The Portland daily press., 1898-05-26
NOT READY FOR A yOTE.
SilVerites in Senate Want Chance
to Talk More.
PATRIOTIC SENATOR DANIELS OF
VIRGINIA THREATENS DELAY.
VIII Offer More Anne ndments If C.r+.in
2 opulistic Measures in the Bill are Not
Adopted and Says There ia No Hurry
About Passing 1t Anyway.

opulistic Measures in the Riu ave Not
Adopted and Says There is No Hurry
About Passing 1t Anyway.
Washington, May 25.-Late this after
noon Mr.. Allison of Iowa, in charge of
the war revenue bill in the Senate en-
| ueavored to secure unanimous consent
that final vote on the measure be taken
on Saturday next before adjournment.
Mr.. Tellera of Colorado objected, Mr..
Daniel Of Virginia, reiterating. Mr..
of delay against the measure that has
been heard since the debate upon it be-
gun. He declared that there was no
emergency which required the immediate
passage of the bill and announced that
if certain provisions of the bill put into
were not agreed to by the Senate, he
would offer some amendments to the
measure that probably would precipitate
debate. He strongly intimated too, that
if the war should not be prolonged, it
might not be necessary to provide so
much revenue as the bill would raise and
he indicated desire to await develop.
ments, that, in all likelihood were
close at hand before signing bill that
meant SO much to the people as this one.
Speeches on the general features of the
bill were delivered by Mr.. Stewart, Popu-
list of Nevada, Allen, Populist of Ne
braska and Gallery, Democrat of Louisi-
ana. Before the revenue bill was taken
up this morning, the pension deficiency
appropriation bill was passed. 1t carried
nearly SO, 900. 600.
Washington, May 25.-At eleven O'Clock
the Senate convened, an hour earlier than
usual, to resume its discussion of the war
revenue measure.
Mr.. Hale, Republican Of Maine, reported
an appropriation bill to supply deficiencies
in pensions and for other purposes AS re-.
ported, the bill carries: For pensions 49,
070, 872; for theswar department. $125, 600;
for the navy department., 81, 997; addition
al clerks lin auditors war department,
$7s, 762; additional clerks in auditor s
office, navy department, $1s,745; United
States courts, $40, 600; executive depart.
ment. IS, 466; miscellaneous, $40, 600; Sem
ate, $500; House, 81, 5S3; total, IS, 49s, 405.
After a brief discussion of the features
of the measure which makes possible
temporary appointments of clerks with
out civil service examination, the bill was
passed.
irt rocn1I1tinp uIa taI II
ing the Secretary of War to report to Con-
gress plans and improvements of Tampa
bay, Florida. g
Consideration of the war measure wa
then resumed, Mr.. Stewart of Nevada,
said he proposed to address himself par
ticularly to those paragraphs of the bill
which provided foi the coinage of the
silver seigniorage and the issue of legal
tender notes. He held that the amount of
money produced from taxation under the
bill would depend largely upon the policy
adopted relative to the issue of more
money and the issue of bonds. He be-
lieved that with an issue of bonds 1t
would require largely more taxation to
produce given sum than it would with
out an issue of bonds.
In the course of long free silver speech
Mr.. Stewart declared that the revenue
N&HA es7 ~ EesoooA utAO A1OocO3 WbsS o41O
most miserable, yillainous piece of legis-
lation ever enacted by any legislative
body" He attacked vigorously the bond
proposition of the minority of the finance
committee and urged the coinage of the
silver seigniorage and the issue of legal
| tender notes. 80. -
Mr.. Allen, Populist of Nebraska, said
| that it the wishes of some, at least of the
| advocates of the pending bill, were con-
suited, it would carry only the provision
| for the issue of bonds and would not
| place a cent of taxation upon the people.
The Senate was being flooded, Mr.. Allen
said, with protests from the various in
| terests, taxed by the measures as if they
| were being imposed upon simply because
| they happened to exist. He Thought the
| people ought to regard it as patriotic
| privilege on the part of business interests
| to assist in supporting the government in
| an emergency such as now existed. He
did not regard taxes burden when they
were justly and equitably assessed.
| Mr.. Allen maintained that there was no
property and no individual which the
government could not tax, whatever the
condition might be.
1.-The sinister purpose of this effort to
eliminate from taxation the corporations
| and other and varied business interests"
said Mr.. Allen, sis to create a void which
may be filled by an enormous increase in
| the interest bearing indebtedness Of the
United States Ha dacIa~ad th are WAS not