The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-12-31
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there had been an attempt on the part OF
the friends of the Elections Bill to bring it
70 vote. Now tile Senate. was to be met
with new rule, which was to overthrow q
practice which had been in vogue eighty
four years. In the section of the country
ne represented there had become q fixed no.
tlon tnat this bill was kept before the Sem
ate Tor the purpose of staving of. much
needed and much demanded financial legis-
lation. Ii the Senator from Massachusetts
(Hoar) did otwish the billto stand in the
way Of legislation he should put the Senate
IN postum. 10 vote on the Amendments be-
lore he offered or allowed to be offered the
rule which would cut off all debate ana
amendments. Whether he (Teller) would
vote for this bill or not depended upon tho
conditlon OF the bill when it came to a vote,
and he wanted n'opportnnity to vote for
certain amendments: He did not believe
the people OF the United States were pre-
pared for this cloture rule, and for one he
was prepared to. resist BY ali proper metIi-
ods Its adoption until the Senate had an OBJ
portunlty to vote upon all amendments
He understood the rule was to Come up on
tuesday next. There were more important
Dliis pending than the Elections Bill. The
great minds OF the country told us we were ON
the verge Of a financial panic. The bankers.
OF New 0Tk. were saying everything is
lovely. They dare not say otherwise. II
the people could awake to the real condition
there woHtd be danger of tinancialruin 10
solvent to-day. Ii the friends of the Flee
tIons Bill were in earnest they could pass. III
without this rule. 1t was the duty Of The
Senate to meet the great question of tle
day promptly,
Hale said the time had come when the
Senator from Massachusetts should find ont
what ought to be Gone. The Senate should
not spend weeks more in the manner lin
which 1t had been spending the past weeks.
Ihe great financial question would p1t
IN q ~a..Il
sary for. the Government, must be consid.
ered: Nothing was being done to put tbs
pending matter out of tue way. II the 4tii
OF March comes with this bill not passed, no
appropriation or financial bill passed, the
Senators might take into mind the fact that
cause it h.d done nothing.
Hoar replied sharply that the bill would
nave been six months ago disposed of if his
counsel had been followed.
Hawley said he was for anything short of
absolute despotism to get vote on the bill
whenever majority OF the Senate thinks it
is ready to vote, clOture or no cloture. Tile
attempt Of the minority to say there should
De no vote was nothing short of revolution.
Teller replied that the minority has
right to object. to debate and amend, and is
Will be sorry time for the American peo-
Pie when the majority shall say debate must
close. whether the representatives of indie
pendent States are ready 10 cese it or not.
He (Teller) was in favor of the majority
ruling, but he knew there is nothing more
despotlc than the tyrannical action Of the
majority. The minority is absolutely indis--
pensable to the preservation of liberty in
any country. A minority has right to be
heard, and when it has presented every OBJ
lection it can present then it is its duty to
yield. unless it be some extraordinary occa-
sion. He had seen the entire Republican
side of the chamber retire when there was
Democratic majority, because they were
resisting what they believed to be an i'm
proper measure That was the right Of the
minority then, and it will be the right Of the
minority now, If the pending bill be of such
character as would Justify its opponents
in resorting to it,.
After ain executive: session the Senate ad-
iourned