The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-26

/ ceeQed, tnat adversely came with the
advent of the Democratic party, and
prosperity with the Republican. party.
But adversely did not come with the
advent of the Democratic party" Mr.
Vest said he would summon as a wit
ness no less an authority than Mr..
William Mckinley.
The senator read from a report made
by NJ. Mckinley on April l. 1890, setting
! forth The distress which the farmers OF
! the courtr. were suffering. How was ii
expected. the senator asked. that by in
! creasing the burden of tariff taxes, the
farmers would be helped to buy more
goods. All agreed that there must be
sufficient revenue 10 meet the require
rnent credit shall be sustained and heI
l flag honored- But every dollar collected
! by the government beyond its needs is q
/ crime.
Why was it. M Vest asked. that the
Republican party was about to abandoH
its record and urge a tariff. not for pro-
/ it Will produce. Why does it abandon
! its record and propose a tax on tea? The
senator said there was at this time an
available balance in the treasury of s229.-
S10o, 0oo 600, the available balance was
si2s, $50. This vast amount of idle
money was now accumulated in the
/ treasury and yet the senate was told that
II must impose upon our suffering people
additional taxes. When President Harri-
/ son turned over the government to Presi-
!
at $24, 12sS70
Mr.. Vest proceeding, declared that the
! proposition to raise SCI. 000. 900 of revenue
by tax on tea and increasing internal
revenue was naked and bold abandon
ment of the protective policy of the Re-
publican party.
Mr.. Chandler interrupted with an in
quiry as to where the accumulation in
the. treasury. TO which Mr.. Vest alluded
had come from.
Does the senator mean that the Wilson
| md bOr "a
get there? asked Mr. Chandler.
we 81 Know. answered Mr.. Vest,
That Il came from the sale of bonds,
which l did not approve. but it makes no
difference where II came from. There
1t is in the treasury, and what right have
you TO increase the taxes on the people
when enough is in the treasury already?''
The senator declared that the urgent
need was not for greater taxes, but for
more money and better prices. The fall
could be any prosperity He mentioned
as enc source of evil that our workers
were paid on gold basis and came into
competition with those paid on a silver
The senator from Nevada CstewarD
usually makes that argument" interposed
MI; ,Gaiilnger, of New Hampshire.
He has based Is usually on Janan's
use OF SILVER, and now Japan has re-
pudiated silver
You mean Japan was bought out" Mr..
Stewart put in.
Mr.. Vest then turned to several of the
schedules and discussed them in detail.
f1rSt ne TOOK up the sugar schedule In
genlous tables could be prepared as to
sugar differentials and the tables of the
senator from Rhode Island (Aldrich) were
or this ingenious kind The whole thing
turned on one point, said Mr.. Vest. and
so one Out the expert inside a sugar re-
now much raw sugar would make hun
dred pounds of refined sugar and what
amount OF waste will there be.
diSnnCSfr1or <IA
MT. vest said that it would have been at
least more honorable had the committee
proposed to abrogate the Hawaiian
treaty, rather than kill 1t indirectly
How is 1t possible TO defeat the in
crease of duty on lead" asked Mr.. Vest,
when the lead trust is making enormous
profits and declaring IL per cent dividends
on its stock, common and preferred. Why
double the rate on lead. a product going
into every poor home, in order to feed the
cormorant taste of these monopolists?"
On earthenware and crockery, the sen
ator said the increased duties were ap-
pailing. The trainers of the bill had un-
dertakens to make the duties absolutely
prOhibitOry.
Referring to the wool schedule. Mr.. Vest
spoke of the conflicting claims of the wool
shepherd king 80 .-lss.-
AS to hides. Mr.. Vest said he warned
Republican senators that hides would go
back on the free list, as a result of thrifty
New England sentiment. In conclusion,
Mr.. vest said there was no disposition to
delay the consideration of the bill. There
would be no factious opposition and no
unnecessary objection.
Mr.. Cannon (Silver Rep, Utah) intro
duced an amendment for a bounty on
agricultural exports and spoke briefly. He
said the pending bill. without any pro-
lection, to the farmer, would be a rank
injustice and would be a violation of the
pledge which the victorious party made
in its platform TO the voters last year.
If the bill shall fail to give some meas
ure of justice to the farmer, then he will
overthrow it at the first opportunity de-
clared Mr.. Cannon.
It was a significant fact, commented
Mr.. Chandler, that the Utah senator had
long supported a protective tariff and
now concluded that the system he advo-
Gated was robbery.
Mr.. Cannon responded that in his guile
lessness as a Republican he had accepted
the entire protective idea, but now with
the responsibility of Weighing the merits
of every protective proposition, he in
sisted on equaliZing the advantages so
that the farmer would receive a share.
The tariff bill was then laid aside for
the day. -
At BIS the senate went into executive
session and soon after adjourned.
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