The morning news., 1894-06-02
REPEAL OF THE BANK TAX.
More Speeches on the Brawley Bill in
the Lower House.


during the morning business, on motion
of MIR. Gear, rep, of Iowa, the Senate
bill was passed appropriating a small sum
to repay A. p. Stewart for cotton tax
wrongfully assessed and collected. To
this bill Mr.. Kilgore offered no objection.
saying that for once he would not inter-
pose any obstacle, whereupon MIR. Say
ers. chairman of the committee on appro-
priations, said he was willin to let the
bill go through.
Mr.. Strauss, dem, of New York, Of
fered joint resolution declaring the ex-
tradition treaty between the United
States and Russia to be no longer desira-
BILE, and giving the stipulated notice of
the expiration OF the same. IL was re-
ferred TO the committee on foreign affairs.
Mr.. Springer moved that the House 20
into committee of the whole to further
consider the bank tax bill.
MIR. Enloe was recognized with a motion
to consider bills on the private calendar
A division was asked by MIR. Reed, on
Mr.. Enloe's motion, which resulted
Ayes 20, nays SO. A quorum not voting,
Mr.. Reed demanded the yeas and nays.
The vote was announced as yeas "a, nays
1873. This killed MIR. Enloe's motion and
Mr.. Springer's motion was agreed to.
Mr. Richardson, of Tennessee, took the
chair.
Mr.. Wheeler was entitled to the floor,
but yielded it to MIR. Brosius, rep, of Penn.
sylvania, member Of the committee on
banking and currency, announcing that
he would finish his own speech later.
BRosIUs OPPOSES REPEAL.
Mr. Brosius opposed the repeal of the
bank tax: Mr. Brosius spoke an hour
and half, and was followed at 2 80
o'clock by Mr. Swanson, dem, of Vir-
ginia' who spoke in favor Of the repeal of
the law.
Mr. Henderson, rep, of Illinois, fol-
lowed in a speech against the repeal of
the bank tax law. He said that the bill
and amendment were not, in his judg-
ment, Of any great Importance, and if the
opinion of Attorney General Olney,
quoted by his colleague, Mr.. Springer,
be correct, as it seemed to him to
be, there was no necessity for
the passage or the bill or the amend
ment reported by the committee. If il
were not for the amendment proposed by
Mr.. Cox to repeal the law he would not
say word. But believing as he did, said
Mr.. Henderson, that no greater calamity
could befall the country, so far as the
currency was concerned, than to 20 back
again to the old system of state banks,
he would oppose that proposition. MIR.
Henderson quoted Messrs. Calhoun,
Storey and Marshall to demonstrate that
the states had not the power to issue
paper currency, and that the law under
consideration was not only constitutional,
but practically Of great benefit to the
people.
TUCKER FAyoRs REPEAL.
Mr.. Tucker, of Virginia. favored the
repeal of the tax. 1t was the same sort
of tax, he argued, that was found in the
oleomargarine bill, and in the options
future bill, that was soon to come before
the House Mr.. Tucker closed with a
brief dissertation on the subject oi
money
MIR Izlar, dem, OF South Carolina, the
successor to Judge Brawley, who intro
duced the bill under discussion, believed
that the repeal of the tax would be a steI
in the right direction. 1t would add tC
the volume of the currency and would, in
manner, meet the present demand for
money. Especially would this be the
case in South Carolina. He had no feaI
of a state bank system in South Carolina.
| The issues would be at the places where
they were needed, and the banks would
not be slow to accommodate the
people on reasonable and fair
terms. He referred to the excellent sys-
fore the imposition of the tax, and as
serted that failure and embezzlement
would not be limited to those, but that
! they could be found under the national
banking system as well. The tax had
borne harshly on the people of the south
and west in depriving them of safe and
elastic currency.
Before MIR. Izlar completed his remarks
! the hour of o'clock arrived, and, under
the rules, u recess was taken until
o'clock
THE NIGHT sESTION
The proceedings of the evening session
We're more than 0usually uninteresting
There were less than fifty members pres
ent, and only eight bills were considered
Three of them were laid aside with
favorable recommendation, one
of them was acted upon un
favorably and four were not acted
upon because of the absence of the mem
bers who introduced them. IN the
course of the evening the rather surpris-
ing statement was made by Mr.. Lacey
rep, of Iowa. that as the result of the
subject, only two private pension bills
had become laws. One of these
GRANTED pension of S12 a
month to Hannah Lyons, daughter OF
John Russell, deceased, late a private in
Capt. John Sillman's company in the
Fourteenth Continental regiment, com
manded by Capt. John Glover, in the war
of the revolution. The other bill in
creased to $50 u month, the pension OF
Andrew Franklin, alias Andrew Mckee
late private in Capt. Armstrong; com
pany Of the militia in the war Of 1912, who
is l0l years OF age.