The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-08-09
FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
RESOLUTION REGARDING Gus
TOMS DUTIES BY MR.. MILLS.
Defines the Class of Imports That Should
be Taxed - The Nova Scotia Coal
Company Investigation - Judge
Kicks Impeachment.
THE SENATE.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 In the SEN
ate today a resolution was introduced
by Mr.. Mile Of Texas and ordered to
lie on the table temporarily declaring
that in the revision OF the existing
system of national taxation the fol.
lowing principles should be observed:
First-That all taxes are burden
some to the taxpayers and can only
be rightfully i'm posed to raise revenue
to support the government.
Second-That when taxes are Inn
posed on imported goods the rate
should be 80 low as not materially to
restrict importations, and
Third-Ihat in selecting articles to
be taxed only those ready for con-
sumption should be chosen, and those
imported for manufacture or re-manr
ufacture should be exempt.
The resolution offered on August |
by Mr.. Chandler, looking to the In
vestigBtOn OF the Dominion Coal COM
pany OF Nova Scotia, and the substi.
tute offered by Mr.. Mills IN the way
or an addition to the original resolu-
ton providing that special commit
tee of five should be directed to report
to the senate whether any member OF
congress is or was Interested in any
company engaged in mining coal in
any state of the United states, or any
railroad engaged in transporting coal
frh
with TIE Dominion Coal company,
and whether its removal would re-
duce the price of coal to consumers,
and what section OF Goun-
try would be benefited by its
retention. A discussion followed
between Mr.. Mills and Mr.. Chandler
as to whether the old sugar COM
mittee should be entrusted with the
investigation or whether new COM
mittee should be appointed. Mr. Mills
favored the retention of the old COM
mittee because as he said it was hon
est and capable and had recently
made an exhaustive investigation and
had reported that the charges made
against senators had not been sus-
tanned.
ais that the reason the senator from
Texas favors this committee?" in
quired Mr.. Chandler.
Mr.. Mills denied that he was inilu-
enoed by any such motive and ex-
pressed his Willingness to have n new
committee appointed if Mr.. Chandler
preferred. The resolution vent over
under the rule without action and the
conference report on the river and
hSrbor bill was laid before the senate,
and IL wac agreed to. This completes
she bill.
The bill for the deportation Of an
sEch!sts then came up and Mr.. Hill
explained its provisions. Unless some
action WAS taken by this government,
such as was now before the senate,
this country he said, would soon be
the dumping ground for the anarch-
lists of the world. 1t was not intend
ed to make the belief in anarchy q
crime, and therefore no attempt mad
been made to define anarchy. He
favored the provision Of the senate bill
for inspection by the treasury agents
instead of by the consuls, and was
sure that no one could attribute his
attitude on this section to desire to
secure more patronage for the secre-
tary of the treasury. There were no
politics In the bill and he favored it
because he believed Il was better than
the house bill.
Mr.. Dodge, Republican, Massachu-
sets, expressed the belief that both
bills were inadequate for the purpose
of restricting immigration, but he
was anxious to see some restriction
placed on immigration, however
slight it might be.
Mr.. Palmer pointed out the diff
Guilty of dealing fairly with the ques-
zion and the danger of doing injustice
to the harmless socialists while pro-
tecting ourselves against the danger
of anarchists. He asked Mr., Hill
whether the bill would apply to un.
desirable persons already in the
country, Mr.. Hill replied that it
would The discussion then took ON
"a legal aspect and hinged upon the
right Of country - protec- itself
against undesirable aliens.
Mr.. Hill pointed out the moderation
OF the pending bill as compared with
the act recently passed by the parlia-
ment of Great Britain, and Mr. Kyle
of South Dakota asked him to more
accurately define the term anarchist,
for there were, he said, paaceable
and learned people in Boston who
held that ii was possible for people
to become so highly civilized as to
live together without laws, and there
fore, according to the usual definition
they were anarchists.
Mr. Hill replied that they were at
liberty to hold this believe, but if they
tried to overturn the laws for the pur
pose of putting their belief to the test
then they became dangerous.
After some further debate and the
adoption of some amendments the
Awarded