
course of time.
THE commissioner al pensions has issued AN
order amending or,ler,efO TO the extent that
in nil certified cases. uni those in which
actual fraud has been shown. no inyesti-
CATION is deemed neS Il. nor need these
cases be disturbetkz The previous order
provided that where tz.ywas beyond doubt
that the pensioner was not himself guilty of
The fraud this should, lie the case. The effect
If the order can be to ca II in about Is 900 or
20 900 cases throughout the country.
1t is said that there is good deal of per-
,onal bitterness between senator's growing
tut of some acrimonious episodes in the tariff
lebate. There is general soreness against Hill
N the Democratic side, and almost as much
lganst German and his chums in the sugar
combine. and hard feeling between individual
enators who have had sharp word passages.
The Hatch anti-option bill passed the house !
friday by "A vote of $50 to 81. 1t is not SO rad
cal measure as those before the last two con-
resses but is still pretty severe. Dealers in {
urniture under the old bill were required to ;
ay something like $1,000 for a license fee and I
eavy tax on all transactions besides. Under
his bill the license fee is only S12 and the tax
n legitimate dealings is placed at from one to
yo cents per 1000 bushels of grain and 10000
ounds of pork, cotton. etc., with additional
enalties attached to dealings where actual
eliyery is not finally made. A lot of men,
ers who voted for it in obedience to public
amor tried to kill it by amendments. For
lstance one amendment providing that the
estrictions of the bin should not apply to
lies for future delivery in the regular course
legitimated business, in effect negativing
le whole measure, was adopted in committee c
f the whole. but when yea and nav vote
ms taken in the house was defeated III to 4
%.
Renresentotive Stone of pepnsvlvania has .
troduced n bin TO deal with anarchists. II
royides that ajl persons who profess SYM q
atby with the kind of anarcbistic doctrines
cemplified Inv Rayachoi and Cesario. or who I
,nsnire To nit snch doctrines i'm practice or
,ioice or annroye in nm anorcbistic assault ON 4
fe and property are TO he classed AS and treat
10 crminaIs He defines an anarchist as a u
-, ,.,hn L. . mon,La, of oc amnloveJor
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