Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-05-23
TELLER'S FORCIBLE SPEECH
Impresses on His Republican Colleagues
the Importance of Action.
The People willing to Overlook Party
Definite Result IL Reached.

In the Senate yesterday afternoon the pig
iron paragraph Of the tariff BILL as amended
by the financial committee, fixing the rate
at "A ton, instead of s6.42, as in the Nc
kinley bill, was adopted-55 to H. The neg
alive votes were cast by Senators Allen,
Mills. Palmer and PETER. Then came the
bloom iron item, to which Senator Jones
proposed an amendment in addition to those
printed, making a still further advance over
the Wilson bill Mr.. Sherman, inquiring If
the amendment was printed, suggested that
1t go over, whereupon Mr. Jones withdrew
1t, and after brief confusion, Mr.. Quay
popped up with the same amendment, re-
newed. This amendment was finally adopt
edo to 9-with Senators Allen, Berry,
blackburn, Jarvis, Kyle, Lindsay Mills,
Pasco and PETER voting In the negative.
Mr.. Hill did not vote.
This result was preceded by a most in
teresting debate. Mr.. Hale, Immediately
after Mr.. Quay renewed the amendment.
said:
The Senator from Arkansas submits this
complicated proposition and upon the cug-
gestlon OF the veteran Senator from Ohio
from this side of the chamber that he did
not understand it, the Senator from Arkan-
sas quickly withdraws it and declares he
| Is ready to take vote on the original prop
osition in the bill. Then, suddenly, as the
Senate Is taking long breath, the Senator
from pennsylvania iMr. Quay, who is ar
rayed against the other side all along the
line, and who has made such an eloquent
and extended speech against the BILL gets
up and offers the abandoned amendment"
Mr.. Quay protested that the amendment
was pot abandoned.
Il do not mean abandoned in the sense
or wanton, retorted Mr.. Hale. The Senate
smiled noiSelessly. II only mean abandoned
by the other side" This being the situation
Ia n dcAI h. At
on the proposition.
Mr.. Hale's remarks brought Mr.. Jones to
ms ieeC he SAID that upon the suggestion
OF number OF Senators the ad valorem
rates In paragraphs Ill and 1l2 were made
Quata and on account OF the difficulty of
ciasslhcation, the committee had agreed TO
SUBSTITUTE the classification of the Mckinley
DILL out had reduced the specific rates.
senator Teller's Plain Language
Mr.. Sherman said he had been somewhat
surprised at the curt manner in which he
had been treated. and on being assured that
no discourtesy was intended, he said that
after consultation with his colleagues he
learned they were satisfied, especially Mr..
quay, and he would be glad to see the SUBJ
stitute adopted
MI Hale at this point again got the floor
ana proceeded to arraign the democrats for
TINS evidence OF their abandonment of prin-
ciples.
Mr.. Teller attacked Mr.. Hales position in
pold, plain-spoken speech. He declared
.nat MI Hale was wrong in haunting the
oemocrauc side continually. The demo-
Gratis, he said admitted frankly the reasons
why they were obliged to abandon their
platform. They had followed IL where they
could, put they were yet a long way from
the republican party, as indicated and al
lesed by speeches on the republican side
There was wide gap between the parties
he DID not want to criticise actions on the
moor moo, OF the Senate. but he would call atten-
uon 70 the fact that the Senate had spent
Two days on single schedule, and both
sides had then voted together. 1t was
tempting, he said, to show the Inconsistent
cies OF the democratic party. The republic
cans mad been doing 1t for years. But the
American people were not concerned about
inconsistencies. What they wanted TO know
was what kind of tariff bill was to pa So
AS republicans. they should devote them
selves to getting the best bill possible and
not to haunting the democrats for assisting
them.
He voted for the Mckinley bill with re-
luctance 1t was not the height of all wis.,
dom. There were things in that bill that
he did not like. The present bill would bear
down heavily on the interests of his state
But he proposed to let it come to a vote
whenever the other side proposed higher
rates he would support them. When thew
offered few minutes ago to make the duty
on pig iron 81 per ton. he voted for il be-
cause ne believed "a gave as adequate pro-
lection as s6.I2 in the Mckinley BILL con-
sidering the high prices then and the low
prices now. The proposed substitute first
offered by Mr.. Jones was infinitely prefera-
Die TO the original rates. He did not won
der that Mr.. Quay, who understood it. was
anxious to accept it. He desired to saw
now. once for all, that in many particulars
he thought the rates proposed in the bill
afforded ample protection; he thought q
revenue duty wisely laid would be adequate
on four-fifths Of the articles touched by the
tariff. He confessed that this was a better
bill than he had hoped for from the other
side after the declaration of the Chicago
platform.
Without Gliding the other side for its in
consistency, he said, turning to his republi-
can colleagues 1t was their duty, like men
charged with the duty of making a bill for
lOOOOOOO people, to do the best they could
toward modifying it, and if unsuccessful go
to the people and ask them to vote back
into power the party which, though fire.
Quently derelict, nevertheless had proved
its devotion to the interests of those who
blistered their hands with labor and ate
their bread by the sweat of their brow
There was some applause in the galleries
when Mr.. Teller took his seat, Mr.. Hill
OF New York joining in the demonstration.
STREET RAILROAD FRANCHISES.