The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1894-01-10
POLITICS AT WASHINGTON

WIN hi Sc5 Ill Tile IlOuSe nave TAX
en- the bits between their teeth aud
driver Cleveland sits helpless and
unable to stop them in their mad
rush for the bluffs which overhang
the bottOmless chasm Of oblivion.
From the beginning of the extra
session and until this week Mr..
Cleveland has managed by will
power, cajolery and patronage to
absolutely control the Gemoci aic
majority. but that control end d
when majority of one compelled
the eleven democrats Of the Ways
and Means Committee TO decide in
favor of a per cent. tax on all in
comes, individual and corporate, of
$4,000 and over. There can be no
doubt that this action was brought
about by the pOpulist sentiment
which so largely controls democrats
from the South and West, Nor tnat
il will make it all the easier to de-
Leaf the Cleveland tariff bill, to
which 1t is attached as an amend
ment along with the increased tax
on cigarettes and whisky and the
tax on playing cards agreed t. at
the same time. The adoption of
the individual income tax was a di-
rect revolt against Mr.. Cleveland's
rule, as he has been from the first
opposed it.
1t is not surprising that the dem
Ocratic bosses of the House had d :
dided. that the final vote on the
Cleveland tariff blu should be TAX
ZEN on the 18th of this month. There
is so little that can be said in its
avor that the want the agony over
as soon as possible, but democratic
absenteeism has already caused
them to extend the time to the
22nd inst. Neither republicans nor
dissatisfied democrats expect that
the bill will be either defeated or
materially changed In the House,
although tits said that Mr.. Cleve-
land will try to muster up enough
democratic votes to defeat the in
come tax amendment. 1t is in the
Senate that the bill can and will be
defeated, If the words of dissatisfied
democratic Senators can be de-
pended upon, and republican Sena.
tors do not allow themselves to be
persuaded into helping dissatisfied
democrats to secare special amend.
ments. If the democratic Senators
can be forced to vote for or against
the bill JUS as it is sent from the
House, there are good reasons fol
believing that Hill and Murphy, O
New York, Smith, of New Jersey
German, Of Maryland, Faulkner, o
West Virginia, aud Morgan ant
Pugh, of Alabama, will vote agains
1t. If they do the bill will be de
feated and two votes to spare. ever
il tie populists vote for it, as they
probably will on account of the in
come tax.
"a guilty conscience needs M
accuser." Although the Hawaiian
Investigation ordered by the Sen
ate has just got fairly started, mem
bers of the administration are al
ready trying to discount the efec
of an unfavorable report, which
they k-owsthe facts brought ou
will compel the committee to make
and party pressure is being brought
to bear on the democrats on the
committee in order to get them tC
lot Mr.. Cleveland down as easy as
possible in that report, not for his
sake but for the good of their
party. If they keep on as they
have been started they will moi
have any party to speak of in 1896
Prof. William d. Alexander, who
has been surveyor general of Ha
wall for twenty years, gave impor,
tant testimony to the com mittet
He crarges that paramount
Blount suppressed all the really i'm
portant information he gave him
of Hawaii.
Senator Fry introduced resolu-
tion in the Senate reciting that in
the opinion Of the Senate there
should be no interference on the
part of the government with Ha-
waii, either by moral influence or
by force, pending investigation,
and requested that it lie on the
table until he gets an opportunity
to call it up and move Its reference
to the committee on foreign rels-
tions. When he calls 1t up he will
make a few remarks that will not
-bepleasant reading to the admins
tIation or its supporters.
q" The democratic caucus on the
tariff bill which has been called for