The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-01-17


 | ly action"
 MT. Vest said in the course of further remarks: q sincerely hope that if con gress adjourns without financial legis- lation the president will call us imme- diately in extra session, and we will then see whether the republican party by it's enactments will bring prosperity to the people of the United States"
 We will not have republican sen ate," MT Hawley suggested. You will not have democratic sen- ate," MT. Vest retorted.
 If the republicans exercise the pow CT in their hands they will organize this senate"
 "If I understood the senator from | Missouri on several occasions" MT. Aid rich, rep. of Rhode Island, put in, "he thinks that we have no democratic senate now"
 T will discuss that" MT, Vest said fin democratic caucus. We have had a disastrous defeat but we are not yet so humiliated as to consult the sena- | tor from Rhode Island as to the policy of the democratic party" MT. Vest pointed to the alcohol item in the tariff law as one costly effect of the senate rules, which compelled ac- l ceptance of improper amendments. He said the senate. or who offered the amendment to make alcohol used for perfumery free of tax CMr. Hoar) had | suggested that if it were judged to be | unwise it might be struck out of the bill. Yet the enforcement of that pro vision would cost $1 ,000, ,000 a year, and would effect very seriously the collection of the tax on distilled spirits The amendment had been drawn up by an apothecary or drugman in Massachu- setts. It was crude and unsatisfactory and had been struck out in conference, but the conference committee had not been permitted to report.
 MT. Vest did not believe the secretary could make any intelligent conjecture as to the future revenue of the govern ment. The estimate os revenue from the income tax was $30 000O,O ,OOO, but he believed that 1t would be in the neigh berhood of $80, 900, 900 to $1OO,OOO, ,OOO.
 The discussion was continued by Messrs Teller, Hawley, Stewart White and Hill. MT. Hill argued in defense of his amendment.
 MT. Coclrell, dem. of Missouri, asked for vote on the question of order shall the decision stand?"
 Mir. Quay, rep of Pennsylvania, ob- jected to the withdrawal of the appeal.
 The decision of the chair was sustain ed by vote of 40 yeas to nays.
 MT. Quay again offered his amend ment by adding at the end of the bill provision that nothingin the law shall preclude any court having jurisdiction from hearing proceedings to test the constitutionality or validity of the act
 MT. Gray dem. of Delaware, raised a point of order against it, and the chair sustained the point of order
 MT. Lodge, rep. of Massachusetts, of- fered his amendment, placing the off, cials authorized to be appointed for the income tax in the civil service.
 MT. Cockrell, dem. of Missouri, nov ed to lay MT. Lodges amendment on the table, and the motion was agreed to yeas 34 nays IT.
 MT. Quay then renewed his amend ment for testing the constitutionality and validity of the tax, and it was de- feated-yeas 17. nays 92. as follows:
 Yeas-Aldrich, Chandler, Davis. Frye. Gray, Hale, Hawley, Hill, McMillan, Anderson, Mitchell, Platt, Proctor. Quay, sherman, Smith and Wilson.
 Nays-Allen, Bate Berry, Blackburn Blanchard Butler. Call. Camden. Cock rell, Dubois, George, Gorton, Gormon. Hunter, Jarvis, Jones, Kyle, Lindsay, Mclaughlin, Morgan. Pugh, Ransom Roche, Stewart Teller, Turpie. Vest Villas, Voorhees, Walsh White and Wolcott-32
 MT. Lodge, rep. of Massachusetts. of fered an amendment appropriating S200,0 900 for additional clerks and other officers rendered necessary by the clause providing that alcohol in the arts shall be free from internal revenue tax ation. Tabled.
 The paragraph for salaries and ex- penses of ten additional revenue agents was amended so as to reduce the num- Der to three and by striking out the words "and to carry into effect the act imposing taxon incomes.'
 MT. Hill, dem., of New York, offered an amendment providing that none of the appropriation should be used for the purpose of compelling a taxpayer to make any return or to answer any question ecexpt as to the sources and amount of his gains, profit and income. Agreed to.
 The bill was then reported to the senate and all of the amendments | were agreed to, except that inserting | the word fractionaT' in the item for | the recoinage of silver coins in the treasury
 MT. Blanchard, dem., of Louisiana, made an argument against the adop- tion of that amendment.
 The bill was then passed.
 A resolution was offered by Mir rep, of Rhode Island, and agreed to, requesting the president to copies of all correspondence with or communication from the rebre- from the government of Germany or any other country in re- spect to the enforcement of any of the of the tariff act of 1894, or to the reciprocity arrangements under the tariff of 1890, The senate then ad- journed.
 CHARGED WITH EMBEZZ Downfall of a Trusted Clerk of Grocer Raw
 mOnd G. Baldwin.
 Charles A. Hunt, clerk for Raymond ;. Baldwin, a grocer at A Whalley