Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-01-25
THE WORK OF CONGRESS,

THE WORK OF CONGRESS-
RESUME OF ph0sEEDINGs OF THBk
SENATE AND HOUSE. wv
Condemned Record OF the ImpOrtnnf
Trnnsnctions of Our National LAs33sS
mnlkers-The Work Done In Bof4'
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Washington, Jan. 13.-Thc advocates
of the income tax and the internal reye-
nue features of the tariff suffered an un-
expected reverse at the meeting of the
Democratic members of the ways and
means committee. Instead of indorsing
the bill as drawn by the subcommittee
it was yotcl--G to 5--to reconsider the
entire determination reached at the treas
ury department some time ago. Mr..
Bynum of Indiana made the motion TO
reconsider, and it was his vote which
was decisive in securing the change.
Mr.. Tarsney followed with motion to
refer the entire subject to Democratic
caucus of the house, and this also car
ried by vote of = to 5. .
The opposition to repeating the tax on
state banks scored victory in the com
mittee on banking and currency. The
friends of the bill have been confident
that the protracted committee struggle
would end by a favorable report, but
Representative johnson (Rep. 1nd) exc
cuted flank movement by moving to
cc1 sider the previous question. Mr.. john
sons motion Carried on viva vOce vote.
He at once followed this up by moving
that the entire question be put aside
until after the tariff debate closed. This
also carried, and the meeting summarily
ended with the state bank men in the
minority.
The bill of Representative Bland d.
recting the secretary of the treasury to
coin the silver seignorage now in the
treasury was favorably acted upon by
the committee on coinage. The vote on
reporting the bill was . to s. The af-
irmative vote was all Democratic, with
the exception of Representative Sweet.
The negative vote was Republican with
tho exception of Messrs. Tracey, Harter
and Raynor. The Bland se;gnorage bill,
as agreed on. directs the secretary of the
treasury to Immediately issue silver GER
t;ficates of current del ordinations, up to
the amount of the selgnorage now in the
treasury, viz $55, 15G,6S1. These GER
tificntes are to be at once available to
pay current government expenses. The
seignorage is to be coined as fast as pos
'sible to redeem the certificates.
The tariff discussion was continued in
the house to-day. Mr.. Simpson made
the principal speech.
The senate transacted no important
business.
Washington, Jan. 15.-The real work
on the tariff bill commenced to-day, when
the bill was read by sections and is now
open to amendment under the fve-minute
rule. From now on the bill will be in
COL slant danger of amendment and the
house Democratic leaders have urged
upop all their colleagues the absolute
necessity Of their continued presence un-
til the final vote is taken. The COM
im.perfections discovered in the bill will,
according to the rule of parliamentary
p eceedure, have the right of way. The
amendments which the committee offer
are considered pending and take pre-
cedence over amendments offered by liz
dividual members. The bill was first
der and is now open to amendment in
any part. The Democratic members OF
the ways and means committee had q
meeting yesterday afternoon to decide
upon the amendments to be offered. 1t
will probably happen, as in the case Of
the Mckinley bill, that the special order
will expire with many individual amend
ments pending but not voted upon. The
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the committee to report the income tax
and other internal revenue features Of
the committees revenue plan as sepa-
rate measure removes one Of the main
dangers to the bill, as the opposition TO
the income tax feature was formidable,
especially in the East, and some of it
was of such character that had the
proposition been placed in the bill it
would have arrayed many Democratic
members against the whole measure. The
fact that the proposition is not included
in the bill will, it is thought, strengthen
the attempt to remove the sugar bounty
and substitute in it's stead duty of 1
cent on sugar. Should this be done, it
would raise $35,OOO,O0O of revenue and
save $1O,OOO,OOO of sugar bounty and re-
move the necessity for and probably kill
now the purpose of the committee to
present later with the internal revenue
bill. 1t is not believed that the attempts
to restore portion of the duty on coal,
iron ore, lumber and other raw materials
placed on the free list in the bill will
be successful.
Washington, Jan. 16. = Congressman
Been delivered his maiden effort in the
house last evening, occupying IN hour of
the time allotted for general debate on
the tariff. Mr.. Boen, however, did not
debate the tariff question, prefacing his
remarks by the statement that he did not
intend to try to convince any one that
protection or free trade was the proper
governmental policy. His speech was for
the farmer, pure and simple, for sonc
sort of legislation which would give him
al equal show with the manufacturer
under any schemet of revenue or taxa
ton that might be in force. Commenc-
ing with the axiom about "soil and toii''
being the ultimate sou1 ces of all wealth,
Mr. Rnnn lod hic 0udianoo alonv RI thn