The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1898-05-04
WILL FIGHT BONDS.
SENATOR BACON TALKS OF PLAN
TO RAISE WAR REVENUE.
Will Oppose Interest Bearing Bonds.
Judge GriggS to Eight Tax on
Warehouse Receipts.


Senator A. @. Bacon passed through
/ Atlanta on Thursday on his way home
! for a short visit, and representative of
! the Constitution reports chat had Nit b
! him at the depot which makes very in
! terestng reading.
ASIusual, Senator Bacon is right and
on the side OF the people on the question
! of providing revenue for the war. The
war revenue bill, Senator Bacon said
is now in the house, and will probably
! be taken up in she senate next week.
! As to when it will be disposed of the
| senator sail it was impossible TO tell, as
! there are several Important questions in
vOlved in the bill which will likely pro-
! woke debate. Prominent among these
will be the pro OStion to issue bonds
and to levy certain taxes. The majority
Of the republicans, if not all Of them,
will favor the issue Of bonds, and the
| democrats, with few executions in each
house, will oppose a bond issue.
Being asked by representative of the
Constitution in regard to his plan, Sena-
tor Bacon said Re could not 60 into de-
tails, but he agreed in the main with
The position taken by the democrats in
the house. He said that he would OBJ
pose the issue of bonds SO long AS tn.
government could Issue greenbacks with
out material depreciation, and he had no
idea that limit would be reached. A
| bond is promise OF the gOvernmen. t.
pay, he remarked, ard greeu0ack is
promise given by the government to pay.
The difference is that one bears interes
and the other does not. The senator
added that, of course, he me ut re-
deemable greenback. He would also fa.
vor the coinage Of the silver seiguOrage
and the issue of silver certificates against
the silver dollars just as we have now.
There is now lying in the treasury be-
longing to tie government forty odd
million dollars in silver, perfectly idle
and doing nobody any good This does
not include the silver against which the
treasury notes nave been issued. b til
of these propositions. he Understands,
are being advocated in the house, and
they will be supported In the senate
In other words" he continued, Gas
we unhappily have war we are going to
try as far as possible to protect the peo-
pie from burdensOme taxes. There is
one thing in particular that the Georgia
delegation in the house already have
their eyes on, and that is a tax which 1t
is proposed to levy on warehouse re-
ceipts. That will be opposed bitterly.
Judge Griggs has prepared an amend
mert striking it out, and if that fails we
will fight it hard in the senate
POSITION OF THE GEORGIA DELEG ALTON
ON THE WAR QUESTION.
AS 10 the passage of The Cuban reSOIu-
lions, he said that when it was evident
that war could not be averted it was a
duty to presen5 a solid front TO tie enc
my. That was the view taken of it by
The Georgia delegation after consultation
and careful cons deratiou. The delega-
ton was for peace and would have glad
~ have averled war. But when the
president recalled all the consuls from
Cuba and practically called on all Amer
leans to leave the island, aud when he
sent in his message to congress saying
All efforts to maintain peace had failed,
aud asked congress to authorize him to
use the army and navy to fOTcibly inter
Vene in Cuba. war was made inevitable.
and the peace men were pOwerless to
avert it. The only thing then left was
90 get into line aud endeavor to shape
things to tho best advantage possible.
"lt," he added, "the president had held
gu. the slightest hope ,orlf h had asked
for more time, some, and believe all, of
the Georgia delegation would have ac-
lively supported his position. Under
these circumstances it would have been
| unfortunate for the south to have held
back and made division"
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| says: Il have suffered tor years with
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