Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-05-31
MIR. MILLS OBJECTS.
DOES NOT LIKE THE CHANGES IN
THE WILSON BILL.


Tho TEXAS senator Says Ic VIII Not Vote
/ Tor q single Amendment Changing Al
Vaiorcm 20 Specific putics-favors Re-
daction In Taxation,
Senator Mills does not favor protec.
ton amendments to the Wilson bin, and
he does not hesitate 10 express his disap.
proval, He said in the senate ON May
. ON tho last senate compromise bill;
A change has come over tho spirit of
tho situation, not over my spirit have
not got rs much sea room rs ON that oc-
casion, find that tho bill pending be-
fore US Is not tho Wilson hill, but bill
which ought perhaps to bear tho honorod
name Of the senator from Maryland, Mr..
German, or Of tho senator from Ohio,
Mr. Brice, No man can torture mo into
the admission that tho bill pending DO.
fore this body is in any respect an an.
swer TO pledges made by the Democratic
national convention to the Democratic
people of the United States have said
and l expect to say rs long rs keep
my Observation-Disclosures taxation levied
ON value is the only honest system Of
taxation, and that tho specific system Of
taxation Is imposed for the purpose Of
ooncoaling facts and dofrauding the gov.
crnment for the benefit Of favored class
es l stand there today and shall stand
there Ms long ms live,
rise to say that do not intend to
vote for single ono Of these amend
ments changing tho duties from nd va
loren to specific, am Inundated
enough to have to bo drawn nearer and
nearer to the Mckinley act in tho rates
Of duty and in the amount of robbery
inflicted upon tho poor working people
Of the country, who have been starved
to death under this system Of taxation,
without being compelled TO bow down
In humiliation and to take mp even the
badges Of protection Tho very first
change made is ono from nd valorem to
a specific system, and that runs along
through the whole bill We have had
to surrender Mt discretion Mt every point
until 1t is now n question between tho
Mckinley protection net and the pond.
ing bill, with very little margin Of
difference between tho two.
l repeat what ! said bofore---that I
will vote against these amendments, but
that when they aro Incorporated In tho
bill will vote for tho bin, II II has q
cents of reduction in IT., rs choice be-
tween the two Tho Democratic party
said to tho people in 1899 That proteo-
ton is n fraud and that tho party was
in favor of honest taxation for revenue
alone. And there is where stand.
want 10 make an honsct effort to redeem
that pledge, and do not intend to go
backward. would rather vote to re-
duce the duties imposed by the Wilson
bill. Every ono of them Is high
enough, would have put moro arti-
Giles on tho free list. ! would hayor re-
ducod the cost of production on our
manufactures, so that wo could tako tho
markets of the world and give employ
ment to the people in honest work in
factories instead of having them walk
ing the streets and coming to Washing.
ton to toll tho government Of their dis
tress--a distress which tho protective
tariff has put upon thcm, You may pilo
up duties in this bin to any extent You
please, and II Il is any butter than tho
Mckinley act ] will vote for 1t, but do
not try to mako 1t just ny bad as 1t can
be made before vote for 1t.
] felt 1t necessary to file this cavoat
and let Democrats who are making this
bill understand that | nm not respon.
siblc for this measure and that ] do
not intend to assume tho responsibility.
Iwant the gentlemen who have demand.
cd this measure to stand out in tho open
daylight and take tho responsibility for
tho amendments which they have forced
upon this bill.