The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-27
WILL RAISE REVENUES
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have been crying year after year for tariff
for revenue with incidental protection, and
this is your time. We give it to you as
necessary measure. We give it to you to
increase the revenue. We give it to your
President and your Secretary of the Treas
ury to help lift the treasury out of the
bankrupt condition which it seems to be
the fate of every Democratic administra-
ton that ever had full control of the Gov
eminent to get it into, from the time of
Monroe to the time of Grover Cleveland.
Loud applause from Republican ranks
and from the galleries.
Dalzell (R.) of Pennsylvania, membe
of the Committee on Ways and Means,
repeated what he had said in the discus
sion as to the rule that the pending meas
ure was in no sense protective tariff bill,
or revision of the tariff. or an attempt to
correct tariff irregularities, but was simply
an emergency revenue measure, matured
in haste under the whip and spur of a
pressing and cruel necessity. When passed
1t would be conspicuous tribute to the
patriotism of the Republican party rising
above party prejudice at the summons of
Democratic President. Believing that
the cause OF the trouble was the lack of
revenue, the Committee of Ways and
Means had responded to the Presidents
appeal for aid. He trusted that when the
bill went to the Senate it would find re-
publican support there, and that when it
went to the President he would do that
which patriotism demanded and that the
bill would become law for the immediate
relief of the country.
"And then" he said, "a year hence
when succession to the two tidal waves
that have already swept the land shall
sweep some great Republican leader into
the White House and give US Republican
Senate and House, we will frame tariff
bill that will be IN the interest of America
for Americans" Applause on the Repub-
lican side and in the galleries.
Bell (Pop.) of Colorado did not believe
that the remedy for the trouble was in
increasing taxation, but in the coinage of
silver bullion in the treasury and paving
it out.
Dockery (D.) of Missouri argued against
the bill.
Hopkins (R.) of Illinois argued in favor
of its passage. He asked why the Demo
Gratis, if they did not like that remedy, had
not provided a remedy of their own.
Grosvenor (R.) of Ohio said that he
gave his support to the pending measure
because it was a revenue measure, and
because it was demanded by the message
of the President. II it were not SO de-
manded, then the President was guilty of
an assault on the integrity of the treasury
"a charge which he could not lay at the
door OF an American President.
The discussion was ended for the oppo-
nents of the bill by Turner CD of Georgia.
The administration of President Harrison,
he said, came into power with a surplus in
the treasury over the gold reserve of
$243, 600, 900. 1t turned over to the present
administration four years later a surplus
of $50, 100000, of which $54, 900, 900 belonged
to the fund deposited in the treasury for
the redemption of ereenbacks. The Sec
rotary of the Treasury had hoped, as had
been stated, to issue bonds to protect the
gold reserve and to meet deficiencies in
revenue. 1t was under these embarrass-
ing conditions the Democrats returned to
power in 1893. That party said the remedy
for that situation was not to raise taxes,
but to lower them, and 1t went forward
courageously and passed law putting
that principle into operation. Under that
bill wages went up from New England to
California, and expectations from the
United States had actually increased.
There lay behind the bill, he said, mo-
tive which was not apparent on its face. 1t
spoke with sort of popgun report upon
one or two articles in the tariff bill. The
Republicans should, Turner said, send an
apology to W. NJ. Springer amid the In
dians, where he is now located. Laugh
ter. "a resolution of thanks" he said,
twas also due to the Democratic party for
furnishing the plank upon which the bill
was framed-a tariff for revenue only"
Turner said he was informed that no
amendments could be offered to the bill.
If that privilege were open to him he
might utilize 1t to suggest that no tariff
law now on the statute book took effect on
August 81, 1894, as recited in the bill. The
so-called Wilson bill, he said, became a
law on the 2Sth day OF August, 1894. That
was sample, he said, of the hostility and
carelessness with which it had been pre-
pared. For his part, he said in conclusion.
he would prefer to lower than to raise
taxes. [Applause.l
AlHOlo tls.I VI hnO&
(R.) of Massachusetts spoke briefly in sup
port of the bill.
Dolliver (R.) of Iowa, closing the de-
bate, said:
There is much in what the gentleman
from Georgia (Turner) said as to the hurry
and anxiety with which this bill has been
prepared. He ought not, however, even
in the midst of such remarks that he has
made to the House, to lay upon the ma
jority of the Committee on Ways and
Means any responsibility for such blum
der in the date of the act of 1894 as that to
which he has called the attention of the
House. The act of 1894, for reasons which
the Democratic party ought to appre-
ciate, was not signed by the President of
the United States, and 1T appears upon the
statutes at large without the signature of
the President, with the annexation a. the
beginning of it that the date of it is
August 81, 1894. [Applause.] If that is
not the true date OF the act OF 1894, it only
indicates that the State Department is
mixed up with the general incompetency
that has marked the present administra-
ton"