The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-16
TRICK OF A. POPULIST
SENATOR ALLEN CAUGHT TRYING
TO MIsLEAD HIS COLLEAGUES.
Had a Platform of His Own Which He
pies Party Statement of Principles.

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the day to further speeches in which the
income tax served as a text for a wide
range of discussion on the tariff, the cur
rency and the Populist platform. Mr.. Hills
proposition, made last week, to amend the
deficiency bill so that the income tax would
be tested in the courts has apparently
started an inexhaustible flow of speeches
on public affairs in general. Mr.. Cockrel,
in charge of the deficiency bill. has sought
vainly to secure a vote on the Hill amend
ment, so that the deficiency bill might move
along to final passage. He hoped to secure
action to-day. but the speeches of Messrs.
Cal and Allen made this impossible. Mr. Al
len took occasion to defend the Populist
part against many charges made IN ana out
of Congress, that it was a party OF vagaries.
1t led to a very full discussion of all Popu-
list doctrine, and a comparison of them
with the doctrines of other parties.
Touching and eloquent reference was
made in Chaplain Milburn's opening prayer
in the Senate to the bereavement of Sena-
tor Hansbrough, of North Dakota. in The
loss of his wife.
Mr.. Voorhees,, from the finance committee,
favorably reported the bill for coinage at
the branch mint at Denver, Col.
Mr.. Henderson secured the passage of
two important resolutions calling on
the Secretary of the Treasury for
Information on the tariff one
asks for the quantities of spirits
and high wines taken out of bond during
the sixty days prior to Aug. Is last, when
the new tariff law took effect, the names
of the parties or concerns who took the
goods from the bond and all other detained
Information concerning the same. Inc otner
resolution calls on the Secretary Tor 1uli IN
formation as to the amount of sugar I'M
ported during the sixty days prior TO Aug.
Is. the names of importers, amounts of i'm
norris the country whence 1t came, etc.
me debate was then resumed on the IN
come tax item in the deficiency appropria-
ton bill, and Mr.. Call, of Florida, ad-
dressed the Senate in favor OF the appro-
priation.
the stock books of the Lehigh Valley Rail-
road Company, showing that the income
tax would fall mainly on stockholders nav
ing small amounts of stock. 1t gave the
total number of stockholders as over nine
thousand, while more than 20 per cent. or
this number had interests below $4OVo. Mr.
Quay said the showing of this company
was undoubtedly the same as that of other
corporations.
ALIENS SPEECH.
Mr.. Allen spoke of the fact that the Sen
ator from Maryland (Gorman) and the SEN
ator from Iowa (Allison) were now an
nouncing to the country their readiness TO
get together on a plan for raising revenue,
although the parties of these two lead
ers had been irreconciliably separated on
the revenue question for twenty-five years.
He said a considerable element of the
Democratic side of the Senate were as es-
sentially protectionists as the Senators on
the other side. 1t was merely a difference
of degree in their protection. This COM
mon feeling was the reason the Senate had
witnessed the remarkable spectacle yester-
day of Democrats and Republicans railing
on each others necks and INDUCING In a
love feast"
Mr.. Allen yielded for the submission of
| a message from the President concerning
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China while they were under the protec-
ton of the United States.
Resuming, Mr.. Allen urged that the two
| old parties had served their periods of use
fulness, and that the Populist party, repre-
senting the masses, was the party OF the ] 3
| and two million in 1894, showing the phe-
nomenal growth of 100 per cent. 1t had no
| less it was the subtreasury scheme, and
this was not believed in by the great ma
iority of Popunsts saon Mr; a Al nm aeaa a Ine
| in commenting on it, stated that the Popu-
lists believed in the election of United
| States Senators by the people.
THAT doctrine interrupted Mr.. George.
twas embodied in a resolution by a DEM
| ocratic House of Representatives before the
Populist was thought of. 1t will be found
that whatever is good in the Populist plat
form was taken from Democratic prin-
Another Populist accession from the
Democratic ranks" said Mr.. Allen.
mo. not an accession declared Mr..
| george. The PopuIists are following Dem
| ocrates. not Democrats following Populists.
Give me your national platform and I'll
point out the planks taken from Democ-
racy.' Mr.. George took the Populis plat
form and awaited an opportunity to COM
ment on it.
A sharp controversy arose when Mr..
| George secured recognition to point out
that the platform submitted by Mr.. Allen
| was not the authorized platform of the
| Populist party; that it was made up out
of the Senator's head" and that it omitted
the subtreasury scneme and government
ownership of railroads.
Mr.. Allen. however. insisted that he had
not claimed the paper submitted was the
Populist platform.
Mr.. George commented briefly on the
action of a Senator in giving the authority
of his name to a platform purporting to
embodv Populist doctrine and yet care
fully and religiously emitting government
| ownership of railroads and other doctrines
| adopted by the Populist national conven-
ton.
the Senators as Mr.. George insisted on
holding up the Senator to the fact that
he had undertaken to issue his own Popu-
list platform, and as Mr.. Allen charged
Mr.. George with hedging and lodging"
the galleries and the few Senators present
listened with evident amusement. Continu-
ing his speech, Mr.. Allen defended the
Populist party against the charge of social
ism and anarchy.
Mr. CockreIl gave notice that he would
insist on final disposition of the deficiency
bill tomorrow. The Senate then held a
brief. executive session and, at AS p. M,
adjourned.
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