The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-01-08

i statement that the paper was in the 1 hands Of the senator from New York | (Mr HID, the defender of the adminis- tration, and who was now on the re- publican side of the chamber
 Whatever else the senator from New
 York may be-" said MT. Hill, The is
 not at this time, the defender of MT Pulitzer I will leave that to other gen. ] tlemen."
 Mr. Gray expressed his surprise that,
 in this evening of the nineteenth cen- tury men should hark back on their track for centuries in order to stihe
 the expression of public opinion in this country or anywhere in the world. lf anything had been accomplished in all these years that had come and gone it was that among civilized countries a
 just public opinion was the final ar bitter of all public conduct.
 -he resolution offered by MT. sher-
 man, rep, of Ohio, on December 3l, declaring that the use of the gold re-
 serve to supply deficiencies is of doubt ful legality and greatly injurious to the public credit, and that sum of not
 less than $100,0O0,0O0 in gold coin or bullion should be restored to the treas ury and segregated from all other funds, was taken up, and MT. Vest, dem, of Missouri, addressed the senate upon it. He repudiated the idea that the democratic party was dead, and de- clared that when it did die the last hope of popular government would have dis appeared, If the income tax in the { Wilson bill had been collected there would have been no deficiency of reve- nue.
 He reviewed the decision of the su- | preme court of the United States, which
 declared that tax unconstitutional,a and
 asserted that no decision had ever been
 rendered by that court which had done so much to destroy it's influence and to excite dissrust among the masses Of the American people, including intelli- gent and thoughtful lawyers. For a hundred years, he said, no lawyer had doubted that congress had the right to tax the income Of real estate and per sonal property without apportioning ac- cording to population among the states
 That had been decided hundred years ago by the supreme court in the Hilton case, and years afterwards Chief Jus
 tice Chase had given the unanimous Judgment Of the supreme court to the same effect. He did not propose to
 analyge the decision of the supreme ! court declaring the income tax uncon- stitutional nor should he trust himself to enter into the conjecture as to the reasons which caused one member of that court, after agreeing deliberately +J +l, portion Of the law, and so fasten on the country the sordid despotism OF wealth. Tie name cf that justice was unknown It was known alone to him.
 self and his official associates. Not even the clerks Of the court were able to say what individual justice had changed that decision after the case had been first argued. The reasons which controlled him were lost to the profession and to the country. It was simply a matter of conjecture as to why that justice should allow his name i and his reasons to be buried in obscur- ity. ..#
 The senate, MT. Vest exclaimed, had been ridiculed and maligned because of concessions to the executive. but what would be thought he asked, Of sena- tor who on 8 great question like the income tax, had not the manhood to stand before the American people and declare his responsibility for his vote
 He could imagine the scorn of appro-
 blum, the charges of corruption, the white wrath Of the independent press
 against a senator who could dare to biHa ;v
 spcnsiblity for a public act He com- mented on the fact that counsel who ar
 gued against the income tax were per mitted to assail senators and to charac-
 teriZe them as legislative communists,
 while one of the same counsel (alluding to MT. Choate) was seen a few weeks af-
 forwards standing before a New York jury, Bible in hand, reading the parable of Lazarus and Dives and asking a
 verdict for his client on the ground
 that he was a poor devil-as he was, in having such an advocate Oaughter).
 MT. Vest had some extracts read from
 the dissenting opinions of Justices liar Ian and Brown, as "a most fearful ar
 raignment of the court of last resort"
 Mir. Vest then went on to reply to MT. boAclIiIsiil ; SpHSCIi III CIlllCiSuf ol lI!c democratic administration, and he
 pointed out the fact that during the four years of MT. Cleveland's first term
 the export of gold was only 790O0G00, while in the next four years, of MT. Harrison's administration, the export of gold was 213000, 900.
 In the further course of his remarks MT. Vest declared himself an uncom- promising adherent of the free coinage of silver and spoke of that question as an irrepressible conflict which could not be evaded and which had to be fought to a finish.
 Touching on tariff matters, he assert ed that in the Mckinley bill Of 1890 there was duty on hides provided, but that Mckinley had had to withdraw that item in order to placate New Eng land. Put a duty on hides" he eX- claimed. and you would hear the New England slogan much louder than you hear 1t on the Venezuelan question. Put duty on hides and immediately the spirit of the Pilgrim fathers would be aroused. They would march to vic tory or to death"
 Mir. Vest asserted that free wool had done more for the wool growers and for the wooden manufacturers than any other legislation ever enacted by con- gress. Best Of all, he said, wOolen clothing was cheaper now than ever be- Gore