The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-22

| Senator Hill presented several tables
and figures to show that the amount
of revenue raised by the tariff bill as
now proposed, would be amply suffi-
cient without recourse to the income
1 tax.
| ut has been difficult to fathom the
4 motives of the finance committee in
their insistence upon deferring their
proposed duty upon sugar until Janu-
airy, 1895. The committee, it must be
admitted, did not very successfully de-
| fend the propriety of their action
| Their attitude has placed them in an
awkward and unpleasant position, in
viting much criticism which might bet
ter have been avoided.
Sir, can it be possible that their well
known anxiety to retain the income
tax bill has led them to postpone the
GATE for the operation OF the sugar tax
] in order that there might be created
| an apparent greater necessity for this
| income tax?
| IF so, it is understood
| Some other preteXt, some other ex-
cuse some other subterfuge, must be
| invented In their mad desire to attack
the rich, the champions of the income
tax, either Intentionally or inadvertent-
ly, assailed the poor.
Until the amendments relating to-
savings banks, were offered yesterday,
in this Senate, the programme of the
majority has seemed to be to place
such institutions on substantially the
same level with business corporations
and to subject them to the per cent.
tax. If there was any other intention
it was not apparent.
81 have not had time to examine
these new amendments which are, for
the first time, printed and placed upon
our desks this morning, to determine
whether they contain an absolute eX
emption of mutual savings banks or
not, but from hearing them hastily read
at the secretary's desk yesterday, 1
fear they are not sufficiently broad to
accomplish that purpose.
''They should be made so plain and
clear that there can remain no possible
doubt Of their intention.
Argument ought not to be necessary
to sustain the proposition that mutual
savings banks should be absolutely
exempt from any income taxation.
This government cannot afford to
permit the savings Of the people to be
taxed through a general income tax. 1t
would be the crowning infamy of this
bill"
The same reason, said Senator Hill,
why savings banks should be exempt
from this tax, applies to the mutual
insurance companies and he was sure
that the amendments offered were far
insurance companies were exempt in
Great Britain. He had numerous other
objections to the income tax, he con-
tinued, objections ne had pointed out In
his former speech its inquisitory fea-
lures and inevitable exposure of the
private affairs of business men. None
of these objections had been remedied.
They could not be explained or elimin-
ated because they must lie against any
income tax.
Higgins followed Hill.
A Remarkable Scene.
Mr. Chandler arose to resent the
terms used by Allen yesterday, replying
to the charge that Allen had been given
free lumber on condition that he would
vote for the bill.
Mr.. Chandler said: ST had under
stood that an agitation had been going
on, on the other side of the chamber
to have certain kinds Of dressed lum-
Der placed on the dutiable list, when
suddenly all opposition on that side
goes down before the senator's motion
to place lumber on the free list. That
motion was made Immediately afteer
he had publicly announced that his
vote was doubtful. 1t was in the bar
gain, I believed then; believe it now.
l simply inquired N of the senator
whether the bargain had been closed,
whether 1t was complete. l made the
inquiry, and I do not think he was
warranted in becoming indignant and
using the unparliamentary language of
which he was guilty,
why does the senator (AllenO feel
resentful when l enquire whether the
bargain is closed, so that we shall no
longer expect to see him dodge in and
out? The whole thing was open and
patent to the whole country and the
coy 0f iv,1;
nant, ought to have calmly admitted
that he had been landed and secured
in the Democratic camp
Il submit" said Mr.. Chandler, turn
ing to Mr.. Allen, who sat within TWEEN
ty feet of him across the aisle, that
under the circumstances the senator
was not justified in the words he used. !
/ have never used opporbious epithets
or supplementary language on this
floor, no matter how pointed my re-
marks may have been. / never have
and never will.
Il regret" said he, deliberately, in
conclusion, 81 have discovered that
the early surroundings of the senator
before he entered this body were such !
as not to allow him to observe the |
common courtesies which all gentle |
men regard even in the heated parti- |
san debates The senator from Ne
braska is to be pitied rather than CEN
sured for what he could not help"
Mr.. Allen, replying, said he proposed
to do what he considered proper, in
spite of the low, dirty insinuations of I
the senator from New Hampshire"
Chandler rejoined that this only
proved true what he before said that
the senator was not capable of under
standing the courtesy which should |
characterize the debate in the Senate.
A dead silence greeted this remark
able attack
Mr.. Allen was pale but calm. when |
he rose to reply.
''This is the fourth time" he began |
in low, but steady voice, ''the senator |
from New Hampshire has seen fit to |
speak of bargains in connection with |
my vote. 1 do not know whether the
language is parliamentary. 1 am not |
skilled in parliamentary procedure, but
40 know it is untrue and ungentle-
manly. 1 think he made the insinua-
ton deliberately, knowing it to be false.
He has tried to place me in the posi-
ton of a trafficker for votes The in
situation or stigma that 1 have traf-
licked with my vote; that I have agreed
to vote for this measure in considera-
ton of concessions made or to be made
is untrue II | were where I could
make it palmer he added, looking Mr..
Chandler in the eye. Il would make it
palmer. / made a motion a few weeks
ago to strike lumber from the dutiable
list, and 1 had a right to do so. L
have a right to get what I can for my
people. I am not bound to the Demo-
cratic or the Republican party, but am
an humble representative of a new
party. AS such, l am more or less a
skirmisher between the old party lines.
Il repel the low, dirty insinuation of
the senior senator from New Hamp-
shire" he said in conclusion, raising
lis voice until it rang Through the