Birmingham age-herald., 1895-01-15
THE NATIONS LAWMAKERS
Making But Little Progress in
 Either Branch.
THE HOUSE JUDICIARY
Succeeds in Passing Bill. German and Hill Have
 War of Words.

WAsHINGToN, Jan. 14.-At the begin- ming of the morning hour Mir. Hatch called up the bill making oleomargarine subject to the laws of the state or territory into which it Is imported and demanded the previous question on it.
 MT. Bynum moved that recess be taken until 1;30 o'clock. This was objected to. By tue time a quorum was secured the morning hour had expired.
 Mr. Hatch asked unanimous consent to have the house consider the oleomargarine bill, but objection was made and the bill lost it's favored place without having reached vote on it's merits. An order from the committee on rules will probably be necessary for the further consideration of the bill. Objection was made to grant, Ing unanimous consent, asked by MT. Hatch, to consider the pure food bill.
 Mir. Catchipgs presented from the com mttee on rules a resolution providing that the remainder of the day be given up to business from the committee on judiciary. Objection was raised to this by Mir. Cobb, democrat, of labama, who claimed that the rules gave up today to the committee on the District of Columbia.
 It was finally agreed that next Friday be set apart for district bills and the resolu- tion giving up today to the judiciary com mittee was agreed to.
 Chairman Cuiberson called up the senate bill ito provide for the readjusling of the Indian territory for judicial purposes, for an additional judge and more United States commissioners, and to prescribe the duties and offices of such judges and commission ers.'
 It occupied the time of the house in com mittee of the whole nearly the whole of the remainder of the day and was finally passed with certain amendments recommended by the committee. The bill to make an addi- n Gtr in fupk xvn e taken up, but no conclusion had been reached when the house at 5:l5 ad- journed
 IN THE SENATE.
 After the routine morning business the urgent deficiency bill was taken up, the question being on MT. Hill's appeal from the decision of tue chair ruling out the amendment offered by him to authorize the United States courts 10 hear and determine questions as to the exigency and validity of tbe income Lax.
 MT. Stewart took the floor and concluded his speech begun Saturday. free silver speecH.
 MT German next addressed the senate The lending proposition was, he said, a simpt and plain one. An appropriation bill Xas before he senate providing fur'de- fcjQEcies, among them one to enable the secrAery of the treasury 10 carry out the law for the collection of the income tax.
 ''But what the senator from New York desires,' MT. German continued, lis a
 
 this case-a provision that would enable any tax payer 10 suspend the iucolpe tax; by injunction to reverse the rule and to prevent the money coming into the treas ury until every request that might be raised by every unwilling tax payer should be decided by the supreme court of the United States. ''
 Such attempt Mr. Goruan declared would be wrong, would be beyond the power of the senate and would be destruc- tive to the interest of the treasury.
 "You cannot eliminate single provi- sion of the tariff law which brings revenue into the treasury without substituting something in it's place that will produce an equal amount of revenue. And appeal that there is no jurisdiction in any such eff forts at reduction which shows that this body can legally add to the revenue pro- visions. There never was more hazard ous undertaking than that of revising the tariff law at the time the democratic party undertook it. The bill was compromise measure, and no bill could have passed the senate exec pt by compromise, to which every democratic senator except the sena- tor from N WY ork (Mr HiID agreed. As whole, and as it stands today, the tariff it is the best tariff law that has been on the statute book for forty years. The senator from New ork was not party to that compromise. There is something in the atmosphere of northern New York which, it tseems to me, makes it impossible for a statesman from that section ever to com promise. Laug hter. The question was then, the Mckinley act or the pending bill but the seuator from New York told his colleagues on this side of tbe chamber, 'Either give me my way or you shall never pass the bil1-'
 ''In that compromise we put this income tax. Now, l might excuse the senator from New York for antagonizing this pro- vision if ii were not for the fact that whilst we were considering the tariff bill he not only opposed the income feature of it, but he n fhn fartF formers who wanted to cut down the reve- me -fse,n cnstnps. It that senator had had his way he would have had $500, ,0OO,o 0 of bonds to issue in order to pay the current expenses of the government between that time and 1897. l could never follow a leader who would deliberately put this gov erement in position to increase the na- tional debt to pay it's current expenses. do not believe that national debt is a na- tionai blessing. l have no sympathy with the men who proclaim themselves ad- vanced reformers and who under the guise of reform want to increase the national debt. o MT. German said that under the existing tariff law the larger part of the revenue came not from customs, but from internal revenue taxation. The customs did not furnish revenue enough to pay the pen- sions. "Can we, ,' he asked, "reduce the expenditures? answer no. You cannot re- duce the expenditures materially. The general expenses of the government will grow rather than diminish. 1 think the the secretary of the treasury puts the expendi, lures for 1896 some millions higher thari those for 1895, and he is quite right in that estimate.' Appealing directly to republican sena- ters, MT. German said: "You come into power on the 4th of March next under bet ter conditions than we did on the 4th of March, 1898. We have removed from your pathway many Instructions. You have, as compared with our work, little to do. You come with majority in the other house as great as you have here. You have in this body a majority equal to if not greater than that which he had. The re- sponsibiity will be then on you. And l say to the senator from Pennsylvania, MT. Quay, that I, for one, will treat him and his friends in e spirit different from that nnsc bich he manifested to us. In any ques- bn that affectS the hnances of the govern
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