The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 16, 1896, Page 2

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He arraigned the supreme court for the income tax decision; he laid the responsibility for the lack of revenue at their door, when they exempted the “sordid wealth of the land” from taxation; he con- trasted the records of the present and past administrations; he threw some light upon heretofore unknown chapters in the history of the Mc- Kinley law; he denounced the finan cial dependence of this country and of others upon the monied influence; he attacked the president and the secretary of the treasury for their proposition to retire the greenbacks | and place the circulation in the hands of the national banks; quoted Secretary Carlisle against himself, and, in conclusion, declared the con- flict between bi-metallism and the gold standard was irrepressible, and that the sooner it was decided the better it would be for public and private life. At 2 o'clock the senate laid aside the routine with which it had pre- viously busied itself and resumed considerations of Mr. Sherman's resolution concerning the gold re- serve. Mr. Vest of, Missouri took the floor. His speech proved to be an arrignment of the supreme court for its decision in the income tax cases. The senator spoke with his usual emphasis of language and gesture, but with more apparent deliberate- ness than usual, and was listened to with close attention by senators and the large audience in the galleries. He was applauded once, but the demonstration of approval was cut short by the chair and was not re. peated. He began by saying that the democratic party did not seek to evade the responsibility for the leg- islation of the last congress, not- withstanding it had only an ostensi- ble majority in the senate. He then pressed rapidly to his subject by declaring that the Wilsen law would have afforded ample revenue for the support of the government but for the supreme court's decision declar- ing the income tax unconstitutional. ATTACKS THE SUPREME COUBT. “That the court should have ren- dered such a decision,” he said, “was a matter of surprise to every intelli- gent lawyer in the country, and es- pecially to those of us in congress who are engaged in formulating the legislation. “In my judgment,” he continued, “no judgment has ever in the histo- ry of the country been rendered which has done 80 much to destroy the influence of that high tribunal and excite distrust on the part ot the people of this country. The! country had, he said, been used to rely upon the opinions of this court posed to be above the caprice and prejudices and sudden changes which might characterize the deci- sious of lower courts, not so far re- moved from outside influences. That this court should have reyersed its own decisions for 100 years ina question vitally affeeting the inter- ests of the entire population and placing the government in the atti- tude of violating the constitution during the entire history of the Union must, he declared bea matter of sincere regret. From the Hilton decision in 1796 to the Springer de- cision in 1886 the decisions had been uniform in upholding the power of congress to tax incomes on real and personal property with- out apportionment among the states. He quoted from various decisions in support of his assertion and pro- ceeded to chow that Mr. Seward one of the counsel against the govern- ment in the recent cases had conced- ed that the Springer decision was to this effect. In view of this fact it was not a matter of surprise that Justice Harlan had declared that the age of miracles had not passed. Mr. Vest declared that he would not trust himself in the senate to say what he would be tempted to say of this opinion, but would leave to the members of the court to stig matize it as it deserved. With this introduction he had extracts read from the dissenting opinions of Jus- tices Harlan and Brown, saying that if he had made the declaration con- tained in these opinions he would be charged with partisan malice and misrepresentation, but coming as they do from this high source, they certainly constituted a most power- ful arraignment of this court of lest resort. THAT UNKIND JUSTICE EXCORIATED. Mr. Vest was most severe in his direct characterization of the con- duct of the justice who changed his opinion after the first decision be-| fore the second was rendered. He would not, he said, attempt to enter into that justice’s motives, but that justice, and he (Vest) did not know who he was, and had been mainly responsible in fastening the sordid despotism of wealth upon the coun- try by his change of front. Certain- ly he hae the right to change his mind, but it was a matter of regret that he had not seen proper to put his reasons on record for this far reaching and terrible decision. The justice's name was,he continued, un- known, except to himself and his associates. The senate had been ridiculed and vituperated because of the secre- cy of its executive proceedings, but what, Mr. Vest asked. with a display of warmth, would be thought of a senator who would change his posi- tion on a question of vital general interest and when this position was essential to the success or failure of acause and who should not hare the manhood to stand before the country and reveal himself and his reasons for such a transformation He could not, in an event, im- agine the storm of opprobrium, the hurtling wrath of the press, and charges of corruption which would follow. Mr. Vest said he regretted that the court had not only permitted, but encouraged, the indulgence by such ticipated in framing the income tax legislation for granting exempticns jmember of the house from New counsels of scurrilous references to. vote for it unless hides went on the the motives of those who had par-. | to explain the reasons for those ex- lemptions. Resuming the thread of | his discourse, Mr. Vest said he did | not believe that the terrible effect of } this decision had yet been appre- |hended by the people of the ¢ | intry. IT MARES AN EPOCH IN HISTC “It marks a new era,” he said, land I greatly mistake if the ne does not come when neither soft ‘words nor honeyed phrases will | prove a sufficient apology | It was beyond credibility. he cox tinued, that a Vanderbilt, with | | hundreds of millions, should have to! pay no more than the poorest of| men, and that the army and navy) | must be used to support him in his) rights, as must be the cause if the decision was to stand. He predicts | ed that the time would come when; the truth of Justice Brown's opin-| ion would everywhere be recognized that the decision of the supreme! ccurt had fixed for all time the free- dom from federal taxation of the! “gordid wealth of the land.” He re- viewed the record of the last three administrations. Though he differ- ed with the head of the party in many things, he declared that no} administration in the history of the country had been more successful than the Cleveland administration | from 1885-89. “What democratic law forced during those four years?” asked Mr. Hoar. “The democratic party,” replied Mr. Vest, ‘‘was at the head of affairs. If suceess were to be measured by! was en- other side to the fact that during Cleveland's first administration but about 9,000,000 of golel bad been exported, against $213,000,000 for Mr. Harrison’s administration. So far $181,000,000 had been exported under the present administration. He weut extensively into the figures of revenues, expenditures, ete., to show that the present condition of | the treasury was largely a heritage]: from the preceeding administration. THE HARRISON ADMINISTRATION Ake RAIGNED. He charged the Harrison admin- istration with defaulting in the pay- ment of the obligations of the gov- ernment and the misappropriation of trust funds amounting to $56,- 000,000. When the republicans re- turned to power, in all branches of the government in 1890, he deelared ironcally, that they thought they owned the country. They rested their fate on three measures, the force bill, which failed; the McKinley law aud the Sherman law. They went te the people and came back a | funeral procession stamped beneath the feet of popular disapproval. The McKinley law was afterward de- nounced by many republicans, the Sherman law, bastard that it was, was repudiated by one of its authors. Whatever the democratic party had done, it had not placed on the stat-) ute boeks a law that it was compell- edto go before the country and repudiate. He admitted that his| side was divided on the subject of silver. The country was divided. There was, be said, an irrepressible conflict in the land, as irrepressible | as that which resulted in the clash of armies of the north and south. “I trust,” Mr. Vest said. “that the issue will not be submitted to the arbitrament of violence, but the con- flict was inevitable between those who believe in the use of silver as a money of ultimate redemption along with gold, and those who believed in the single gold standard. To evade it was impossible. The quicker if was decided the better it would be for the public and private life of the land.” In the course of a review with some jof the history of the passage of the) | McKinley law, Mr. Vest described, much to the amusement of the gal-| jleries, the manner in which, on the| jnight the bill was reported to the | | house, hides were suddenly removed | {from the dutiable list to the free list. VEST PROVOKES LAUGHTER | Mr. Aldrich questioned the truth of the statement, but Mr. Vest in sisted, and said that a distinguished England, now a member of the gen- ate, had declared that he would not free list. “Place a duty on hides,” said Vest sarcastically, “and New England because its judgments were sup-|to certain interests, and proceeded | would be aroused as she has not the amount of gold exported he de-/p sired to call the attention of the/ skate leacon Bros, & Co, i Shelf Hard Groceries and Farm Produce DROPPING ON A NEW THING, SURPRISING How much better w year! More diffe than others. 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Wool, he contended, furnish- ed the element of vitality to the pro- tective system. Yet, he maintained despite Mr. Aldrich’s denial, that under the free wool clause of the Wilson law the price of wool had increased and the woolen mills had been prosperous. He confessed that it was true that sheep had been slaughtered since the passage of the Wilson bill, but this was the result of the advice of Mr. Lawrence and jothers of the shepherd kings of Ohio, who had sought to show the incompetency of democratic legisla- tion. but those who had followed this ad- vice were already sorry for what they had done. The sheep had gone to that land from which sheep, no more than man, haeten, and they would not be brought back. Mr. Vest also contended that there had been an improvement in building by wool manufacturers. Furthermore woolen clothing had been cheapened. In fact, there |never had been a more complete vin- dication of the position of the demo- eratic party than had been shown in this wool schedule and he was glad the Wilson bill had been enacted on this account if no other. Mr. Vest described the alleged alliance between wool and the manufacturers of woolens. He described how the ways and meaus committee liam Lawrence and the Ohio shep- herd, and as they claimed 1,000,000 votes in their pockets. prop sed to come here and force the hand of the republican congress. COME BACE TO FINANCE. Recurring to the financial ques. kel| manacled and gibbeted as * now. ; gold standard and the domination bulk and bottled PickIBs | This was done in his state, | the producers Pp s of A had | closed the door in the face of Wil. c. H \tion, Mr. Vest admitted that the financial influence of the world was against silver. we would go on to a silver _ basis. When the president had sent bis Venezualan message to congress it had been received with acclemation by the people, and he had heard the hostile guns booming in this cham- ber. How lad England responded? Not with shot and shell sabre stroke and battlesbips, but by throw- ing our 8 ities on The power of money was to be used | to crush us) On Monday when the} secretary of the treasury had issued his cireular (lis ouly complaint was | that it was not issued sooner) noti fying the country that the bonds! should go to the highest bidder, | Wall street was dissatisfied. Two! syndicates had cornered the gold— jone paper said $400,000,000. They | | were opposed to selling bonds to ‘the public. It was humiliating that |the most intelligent people on the | globe whose heritage was a conti- jnent, should, when they undertook |to protect their financial system, be | met by an autucratic ukase. “We've got the gold and you must | {get itfrom us at our price,’ Mr.| | Vest, with glowing eloquence said. | He would rather have war. There /| were calamities greater than war. | |Better anything than to have us we are and Mr. Vest next challenged the |statement that the people had any jgoldin their stockings. ‘Where jare the old women with their stock- lings full of gold?” he asked. “I one outside of} would like to see Wall street. I could make more |than my salary exhibiting her as a ‘euriosity.” (Laughter.) ; If there were $500,000,000 in gold lin the country he thought it was |largely in the hands of the banks. \In his estimation fully $1,000,000,- | 000 of our currency was not in cir- |culation. The actual per capita ‘circulation he placed at $8, as against |S42in France, which he declared | was the proudest and most prosper- ous financial country on the globe In conclusion he made a strong plea for free coinage of silver and finan- cial independence. “The conflict,” he conciuded, “is irrepressible if we are to have the of the national banks go to the peo- | ple and have them rivet the chains. |But I believe the people will re | spond.” ; Atthe conclusion of Mr. Vest's remarks the senate, at 4:25 p. m., weut into executive session, and then adjourned for the day. ! DOCKET. Probate Court Settlemant Docket Feb- ruary Term, 1896. FIRBT DAY, FRBY 10TH. Lester L Chastine et al, E W €hastine Guard Lonna W Reeder et al, J W White G & C Edna A Doane, minor, W A Holloway G &C Isaac © Nafus et al A L Nafus G&C ; Anna Wilson William Tygard G & C 2ND DaY. Robert Hunter T J Hendrickson, Guardian ; Arthur B Millsetal F J Tygard, guardian Ray W McCullock etal, FJ Tygard G& C Thomas Grover Donivan, F J Tygard Curator Heirs of Jos A Brashears dec’d, FJ Tygard and J C Clark Curator 3D DAY W T Welleret al, J D Weller G & ¢ Emmet Anderson, W D Anderson G & C Geo W Fox, L B Allison Admr final Samuel Dinsmore, Moses Wineland Admr Josie Price, George Price G & C CN Butts, Raney &}Washburn Admrs 4TH DAY. Wm Grobe et al, Mary A Grobe G Newton E Wright et al, Eunice J Wright G & ( Jno WLW Laura anc Wm M Wi G&C rt, J C Lane G & € vh Smedding G &C STM DAY, James L Batie et al, WS Mudd G & ¢ Franklin} Odell et al, Samuel Stapleton G & C {RB en Colbert, WM Fw e Guardian ey et al, GW Kie G&¢ McCormack et al Kash Curator iB | Wm H Betts, Wm Bett } OTH AY » Martin Rapp G &C nnis Admr s Guardian s. ES Jones Curator , John Standish Admr Tru Dar. | Maggie E Six, Louise M Six Guardian | Fred K Mediey, J RB Jenkins Guardian JIM Nye,S L Bates Admr Blanch E Rnodes et al, Geo A Rhodes guard Samuel Kelley etal, Jno H Williams G & C Jasper S, Pierce, Jessie F Pierce Guardian | STH Day Henry Cobb, Priscilla A Cobb Admr |.55 Clark, Elizabeth M and TJ Clark Admrs | Lucinda E Dole, Denver Dole Executor John E Rickett et al, WJ Ferguson Curator Stelia Dorance, J D Murphy Guardian Walter Sclhlwecheimer, J L McConnell G & C | orn Day. | Frank Lamb, J C Clark Curator | John F Hines, F M CoxG&C | Walter Bernhardt, W H Mort-G & C Frederick Bollweg, Jacob Finklang Guardian | John Stoll et al, Jonn Yoss G &C | Pearly Deweese, C H Rains G & ( H 10TH DAY | Jacob Hines, S T Brown G & ( | Henry Johannin | Milton Rafrert: Charles Patten,1. Walter C Shie | Mary Standis i t 3 y hand and seal this the | 6th day of February, ix6. WM. M. DALTON, Judge of Probate, ee) i Europe feared that | [vi the market. 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