Arizona republican., 1894-01-09
GOT UP STEAM. The Democrats Finally Secure a Quorum. A Talk By the Author of
 The Tariff Bill. The Date of the Final Vote on The Measure January %. Boutelle's Daily Sensation In The House With His Well Worn
 Hawaiian Resolution.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
 WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.-The deadlock was broken this morning by the efforts of the deputies of the sergant-at-arm who brought in enough members under arrest to fila quorum. Roll call was answered by 179 mem bers.. The de- mand for the previous question on talk ing up the tariff bill was carried by g vote of 189 to none.
 Under the rules thirty minutes de- bate was allowed and was begun by Wilson the author of the bill.
 He said the American people had given this administration definite in- structions regarding the tariff question. The bill about to be considered pre- scented scheme of tariff reform to be dealt with according to the deliberate judgment of the house. Covering so wide field of legislation and dealing with so many subjects all must neces- sarily represent in their details some compromise of opinion.
 "Any bill," said he, "passed by con- gress under the present conditions at least must necessarily represent such compromise. A great commercial dis tress which has come upon the country paralyzing so many industries and throwing so many thousands out of en- plovmenJ has made the task of reform more difficult, while It has made the necessity for reform more imperious than ever. At what time could taxes be lessened with greater justice and greater humanity than at time when thousands are struggling for the bare necessaries of life, and when could we with greater timeliness and benefit strike some letters from production and trade than when production is sup pressed by burdens and trade is ham, pered by restrictions?
 ''The third difficulty is the empti. ness of the treasury. Under the tariff law of 1883 tobacco taxes were reduced on the theory that tobacco had become necessity for the poor as we'll as tor the rich, but new and heavier taxes were laid on the woolen clothing of the poor man. Sugar was untaxed to give the American workingman free breakfast table, but new taxes were placed on his cups and saucers, his plates and dishes, his coffee pot, knives and forks, his food and table cover; in word, he was relieved from tax paid to the government in order that he might be made to pay much greater taxes to the benefciaries of that law.
 "These released taxes would have yielded us in internal revenue since their omission more than $150,000, ,000 and would have saved us from any danger of treasury deficit. The mag nifcent surplus turned over by the Cleveland administration had thus, been scattered. A large portion was used to purchase at high pre- niums bonds not yet due, but even this did not dissipate the surplus and the Fifty-frst congress was obligated to try 8 hand upon it. It refunded a direct tax to the states. This was a pure gratuity, but it has taken out of the treasury over $14,000,000. Next came the sugar bounty act, under which sums amounting to $17 ,00O, 900 had been paid to sugar growers. Last of all as a chief means of distributing the surplus was the dependent pension bill under which the annual pension expenditure had arisIn to more than $6O,O0O,OO0.
 We were called upon to reduce the taxes at time when the government receipts are running so low that the revenues have ceased to meet the ex- penditures, and we believe we could not better consume the time of the house than by giving the story of the depleted treasury and by placing the responsi- bility for the present straits where the responsibility justly belongs. During tion we plunged headlong from an treasury and that too without any lessening of the burdens of taxation upon the people but rather by most substantial and oppressive increase in taxes"
 Wilson then gave figures showing how the surplus revenue had been dis sipated since the secretary of the treasury under Cleveland's first admin istration turned over balance of $1S5,- OOO,OOO.
 "The Mckinley bill'' said he Gre duced the internal revenue taxes on manufactured tobacco, abolishing spe- cial taxes on the dealers and manu- acturers of tobacco and wiped out the duties on raw sugar which for years past had been our chief revenue pro- ducing article on the customs list.
 If to more than $2OO,OOO,OOO thus made away with by the last admins tration we should add a $50, ,00C loss of revenue by the omission of the taxes on tobacco and sugar alone, we should have clear idea of the rapid and headlong step by which we have been brought to the present empty treasury. I do not believe those who voted to put the last administration in . power expected any revision from it in the direction of increasing rates. The campaign of 1888 was fought on ques-