The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-10-03
WILL WE
Add to the Burdens We
Have by a Still Fur
ther Tax.
EXTRACT FROM SPEECH of HON. j.
PIGOTT of CONNECTICUT.


PIGOTT of CONNECTICUT.
Without duplicating the ANTS.
carried in the bills quoted where,
their modes or purposes are similar,
the following recapitultion will
show the!sum totol appropriations
required to meet the bills named {:
Representative DAvIs's bill (No.
3436) providing for the loan to
certain mortgage debtors is esti-
mated to require not less than the
sum of $4,000, ,OOO, 900.
| Representative Clover's bill (No.
6254, Fifty-second Congress) to loan
to states, etc., SO per cent of assess
ed valuation of property is estima-
ted to require exceeding $4,000
600, 900.
Representative Clover's bill (No.
3999, Fifty-second Congress) is va
riously estimated to require the
sum of from $4,000, 100000 to $751;
OOO, 100000 say $4,000, 100000.
| Senator Peffer's bill (No. 976) to
loan not exceeding $1,000 to any
individual applyinfi having real
estate security provides for an i'm
mediate issue of not less than $780,
100000. and an ultimate issue of
much more, but is not estimated in
the total, being similar in principle
to House bill 1896, above quoted.
Representative Kem's bill (No.
5446), where not included in pre-
vious estimates, would require an
issue of not less than $1,OOO,0OO, 900.
Mr.. Watson's various bills ,'are
not estimated, being included in
their principles in previous esti-
mates.
Representative Hudson's pen
sion bill(H. r. 3lsG) would require
the immediate issue 81 100000, 900.
Representative Davis's indus.
trial army bill (H. r. 6767), would
require an annual expenditure of
s5OO,OOO,OoO.
Senator's Peffer's charity bill Is.
l3OO) appropriates.$6,3 100000.
Representative Boen's bill (H. r.
79Os), for internal improvements.
appropriates $500, 100000.
With an annual appropriation in
addition, Representative Boen's
bill (H. r.. 5745) to exterminate the
Russian thistle appropriates 81 ,OOO,-
600.
Senator Peffer's rain water bill
(No. 7896) makes an appropriation
of $2o,OOO,0oo.
Total $35,507, 800, 900.
These estimates do not include
any duplication nor many items of
expenditure proposed in the bills
named, nor do they include salaries
Of the thousands upon thousands Of
officials to be appointed under their
provisions. AS the total estimated
money of the world, including pa
per, gold, silver, copper. brass and
iron tokens does not exceed $lO.-
loo, 100000, 1t appears that the
amount ofmoney called for by bills
named is nearly five times the
volume of the currency Of. the
world. What our paper money
would be worth under such circum-
stances anyone Of ordinary intelli-
gence knows, It would be worth
nothing at all.
/ On July %, 1894, Senator PETER
submitted a resolution of which the
following Is copy:
In view of existing social and
business conditions, and by way OF
of suggesting subjects for remedial
legislation; be it
Resolred by the Senate of the
United States, First. That all pub
lie functions ought to be exercised
by and through public agencies.
Second, That all railroads em.
ployed in interstate commerce
ought to be brought into one Or
ganization under control and su-
pervision of public officers; that
charges for transportation of per.
sons and property ought to be uni
form throughout the country; that
wages Of employees ought to be
regulated by law and paid prompt
Ily In money.
Third. That all coal beds ought
to be owned and worked by the
State or by the Federal Govern
ment, andthe wages OF all persons
who work In the mines ought to be
provided by law and paid in money
\ when due.