Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-01-11
Observation-Disclosures
wAsHIsaros. D. O., Jan. 5, '94

their teeth and driver Cleveland sits
helpless and unable to stop them ia
their mad rush for the bluffs which
overhang the bottmless chasm OF
oblivion. From the beginning of the
extra session and until this week Mr..
Cleveland has managed by will power.
cajolery and patronage to absolutely
control the democratic majority. but
that control ended when IA majority OF
one compelled the eleven democrats OF
the Ways and Means committee TO de-
eide IN favor of per cent tax on all
incomes, individual and corporate of
81, 600 and over. There can be no
doubt that this action was brought
about by the populist sentiment which
so la. gely controls democrats from the
south and west. Nor that it will make
IL all the easier to defeat the Cleveland
tariff bill, TO which it is to be attached
as an amendment along with the in
creased fax on cigarettes and whiskey
aud the tax on playing cards agreed to
at the same time. The adoption of the
individual income tax was direct re-
volt against Mr.. Cleveland's rule, as
he has been from the first opposed to
ii.
1t is not surprising that the dem
ocratic bosses of the House had deoid-
ed that the final vote on the Cleveland
tariff bill shonll be taken on the 18th
of this month; there is so little that
car be said in It's favor that they want
the agony over as soon as possible,
but democratic absenteeism has al
ready caused them to extend tile time
until the 22d inst. Neither republicans
nor dissatisfied democrats expect that
the bill will be either defeated or ma
terially changed in the House, al
though it is said that Mr.. Cleveland
will try to muster up enough dem
ocratic votes to defeat the income tax
amendment. 1t is in the Senate that
the bill can and will be defeated, il
the words of dissatisfied democratic
Senators can be depended upon, and
republican Senators do not allow them
selves to be persuaded into helping
dissatisfied democrats to secure special
amendments. If the democratic Sen
ators can be forced to vote for or
against the bill just as it is sent from
the House there are good reasons for
believing that Hill aud Murphy, of
New York; Smith, OF New Jersey, Cor
man, of Maryland; Faulkner, of West
Va. and Morgan and Pugh, of Ala.
bana, will vote against it. If they
do the bill will be defeated with two
votes to spare, even if the populist
Senators vote for 1t, as they probably
will on account of the income tax.
"a guilty conscience needs no &C
cuser." Although the Hawaiian in
vestigation ordered by the Senate has
just got fairly started, members of the
administrations are already trying to
discount the effeft Of the unfavorabls
report which th<y know the fact,
brought out win coppel the committe,
TO make, and part pressure is being
brought to bear on the dem ocrats or
the committee, ia order 30 get them tc
let Mr.. Cleveland down rs easy a,
possible in that report. NOT for his owr
sake bnt for the GOOD of Their party
II they keep on as they have started
they will not have any 2aff> 10 speat
of by 1896. Prof William NJ. Alexan
der, who has been surveyor Stneral o.
Hawaii for twenty year, t4ve i'm
portant testimony to the tbmmittee
He charges that ''parainounk'' Bloun
suppressed all the really important ia.
formation he gave him ia Hnxnii.
Senator Frye introduced a resolutioi
in the Senate, recifing fA6{ In tn
opinion of the Senate there sh1nld b.
no interference on the ohf< Of thi
| government with Hawai-. either b,
moral influence or by fofce. Dendin,
the investigation, and requested tina
it lie on the table until be ttIs 40 op
portunity to call it up and move it
reference to the commitfee IN foreigl
relations. When he cal ID a 1<2 hs will
make a few remarks tha< ~, not b,
pleasant reading to the ai,1s1| 8tratiol
or its supporters.
The democratic opposItibn 10 tn
income tax is growing and 81 Is no
confined to the admiDistrafioI.a hd tn
eastern members, either. Reptesenta
tive Black, of Illinois, who was Com
missioner of Pensions under the frs
Cleveland administrntioa, says of it
II am opposed % an inpome tax be
cause it corrupts tbe poblic morals
Ii is an inquisitoriaI tax Every MAJ
who can will avoi1 81 and perjur
awaits on its collectI11. 1 don't be
lieve it will ever becooe law.
should vote for it onIy rben it Is nee
essary to raise reverre 40 prevent tn
government defaultirx 1'paYment an,
should work for if4rff .4I Immediate
ly such a crisis was p&.<fd. In IN
opinion there Is % s0l1 crisis con