The times., 1897-03-17

| bers think two weeks should suffice for
| debating the measure in the House.
| The Democratic members oppose so early
4 report and such nasty action upon it.
| They point out that the bill has hardly
| been put in print yet. Only comparatively
| few copies are now available. The reso-
luton for 10000 copies Was agreed to by
the Senate only yesterday. They point
| out also that no statement comparing the
| proposed duties with those now in force
| has been prepared Mr. McMilin asked
| Mr.. Dingley for this in the House Mon
| day. Mr.. Dingley replied that he could
| not say when it would be ready, but as
soon as possible 1t was being prepared
Mr.. McMiliin said The duties proposed
! in this bill are in some cases higher than
| in the Mckinley bill. In some cases they
| are twice as nigh as under the present
law.
III the measure becomes a law and does
what the Republicans claim it will either
cause boarding or squandeTing OF money.
The three articles of sugar, beer and wool
manufactures viii produce, according to
the calculations about $3.50, 0,000,0 600 or the
Governments revenues. These are all ar
ticles OF use by everybody and the burden
falls. not according to each citizens ability
to pay. but something like equally upon all.
This is an unfair distribution of the bur
dens of taxation.
Leaving out beer and taking only the
articles which appear in this bill, sugar
and manufactures Of wool are expected
to produce 500 100000 Of revenue and
the same injustice is done people of mod
crate means.
what will they do with 1T? Ii must either
be kept in the Treasury or spent for i'll
considered and unnecessary uses. In the
one case it is Withdrawn from the circu-
iatioa and contraction results in the other
il is unwisely expended We have in the
Treasury now SIP, 2,00oO 900 OF money
above the 81 10, 900 900 gold reserve, which
is withheld from circulation without rea son
By this bill we are going to increase that
amount nobody knows how much, and by
drawing it In very unjust proportion from
those who are less able TO pay.
Il don't see how prosperity is to come
by requiring the ordinary merchant and
the workihgmat to pay more taxes at the
same time the amount of money from
which he is TO pay is steadily decreased
You bold then, that there is no def
cheney of revenues to demand an extra
session.?"
There is not at all. 1t would take two
or three years at the present rate of an
nual deficit, some $40 900, 900 for the
fiscal year 1896, to use up the surplus we
now have in the Treasury and get it out
among the people There was mo- need for
the extra session except to pass the appro-
priation bills that failed Ia the Fifty-fourth
Congress,
Mr.. Bailey said that he was not get ready
to talk about the bill
Representative Berry said:
1t is an excessively high protective
tariff measure It will. If passed, in
evitably raise the price OF the necesssries
oflife, such as sugar and the woolen goods
worn by all classes. / don't see how it
can fail to add TO the burdens OF the people
instead OF tightening them
1T will cut off our foreign markets by
raising the cost Of production and thus
curtail the manufacturers sales. As con
sequence the mills will need to run only Elk
months, instead or all the year, they
ought to do i don't see how this can raise
wages or bring return OF prosperous
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