Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-10-18
WASHINGTON VIKINGS.
A Few Lone Senators Report
For Duty.
TELLER TALKS ON THE TARIFF.
A Charge Levelled at Sunset Cox
Reverts as Republican
Boomerang.

Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD /
WASHINGTON, October 17.-In the Sem
ate to-day at the beginning of business
the Republican side was represented by
eight Senators, the Democratic by ten.
The Committee on Foreign Relations
were authorized to sit during recess for
tho investigation Of the La Abra Claim
against Mexico. The Senate then re-
sumed the consideration of the Tariff
bill and was addressed by Teller.
He would not, he said, have returned
to trouble the Senate with any remarks
if the Secretary OF the Treasury had not
seen fit recently to make such statements
in public speech from the steps of the
Sub-Treasury in New York, which he
('Teller) thought was not supported by his
record and needed contradiction. The
Secretary had fallen into very general
mistake that the interests Of Wall street
were the interests of the whole
country, and if the acts
of the administration were
in accordance with Wall street IDEAS they
must be necessarily in the interest of the
whole people. He TELLER denied that
such an inference was correct. What he
complained of was that the financial pol
icy Of the Administration had been con-
Quoted on Wall street basis, and that
| the Government was controlled by Wall
street influences and Wall street interests
TO the entire disregard OF the great in.
terests of the people.
Teller having referred to the attempts
of the Administration to suppress silver
dollar coinage, and having upbraided the
Democratic Senators and Representatives
for their failure to oppose them, Pugh
asked him whether the bulk of the South
ern Democrats had not prevented the
suspension of silver coinage, and whether
they were not now charged as being con-
spirators in movement to destroy
Northern industries.
Teller replied that he had on more
than one occasion given due considera-
ton to the Democratic Senators for their
enlightened and advanced position On
the silver coinage question, but when he
saw the same Senators now supporting
the administration which directly and
positively opposed their former avowed
policy on that question, he was amazed.
He characterized the course of the Treas
ury Department in not using the surplus
for the purchase of 8 per cent. bonds as
'imbecility OF the grossest character"
and said more money had been lost in
that way than would have paid every
vetoed pension bill for more than $50
years, but that course had been in the
interest OF the bondholder OF the money
lender, of the money grabber, and not in
interest of the poor man. The economic
policy Of the administration did not, he
said commend itself to the American
people.
At the close of Teller's speech, Alli-
son offered a concurren Mt resolution for a
recess of Congress from Saturday next to
November 10Th. Cockrell opposed a
recess, and suggested that it would be
much better to provide for final ad-
journment with an understanding that
there would be no Christmas holidays,
and that the Tariff bill would then be
pressed to final action. After some dis
cussion the resolution went over till to-
morrow.
Morgan proceeded to address the Sem
ate on the Tariff bill. He referred to
Allison's recess adjournment as piece
of finesse to cover the death of the bill.
The fact was that the Republican Sena-
tors did not intend to pass the bill now
or hereafter. The Senate bill was a mere
masquerade of monopoly disguised in the
innocent appearance of fair dealing and
justice to the country. He quoted some
statements made by Mr.. Beck and de-
clared with emphasis that the Senate of
the United States was the subsidized
slave of the monopolist.
Aldrich desired to make denial of the
facts stated by Beck, but Morgan de-
clined to yield because Beck was not
present. Without action on the bill the
Senate adjourned.