The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-15

and success at the November elections. AT
that time" continued Mr.. Hill, "he pre-
pated defeat Ksssafs' / n voted a against ssys e the h.0h bili lh hop-
Ing that after it passed the Senate 1t would
stances forced the House to accept it. it
went to the President. 1t might have been
better If he had returned it for correction,
but when he, In his wisdom, allowed 1t to
become law, it became a party measure,
and from that time / ceased criticism of it
and, as a Democrat, tried to make my peo-
pie believe that it was a fair and a just
measure. As a party man / tried to
election / accepted the verdict. and would
never have alluded to q personal vindica.
been for the remarkable remarks of the
! Senator from Maryland"
GORMAN'S REJOINDER,
Mr.. German was again on his feet as
soon as Mr.. Hill closed. He spoke very
quietly at first, but with evident feeling.
He discIaimed a desire to have a personal
controversy with the Senator from New
York. He was not in the habit of making
explanations. He was guided always by
the one rule of bringing his best judgment
TO bear on a proposition and then abiding
by that judgment. There was another rule,
he said, which he was in the habit of fol-
lowing and that was to confer, to consult
with his associates and then abide by the
l }aasm as q % OF hss n Marty Gor As to said the tb tari f
the Democracy-from its head to its most
humble member-had given the measure
Der would have been different. He did not
then appreciate that the Senator from New
publicans against that bill. No dominant
party could have succeeded in the midst OF
Simmer sum serfa1 He ddsi did not Want lha to Be disagr res.
able to the Senator from New York. He
had not commented on his course, but his
position as now defined by himself was
a legitimate subject of comment. And II
his idea was Wa carried out ut d il we would Of fuother
S fe iSn y Tsa unfair mi :N Il would aav be e. d tba sens
your measure unew of relief and II it is a proper
measure, one that commands q majority IN
e ehis, eham ans in we %Ih Of pass ass ech me aIT.
Hill will Mr.. Quay for the purpose of
being disagreeable, but he insisted mat
time. - was no -
With a final protest against. his course
Guided and Mr.. Cali. Of Florida. took the
income tax. The Senate then held a brief
/ executive session and at Sis p. m. adj
| journed.
After the routine business had been dis
posed of Mr.. Stewart resumed his speech
begun on Saturday. He spoke of the extent
political conventions, telegraph companies
and the press. The banks always main
tanned a lobby in Congress. They donin-
ated national conventions-Republican,
Democratic and Populist-and secured the
nomination of their friends fs They tys secured nann1a
were never able to vote directly on the sill
yer issue. They had been bankrupt in the
every administration of twenty years. Mr..
Stewart closed at L o'clock. Mr.. German,
which had been anticipated for some days.
AT the outset, Mr.. German gave his atten-
tax by cutting off it's appropriation He
declared himself opposed to that line of
attack, He then Proceeded to take up the
tons. The tariff bill which first came to the
Senate from the House brought forth an
seldom before seen. 1t overlooked the great
est essential of legislation-to raise sufficient
revenue to carry on the government. The
Senator said that he for one would never
have voted for the tariff bill if he had not
believed it had been shaped SO as to raise
ampler revenue for the expenses of the
government. The Senate had added $50, Co.,
900 to the revenue under that law. And yet
1T was now demonstrated that the revenues
under the law were insufficient to carry on
the ordinary expenses of the government.
VEST REFERRED TO CARLISLE.
According to your estimate interrupted
Mr.. Vest, do you claim that the revenue
for the present year will not meet the
expenditures
II do
do you include in your estimator con-
tinued Mr.. Vest, 'the 40 per cent. tax on
sugar and the increase in the whisky tax
which will not be available for this year,
l desire to call the Senator's attention to
the fact that the revenues of the govern
ment have been steadily increasing for three
months and that it is reasonable to pre-
sumo that by April 1 the revenues will meet
the expenditures"
II will allow another TO answer that ques-
tion," replied Mr.. German. Il will allow
the foremost man of finance in the Demo-
cratic party to answernnthe Secretary of the
STOOD Tor "a tax sufficient tn meet tho do
mandS on the treasury. He stood there
while SANDER was rampant and the vipers
OF the press were splitting. at him, and he
stands there now. The Wilson bill or the
German bill. or the Brice bill, or the Smith
Dill, or by whatever name you desire to call
II, was a compromise bill. The Senator
from New York (Mr. Hid was not a party
to it. There is something about Democrats
from the section whence he comes that
prevents them from ever compromising
Qaughter). The Senator fought the bill man.
fully" said Mr.. German, continuing, II
admire manliness. But in addition to OPP
posing the income tax, which as I have
shown is necessary to the treasury, the
the extreme tariff reformers to cut down
duties on imports. ] will never follow a
leader said he emphatically, who will in
the time of peace, increase the national debt
ment.
Before the election of 1892" said Mr..
German, TT had already been demon
strated that the Mckinley law did not Weld
sufhcient revenue to meet the demands of
the government. The stimate on which
that law had been made We're erroneous lust
as estimates on which this last tariff law
was framed were erroneous. 1t Ind been
clearly pointed out prior to the election of
1882 that the Mckinley law reduced rev.
enues to the point of threatening the treas
ury with bankruptcy
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