The San Francisco call., 1898-04-28
Statesmen Discuss the Bill to Increase the
 Revenue.
Ding1ey Says Three Hundred Mill lions a Year Will Be Required. Bailey Asks for Income
 Tax, Not Bonds.

leaving as little of the burden of our in. tervention in Cuba to the future as pos sible. If the war upon which we are about to enter was to secure new national pos sessions or any other acquisition of mate rial assets, the case might present view somewhat different. But here, for the first time in the history of the world, a nation has of it's own volition thrown away any prospect of aggrandtzement and has based its action upon disinterest- ed grounds, so that what we are about to do however much it may minister to the present satisfaction and moral com fort of the community, concerns poSterlty vastly less than 1t does us.
 If there was case in the history or the world where situation amounting to a declaration of war was the direct re- suit of the wish and purpose of the people themselves it is in this case. It cannot be said that the President of the United States has plunged his country into a war If he had done so, heed1essly put ting in peril the welfare of a country Ike this, instead of being entitled, as he is, to the respect and confidence of the world, it would be better that a mfllstone were hanged about his neck and that he were drowned in the depth of the. sea- His tory will acquit the President Of such an act of hostility to the public welfare. l do not predict the size and the cost or the undertaking in which we are embarked, but my conviction is that we will gain all that we lose and infinitely more things we have already gained, and one IS the outspoken sympathy of this great Eng fish speaking race, of which we are part; another is a larger sense of the unity of the American people, unity that has already killed the spirit or sec tionalism, taken the poison out or paru- san strife and brought in the better era of American patriotism
 Bell (Pop) of Colorado, in stating the position of the Populists, announced hlS unalterable opposition to the bond pro vision of the biIl Nothing, he declared, could cause such shudder among the people of the country as the announce ment that they were to be saddfed with another bond issue.
 Then. discussing the provisions of the bill, he asked why the taxes were to be exclusively levied against the poor Why did not the rich railroads bear part of the burden? Why did not the colossal The~ burdens should fall equally on all
 Lacey CR.) of Iowa gave notice of an amendment to prevent the invalidation of instruments on which the stamps due were inadvertently omitted.
 Ridgeley (Pop.l of Kansas closed the debate for the afternoon with some brief remarks in opposition to the bond feature of the bill.
 At 5 o'clock the House recessed until 8 o'clock.
 The night session of the House was de- voted to brief speeches by members who day. Many speakers only had time to ask permission to extend their remarks in the record. Only two Republicans Gibson of Tennessee and Olmstead of crats and Populists all opposed the bond proposition. The speakers were Kleberg (D), Texas; Wheeler (D.l, Kentucky; Lewis (D), Washington; Green Pop0. ton O.l, Missouri; ,Vandiver p9, Mis- souri; Davis (D.l, Alabama; De Vries (D9 California; Lentz D.), Ohio, and McDowell D.), Ohio.