The Portland daily press., 1895-12-27


from any official source that the revenue
| IL pretended to supply, was needed forthe
purposes OF the government
MIR. Dalzell, Republican of Pennsyl-
vanla, member of the committee on
rules, said that no man within the sound
OF bis voice did not know that ever since
March 4, 1893, the revenues of the govern
ment had piled up steadily increasing
deficiency. The President and Secretary
of the Treasury had necome alarmed and
the former, turning to party in Con-
gress Lot his own, had asked it to act
| speedily for the relief of the public.
even going SO far as to- request them to
forego the usual holiday recess. Under
the spur of that REQUEST, the committee
night and day to prepare the message
proposed. 1t was not, he asserted, a
general tariff revision, but an emergency
revenue meas ure. MIR. Dalzell said it
was refreshing to hear Mr.. Crisp talk
about party whip aud iron clad rules
Did he not remember that the present
tariff bill, with more than six hundred
amendments, some of which were con-
s1dered in committee. was driven through
the House in two hours by the terms of
rule prepared by the gentleman him
self? (Applause.) By the working of the
same kind of rule, Mr.. Dalzell con-
tinued,. bills were introduced in the
1Aooso III sIoiauioH VI hll parliamentary
decency, without reference to any COM
mittee and passed in fifteen minutes;
bills that dealt with the great coal,
sugar and ore interests of the country,
What is the House called upon today to
do2 he asked. 1t was, he said what the
Republican party always did, to rise
above party prejudice or passion and in
response to the Presidents appeal to give
the country the relief he had asked
(ApD1ausa \
Mr.. Mcmillan. Democrat of Tennessee,
said he would give the answer to Mr..
Dalzell's question. 1t was to pass a
general tariff bill affecting every one Of
The four thousand articles on the dutiabla
list except sugar The Republicans were
had previously done. He said, $50 ahead
gentlemen, the same power which de-
prived you OF place and authority will do
IL again. z (Applause.
Mr.. Turner, Democrat of Georgia, said
the bill was not intended and would rot
meet the merits Of the emergency.
Mr.. Henderson, Republican of Iowa,
OF the rule. He said this was business
proposition for the relief OF a business
people. When the Bayard resolution was
under discussion in the House the other
day, said Mr.. Henderson. the Republi-
cans were tainted by Mr.. Crisp with fear
to take responsibility. eve will show him
today, "he shouted, whether or not we are
afraid to take responsibility; applause; y
whether a Republican or Democratic
President sits in the executive chair,
whether we are threatened with ballots
or bullets, whether we are confronted
with deficiency or surplus. Republic
cans are always ready to assume all
rightfnl and necessary response bility"
Mr.. Henderson said that Mr.. Mcmillan
had taupta6 tho Rom hi xc;+1, xroxI~
ing on holiday. '!When the Democratic
ass falls int' pit of its own making"
he said, with the burden of national re-
sponsibility upon its back the Republi-
cans will work on Sunday to get it out
and set the country on its feet again"
daughter. The gentleman from
Georgia, Mr.. Crisp, said Mr.. Henderson.
had said this was a bill to tax The people.
/" My God, he exclaimed, "the House of
Representatives has not the power to vote
to pay back to the people the millions of
which they have been deprived sin ce the
Democratic party came into power on the
fourth of March, 1893. They talk of
speed. DO they stop to consider the
rapidity with which Democratic policies
have emptied the treasury? They talk
about war, The Republicans have made
no declaration of war. 1t is true, as has
been said, that the President sent a
declaration of war to Congress, and three
days afterwards filed his petition in
bankruptcy with the same body.
daughter.
After some further discussion a vote by
yeas and nays was demanded on the pas-
sage of the resolution resulting, yeas 213,
nays SO. Several Republicans were re-
corded as voting against the resolution.
The bill was then laid before the House
and read by the clerk, together with the
report of the cum mittee on ways and
means in support of the measure.
Mr.. DingIey opened the three and one
halt hours debate on the bill in fayoring
is passage He said that when the
Presidents message was read in the
House last Saturday, every member felt
that great responsibility rested upon
him, Under that sense of responsibility
the committee on ways and means began
emergency get forth by the President
The first proposed, naturally, was one to
provide revenue to meet the expenses of
the government. Gentlemen tell us. he
said, that there is money enough to meet
the expenses. The House had been told
that next week, next month, there would
he sufficient revenue. With that song of
hope in our ears, the deficiency has gone
on increasing in amount, till now 1t ex-
ceeded, for the period of the present ad- |
ministration $l65. 100000. If the policy
was to be continued, he said, of using the
greenbacks deposited in exchange for
gold, for paying current expenditures,
then the endless chain of which the
Secretary complained was fully
established, and the government would |
be compelled to continue selling bonds to
pay debts. From 1879 to 1898 there was no
serious raid upon the gold reserve of the
treasury. That was due, in tho first
place, to the fact that throughout that
period the receipts of the governme emit ex-
ceeded it's expenditures and secondly that
there was in existence tariff policy
which produced sufficient revenue. A re- |
turn to those conditions which had not
existed since 1898, Mr.. Dingley said, was
the only remedy for the present condition
of affairs and the only way to overcome
the distrust which is now felt throughout
the country. We do not know how long
the exigency will exist, hence the meas
IRE is limited to two and one-half years
in its operation. 1t Is exigency legisla-
tion, legislation demanded by the condi-
ton of things called to the attention of
Congress by the President. The com nit
tee on ways and means in looking around
for a way to meet the situation, decided
TO raise the necessary revenue from i'm
ports By this method between $40, OOO 900
and $50, 900, 900 could be raised and in this
way the present condition of affairs
which were running our national finances