The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-05-23

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back here by the first Of July to do our
duty
Mr.. Gray Dem. Del). followed. 'I
| agree with the Ohio senator that q
crisis is in the history of the country.
/ 1 agree that an adjournment without
| a measure of relief would be an out
1 rage and a shame. And say to the
senator if his committee will propose a
measure to increase the revenue, a
measure truly non-partisan and solely
! to raise revenue-that he will ind sup
port on this side Of the chamber"
The senator's proposition" an
swered Mr.. Sherman. lis that we
| should disregard the bill of the house
! that body charged with initiating rev
/ enue legislation; that we should tear up
the Dingley bill and make another He
must be broad and liberal in his Of
I fers."
Il thought the senator CIr. Sherman
did not understand himself" said Mr..
Gray, when he spoke of a non-parti-
san patriotic measure. He now pro-
poses that we must accept the Dingley
bill which in my judgment viii not
yield sufficient revenue to afford re-
lief
Mr.. George now came forward with a
detailed proposition. He said he would
pledge his one vote to the Republican
senators if they would frame a proper
relief measure. He would accept IN
such a measure a tax on beer, a rev.
enue tax on wool, lumber, tea, coffee
an increase on tobacco, cigars and
cigarettes, and a fair revenue duty on
any agricultural products imported
from Canada to the United States.
Mr.. Dubois CRep., Idaho), one of the
five Republicans who voted against
considering the tariff bill, rose at this
point and in irOnical tones said that
of course it would be easy to get the
ground and pass a revenue bill with
free silver amendment. You will re-
call" he said, that five senators voted
against taking up the Dlngley Dill
Every one of those five senators has
been endorsed by his state. Every one
of those five senators viii be a delegate
to the national convention"
Mr.. Hill now resumed his speech.
He said that the senate, as at pres
ent constituted, with a large, he would
not say INSCRIPTIONS minority, in the
Republican party willing to put silver
TO the front in everything, and with
the Democratic side divided, would find
it impossible to frame a tariff bill. a
non-partisan tariff bill was an impos-
sibility.
IF were the president Of the United
States" he said, (Which from present
prospects it looks as if I never would
be-, I should take the last dollar from
the treasury to see that the pledges OF
the government would be kept, and he
misjudged the character and force OF
sue this course"
Mr.. HilI yielded here to Mr.. Baker
(Rep-, Kan-)- He said the bill was &
mischieWOuS one. He referred to the
refusal of the senate to pass the Ding
ley tariff bill and warned the senate
against depriving the government Of its
only mode Of securing the means for
conducting the government He said
the passage of the bill would fore
shadow panic, reputation and possible
revolution. Tt would be the greatest
crime of the nineteenth century.
Mr.. Teller asked Mr.. Baker if he ap-
proved of the issuance Of bonds by the
present administration
Mr. Baker replied that he would have
favored the passage Of such a bill as
this when he first came to the senate,
but since five Republican senators had
Joined with the silver Democrats and
the POpulistS to prevent the passage of
a bill to insure an adequate increase
of the revenue, he had concluded that
there was no possibility of securing
legislation that would give sufficient
revenue. In view of this fact he be
heved it wise to retain the only vestige
Of authority left for securing money
At 2 %. m the chair laid the regular
order of business before the senate,
but the senate by a vote of % to 27 de-
cided to consider the continuation of
the bond bill
Mr.. Hill closed at 3 o'clock and was
followed by Mr.. Hawley CRep. Comm
in a short but impassiOned eXhorta-
ton against the prohibition
clared lit viii be one of the fOulest
blots-the fOulest blot and the only
one-on the history Of this honorable
body.
This is reputation. This is bank
ruptcy This is anarchy and infamy,'
exclaimed HaWley
Mr. Mills Dem, Tex9 supported the
bill. ChaTacterizing the speeches OF MI
Hill and Mr.. HaWley as the most re-
markable he had ever heard, answer
ing, as they did. that the government
must issue bonds to raise money to pay
the ordinary expenses Of the govern
ment He ridiculed the idea of repudia-
ton. If revenue was required, then this
congress would give it, and If it did
not, then the people would. The PEG
pie would insist on having sufficient
revenue for the government Mr.. Mills
expressed his amazement that Dem
Ocratic leader (referrlng to MI HIND
would rise here and argue for bonds.
The senator child wanted monu-
mental national debt as pedestal for
a national bank control of all of the
money of the country. Mr.. Mills said
this greed for bonds came naturally
from the reports of the money centers
of the east 1t was demoralizing Amer
Mr.. Mills announced that when Mr..
Sherman brought forward the filled
cheese bill he (Mills) would offer an
amendment to raise the revenue for
the. government 1t would propose an
internal revenue tax on iron, steel,
lead. zinc. fax. hemp. jute and other
articles These received protection and
he would ask the protected industries
producing those articles to pay some
thing into the treasury.
Mr.. Stewart CRep.. New spoke in
support Of the bill. Mr.. Lodge (Rep.,
Mass.) spoke briefly and fOrcibly
against any action which would create
alarm and panic to business.
Mr. Clarke (Rep-. WyO-) said he
would vote against the bill if it meant
anarchy or population, but he denied
that it had such a purpose and de-
clared it was merely a step to restrict
the executive in his present exclusive