The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-04-28

- tbs subject o. extraordinary tnxAtaon.
4 uas hank deposits There were IN the
banks q. sue No. 90 II 8spaxsts Praceedsng
with kis criticism az tbs and some other
features Of the bill Bailey declared tAat.
imperfecs as It was. his sds OK the house
would take II, II the other side would ac-
ceas their proposition for an income tax.
which would provide an additional income
OF 500 go He thought the estimate Of
Dsngiey Uz.staaee . month for war ex-
penses) . reasonable one.
RaEey also contended for the proposition
70 co.r taS.ooaas Of the silver ssignscrags.
and 10 that he thought an Issue Of $sS.oe.-
Go OF legal render could be added with
prcpe.efy. The greenback circulation
could be exsenesd that Tar without danger.
The gentleman from Maine Dinyiey) Id
vocated the placing Of . bonded debt on
this country Of $50 leoo.ooo Wherever the
counsry's credit ought to be pledged, he
would be wiling to. DO this. but there
was not in his opinion any necessity for
mcrtgagirg that credit at this time.
We propose" said Bailey. ito tax the
rich men row rather ttsgn TO mortgage the
poor men for coming generations" Zap
psanse)
Discussing the question OF the supreme
court decision In the income tax case, he
declared that no question was ever settled
until il was settled rightly. Bailey then
entered upon an extended argument upon
the constitutionality of an income tar.
combating the theory that II was direct
tax. inhibited by the constitution. Bailey
said the income tax provisions which the
minority had drawn. and which would
be offered by McMiiiin. had been drawn
to meet the portion o. the courts decis-
ion which was unanimous Bailey de-
clared tina, the income tax was the most
just tax ever conceived.
III I were rich and prosperous con-
Guided Bailey. Il would contribute of my
abundance to- my country in this time OF
stress, because I would not want 1t said
In the history Of those times that the
poor gave more OF their blood than the
rich were willing TO give OF their treas
ure." tAppleuse.)
Dolliver OF Iowa, a member OF the ways
and means committee was then recog-
mixed. He was listened to with close at
tent.on and was frequently interrupted
Oy applause. lie said In part.
There are two ways the government
can support large expense. either by
collecting II in cash or borrowing it on
credit. The committee on ways and means
has fully considered both methods. and
have made up our minds that the govern
ment ought to pay as II goes 40 far as 1t
can. leaving as little of the burden of our
Intervention In Cuba to the future As
possible.
ssIf thu u.ar ,,pny, ryhioh NO 80 .h-,,t
to enter was to secure new national pos
sessions or any other acquisition of ma
ter.ai assets the case might present a
view somewhat different. But here for
tho first tiEle In the history OF the world,
nation has of its own voition thrown
away any prospect OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT
and has based its acton upon disnterested
grounds, SO that what We are about TO do,
however much 1t may minister to the
present satisfaction and mora! comfort
or the community, concerns posterity
vastly less than IL does US.
IF there was a case in the history OF
the world where a situation amounting TO
declaration of war was the direct result
OF a purpose of the people themselves it
Is In this case. 1t cannot be said that the
president Of the United States has plunged
MS country into a war. If he had done
so heedlessly, putting in peril the welfare
OF a country like this. instead OF being en-
titled. as he Is, TO the respect and con-
fdence OF the word. It would be better
that milestone would be hanged about
his neck and he were drowned in the
depth of the sea. History will acquit the
president OF such an act of hostility to the
pubic welfare.
II do not predict the size and the cost
or the undertaking in which we are en-
parked. but my conviction Is that We viii
gain all that we lose and infinitely more
ft~n are ha,. 81, H.,
one is the outspoken sympathy of thisgreat
Engi!sh-speaking race OF which we are a
part; another IS a larger sense of the
unity OF the American peop.e--a unity that
has already killed the spirit of sectional
Ism. taken The person out of partisan
strife and brought in the better one of
American patriotism.
We have not coveted. Spain's Territory.
we have not obstructed her: we have not
withheld from her dynasty or from her
people the offices of courtesy and good
will
We have citizens there whose property
has been totally DESTROYED their business
broken up. and themselves cast without
tria. into tho military prisons Of Havana
or left 10 beg among the miserable ref,t-
gees about Matanzas. Yet we have con-
scented 10 negotiate for their relief and
have feehiy tried TO do with diplomatic
correspondence what other countries are
accustomed to do with shot and she'll"
Continuing. he paid an eloquent tribute
to the patience, courage and sorbearanee
Of President Mckinley under trying cir
cumstancess and said that the national for
bearance the anxiety 10 keep the peace.
born of neither weakness nor fear. pre-
sented a record OF national self-restrlint
that had not escaped the attention of the
world az large.
In conclusion. after referring to the de-
s;ruction of the Maine and the testimony
taken before the naval board of inquiry,
the Iowan said:
That testimony. Including the unan-
s"erahle witness OF the wreck Itself, is
now before the world. agsy IL The natianal
Indignation has no, long since avenged
he chastity crime. Z Is because all hearts
h4Re been stirred by the revelation of the
crime SIN more ghastiy--the atFocity which
deliberately planned the determination 81
an innocent community, and. within
SIGHT OF our own shores. has turned the