The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 11, 1894, Page 4

bt: BJTLER WEEKLY TIMES J. D. ALLEN Eprror. J- D. Atten & Co., Ptoprietors. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: The Weexty Times, published eyery Thursday, will be sent to any address one year, postage paid, for $1.00. Eastern mortgages never consult clocks or the weather and rarely ever the assessor but they get there just the same. Every democratic congressman should be in his seat and no unneces gary time should be lost in passing fhe Wilson tariff bill. We will go Congressman DeAr- mend's security that he is on hand and votes without a scratch when the tariff bill comes toa vote. George Gould aims to keep on the popular side of all questions. He is the only millionaire in New York who favors av income tax. ——————— Monday was the seventy-eighth anniversary of the defeat of Welling fon’s Peninsula veterans by General Jackson at New Orleans Ex Senator Palmer of Michigan, is authority for the statement that ex-president Harrison will not again be a candidate for president in 1895 Senator Palmer is a close friend of Mr. Harrison and says he is war fanted in making the statement. —_— The rich man is perfectly willing that the poor man should pay royal- ty to the protected baron, but when it comes to touching the rich man’s pocket book by an income taxa mighty wail goes up and congress men are told to “hands oft.” It is now reported that cranks are after Gov. Lewelling and his life is threatened. The governor ougkt not complain since he has encouraged just such lawlessness by his tramp letter to the public authorities of the state. If the Kansas City Mail and as seesors books are correct, there is aot a half dozen ladies in Jackson county that own diamonds or a man in all Kansas City that has a dollar in cash on hand at the time the assessor passed around. The proposed assessment on in o@ mes for raising revenue. for the goyernment would bea rich man’s tax. The tariff is a poor man’s tax. Is it not quite as just and proper that the rich should be taxed for the benefit of the poor as that the poor should be taxed for the bene- 4&it of the rich?—K. C Stac. _———— Andrew Carnegie, after making a protest against the Wilson bill as being unAmerican, has gone back to his castle in Scottland. Mr. Carne gie’s intense Americanism brings him to this country occasionally to warn us against the foreigners — Republic. ‘The national republican commit tee will meet in Washington City te-day. Chairman Carter says the committee is called together to cor- sider the congressional campaign to Tye made next fall, which in a remote -contingency might have to elect a president. The chairman of the re- ‘publican committee need have no -fears of the election of the next wpresieent being thrown into the thouse, the democrats propose to Bweep the country again and with a majority that will need no help from congress. Attorney general Walker opened his batteries Saturday against the Pettis county Investment Company of Sedalia, the Guarantee Invest. ment Co. of Nevada, and the St. Louis Mutual Bond Investment Co., of St. Louis. The Attorney Genera! alleges there is no authority of law |THE TARIFF DEBATE BEGUN. | Democrats of the House Break the Deadlock at Last. Ten More Than the Necessary Majority Secured—Debate to End January 25—Mr. Wilson Opens With an Arraignment of Republican Methods. \ Washington, Jan., 8—The dead- {lock in the house was broken to-day | without a resort tothe use of the | Reed rules of the Fifty first house. The order for the arrest of absentees did it. When the roll call was order- ed on the question of adopting the rule reported from the committee on tules, limiting debate to January 25, on which date there should be a final vote, the Republicans and Pop ulists and a few Democrats adopted their old tactics, but 189 Democrats —more than a quorum—voted, and thus the obstructiouists were defeat ed. Before the house met Speaker Crisp was again urged to count a quorum but be replied, as he had done many times during the last four days. that it was not necessary. He was one of the men of the Fifty fi-st congress who made a fight on Reed for counting a querum and then quoted Reed against Reed and appealed from “Philip drunk to Philip sober.” Mr. Crisp would not care to have the quotation revived and turned on himself. He held 1 | | | | | | | | i | | | | “that with the large majority which the party had, with a rule effectual ly shutting out the filibusterers, there was no necessity for proceed ing to any such extremity. Mr Tursney, member of the ways and means committee, was not so scrup ulous and spoke strongly in favor of the adoption of a rule enabling the Speaker to count members to make aquorum. ‘We must meet revolu tion with revolution,” said he. “If the Democratic members are driven to this resort, it is believed the Re publicans for self-vindication would be compelled to support it. As soon as the usual preliminaries had been disposed of the demand for the previous question on the tariff rule was made and carried, 189 to 0, ten more than a quorum. Thir ty minutes’ debate was allowed un der the rules. Roll call was thea ordered on the adoption of the report of the com- mittee on rules fixing January 26 for the vote on the Wilson bill. This was adopted by a vote of 175 to 1. MR WILSON OPENS THE DEBATE Then amid deepest silence, Mr Wilson, chairman of the ways and Means committee, arose to open the debate on the tariff bill which bears his name. He said that no great question had been so thoroughly brought before the American people as the question of tariff reform. For seven successive congresses it had been the chief matter of controversy in both houses. For as longa pe riod it had been the chief matter of controversy in the press of the coun try, in every congressional district, in the school house and at the coun try store. Thus thoroughly discuss ed both as to general principles and as to practical workings, the people had finally reached a definite judgement and given to this admin istration definite instructions. With the house, as the immediate repre sentative of the people, the only part of the federal government rest- ing directly upon popular suffrage, was the constitutional authority to originate bills imposing taxes. The bill about to be considered present ed a scheme of tariff reform prepar ed by the appropriate committee of this house, which it was now for the house to consider and to deal with in its own deliberate judgment. Every bill, Mr. Wilson said, cov- ering so wide a field of legislation for the incorporation of such com panies. It is claimed that these concerns obtained their certificates of corporate existence from the sec- retary of State by depositing articles of association under the law which provides for the incorporation of manufacturing and business compa- nies, that such organizations are not and dealing with so many objects taust necessarily represent in its de- tails some compromise of opinion among those intrusted with its preparation. Any bil! passed by congress under the present condi- tions at least must mecessarily repre- sent such compromise. He did not believe the country would underrate for the purposes stated, but to issue |the difficulties confronting those bonds to be paid for by purchasers|who now attempted to revise the in monthly installments and to be re- | tariff system. deemed in such order and at such times as may be prescribed by the companies. Both the State of Mis- souri and uncle Sam able to knock them out. A SLAP AT WEAK FRIENDS. Among these difficulties were the ought to be | dropping away of friends whose zeal for reform was in proportion to the ieee localities and their own indus- | tries aud other friends who differed jin judgment as to the method now | to be pursued. So also the great commercial distress which had in jr cent months come upon the coun- jtry paralyzing so mauy industries ‘and throwing so many thousands out of employment, made the task of reform the more difficult, while it made the ueccessity for the reform more imperious thau ever. At what time, the speaker asked, could taxes be lessened with greater justice and greator humani- ty than at a time when thousands were struggling for the beare neces- saries of life; and when could con- gress with greater timeliness and benefit strike some of the fetters from production and trade than when production was suppressed by its burdens and trade hampered by its restrictions. A third difficulty in the way of re- form vow was the emptiness of the treasury Congress was called upon to reduce taxes at a time when the government debts were running so low that revenues had ceased to meet daily expenditures. He believed he coull not better consume the time of the house in opening this debate than by giving the story of depleted treasury and placeing the responsi- bility for its present straits where the responsibility justly belonged. During the four years of the last ad- ministration the country had plung- ed headlong from an_ overflowing treasury to a bankrupt treasury and that too without any lessening of the bardens of taxation upon the the people, but rather by a most subst tial and oppressive increase of the taxes. Pi@T AND PRESENT FINANCES. The last report of Secretary Fair- child estimated the surplus revenue for the year 1889 at 104 million dol- lars. The first report of Secretary Wind m acknowledged a surplus revenue for that year of 105 millions. When the Cleveland administration went out of office March 4, 1889, it turned over to its successor an avail- able cash balance amounting in the form of treasury statement used in the pasttwo years to 185 million dollars. During the Harrison ad ministration the form of treasury statements was twice charged—tiret by Mr. Windom, who succeed to this cash balance, to conceal the surplus, and latter by Mr. Foster, tu conceal the bankruptcy of the treas- ury. ‘The Fifty tirst congress, Mr. Wil- son went on, dealt with the treasury surplus after the true and tradition- al method of protection, which was to lessen or abolish those taxes which passed directly and undiminishedly trom the pockets of the taxpayer to the public treasury and to increase those taxes which were intercepted in their passage from the pockets of the taxpayer toe the public treasury by the private toll gatherer. The McKinley bill reduced the internal revenue taxes on manufactured to bacco, abolished special taxes on dealers and mauufacturere of tobacco and wiped out the duties on raw sugar which for years past had been the chief revenue produeing article on the customs list. Both of these taxes were in a just and prop- er sense revenue taxes and neither of them should have been touched so long as the rates of duty upon cloth ing and other necessary articles of consumption were so enormously op- pressive. Tobacco taxes were re- duced under the theory that tobacco had become a necessity for the poor as wellas the rieb, but new and heavier tuxes were laid on the woel- en clothing of the poor man, so in dispensable to his health and his productive energy. Sugar was un taxed to give the American working man a free breakfast table, but new taxes were placed on his cups and saucers, his plates and dishes, his coffee pot, his knives and forks, his food his table cover. In a word, he was relieved from the taxes he paid his government in order he might be made to pay much greater taxes to the beneficiaries of that bill. These released,the taxes would have yielded in the interval since their omission, more than 150 million dol lars and would have saved the na- tion from any danger of a treasury deficit. MAD EXTRAVAGANCE RUN RIOT. The magnificent surplus turned over by the Cleveland administration Mr. Wilson went on, was scattered. A large portion of it was used- to purchase, at high premiums, bonds not yet due. In the first seven months of the Harrison administra- tion 70 milions of bonds were thus purchased at premiums ranging from five to eight per cent en the bonds of 1891 and from twenty-seven to twenty-nine per cent on the ae of the fiscal year begiuming July 1,! 1890, over 98 millions were disburs-| ed in the payment of bonds aud ix the paymeut of interest noi yet due But even this did uot dissipate the square of the distance from their| due in 1907. In the first five months! MRS. COCKRELL’S LIFE ENDs. | The Wife of the Missouri Senator Pren- | | moni’s Victim. | Washington, Jan. 6.—Mrs. F. M. | P-rhaps never in the history of modern journaliss: has any newepa- per pained so rapidly ia favor as the Chiteage Inter Oc Within the past two years it s by adopting surplus and the Fifty first covgress Cockrell, wife of Sevator Cockrell of | Proxtessive metho ts and injecting was obliged to try its haud upon it | It refunded the direct tax to the! states—a mere log rolling scheme to | get at the treasury’s surpius, whieh | Mr. Cieveland had vetoed wheu| brought up by congress. This was | a pure gratuity, but it had taken out! of the treasury over 14 million dol- | lars. Next came the sugar bouuty | act, under which sums amounting to | 17 million dollars have beeu paid to! sugar growers. Last of all, as the! chief means distributing the surplus, | was the dependent pension bill, uu der which the anuual peusion ex | penditure has risen to over 60 mil | lion dellars Whatever mgtt or justice there might have been in this bill, it was very certain that it »ever would have become a law but that those other peusionera, the protect ed industries, might haye the first pull and the largest profit out of tne taxes gathered to pay the pensiov- ers Neither must it be forgotten in this story of a depleted treasury that the Sherman law turued over to the last administration as available cash a trust fund of 54 million dol- lars, desposited by uational banks to redeem their notes, nor that Secre tary Foster chaaged the forms of treasury statements by adding to it 20 millions of subsidiary and minor coins as part of its available cash. THE GREED OF THE FAVORED. If, then, Mr. Wilson concluded, to the more than 200 million dollars thus made away with by the last ad ministration should be added the 150 million dollars’ loss of revenue by the omission of taxes on tobacco and sugar alone, the country would have a clear idea of the rapid and headlong steps by which it had been brought to its present empty treas ury. He did uot believe those who voted to put the last administration in power expe ted any revision from it in the direction of increasing rates. ‘The campaign of 1888 was fought on the question of reforming and re ducing the existing tariff ani not on the question of revising and raising the tariff of 1883. No single int-r «st in the country, either in congress or elsewhere had the bardihood to assert that it meaut to demand any increase of the protection accorded it by the bill of 1883, and it was iu the wantonness of self greed, rapac- ity and selfishuess and the knowl edge that their demands, no matter how exorbitant would be graciously accorded that brought them to Washington in 1890 to write up in their own interests, the successive schedules of the Mckiuley bill Un der the operation of that bill, taxes in every one of the important sched- ules had been mercilessly and need Jessly increased. In manufactures of wool they had been raised from an average of 50 to 100 per cent. Io manufactures of glass they had been raised from an average of 54 to an average of 65. In iron and steel, al though the year of 1888 had been one of immense production, the tar- iff was raised from an average of 36 to an average of 63 per cent. In eot- ton goods, although the tariff of 1883 had been made by the manu- facturers themselves, duties were increased from an average of 14 to 57 per cent. Such was the bill con- gress was called on to revise, in the interest of the people who consum- ed, of the people who labored and of tke people who compromised the country in general and the prosperi- ty of the country itselr. DE. 1k. CARMER, Stricken Down with Heart Disease. Dr. Miles Medical Co., Eikhart, Ind. GENTLEMEN: I feel it duty, as well as & | plssszrecto puniah nsoliced, to the world the | preme court of Missouri | Louis in July, 1873, being his third OR MONEY RETURNED. Missouri, died at 1:30 o'clock this | afternoon at the family resid-uce in | this city. Her death was hourly ex } pected as the attack of pneumonia} from which she died developed an | acute form nearly two days ago. Mrs. Cockrell was Miss Auna Ew ing, eldest daughter of the late. Judge Ephraim B. Ewing, of the su Sbe was married to Senator Cockrell ar St.) The first Mrs. Cockrell dei wife. iin December, 1850, aud left thre- sons. The second, who was Auus E. Mann, daughter of Jas. B. Main, of Kentucky, died of consamptiou in August, 1871. By his third Senator Cockre!l was the father of seven children Their daughter, Miss Mary, made her Washington debut Wednesday of last week and the event, one of unusual social mayui tude, resulted in the mother’s death, she having taken asevere cold The guests included jurists and men, soldiers aud diplomatists Washington, D.C, Jan. 7.—The funeral of Mrs. Cockrell, wife of S-u ator Cockrell of Missouri, took place this evening. Orly the relatives aud ! a few intimate friends were present | The services, which were brief and simple, were conducted by R v | George B. Patch. The honorary pal: | bearers were Vice President Steven- son, Senators Vest, Gorman, Allison, | Hale and Walthall. The remains, were forwarded to Warrensburg, | Mo, for burial and were accompani: d | by Senator Cockrell and his children | The funeral took place at War rensburg, Tuesday. Wile states Political actions speak louder tuun | words. On two conspicuous occas | ions within the last few days the, Populist members of Congress bave given the lie direct to all their good | promises by acting in conjunction with the Republicans to prevent a} quorum for tariff reform Complete | failure to stand by their much moot | ed “principles,” was all that c.uld | have been expected from the Popu list leaders, perhaps, in view of their | well known quackery, but it destroys : the last hope that was entertained of their accomplishing anything Tariff reform and an income tax have | been considered squarely iu line with Populist ideas, but the repudi- | ation of one by Peffer, and of the} other by Simpson and his crowd, is | enough to remove the last claim of | Populism to the consideration of in- telligent mortals—Kansas City | Times. ithe true faith in a manner push and euterprise in all its depart- ments forced itself i. the very frout 1O newspapers. That this popularity is deserved is beyond question. The publisher during this time, H. H. Kobisaat bas spared neither expenes nor effort to attain his idexl.and be bas sucesed- rank of great Ch led. Uncompromisin:ly republicaa op all national issues the Inter Ocean | does battle for what it believes to be that at opee commands the attention of the public and respect of all, it can be recommended to those who desire a clean enterprising metropolitan fam- ily nowspaper 8 Im. fis Disbarment Possible. Joplin, Mo, Jan 5—On charges filei by the proecuting attorney, Judyze Robinson has suspended T. ‘RB. Yanghawout from practice in the courts. The case will come up for hearin: January 22. 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