Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-06-09

there seemed nothing left for the
helpless majority" to do but to
enter its feeble protest against the
arrogant minority. Turning to the
victory of Admiral Dewey Mr.. Lodge
said we were compelled to go back
as far as Trafalgar to find a victory
more complete and more sweeping
in its results than that of Dewey.
Now that Dewey has Manila under
his guns and entirely at his mercy,
it is all important" said Mr.. Lodge,
that we should support him. The
American people would never forgive
the administration if it should fail to
give him that support which is only
his just due. They would feel as did
{ the people of England when Gordon
was left to his fate at Khartoum
The senate then went into executive
session to continue the discussion.
The entire time was given to a dis
! cussfon Of the Hawaiian question,
| based on a motion declaring it to be
the sense Of the senate that the
| question Of annexation should not be
| conclusion of the debate the senate
voted viva Voce not to pursue the
subject further except behind closed
doors. Afterward in open session the
| senate resumed consideration of the
pending bill. Mr.. Wilkins of West
Virginia objected to the tax upon
| corporations, on bank deposits and
to the stamp tax. He maintained
| especially that the tax on bank de-
posts was wrong in principle as it
was tax on debts. Concerning the
corporation tax, he held that the tax
on gross receipts was manifestly I'M
just as it bore upon property which
the corporations did not possess. The
net earnings were a proper subject
of taxation. He was strongly in favor
of a just and equitable system of
taxation. The present war, only a
month old, sent the country further
on in the progress of the world than
in hundred years before It had
! wrought changes in the public mind,
brought On new conditions and prob
lens and we must look more and
more to extending our markets for
our own products, and to that end
must acquire more territory than may
come through fortunes of war. He
said: I'VE must have merchant ma
| rine ships on the seas, control the
shipping and commerce on the great
oceans that wash our shores and a
navy greater and more powerful than
any now afoat. This is manifest
destiny" The Nicaragaun canal and
| the Hawaiian islands, said he. rise
more plainly than ever, and whatever
opposition there may have been to
building one and acquiring the others
heretofore must disappear in the
face Of the flag going up over Moro
castle, what has transpired in the
Philippines, and the great trip of the
Oregon.
In the house concurrent resolu-
oting the commission now
| cOdlfying laws to prepare and sub
nit q. code of civil law and procedure
for Alaska was approved.
Washington, June marked prog
ress was made by the sena1e tuwal DIS
the final disposition of the war reve-
nue. measure. The committee amend
ments on nearly sixty pages Of the
bill were passed upon and the senate
| nearly reached the point Of the ques-
lions at issue between the contending
parties. The interest Of TIE session
centered in the action taken upon the
amendment of Mr.. German (dem.,
Md levytng a tax Of a quarter Of one
per cent. upon the gross receipts of
ali corporations doing business ex-
ceeding a quarter of million dollars
year. By a direct vote the amend
ment was rejected, ~ to "a. Mr.. Pet
tigrew IS. d. offered the German
amendment with the clause containing
the quarter Of million dollars exemp-
ton stricken out, but it was defeated
by vote Of % to 81. Mr.. White
(dem., Cal.) then proposed the German
amendment so modified that it levies
tax of one quarter Of one per cent.
upon all corporations engaged In re-
ining sugar or petroleum. He ex
planned that his desire was to see
tax levied on the American Sugar
trust and the Standard Oil company.
The amendment prevailed by a vote
OF 80 to 26. It was supported by %
democrats, four republicans, five pop
ulists, two silver republicans; and op-
posed by "a republicans and two
democrats
Washington, June 1.-The session
Of the house was given to considera-
ton and the unanimous passage of
the bill called up by Mr.. Jenkins (rep.,
Wis., to remove all political disabili-
ties incurred by the third section of
the fourteenth amendment to the con-
stitution. The debate gave rise to
notable speeches from Messrs. Gros-
venor rep, o. and Settle (dem.,
KY upon the obliteration of all sec
tional feeling and the reality at last
Of a reunited country.
The statement made by Mr.. Lacey
rep, Ia that Major General Wheeler
(Ala.) was absent from the house on
leave brought Mr.. Bailey (dem., Tex
to his feet. ST RISE" he said, ''to cor
rect the false statement of the gentle
man from Iowa. The gentleman from
Alabama is not absent on leave Of the
house and will not be with my con-
sent so long as am a member"
"Mr. Speaker" cried Mr.. McMillin
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