The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-12-13
Income Tax and Pensions Wake
the House Up.
Motion to Strike Out the APP
preparation Lost.
BRECKENRIDGE SPOKE
William Waldorf Astor is De-
nOunced and Defended.

WASHINGTON. Dec. 13.-The house
yesterday entered upon the consider
alton of the urgency deficiency APP
preparation bill The bill containeo
two disputed items, the appropriations
for special pension examiners AND
that for the collection Of the income
tax. The former appropriation
opened the doors for a de bate on the
conduct Of the pension Office, espec
tally the practice of sum marily sus-
pending the payment of.aleged fraud
ulent pensions and the debate on the
income appropriation was especially
lively, but the motion to strike 1T out
was defeatedby a vote Of 81 to l27.
An attempt to secure an agree ment
fixing the limit of general de bate
failed owing to the objections Of Mr..
BARTLETT, Democrat Of New YOrk, who
was at the head Of the opposition to
the income tax and Mr.. Henderson,
Republican Of Iowa, who led the OPP
position to the appropriation for the
special examiners of the pension Of
fee.
Mr.. Sickles, Democrat Of New York,
amid a roar Of Repu blican applause,
repudiated the charge Of Wholesale
frauds made against pensioners. and
declared his una1terable oppO sition to
the appropriation unless it could be
authoritatively shown that the pen
sion examiners provided for by 1t were
employed in aiding, instead of embar-
RAISING deserving claima nts.
After some further de bate on tn .
subject of this appropriation BY
Messrs COOmbs and Daniels, New
York, Bingham, Pa, Tracy, Ne W
York and Grosvenor, Ohio, Mr.. Bart
lett, Democrat. New York, got the
floor and opened the discussion of
the income tax appropriation He
was earnestly opposed to this vicious
tax The bill he had introduced for
it's repeal he knew would never see
the light of day, and the opponents
of that tax must make their light
against the apprOpria ton necessary
to make it operative
Mr. BartholG, Republican. Missouri,
wanted to know whether, if the in
come tax were annul1ed. Mr.. BARTLETT
would be willing to revise the tariff
so as to make up the deficiency in the
revenues
Mr. Bartlett replied he had always
been willing to vote for a tariff for
revenue, and for revenue only.
Mr. McMillin, Democrat, TIE nnessee,
defended the income tax as a just,
constitutional and Democratic meas
ure-
In the course Of a hot colloquy with
Mr. Bartlett IN. Y that followed,
Mr.. McM1ln said: In order to show
the fragrant wrong that is done by
the system of taxation under which
we have been living, I viii call your
attention to Mr.. William Nardorf
Aston. This gentle man ran for con
gress once against the present gov
ernOr Of New York, Mr.. Flower. and
was defeated His defeat sCured an q
EN- Filtered him against the COVER M
ment and our institu tons He moved
abroad, and not con tent with wha
he could say against America him
self and our American institutions,
he purchased one Of the ablest
journals in Great Britain He lives
there now, and his paper is doing it's
work against our Institutions. The
income Of this man, derived from
property in New York, is more than
IS, 600 600 year, and he does not pay
The does not pay a state tax. county
tax and municipality tax, it is true),
but he does pay the government
of the United States and has not paid
$40 in ten years, although he has this
colossal fortune, which is protected
by our army and defended by our
navy"
MI. Bartlett will answer the
gentleman that there is no better tax
payer in the state of New YORK than
William Waldorf Ast0r. no family n
the state or county Of New York that
contributes more largely to taxation
purposes, state county and municipal,
than does the Astor ia mily-
MI AeuuoFSOus 'ONfd anu fit- tOc *
ran. New York. both stated they con-
sidered debate on the merits of the
income tax unproh ia BILE Both hoped
that the elections had furn ished an
intellectual awakening on the Demo
cratic side which would result ia the
repeal of ttthis Odious tax
After short speech by Mr.. Breck-
tnridge, who was in charge of tine
bill, in which he defended the income
tax, attributed the late Democratic
disaster to divisions among the lead
ers, and predicted that the younger
Democrats who suffered defeat last
November would return to congress
and power along with a purified
party, general bate closed and AR.
Bartlett moved to strike out the APP
propria tions for the collecti of the
income tax. Defeated 81 to 12-.