The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-05
MACUIRE CRlTICIzES GAGE.

voting along lines opposite to those from
which American bullets were flying"
That is serious statement which Mr.
Gage should be able to substantiate by
producing or referring to the COMPRESSION
al Record. 1t is sufficiently serious to
justify if not to require him to quote the
lines opposite to those from which
American bullets were flying and TO re-
fer specifically to the votes which he says
We're cast along those lines.
Mr.. Gage has been deceived in this mat
ter. Evidently he does not examine the
Congressional Record himself.
He further says that l voted against
the revenue BILL That is true. The rev.
enue bill imposed substantially the entire
burden of the war upon the poor, and
comparatively poor people of our coun-
try. l opposed not the raising of revenue,
as he intimates, but the Republican meth
cd of raising revenue, which involved the
exemption of the accumulated wealth and
great incomes of the country from taxa
ton while imposing the burden of the war
upon the poor
HE voted against the bill that was to
prov4ue our sailors and our soldiers with
drugs, with clothing and with HI, general IN raj
next speech designate the bill 20 which
he refers and the record of my vote
against It.. 1 say to him that in this mat
that 1 voted for every bill providing for
food, clothing, medicine and all other
supplies for our sailors, and soldiers. |
Democrats, Republicans and Populists In
Congress, ample provision was made for
supplying our soldiers and sailors with
all these things in abundance, and that,
in so far as they have suffered for lack
of these things, 1t has been due to mall
administration or to inefficient admins
tration.
He charges me with responsibility in
some measure with the Cleveland bond
issue of two hundred and sixty-two mill
lion dollars. If he will examine the rec
ord he will discover that denounced that
bond issue and denounced the method
adopted for the sale of the bonds. And
opinion, the recent Republican bond is
sue was unnecessary, and could not have
become necessary before the next session
of the present Congress when, If the war
continued, it might or might not be nee
essary to issue the bonds.
Bonds have been sold to the amount of
$500 900 900 within the last sixty days; and
it will be found, when Congress assem-
bles in December next, that there will
be an available surplus in the Treasury
of nearly, If not quite, $500 900 900, with the
power vested in the President to raise
500 900 900 additional on temporary certiti-
Gates drawn against the revenue expected
during the present fiscal year from the
war tax
Mr.. Gage complains Of my statement to
the effect that the late Republican State
convention was dominated by railroad in
fluence, and asks upon what authority L
make that statement. | made the state
ment largely upon observations; upon the
reported notorious liberality of the rail-
road company with respect to the trans
portation of delegates and others to at
tend the convention; upon the statements
maze by leading Republican newspapers
of California (notably the San Francisco
CalD during the three weeks preceding
the meeting of the convention upon the
fact that every person known to be the
choice of the Southern Pacific Company
for nomination was duly nominated by
the convention and upon the fact that
the entire Republican State ticket, includ-
4,1er oil Il dot fnN. tot
candidates for the offices of Railroad
Commissioner, members of the Board of
Equalization and Representative in Con-
gress was selected and publicly announced
before the convention had considered the
nomination Of any candidate for any Of
fee.
If Mr.. Gage will look to the columns OF
the San Francisco Call of August "a, 1895
published early on that morning and long
before the convention had considered any
candidate for office, he will find the en-
tire ticket, as afterward nominated duly
published. Where did The Call get the
ticket? JAMES G. mcguire.