The Portland daily press., 1894-02-02
TIL WILSON BILL PASSED.
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that the Democratic party should show
where it proposed to get revenue to meet
| a deficiency estimated to result from the
passage of this bill. That was right and
proper" admitted Mr.. Crisp. ITO meet
this deficiency of $75,0U0,000, we will
raise SO, 10000 by an increased tax on
whiskey, S5,000,000 from playing cards
and cigarettes and $50, O0O, 600 from tax
on incomes and the earnings of corpora
| tions. (Applause.) What remains we
propose TO meet by the good old Demo-
cratic method of economical expenditures
| of our revenues"
| Mr.. Crisp appealed to the Democrats to
thereby add to the prosperity and
happiness of the whole people" Great
| applause.)
Mr.. Wilson Closed the Debate.
| He saidssthe arguments advanced this
afternoon were always advanced against
every movement of progress and reform.
He referred to the argument on this
| question of the gentleman from Michi-
gan, which he had brought into every
Congress, like bouquet of wax flowers
under glass case. TO the statement by
Mr.. Dolliver, that he narrowly escaped
being pupil of the gentleman from
| West Virginia, 1T was narrow miss IN
deed, Mr.. Speaker" said Mr.. Wilson,
"but, judging from the character of his
argument on the floor, it was as good as
mile" daughter The argument of
the gentleman from Maine, which was
heard at every crossroads in the country
was that the progress and prosperity OF
the country were due to protection, due
to the passage of law OF Congress-,
rather than to the munifcent gifts of
Almighty God. (Applause.( The truth
was, that the prosperity and progress OF
the country had been because no law of
plause.) All the Mckinley laws in the
world could not impede the progress OF
the world. They could, and do take,
from one man part OF one mans LABOR
to give it unjustly to another. In $500,
Daniel Webster said that five sixths OF
the property of the North was owned by
workingmep. Gould any statesman
from Massachusetts, truthfully make the
same proud claim today? The effects OF
the protective system were shown, Mr..
Wilson said, in the census report for $3.50,
that showed that two-thirds of the
farmers of the country were tenantssand
that the same proportion OF worklngmen
lived in rented homes Referring to Mr..
Reeds shafts of sarcasm, hurled against
the bill, Mr.. Wilson said: "1f progress
and reforms had been vulner able to
sarcasm then should we be slaves, not
free American citizens. The Democratic
party is moving forward today in the
pathway of reform. despite taunts,
sneers and opposition. Whenever mem
bers of that party shall be able to lay
aside the influence of local interests and
march forward with the general welfare
alone in their eyes, then shall we arrive
at the goal of perfect freedom and bring
to the people that relief they long for
and which has been promised. " (Cheers.)
Mr.. Wilson adverted to the criticism
that the pending bill was not perfect
An objection to the bill, he said, was
that the income tax feature was added.
1t had been charged that it was class
legislation. This he denied. 1t was an
honest effort to equalize the burdens of
taxation which had received the approval
of the Democratic statesmen from the
earliest days of the republic to the
present. During the fifty years of it's ex-
istence in England. it had been the
strongest force there in wiping out class
distinctions. 1t was the doctrine taught
by Sumner, Walker aud other New Eng
land economists that an income tax was
the most simple form of taxation. New
England taught that doctrine to the
South and West, and she had no right to
come up today and complain because her
own teaching was used against her.
(Applause.)
In conclusion, Mr.. Wilson said SUBJ
stantiaily, II agree with the gentleman
from Maine, (Mr. Reed) that the question
of the general welfare and the question
of general wages of workingmen are,
after all, the vital questions in this con-
troversy. We are trying an experiment
whether we can establish country
where every man, born into it, will be
born with the possibility that he can
raise himself to degree OF ease and
comfort and not be compelled to live
life of degrading toll for the mere neces-
stiles of existence. That is the feeling
when animates all who have steadily
labored for tariff reform. We wish to
make this country where no man shall
be taxed for the private benefit of an
O Their man, but where all the blessings
of free government, education, the in
fuences of the church and of the school
shall be the common untaxed heritage
of all the people, adding to the comforts
of all, adding to the. culture of all and
adding to the happiness of all. General
applause In the name OF freedom and
honor, l summon every Democrat in the
House to the support of this BILL"
At the conclusion of Mr.. Wilson's
speech, there was enacted scene of wild
enthusiasm, such as has never before been
witnessed in the House within the
memory of the Oldest member. Cheer
after cheer rang out, men threw hats and
papers in the air and women their hand
kerchiefs. Mr.. Breckenridge of Arkansas,
Embraced the Speaker.
and crowd of admirers, headed by Mr..
Bryan of Nebraska, and Mr.. Tucker of
Virginia, raised Mr.. Wilson upon their
shoulders and carried him in triumph
out of the hall to his committee room.
Amid the din and confusion, tine Speaker
announced debate closed, and that pur-
suant to the special order, the House
would vote upon the amendments.
Among the amendments agreed to
were those repeating the sugar bounty
and putting refined sugar on the free
list and Mr.. Wilson's amendments pro-
viding tina the wool schedule shall take
effect August 3, 1894, and tie wooden
schedule December q On the internal
revenue amendment, Mr.. Cochran asked
if the propositions could be divided and
a separate vote taken on the income tax
feature. The Speaker held that it could
not. Mr.. Cochran then called for the
yeas and nays on the entire amendment
and it was carried amid applause, yeas
1872, nays so. The Democrats who voted
against the internal revenue bill with
the income tax feature, were Messrs.
Bartlett of New York, Beltzhoover of
Tox.,...x,Iu,pi, Rroyulny of Sonrb Caro-