The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-06-23
Shocked the SensibiEities of the
Galleries.
SENATOR HILL BECAME WARM.
He Even Ranked the Thermometer,
Although the Mercury Had
Climbed Pretty High.

to incorporate the Supreme Lodge of
=. the knights of Pythias was reported
. favorably and Immediately passed by the
Senate to-day. The following bills we're
also passed Appropriating $4,000 for
tests of American timber by the forestry
division of the Agricultural Department;
: making the first Monday of September
Labor day. a legal holiday; the House
bills granting the citizens OF Sausaito.
. Cal, certain rights over the Lime Point
Military Reservation.
Kyle took the floor to speak on the tar
If. BE made a general argument favoring
the income tax, dwelling on the decline Of
farm values in the West. He argued that
the protective system was responsible for
the concentration of wealth in the hands
of the few, and thatit was just and eQuita-
bic that the few should bear share of the
burden of taxation which their wealth
made them able to bear.
Senator Gail of Florida shocked the
spectators in the gallery by removing his
shoes ana elevating his sky-blue stock
ings to tue neighborng desk, while he
famed himself with palm leaf.
At the con clusion of Kyle's speech Vest
offered four additional amendments to the
income tax section. The most important
was one to reduce exemption from $4,000 to
$1,000, ana exempt from the operation of
the tax building and loan associations
making loans only to shareholders. An
other provides that in reckoning the
profits Of corporations for taxation, the
actual operating expenses, losses and in
teTest on fixed indebtedness shall be eX-
Guided. The other amendment provides
that the tax shall not apply to insurance
business conducted on the mutual plan.
Teller supported the income tax propo-
sitioD. He quoted the utterances of the
leaders Of the Republican party, Oliver p.
Morton, Senator Sherman and Senator
Morrill,, who advocated the tax in the past.
" Sherman followed Teller in opposition
TO the income tax, aud Patton, the new
Republican Senator from Michigan, fol-
bowed in a set speech against the general
features of the tariff bill.
Patton dealt generally with the subject
of the tariff, but spoke of the income tax
features in particular. He argued that the
income tax levied during the war had
proved a failure. The Democratic party,
he said, in its long minority opposition
without responsibility, had attracted to it.
self many lmpra cticable and destructive
theories. Nowth it had attained power
it was plagued with these and had been
compelled to incorporate many of them in
the bill. The discrimination against the
farmer and WOOl-gr0Wer in the tariff bill,
he, said, bore with special severity on
Michigan. He said the bill was covered
with the stain Of a great scandal, by which
the sugar trust gets $780, 000 600, and it rep
resented a series Of bargains uneQuaIed in
American politics h depicted the tariff
bill as a whole as being sectional in the
extreme, and referring to its disapproval
BY Democratic Senators who yet gave it
their support, said:
Il recall and l refer the Senators on the
other side to the example of one who was
as great as lie was patriotic, and who be-
lieved in the principle of protection and
commercial Independence. Compare for
one moment the utterances of these latter
day statesmen with those of George Wash
ington in the Constitutional Convention at
Philadelphia, when he said, If we offer TO
the people what we ourselves disapprOYe,
how can we afterward defend our work
Let US raise standard to which the wise
and honest can repair; the event is 10 the
hands Of God"
Allen repeled the idea covertly and
openly advanced by the opponents of the
income tax that The Pupulists had no re-
gard for property. lie declared vehe-
mently that Congress was in the hands of
the money power By the legislation
forced 10y moneyed influence fabulous and
dishonest fortunes had been built up in
= this country. For weeks a railroad mag
nate had sat in a committeeman at the
end of the Capitol trying TO shape impor-
tant legislation.
eff you want proof of that will give it
to vou," he shouted, dramatically.
Name him." said Walsh.
II will name him to a committee of the
Senate, if you want" said Allen.
you talk of relieving the burdens of
the people," interrupted Hill. why did
you vote against free sugar"
IF that question were asked in court
room," replied Allen, sit would be called
pettifogging"
Whether it is pettifOggiDg or not,
answer it, said Hill
"The poor cannot live entirely on sugar."
said Allen. "Why talk OF it?"
Because il is one of the necessaries of
life," said Hill.
Allen said he had voted for duty on
sugar because Harrison left a bankrupt
treasury when he left the White House.
At the conclusion of Aliens remarks
Jarvis, Vance's successor from North Car
olina, made his maiden speech In support
of the income tax. 1t was o'clock when
Jarvis finished, and Hill. who desired to
reply to some of the remarks TODAY.
asked Harris, in charge of the bill. to Weld
to an adjournment, as the Senate had been
sitting eight hours at temperature IN the
chamber Of IS.
Harris said he regretted that be could
not comply with the request. The country
IS well as the Senate had rights as well as
Senators. The country was entitled to
know at the earliest moment what the fate
of this bill was to be. Let Senators pro-
coed Eow, let them exhibit their learning
and their rhetoric, be said bitterly.
g.: 81 will not move to adjourn as long as |
can hold quorum here" said he, ''or as
long as there is any means of obtaining a
quorum. Let US stay here" he went on,
with wave Of his hand and shake of
his head; mot always-not all night-but
for reasonable time"
Hill called attention to the fact that this
was the first time this privilege had been
refused. The Senator from tennessee
had kept q patient temper until he (Hill)
submitted this request, He had been ex.
eTcised against him because he saw fit to
entagonize this pet scheme that was sc