The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-04-27
HILLS TARIFF SPEECH.
The Bill Does Not Fully Meet
His Approval.
BOWS 70 THE WILL OF HIS PARTY

He Would Put Every Manufactured Article
ON the Free List-Large Part of HIS
Speech Devoted to Defense Of the In
come Tax-TariR Bill Must Be Passed.
Recommend YOeInan,s Confirmation.
WASHINGTON, April 25.-There was a
small number of visitors in the galleries
of the senate when the vice president
took his seat on Tuesday.
On motion of Senator Pettigrew the
senate passed bill to extend the time
for building bridge across the Missouri
river at Yankton, S. D.
The morning hour having expired the
tariff bill was laid before the senate
Promptly at 1 o'clock Senator Mills took
| the floor. At the outset he declared that
legislators often had to make a selection
between two parliamentary measures,
neither of which meets their approval.
1t must necessarily be so, for no man
could frame a measure to meet the APP
prevail of everyone. Every act of leg.
and no act more so than one regulating
taxes.
Bows to the VIII of His Party.
said he, ssand I.doubt if it entirely meets
side of the chamber. But such as it is
it will have my hearty support" He
might want to offer some amendments
to the bill, but whether or not he was
able to secure their adoption, he would
bow to the will of his party and vote for
the measure as they ordained it should
be. It was strictly party measure and
had been a party measure from the
foundation of the government and from
the foundation and organization of the
Democratic party. IF he had been chosen
to construct this bill and had the A
members on the Democratic side of the
chamber in accord with his views, he
would have constructed it on far differ
ent lines. He would not have left coffee
on the free list and would have put cot
ton, coal and iron on the dutiable list.
Republican Home Market Policy.
He would put on the free list metals,
wool, cotton, fbers, iron and steel In
pigs and all yarns-everything which
required to be manufactured. He would
do this in order that the manufacturers
of the country might manufacture their
goods at the lowest possible price, so
they could go into the markets of the
world. The Republican policy, he said,
was to provide home market, but there
were 81, 600, 0O0, 900 worth of goods made
in this country. Where were the people to
come from to consume this? In order to
carry out the Republican policy people
would have to be imported to consume
our surplus agricultural products. It
4 1 "a l. -
sumo these products and would require
the importation of Chinese, Japanese.
Singalese, Maltese and Chimpanzees to
join Coxey's army. [Laughter.]
Should Appeal to the Ballot Box.
'sEmancipate our people," he said,
ssgive them chance to show their skill,
their genius as national and heaven
born right. Give them back the ocean
and then the working men will not be
coming to Washington to i1nplore the
government to do something for them. "
Their proper recourse was not to come
to Washington, but to turn back home
and appeal to the ballot box.
Mr.. Mills devoted large part of his
speech to the defense of the income tax.
He Landed the action of the committee
IN reporting tax on incomes. Why
should wealth not be taxed? 81 would
like to know he said, ION what princi-
pie the owners of millions insist that
they should not be taxedY
He said that the opponents of income
tax said that it was inquisitorial, anarch-
istic, socialistic, to lay a tax of 2 per
cent on incomes, but when a poor fellow
wants a shirt, and is taxed 100 per cent
for it. nothing is said about its being
socialistic and anarchistic.
Champions the Income Tax.
He enunciated the principle that tax
should be collected In proportion to the
taxpayers ability to pay it and that de-
pended on the amount of protection he
received It was said the income tax
was unjust and iniquitous, and the SEN
ator from New York (HiID In his speech
few days ago had called it by all kinds
of vile names, yet when the governor of
the state of New York for six years, he
had never told the legislature that the IN
come tax which was on the statute books
of the state was unjust and Ubiquitous.
It was useless to denounce the income
tax as Ubiquitous. unjust, etc. It was
useless to make any sophistical remarks
about the difficulty of collecting the tax.
IH0 law was s5O1L1s55 10 10 peASoSds LIE aS-
clared emphatically, if not by this cong
ress. then by the next. The forcible way
IN which the senator made this statement
elected applause from the galleries,
which was checked by the gavel of the
presiding officer.
| Tariff Bill Must BE Passed
ssAIr. President, continued the sena-
tor earnestly. ssthis IS duty devoiving
on this body which cannot be evaded.
We must pass this bill. make it As good
as we can first, but pass i we must.
We must not only pass it. but we must
stop talking about 1t. The American
people demand it; they sent rs here for
that purpose: they did not send Us here
to hear arguments for new trial; they
sent Us here to drive the criminal out of
the country: 10 restore the country to It's
natural rights. / say that If A senators
on this side Of the chamber and the 10Th
IN the presiding officers chair were Of
the same opinion as we would pass
this bill IN 48 hours The people want
this bill passed now; they do not want
to wait until they are starveds they do
net want to wait until the whole country
IS Iaralyzeds but they want to do It now