People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-04-13

Of the state of New York. They
utterly dissent from any proposal to
get revenue for the general govern
ment by taxing incomes. Their dis
sent is practically unanimous and al
together implacable."
THE PRESIDENT CRITICISED.
Mr.. Hill intimated that the tariff
bill was constructed on lines laid
down by the administration; that it
was an anomalous state of affairs
when the president should be able to
give congress information as to what
had occurred in committee of the
house, and said, in these later days
the distinctions between the func-
tons and prerogatives of the executive
department on one hand and the legis-
lative department onuthe other do not
seem to be always observed. The
truth is the first information which
congress had of the alleged details of
the proposed bill was in the message
itself. But the strangest part of this
unprecedented proceeding was in fact
that at the very date of the message,
to wit, December IA, 1893, neither the
full committee of ways and means
nor the Democratic members thereof
had agreed upon any income tax
or upon other internal taxation.
1.-The senior senator from Indiana,
Mr.. Voorhees,, calls this allegation
noisy and resounding charge Let
me tell him it is not half as noisy as
the constant vituperations we hear on
every hand from blatant demagogues,
who are abroad in the land loudly in
Weighing against the wealth of
the country and impudently de-
manding its confscation through every
means which their devilish ingenuity
can invent.
"Mr. President" said Mr.. Hill in
closing, this is an important crisis in
the history of the Democratic party.
The failure of the tariff revision
means the defeat of the Democratic
position, if not the division and the
humiliation of Ourparty. Moreover,
1t seems, as we believe, injury to the
best interests of the country. Let
those who insist upon injecting into
this bill the odious and I'M Demo
cratic feature of an income taxa
relic of war legislation-pause and re-
fleet upon the possible consequences of
their unwarrantable demands They
should realize that it means the loss
of the control of this senate, now
nearly equally divided between the
two great parties; it means the loss of
the next house of representatives; it
means the loss of the electoral votes
of New York, New Jersey, Connecti-
cut and probably every Northern state
and finally it means the loss of the
Lext president and all it implies.
DEFINES HIS POSITION.
Mr.. Hill defined his position in these
words: 81 stand ready to support
any reasonable measure for tariff re-
form framed within the lines and
based upon the principles which l
have here partially indicated, and
which were fully set forth in my
speech in opening the political cam
paign in Brooklyn on September 10,
1892. l stand to-day where | stood
then. | have nothing to add and
nothing to retract. will cheerfully
vote for the Mills bill and join you
in making many material reduc-
lions therein. l am ready to waive
all minor differences of details which
do not involve question of principle.
Having spoken to-day, especially upon
the income tax feature of this bill l
reserve the expression of my views
upon its other features until near the
close of the discussion"
WALSH SWORN IN.
Just after the senate met and before
the tariff bill was called up, Mr.. Cor
man presented the credentials of Pat
rick Walsh of Georgia, appointed to
fill out the term of the late Senator
Coquitt and he was sworn in.
Mr.. Mills offered resolution which
was referred to the committee on
rules which provides for the more sys-
tematic transaction of business. The
substance of the resolution is an
amendment to rule twenty-three,
when question has been considered
for ten days and motion for the pre-
vious question shall have been made
no other motion shall be in order but
one motion to adjourn.
Mr.. Allen offered a resolution pro-
viding that on Monday, June 4, at 2
o'clock, general debate on the tariff
bill should cease and the senate should
begin the consideration of the bill
and amendments under the fve-min-
ute rule, proceeding until Thursday,
June :, at 2 o'clock, when the final
vote on the bill should be taken.
Senators objected to the present con-
sideration of the resolution, so under
the rules it went over until to-mor-
row.