The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-01-11
THE DALLEs, OREGON THURSDAY. JANUARY II, 1894.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Keeping the President in Hot water
Income Tax, Etc.
From our Regular Correspondent.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 5, 1898.
The democratic wild horses in the
house have taken the bits between their
teeth and 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 man
aged by will power, cajolery and patron
age to absolutely control the democratic
majority, but that control ended when a
majority of one compelled the eleven
democrats of the ways and means COM
mittee to decide in favor of 2 per cent.
tax on all incomes, individual and cor
porate. Of 1000 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 that it will make
it all the easier to defeat the Cleveland
tariff bill, to which it is to be attached
as an amendment, along with the in
creased tax on cigarettes ,and whisky
and the tax on playing cards agreed to
at the same time. The adoption of the
individual income tax was direct re-
volt sgainst Mr.. Cleveland's rule, as he
has been from the first opposed to 1t.
1t is not surprising that the demo-
cratic bosses of the house had decided
that the final vote on the Cleveland
tariff bill should be taken on the 18th of
this month; there is so little that can
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agony over as soon as possible, but dem
ocratic absenteeism has already caused
them to extend the time until the 22d
inst. Neither republicans nor dissatis-
fed democrats expect that the bill will
be either defeated or materially changed
in the house, although it is said that
Mr.. Cleveland will try to muster up
income tax amendment. It is in the
senate that the bill can and will be de-
feated, if the words of dissatisfied demo-
cratic senators can, be depended upon,
and republican senators do not allow
themselves to be persuaded into helping
dissatisfied democrats to secure special
amendments. If the democratic sena-
the bill just as it is sent from the house
there are good reasons for believing that
Hill and Murphy of New York, Smith
of New Jersey, German of Maryland,
Faulkner of w. Va, and Morgan and
Pugh of Alabama, will vote against it.
If they do the bill will be defeated with
two5votes to spare, even if the populist
senators vote for it, as they probably
will on account of the income tax.
ga guilty conscience needs no ac-
cuser." Although the Hawaiian inves-
tigation ordered by the senate has just
got fairly started, members of the adj
ministration are already trying to dis
count the effect of the unfavorable re-
port which they know the facts brought
out will compel the committee to make,
and party pressure is being brought
TO bear on the democrats on the COM
mittee, in order to get them to let Mr..
Cleveland down as easy as possible in
that report, not forNhis own sake, but
for the good of their party. If they
keep on as they have started they will
not have any party to speak of by 1896.
Prof. William D.. Alexander, who has
been surveyor-general of Hawaii for
twenty years, gave important testimony
to the committee. He charges that
paramount, Blount suppressed all the
really important information he gave
him in Hawaii.
Senator Frye introduced a resolution
in the senate reciting that in the opinion
of the senate there should be no inter-
ference on the part of this government
with Hawaii, either by moral in1u-
ence or by force, pending the investiga-
ton, and requested that it lie on the
table until he gets an opportunity to
call it up and move It's reference to the
committee on foreign relations. When
he calls it up he will make few re-
marks that will not be pleasant reading
to the administration or its supporters.
The democratic opposition to the in
come tax is growing and it is not con-
fined to the administration and the