The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-06-23
PATTOA'S PASSIONATE PLEA.
Michigan's New Senator Says
We Should Bury Dead Issues
And Denounce aud Disclaim tho General
Rossers and Reverend Caves-An This
He Volunteers In His Argument
Against the Tariff BilI-Limitation OF
the Income Tax Fixed at S3,OOo-A
Tilt Between Harris and Hill.


Lodge OF the Knights of Pythias; also
Senate bill making the first Monday in
Septembe Der of every year Labor Day. q
legal holiday.
At 1880 the tariff bill was taken up,
the q uestion being on the income tax
section. An argument in favor OF the
principle OF an income tax was m ade by
Kyle.
Vest, on behalf OF the finance com
mittee, presented substitute for the
amendments heretofore offered in rsls
tion TO mutual insurance and benefit
association; also an amendment for the
reduction in the assessment Of banks,
railroads and other corporations of the
"actual operating expenses" Interest
on bonded deb; and losses"
The amendments were ordered to be
printed, and from them Teller made an
argument in defense of the principle of
an income tax. Sherman addressed the
Senate in an argument against tee in
come tax He believed it TO be a fair
and just mode of raising revenue, but
did not think that it was wise now, as
there was no niece ssity for it.
Patton (Rep Mich. the new Senator
from Michigan, entered into the debate
for the first time, and m ado a speech in
opposition to the pending tariff bill.
Replying to the speeches OF Sena ;ors
Walsh and Blanchard, Patton denied
that he refuted the charge of sectional.
ism made against the bill. Patton de-
voted some of his time in an eloquent
appeal to the South, in which he said:
LET me say to these Senators, II
&c theax ;na
new South; II they would point to the
smoke signals which have moved in the
sky from Atlanta and Birmingham and
She field; If they would come out Of the
mists and fogs OF the past and de-
nounce tho mun bling over dead issues,
and get away from the doctrine OF free
trade, which va tho curner-ston., OF
that Confederate constitution which
was shot 10 death by tho armies of tho
Uuion and persisted at Appomattox,
their resources will not remain unde-
veloped
Let them listen to the voice of the
new South, which is surely coming
with the triumph Of protection. already
heralded by the ground swell of popu-
lar approval at every opportunity the
people have had to apologize for the
great mistake of 1892
THE doctrine this side OF our cham
Der advocates is as broad as our country.
1t will do for Alabama, Louisiana and
Georgia what it has already done for
Ohio and Michigan.
Let them denounce and disclaim the
General Rossers and Rev. Caves, who
are still falsifyiug history and tanning
the almost extinct embers of past bit
terness, and welcome the Northern i'm.
migrant into great States which only
require the magic touch Of capital and
labor to become hives of industry, sur.
rounded by people enjoying the COM
forts and Injuries of lie inseLarable
from the high wages the projected
American workingman has heretofore
received"
Before leaving this subject Patton
spoke eloquently OF the late Henry w.
Grady, whose grave is still crowned
with the immortelles Of our affectionate
admiration"
Allen advocated the income tax pro.
visions of the bill and defended the Pop
ulist party from the charge that it pro-
posed TO override property rights. He
declared that the insinuations or state
ments that his party desired to destroy
the rights OF property were entirely un.
warranted. There was no desire on its
part to impair an honestly quired for
tune, or to check any man in acquiring
fortune by honest means.
Jarvis, the successor Of the late Sem
tor Vance. made his first speech in the
Senate. and it was in advocacy OF the
income tax. Referring to Hills predic.
ton, that the passage OF an income tax
would sound the death knell OF the Dem
ocratic party, Jarvis said:
III the Democratic party has no
higher mission than TO bow a the foot
stool Of the accumulated wealth OF the
country, the sooner it dies the better
applause in the galleries.) AS under
stand Democracy, it means sympathy
with the poor people Of the country. IL
means, while it protect property to go
into the highways and byways to take
in it's great arms the laboring people.
and to lift them up into higher and
better life."
1t was ten minutes past six when MIR.
Jarvis resumed his seat. Immediately
Hill took the floor and suggested that
as he desired to reply at some length,
the Senate should now adjourn.
Ha ris, In parliamentary charge OF the
bill, spoke OF the little progress made
to- day and OF the great anxiety OF the
country to know what the import duties
were to be, and insisted on longer ses-
sion
Thereupon Chandler suggested the
absence of quorum, but, the roll be-
ing called, forty. three Senator'S just a
quorum, answered, and Hill was again
recognized.
He resented the discourtesy of Harris
in not yielding to an adjournment and
suggested that possibly he (HilD was
held responsible for the delay which the
bill had encountered He declined,
however, to accept the responsibility for
1t