Year: 1871




to be embraced in one enormous build
ing; and an appropriation Of S5OO,0OC
is proposed TO inaugurate the scheme.


OF one thing | am certain, and tha
is that time like this, when the coun
try is weighed down by a mountain o
debt Of more than two thousand million
dollars, when the people are laborinG
under load OF taxes almost too great tc
be borne, this is no time to commence
building princely palace in the city o.
Of Washington which must ultimately
cost at least Sl0,000,000. Hence dis
sented from my colleagues on the con,
ference committee. This scheme could
not stand on its own legs, and has been
attached to an important appropriation
bill in order to carry it through.


Ny friend from California (Mr. Sar,
genD urges the House to agree to this
report lest the bill may fail. For my
part, rather than have this wrong done,
| prefer that the bill be laid upon the
table. 1t is a great wrong, and appeal
to the Representatives Of the people and
of the taxpayers Of the country, not to
allow themselves 10 be drawn into the
commission OF this wrong from the sim.
pie fact that this appropriation bill may
be defeated at this session. Let the bill
fail. The new Congress comes in to-
morrow, when time can be taken TO ex-
anime this subject with care and act
upon it with deliberation.


HOW SUCH THINGS ARE DONE.


forgot to tell you that section was
slipped into the army appropriation
bill, the effect OF which is to make the
people pay the interest as they will
have to pay the principal of the Pacific
railroad bonds. say that section was
slipped in bill to which it in no way
belonged. And in the same manner it
was intended to slip through without
debate, the appropriation to build the
new palace 1t was not intended that
you should ever hear OF it all. Here
is the law. The title reads


IAN act to make appropriations for
the legislative, executive and judicial
expenses OF the government. And un
der the caption


ITO CoDIFY TIE LAWS OF THE UNITED


STATES,


Is found this appropriation OF half a
million to commence building which
in the end will cost at least ten millions.
| 1--we were out Of debt, such building
would be imperial in its character; but
in debt as we are, with such taxation as
the people endure, il is crime


UNEQUAL AND OPPRESSIVE TAXATION.


In 1868, Massachusetts paid seven
teen, and Ohio twelve millions internal
revenue tax. While for the current
fiscal year, it is estimated that Mas.
sachusetts will pay less than four and a
half millions, and Ohio more than six.
teen. The tax on Ohio has been in.
creased four, and on Massachusetts,
reduced twelve and a half Millions
This was done by taking the tax of the
manufactures OF Massachusetts,, and
imposing them on those Of Ohio.
When the internal tax was taken of
the manufacturers OF Massachusetts,,
the price OF them ought to have fallen,
but was increased. The very men who
voted to take the tax oil Of manufac.
turers, increased the tariff tax on foreign
goods, thus destroyed competition, and
enabled Massachusetts 10 gain Cnor.
nous profits on all she made and
sold ; and these profits were ~ the cost
Of Ohio, and other agricultural States
In lS6S, the six States o. OHIO, Irdjsna
Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri aui Viz.
ginia, paid four IN Hons more taxes
than the six New EnslInl stats, but
this year they will pay fo.ty.sCv"n
millions more; and OHIO ai-.e wi. pdy
more than double the whole amou.t
taxes paid by all New England. lncsc
facts are taken from this table, in tie
official report OF the Commissioner o.
Internal Revenue


THE TARIFF TAN.


\ tariff il a tax which cOmpeis q
person to pay more for an article than
it is worth. And OF all taxes, the most
oppressive, insidiQus and odiOus is the
tariff for what is called protection. 1t
is oppressive because it maialy falls on
labor insidious. because it is paid in the
increased price of the article bought,
without being seen odious, because for
every dollar Of tariff tax which goes
into the Treasury, the people are com
PEELED to pay the home manufacturer a
bonus Of 50. Only one-fourth Of the
woolen goods used in tue United States
are imported. And OF every four pair
of pants worn. the stuff for only one
pair il manufactured abroad. and for
the other three pair, at home. On
wooden stuff for rautaloOns, there is a
tariff tax Of sixty cents on the dollar
II the imported stuff to make a pair
costs three dollars, the tax is 81 50, and
the value Of the goods, 81 90. The
home manufacturer then adds 90 cents
on the dollar TO the value OF his stuff
for pantaloons and a. be sells three
times as much as il imported, it follows
that the people pay him n bonus equal
10 three times the amount paid into the
Treasury on the same materials De.
ducting the tax OF twenty millions on
tea and coffee and We have left tariff
tax OF about one hundred and sixty
millions. And assuming that we con
sumo three times az much Of our own
manufactures az We import, it follows
that the same year wc pay one hundred
and sixty millions into the Treasury az a
tariff, We pay four hundred and eighty
millions to the home monopolists more
than his goods are worth.


PROTECTIVE TARrFF Is OPPOSED TO AGgT-
CULTURE AND COMMERCE.


Between the States OF the Union We
have absolute free trade. The farmer
seDds his products into Pennsylvania or
New York Iii. ONLY cn-t helm, that oI