The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-01-09

revenue had been dissipased since the Sec
retary Of the Treasury under Cleveland .
hfss administration Turned over . balance
OF 5ls5. Zoo. Co The Mckinley bill reduced
the internal revenue taxes on manufac-
tared tobacco. aoosishiug the special taxes
on deslers and manufacturers OF tobacco,
and wiped cut the duties on raw sugar.
which for years pas. hsd been our chief
revenue producing article on the customs
list Eogh OF these tares were In Just
and proper senss revenue taxes, and
neither should have bean touched 80 long
rs the rates or ca:y upon clothing and
other necessary articles Of consumption
we're 50 enormously oppressive The to-
bacco taxes are reduced under the theory
that tobacco had become . necessity for
the poor as vel as the rich. bat ne. and
heavier taxes we're laid on the wooden
clothing OF the poor man. Sugar vas IN
taxed 70 give the American workingnan
fres breakfast table. bus new taxes were
placed on the cups and ssucers. plates and
dishes, coffsepot, knives and forks. food
and table cover. In . word. he was re-
leved from the taxes paid the government
IN order that be might be made 20 pay much
greater taxes 20 the bene6ciaries cfthat bill.
These released taxes would have yielded
rs IN internal revenue since their onis-
sion more than $3.50. ooo. 900. and would
have saved rs from any danger Of treas
ury deficit. The magnificent surplus
turned over by the Cleveland adminissrs-
ton was thus scattered. A large portion
was used for the purchase ~ high preni-
uns Of bonds not yet due. But even this
did not dsssipafs tie surplus. and the
Fifty-tlrst congress was obliged 20 try its
hand upon ID. IL refunded the direct tax
TO the states. This was q pure grntu!ty,
but has taken out of the treasury over
Slf. 0oo, 600. Next came the sugar bounty
act, under which sums amounting 10 ST.
600 600 have been paid to sugar growers.
Last OF all. as the chief means of distri-
button of the surplus, was the dependent
pension bill. under which the annual PEN
sion expenditure has risen more than
SO. 000. 600. II TO the more than 500, CO.,
600 thus made away with by the last
administration we should add the $780,
000. 600 lost 10 the revenue by the omission
OF taxes on tobacco and sugar alone, We
should have clear idea OF the rapid and
headlong steps by which has been brought
the present empty treasury. He did not
believe that those Who voted 70 put the
last administration In power expected any
revision from ii in the direction of increas-
ing rates. The campaign OF isss was
fought on the question OF reforming and
reducing the existing tariff. and not on the
question of revising and raising the tariff
OF 1855 No single interest in the country,
either in congress or else here. had the
hardihood To assert that il meant de-
mand for any increase OF the protection
accorded by the bill of 1888, and it was
only the wantonness of greed, rapacity
and selfishness, and the knowledge that
their demands. no matter how ex-
orbitant, would be graciousiy ac-
corded, that brought these interests to
Washington City In 1880 TO write in their
own interests the successive schedules of
the Mckinley bill. Under tie operation
of that bill the taxes in every one of the
important schedules had been mercilessly
and neediessly increased. In manufactures
of wool duties had been raised from an
average of 20 20 an average of 100 per cent
In manufactures of glass duties had been
raised from an average of "a TO Ga per cent
In manufactures OF iron and steel,
although the year 1856 bad been a year OF
immense production and prosperity to
those interests, the tariff was raised from
an average OF 10 TO 63 per cent. On cotton
goods, although the tariff of 1888 had been
made by the manufacturers themselves,
the duties were increased from an average
of 20 TO 81 per cent Such is the bin We
have been called on 10 revise in the inter
est OF people who consume. of the people
who labor and of the people comprising
the country in general, and of the pros
periiy of the country Itself
The sergeani-at-arms' report was then
read, showing the arrest of forty
members. Catohings said the object for
which the warrants were issued had been
accomplished. and moved the discharge of
all those in custody. The motion was
carried without objection. At o'clock
the house took a recess till night. The
night session was devoted TO set speeches.
At the conclusion OF n speech by Bowers
OF California the house At 10 :25 adjourned.