The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-10-18
HALLS OF CONGRESS.
Proceedings in the Senate
and House.
FRANKING PRIVILEGE ABUSES.
A Lively Discussion ia The Lower
House Over Campai On Doc
umeuIs.
FRANKISG PRIVILEGE ABUSES.
SEN ATE.

WASHINGTON, October 17.-At the be-
g inning of business the Republican side
Was represented by eight Senators and
:h7 Demo cratic by ten
The committee on foreign relations
was authorized to sit during recess 10
the investigation of the L'Abra claim
against Mexico.
The Senate then resumed consider a..
ton of the tariff bill. and was addressed
by Teller. He would not, be said, have
ventured to trouble the Senate with
any remarks if the Secretary OF the
Treasury had not seen tit to make some
statements in public speech from the
steps of the Sub-Treasury in New
York which he (Teller) thought were
not supported by record, and needed
contradiction. The Secretary had
fallen into the very general mistake
that the interests of Wall Street
were the interest of the whole
country, and if the acts of
the administration were in &C
cordance with Wall Street ideas, they
must necessarily be in the interests OF
the whole people. He (Teller) denied
that such an inference was correct.
What he complained of was that the
financial policy of the administration
has been conducted on Wall Street
basis, and that the government was
controlled by Wall Str ct influences
and Wall Street interests, to the entire
disregard of the great interests of the
people. Teller having referred to the
attempt Of the administration to sup
press silver dollar coinage and having
upbraided the Democratic Senators
and Representatives for failnre to OPP
pose them, Pugh asked him whether
the bulk of southern Democrats had
not prevented q suspension OF silver
coinage, and whether they were not
now charged as being conspirators in q
movement to the detriment of northern
industries,
Teller replied that he had on more
than one occasion given Just dues to
Democratic Senators for the enlightened
ideas advanced on the silver coinage
question, hut when he saw the same
senators now supporting the admins
tratiop which directly and positively
opposed their form avowed policy on
that question, he was amazed. He
characterized the course of the Treas.
ury Department in not using the sur
plus for the purchase of per cent.
bonds as an "lmbecility of the grossest
character" and said that more money
had been lost in that way than would
have paid every vetoed pension bill for
more than 150 years, but that course
had been in the interest of IL pond
holders, of the money lender, of the
money grabber, and not in the interest
of the poor man. The economy policy
of the administration did not commend
itself to the American people.
At the close of Tellers speech, ALI
son offered concurrent resoluuou for
a recess of Congress from Saturday
Iezt to No 7ember 9th.
Cockreil opposed any recess, and
suggested it would be much better to
provide for final adjournment, with
an understanding tlat there be no
Christmas holidays, and that the tariff
bill would then be pressed to final &C
ton. After some discussion, the reso-
luton went over till. tomorrow.
Morgan proceeded to address the
Senate on the tariff bill. He referred
to Allison's recess argument as a piece
of 6nesse to cover the death of the bill.
The fact was, that the Republican
Senators did not intend to pass the bill
now or hereafter. The Senate bill was
a mere masquerade of monopoly DIS
guised in the innocent appearance of
fair dealing and justice to the country.
He quoted some sta tements made by
Mr.. Beck, and declared, with emphasis,
that the Senate of the United States
was the subsidized slave of mono
polists.
Aldrich desired to make a denial of
the facts stated by Beck, but Morgan
declined to yield, because Beck was not
present.
Without action on the bill the Senate