Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-01-15
A Hot Debate in the United States
Senate.
HILL, QUAY, GoRMAN AND VEST
All Take Part in the Running Fire Of
Words.
The One Thing Needed Now 10 Help
the Country, the Maryland senator
Says, Is to Pass the Appropriation
to Pay for Collecting the Tax.


feeling that the currency problem has
been transferred to the senate has
made that body the center OF interest
at the capital The galleries were again
. ell filled today. After the routine
4. mess Senator Stewart OF Nevada
!, Sumed his speech began on Saturday.
Mr., Stewart spoke OF the great extent
to which the banks controlled congress-.
political conventions, telegraph COM
panies and the press. The banks al
ways maintained lobby in congress.
They dominated national conventions,
Republicans, Democrats and Populists.
and secured the assistance of their
friends. They secured ambiguous
platforms so THAT she people were
never able to vote directly on the silver
issue. They had bank rule in the
treasury. bank rule in congress, bank
rule in every administration for 20
years.
Mr.. Stewart closed at 10 o'clock and
then MIR. German of Maryland arose for
the speech which had been anticipated
for some days.
At the outset Mr.. German gave his
attention TO the proposition to cripple
the income tax by cutting off Its appro-
priatlon.
He declared himself opposed to that
line OF attack.
lie then proceeded TO take up the
tariff legislation as bearing ON existing
conditions. The tariff bill which first
came to the senate from the house
brought forth demagoguery, such as
the country had seldom seen before.It
overlooked the greatest essential Of leg
islntion-to raise sufficient revenue to
carry on the government. The sena-
tor said that he had not believed It had
been shaped so as to raise ample rev.
enue for the expense Of the govern
ment. The senate had added $50, 600. 600
TO the revenue under that law and yet
1t was now demonstrated that the rev.
enues under the law We're insufficient to
carry on the ordinary expenses of the
government
According to your estimates" in
terrupted Mr.. Vest. you claim that
the revenues for the present year will
not meet the expenditures?
81 do
do you include in your estimates"
continued Mr.. Vest "the 40 per cent
tax on sugar and the Increase in the
whisky tax, which win be available for
this year? l desire to call the senator's
attention TO the fact that the revenues
or the government have been steadily
increasing for three months. and that
IT is reasonable to presume that by
April ] the revenues Will meet the eX-
penditures."
81 Will allow another to answer that
question" replied Mr.. German. 81 Will
allow the foremost man of finance I'm
the Democratic party to answer 1.-THE
secretary Of the treasury-who, amid all
this turmoil, has stood for tax suhi-
Client to meet the demands of the treas
ury. He stood there while Islander was
rampant and the vipers OF the press
were splitting at him, and stands there
now.
THE Wilson bill or the German bill
or the Brlce bill or the Smith bill. or by
whatever name you want to call 1t,
was n con promise bill.
The senator from New York CMr.
HID was not party to it. There Is
something about the Democrats In the
state from whence he comes that rn'-
vents them compromising" Laugn-
teri
'The senator fought manfully." con-
tinued Mr.. German, land / admire
manliness, but In addition to opposing
the income tax, which as have shown.
is not necessary to the treasury. the
senator from New York Joined with all
the extreme tariff reformers to cut
down duties on imports. | viii never
follow leader" said he, emphatically,
''who will In the time Of peace Increase
the national debt to pay the current ex-
penses Of the government.
Before the election OF 1892" said Mr..
German, ct had already been demon
strated that the Mckinley law did not
yield sufficient revenue to meet the de-
mands OF the government, The estl-
mates on which the law had been made
were erroneous, Just as estimates on
were erroneous. II had been clearly
pointed out prior to the election OF 1892
| that the Mckinley law reduced reve-
mes TO the point OF threatening the
treasury with bankruptcy"
Mr.. German quoted from report
| of the condition OF the treasury Jan
/ nary u, showing that the deficit since
/ July 1. 1894. or the excess of expendi-
lures as Mr.. Carlisle called 1t, was 1884,
1000 January IL.
Mr.. Carlisle. while the tariff bill was
nendlng. had estimated the receipts
under the senate bill for the ensuing
Nscal wear at s963 900, 900 and the eN-
penditures SAYS, 100000 or deficit OF
az 900 600. The deficit was already
double that sum and the year was but
half over
I r.
of making accurate propositions and
declared that the secretary ought not
to be held to his figures.
"But." said he. you cannot affort
10 tribe with the conditions. You must
maintain without party divisions thl
honor and integrity of the government
we are raising more taxes from oui
neonle than from customs duty No
enough revenue was being raised from
customs TO pay the pensions. The bull
~ taxation was now being levied with
In orr own borders. The customs rev
cn,tes would he many millions short o
The $40 900. 900 required for pensions
can we reduce the expenditures?" h
asked. 81 answer no. In 1892 the pen
sion budget reached sfS0,000. 900, It
HIGHEST point. II IS now down to $40.
oc0 400 and viii diminish as the old sol
dIers die. The extensive expenditure
for postal service, the rivers. nav!
ana harbors must go on. The senate
from Pennsylvania Nr. QUAY ma
said the Democratic party had been re
bukad and turned out OF power. l thin
mat Mr.. Teller stated the case whe
he SAID that the Republicans came int
mower not because the people had cor
tidence in that party but because