The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-07-05

| Hill, 'DuG III not L want TO address
the senate at length. After the action
OF the senate yesterday 1 cannot sub
nit to this provision"
~ am member of the finance com.
mittee," said Mr.. Harris, "and on my
own responsibility desire to make
the motion"
Mr.. Hill then yielded to Mr.. Harris.
who at Mr.. Manderson's request
withheld the motion to table until he
could be heard.
Mr.. Manderson said that great in.
justice would be done to growers Of
sugar beets in the sudden abrogation
of the bounty proposed by the pend
in bill. IL would not be only unjust
but dishonest.
Mr.. Catfrey favored the amend,
ment. He did not believe in bounties,
but though equity and good faith de-
manded them, the amendment should
| prevail.
Mr.. Harris then renswed his mo.
tion to lay the amendment on the
table. This was agreed to, 50 to %,
the parties dividing. The vote in de-
tail is as follows:
Yeas-Bate, Berry, Black burn,
Brice, Chandler, Cockrell, Coke, Cul-
lon, Daniel, Dixon, Dolph, Dubois,
Faulkner, Frye, Gallinger, George,
Gibson, German, Gray, Hale, Hans.
brough, Harris, Hill, Hunton, Irby,
Jarvis, Jones of Arkansas, Lindsay,
Lodge, McLaurin, Martin, Mitchell
of Oregon, Mitchell of Wisconsin,
Mills, Morgan, Murphy, Palmer,
Pascoe, Power, Ransom, Roach,
Smith, Teller, Turpfe, Vest, Villas,
Voorhees,, Walsh, Washburn, White;
so.
Nays Aldrich, Allen, Allison,
Blanchard, Cafferey, Call, Carey
Davis, Hawley, Higgins, Jones, Ne
vada, Kyle, Mcmillan, Manderson,
Patton, PETER, Perkins, Platt, Proc.
tor, Quay, Sherman, Squires; %.
Mr.. Allen proposed an amendment
imposing duty OF 10 per cent on all
fencing wire. Lost. He then offered
several other amendments of the same
tenor with an increasing rase of duty
all of which We're lost.
Mr.. Power, Republican, Montana,
offered an amendment providing that
the wool schedule should go into ef.
tect next June. Lost.
Mr.. Allison offered au amendment
Producing the duty on uncleaned rice
from 1c to s l0c per pound, agreed to.
An amendment by Mr.. Aldrch
was agreed to putting duty of 3-4c
per pound on the lead contained in
type metal. The duty on files, file
blanks and rasus was raised from SOC
per dozen to 80,
Mr.. Manderson, Republican, of Ne
braska moved to reconsider the vote
which his amendment providing for a
diminishing bounty on sugar was de-
feated, and Mr. Harris moved to lay
that motion OF the table. This mo-
tion prevailed, although the Populists
and the Senators from Louisiana voted
with the Repr blicans against the mo.
tiou.
Senator Hill offered an amendment
to the income ak paragraph prov i'd
ing that all state, county, municipal
and town taxes paid by corporations
should be Included in their rum ing
expenses. Agreed to. No further
amendments were offered, and at ex-
actly 10 O'Clock the bill was read a
third time, after which Mr.. Smith,
Democrat, of New Jersey, made a
6 peech against the income tax bill in
favor of the bill as whole.
Senator Hill followed with brief
speech. He said that in his opinion
the bill imperilled the possibility OF
permanent Democratic success in any
northern state for many years to come.
AS between Populist income tax on
the one hand and Republican tariff
nf lpffnr
as the least of the two evils.
AS between pernicious clase legisla-
tion, fraught with dangerous conse.
quences to the country on one hand,
and simply higher tariff taxation on
the other, he preferred to endure the
latter, at least for brief period.
Continuing, he said: Eliminate
the income tax and there is difficulty
in trsming an honest, consistent and
genuine tariff bill upon strict
revenue line, with all raw materials
free which can be passed by the vote
OF every Democratic senator without
the aid of a single Populist vote and
which the country would welcome as
a provision. This is not pretended by
such measure Numbers of senat-
ors around tho Democratic side of this
chamber must feel as though Demo-
cratic principles have been surrender
ed or bartered away to secure the
trump of this botched compromise
which ia really acceptable to
no one. L am sure that if they ex-
pressed their honest sentiments they
do not approve this bill any more
than do.
"The issue of tariff reform mad bet.
Ter be osiponed and preserved in
TACT rather than emasculated dis
figured and despoiled in the me4ner
low proposed.
"Tnis bill does meet public ex
Dectation, bit at san empty aud
oeggerly fulfillment of Democratic
pledges. 1t does those things which |
t ought not to do, and leaves updone
hose things which it ought to do.
Mr.. President, do not fail to appre-
,iate the gravity of the situation, out
he course which duty and coDsis-
ency requires me to pursue at this
louI is az clear 10 me as the noondsy |
jun.
"siuk or swim, live Or die, surviv- !
n perish, cannot and will not sup |
port this bill in its present shape"
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