The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-25

Washington, April 24-There was a
small number of visitors in the gal
laries Of the Senate when the vice
president took his seat on this the last
day when the debate Oh the tariff bill
proceeds before it is taken up and read
by paragraphs.
On motion of Senator Pettigrew, the
Senate nassed a bill to extend the time
for building a bridge across the Mis-
souri, river at Yanl1ton, S. D.
The morning hour having expired, the
tariff bill was laid before the Senate.
Mills Manly Talk.
Promptly at l o'clock Senator Mills
took the floor. AT the outset, he de-
clared that legislators had often had 10
make selection between two parliament
tary measures, neither Of which meets
their approval. It must necessarily be
so, for no man could frame measure
to meet the approval Of every one. Every
act Of a legislature must be a compro
mise measure, and no act more so than
one regulating taxes.
This bill does not meet my ap-
proval," said he, and l doubt II 1t
entirely meets the approval of any gen
teman on this side Of the chamber. But
such as il is it will have my hearty
support
He might want to offer some amend
ments 10 the bill, whether or not he
was able 10 secure their adoption, he
would bow 10 the will of his party and
vote for the measure as they ordained
ii should be. 1t was a strictly party
measure, and had been a party meas
IRE from the foundation of the govern
ment and from the formation and orga-
1lization of the Democratic party. If he
had been chosen to construct this bill
and had the forty-four members of the
Democratic side of the chamber been
in accord with his views. he would have
constructed it on far different lines. He
would not have left coffee on the free
list and would not have put cotton, coal
and iron on the dutiaDle list. He would
put on the free list, metals, wool, cot
Ton. fibres, iron and steel in pigs and
all yarns-everythin which required to
be manufaC tured- He would do this in
order that the manufacturers of the
country might manufacture their goods
at the lowest possible price, so they
could go into the market of the world
The Home Market FaIIacy.
The Republican policy, he sd, was
TO provide a home market, there
were $1,000 900, 600 worth of gooo> made
in this country. Where were the peo-
PIE 10 come from to consume this? In
order TO carry out the Republican
policy, people would have to be i'm
ported 10 consume our surplus agricul-
turai products. 1t would require ia
600, 600 people to consume these pro-
ducts, and would require the importa-
ton Of Chinese, japanese, Cingalese,
Maltese and Chimpanzees and General
~-r-fr- n
EmaD te our people" he said
give them a chance to show their
skill. their genius as a national and
heaven-born right. Give them back
the ocean. and the workingman will
not be coming to Washington TO i'm
plore the government to do something
for them
Tneir proper resource was not to
come TO washington, anyhow, but to
turn back home and appeal to the bal
lot box.
Mr.. Mills devoted a large part of
his speech to the defense of the income
tax. He lauded the action Of the COM
nittee for reporting a tax on incomes.
Why should wealth not be taxed?
4 Pertinent Query
ct would like to know" he said, ION
what principle the owners of millions
insist that they should not be taxed"
He said the opponents of the income
tax said il was inquiSitorial, anarch-
istic, socialistic, to lay a tax of 2 per
cent. on incomes, but when a poor fell
low wants shirt and is taxed 100 per
cent. for 1t, nothing is said about its
being socialistic and anarchistic
He enunciated the principle that a
tax should be collected in proportion
to the taxpayers ability to pay it, and
that depended on the amount of protac-
ton he received. It was said the in
come tax was unjust and iniquitious
and the senator from New York, (Mr.
HID in his speech few days ago had
called it by all kinds of vile names,
yet when he was governor of the state
OF New York for six years, he had
never told the legislature that the in
come tax which as on the statute
books of the ST : was unjust and
ubiquitous. 1t was useless to denounce
the income tax as iniqaitious, unjust
etc; it was useless to make any
sophistical remarks about the difficulty
of collecting the tax. The law was
going TO be passed, he declared
emphatically; if not by this Congress
then by the next.
The forcihle way in which the senator
made this statement ELECTED applause
from the galleries, which was checked
by the gavel Of the presiding officer
Duty That Cannot Re EI-aded.
Mf. HIeSlQGul. COuNlnutQ the Se1c.-
Tor earnestly, "this is duty ievolving
on this body which cannot be evaded.
We must pass this bill, make it as good
as we can at first, but pass it we must
We must not only pass it, but we must
stop talking about it. The American
: people demand it. They sent US here
>for That purpose; they did not send us
here to hear arguments for new trial;
they sent us to drive the criminal out
of the country; to restore the country
to IFS natural rights. I say that if
forty-four senators on this side of the
chamber and the forty-f1fth in the pre-
sizing officers chair were Of the same
opinion as ]. we would pass this bill
in forty.eight hours. The people want
this bill passed now Immediately; they
DO not want to wait until they are
starved to death; they do not want to
wait until the whole country is para
iyzed, but they want to do it now Then
the business prosperity of the country
Will revive. Then the condition of
things will be changed; night will dis
appear, darkness and distress will leave
the land. prosperity will come to our
IsyJ, I'LL.