Morning journal and courier., 1894-06-01
SENATOR SHERMAN srEAks.

SENATOR SHERMAN STEAKS. | He showed That Ihe Governmen
 Had Never Resorted te . Direct Tal
 Hut Twice, and made an Attack Or the Income Tax.
 WASHINGTON, May 81.-hr. Sherman Ii
 the senate today spoke against the tarit
 bill. He showed that the government hai never rssorted to . direct tax but twice once during the war with England ana once during the civil war. The great bull almost all-of the revenues were received from taxes on imports. The internal rev enue tax established from the war period was found to be easily collected and DO, burdensome, and 1t was only retained be. cause 1t provided funds equal to tho amount annually paid for pensions. The income tax was direct tax and ought, hs thought, to be left to the states. The policy of the republican party had been tc foster manufacturing. It was the power of congress to grant bounties, but Mir. Sherman said that he was not In love with that policy. There had not been con. gress since the foundation of the govern ment but had passed laws for the proven tion of the admission of things injurious and pernicious.
 MT. Sherman quoted from Q speech made by MT. Voorhees, in 1882 in Indiana, in which that senator said the unbroken record of the democratic party had been for tariff revenue and In addition thereto of the propsr protection of American workmen and American industries. MT. Sherman then quoted from General Jack sons view on the tariff.
 The duties on coal and irop were not revenue duties, but intended for protec- tion. Mr. Sherman .aid his friends were anxious. In defending the Mckinley bill. he said, 1t had some demerits-one of them the bounty on sugar, to which he was opposed at the time. NIT. Sherman took strong exception to Mr. Voorhees' statements that the iron and steel mills were the outgrowth of the passage of the Mckinley act and denied that the latter was drawn in the interest of the iron man. ufacturers- He showed that the act re- ducsd the duties on iron
 In response to the charge that the Mc- Kinley bill did not supply sufficient rsvs- nus he said 1t was the fear of a change of the tariff that caused the revenue to fall of. Bad MT. Harrison been reelected the revenues would not have fallen of. If when congress met the tariff bill had been taken up and discussed as a financial q ues- tion, there would have been no trouble on this side. Had an impartial committee gone over it the bill would have been passed in thirty days, but it was not that kind of a discussion, nor the proper sort model tariff was based largely upon the Morrill, tariff bill of 1861, which was not 6 party measure.
 Mir. Sherman delared that the ad valorem syetem slways meant that goods would be than their bona 6de cost He showed that those products In which the south was in- terssted had good rates of duty in the bill while those of the north had low duties or were on the free list.
 MT. Sherman also attacked the income tsx proposition and characterized 1t as an agrsrisn tax. As for the purpose of sstab- fishing the industry of beet sugar and pro- tecting the cane sugar producers of Louisi- ana he would cheerfully vote for a duty of from to 9 cents 8 pound on all sugar imported. The duty levied on the present importation of sugar would yield an enormous revenue, and 6 small portion of 1t would pay the bounty on best sugar. 4unh poiIcy, uc tuOukut, euouiu Uc huopt- ed. He figured the total protection given by the bill to the sugar interest was equal to hve-eights of a cent per pound, which was more than was given by the Mckinley bill.
 Mr. Sherman said the sugar trust had made enormous profits and yet 1t had se- cured grossly excessive protection while the finance committee refused to give to the farmer little duty on his wool. He appealed to the democratic side not to force upon the country measure that would re- duce wages.
 MT. Camden, dem, of West Virginia, advocsted the senate amendments to the tariff bill as being wiser than the too vio- lent changes proposed in the house bill.
 Ar. Dolph, rep, of Oregon, made @ speech on the subject of the effort to pun ish correspondents Edwards and Shriver for refusing to answer questions put by the Investigating committee. He gave mo- tice that he would move 10 postpone con- sideration of the sugar schedule until the committee made its final report. The wit nesses, he said, had refused to swear. It was plain case of contempt of the senate. The committee, in simply requiring the presiding officers to report the facts to the dietrict attorney recommended 8 course that was an sbdicstion of the authority of tno e6nHt6. 1l6 s6udte kIteI hu cxeCublYe session adjourned.
 IN THE HOUSE.
 In the houss to-day MT. S.ckels, dem., of New York, offered a resolution giving the secretary of war authority to acquire lands on the Gettysburg battle field need ed to complete the tract to be preserved and described in the act of March 8. 1893 That set appropriated $25. 900 and an ad ditional $50, 900 was carried in the sundry civil appropriation bill recently passed in tine house. The United States court has decided that the necessary power to so- quire the ground by condemnation or other proceedings had not been granted the secretary of war, and MT. Sickels stated that there was danger that the land would be taken by an electric road. Ar. Ssyers, dem, of Texas, chairman of the committee on appropriations, desired to have the resolution amended so as to prohibit the expenditure of any money in excess of the amount already appropriated. The resolution was agreed to.
 The house went into committee on the state bank tax bill. Mir. Black, dem, of Georgia, resumed and concluded his areu- ment against the constitutionality of the law.
 hI. " aihott fSP., Oh narcaohuccttet seld that what the country needed was sound finance, not money. Money grew out of 1t and was part of 1t. Discussing this al length, MT. Walker said that what was peeded was fexibility. This he pro. posed to secure by the terms of his | bill (house bill 17l), his object being | to force into circulation every dol lar that could be sdvsntAseonsly uss d. The present system withheld from circuls' ton $500, ,000, ,000 ont of 2,se0 millions oi bsnksble funds. That, he emphsticslly | said, must stop. Mir. Walker spoke fol more than two hours and at the close wal given 8 round of applause.
 MT. McLaurin, dem, of South Carolina | advocated the bill.
 Mir. Wheeler, dem, of Alabama, favored | the repeal of the law. It was. he declared @ war measure. pure and simple. | Before Mir. Wheeler concluded the com mittes rose and the house adjourned. l SENSATION IN PROVIDENCE. | The Wife of a weaIthy Jeweler Sud