People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-06-28
HILL KEEPS UP HIS FIGHT
AGAINST 1T.
BE OFFERS MANY AMENDMENTS.
But They Are All Voted Down by a De.
cisive VOte-The $1,000 Limit De-
feated-He Declares That Friday
win Go Down in History as
Populist Day in the Sem
ate-Washington News.

WASHINGTON, June 2j.-The half
hour usually devoted to miscellaneous
business in the senate was to-day oc-
cupied by Mr.. Hill.
After Mr.. Call had spoken this
morning on a resolution providing for
a committee of five senators to inyes-
tigate the election and control of
senators and representatives by cor
porations, and Mr.. Sherman had said
that he was willing that the investi-
cation should be allowed so far as
Florida was concerned, but he did not
think it was just to make
it so broad and sweeping as
to include the whole country,
the tariff bill was taken up and Mr..
Hill arose. He said that yesterday
would be known in history as Pop
ulist day, abiding to the speeches of
Senators Kyle and Allen. He said
that no attempt had been made to at
tack the repeal of the state bank tax
or to enact a free coinage bill, both
OF which were endorsed by many
Democrats and considered a part of
the platform, while especial efforts had
been made to go outside the platform
to incorporate the income tax in the
bill. No other system of taxation
opened sucha broad field for fraud and
evasion and none offered such tempta-
tons. If the tax were to be imposed
there was no reason why the eXemp-
ton should be $4,000 when in mon
archical countries where this tax was
levied, the exemption was but $3.50
and even down to S97l. Was it to
compensate for high cost of living
here? He believed that the higher
the exemption the harder it would be
to defend this tax.
Having spoken nearly two hours,
Mr.. Hill gave way to Mr.. Gallinger,
who also opposed the income tax.
Then Mr.. Hill offered an amend
ment limiting the exemption of tax to
incomes of less than So, 600 which Mr..
Vest offered yesterday on behalf of
the finance committee, but which he
afterwards withdrew, This was lost
80 to IS.
On Mr.. Hills motion to substitute
$1,000 for the $1,000 limit the vote
was &c yeas to 2S nays and that to
make the limit $1,000 was defeated
yeas Is and nays 80. While that to
make the limit 81, 500 was lost 9j to 3s.
Mr. Hills amendment to change the
date on which the income tax pro-
vision should go into effect from Janu-
airy l, 1895 to January l, 1896, and the
GATE or1ts expiration from 1906 to
1901, was defeated &c to 4J.
THE $4,000 LIMIT VOTE.
The detailed vote on the amend
ment fixing the limit at $1,000 was as
follows:
Yeas-Aldrich, Allison Carey Chandler,
CullOm, Davis, Dubois. Frye, Galinger, Hale,
Hansbrough, Higgins, Hill, Hoar, Irby. Lodge,
, Henderson, Mitchell Of Oregon, Morrill, Pat
ton PETER Perkins, Platt, Power Proctor,
| Quay, Sherman, Shoup, Teller and Washburn.
| Total 30
Nays-Allen, Bate, Berry. Blackburn, CAT
fiery, Call CoCkrell, Coke. Dolph, Faulkner,
George, Gibson. German, GRAY Harris, Haw.
ley. Hunton, Jarvis, Jones of Arkansas Kyle,
Lindsay, Mcpherson, Martin. Mills, Mitchell
| Of Wisconsin. Morgan, Murphy, Palmer,
! Pasco, Pugh, Roach, Smith Turpie Vest,
Villas, Voorhees,, Walsh and White Total, So
Mr.. Hoar offered an amendment to
except from the inheritance tax that
of lineal descendants and widows.
This was lost 22 to 90. He then
offered an amendment providing that
the tax should not apply to inherit
ance of lineal descendants and widows
on estates less than 5000. This was
/ lost q to 96.