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IMPORTS THE THEME OF ALL
The House DeVOteS Another Day to
the Tariff.

Everett Shows Up the Absurdity Of
Republican Claims to Credit for
Tariff Reform Black Speaks Against
the Income Tax Proposition.
Washington, Jan. 12.-There was fair
attendance on the floor and in the gall
leries when the House met at IL O'Clock.
Mr.. McCreary, chairman of the com-
mittee on foreign affairs, reported back
the resolution of MIR. Hit, which was
introduced a week ago and referred to
that committee.
The resolution requests the President
to communicate TO the House, If not incon-
sistent with the public interest, all in
formation received since his message on
Dec. is, 1898, or which has not been trans
mitted Herewith, and is now in his pos
session, touching recent reported events
in the Hawaiian Islands, or any attempt
to overturn the government therein, and
whether any officer or vessel of the United
States has taken any part in these events,
and by whose orders.
The committee on foreign affa irs re.
commended that the resolution be adopted,
but the speaker ruled that. pending the
operation of the special order recently
adopted by the House, unanimous con-
sent was required to consider the resolus
tion at this time.
Objection was made, and Mr.. McCrcary
then asked that the resolution should lie
on the table temporarily without losing
its privilege, and this was ordered.
The speakers table being cleared of all
executive communications and Senate
bills, the committees were called for,re-
ports, and none being forthcoming, the
House, at ll:l5 o'clock a. m, went into
committee of the whole to consider the
tariff bill with Mr.. Richardson, of Ten
nessee, in the chair.
QUOTATION FROM GRADY.
Mr.. Brosius, rep, of Pennsylvania, was
recognized and completed the speech In
which he was interrupted when the
House took a recess yesterday. To show
the limited extent to which local goods
were used even in the states of this
country, he read an amusing description
which the late Henry w. Grady gave Of a
burial in Georgia. He said the grave
was cut through the solid rock Of u
marble quarry, yet the tombstone over
his head came from Vermont. He was
buried in the depths of a pine forest, yet
his pine coffin came from Cincinnati; he
was laid within touch of an iron mine,
yet the nails in his coffin were imported
from Pittsburg. He wore a coat from
New York and shoes from Cincinnati.
leaving him nothing TO carry into the
next world TO remind him OF the country
which was his home but the chilled blood
in his veins and the marrow in his bones.
Laughter and applausel.
THE DEMAND FOR REVISION.
Mr.. Everett, dem, of Massachusetts,.
the civil service reformer, and
tariff reformer, took the floor. He
said he was going to vote for this bill,
because he had believed for years that
such Il measure as this was demanded by
patriotic considerations, and he was proud
TO belong to the Democratic party, which
was pushing forward in this reform.
Democratic applausel. Three years ago
the Republican party admitted that re-
vision of the tariff laws was necessary,
but insisted that this revision should be-
left in the hands of the friends of the
tariff The Republican party came into
power in 1888, and they did revise the
tariff; they revised it with a
vengeance" Laughterl, and before the
ink on the Mckinley bill was fairly
dry, the popular revolution came at the
polls and tho demand for a revision of the
tariff went forth not that it should be-
amended by its friends but by the demo-
cratic party Democratic applausel. He
thought the Wilson bill did not go far
enough It's free list was not wide
enough; but he accepted it as the best
thing that could be obtained at this time.
"rhe objection to tariff tinkering" said
Mr.. Everett, "comes with very bad grace
from those who have changed the tariff
some ten times since the protective policy
was adopted in the congress Of 1860 and
1851" He was surprised to see that the
American workingman could be made to
encourage and support restrictive and
contractive and oligarchical system which
savored of the feudalism of old world
states "Give us free ships give us FREQ
ores; give US free iron" said Mr.. Ever
EFT. In conclusion, he said he believed in
simplifying the tariff, in extending the
free list, and levying a tax upon only a
few articles.
BLACK on THE INCOME TAN.
At the conclusion of his remarks he
was enthusiastically applauded, and when
the disorder had somewhat subsided, Mr..
Black. dem, of Georgia, was recognized,
and devoted a large part of his remarks
10 a discussion of the income tax feature,
which he understood to go hand in hand
with the Wilson revenue bill. II had
been said that this tax was unfriendly
and iniquitous He could not speak for
others, but as far as he was concerned he
had never looked on any tax as bless
ing nor welcomed the tax collector to the
bosom of his family. He had in
quired lately as to the manner OF
collecting taxes ia Georgia, and he had
learned that the tax collector or tax as
SCISSOR went to every man and asked him
how much property he had. They went
to a man and asked him how much jew
elry he had, and how much household
furniture he had. and how much money
he had on deposit in bank, and no antag-
onism had been excited by this. But
when it came TO the income tax it was
different. Then it was called inquisito-
rial, and the tax collector was looked
upon as a modern Torquemada, and these
men are seized with all the horrors of the
Spanish inquisition.
WEAK OPPOSITION ARGUMENT.
Again, it was said that the passage Of
an income tax law would be an incentive
to lying and would encourage burglars IL
any man should endeayor to escape from
the imposition of such tax as the in
come tax, he would advocate thorough
search into every secret recess into which
such a man might hide, and he would do
il by process of law, in order that such a
man might DO compelled to bear his share
of the burdens of the government. [Demc-
cratic applause. He would treat him as
he would treat any other fugitive from
justice Applause. what would
yea think of judge"
asked MIR. Black, ''who would
be so lenient as to excuse a man from tes-