The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-26
TARIFF BILL
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deficiency of revenue and for the re-
mainder, it was caused by the doubt
whether, under this process of finan-
ciering, we should be able to maintain
! the standard of our money in this
country.
'Sir, I have not one word to say
about Populists; I have not one word
| to say to wound my friend, the sena-
| tor from Colorado (Ir. Teller), or any
one else; [ do not wish to arraign any
Individual; but what I do is to appeal
to the senate of the United States.
The other house having sent us ever
so faulty a bill, let US take it UP and
| if 1t is not right, let us make it
right and send it back to the house
and we will have ready concurrence.
| But for us to adjourn with these de-
f1ciencies accTuing more and more is.
as say,
NOT A MANLY ACTION
to be taken by either of the great par
ties or by any party that is responsible
for it.
"Any private citizen who would pur-
| sue such course in his financial at
fairs, however rich he might be, would
soon lose his credit and his reputation
! for solVency and good sense. There is
no poverty in this country, no unwil-
lingness to pay taxes, no reason why
taxes proposed by the bill are not right,
let us, in the name OF heaven, provide
others. 1t is sufficient for us to know
that our duty is not yet performed, and
if the senator from Vermont does not 1
will, at the proper time and under pro-
per circumstances, move to make up
bill and then see what the defects are.
Every senator here appreciates the
necessity for increasing revenue. Every
senator knows that the
HOPES AND EXPECTATIONS
of the president and the secretary of
the treasury as made in their reports
have been erroneous, not from any wilful
design on their part, but because they
did not see the natural tendency of a
course Of measures which every day left
the government more and more in debt
and every month the necessity"
Mr.. Harris-Why does not the senator
ment to coin the S55,000,000 seigniorage
and the balance of the silver that lies in
the treasury idle and utilize. it to answer
the purposes of the treasury.
Mr.. Sherman-The senator from Ten
nessee wishes to divert me to the ques-
ton of free coinage of silver That has
been tried and tested, and If ever that
question met its final solution it was
in the house of representatives freshly
elected by the people, where by a major
tty of almost 2 to l, the Judgment of the
house of representatives, the representa-
tives Of the people from equal and exact
districts throughout the country, pro-
nounced their denunciation of the most
FOOLISH AND DANGEROUS POLICY
of departing from the now lawful stand
ard of money in the country.
''Sir, 1t is not enough for the senator
to say to me that the senate should pro-
vide a remedy by providing for the free
coinage Of silver. when the fact is that
ten states, whose twenty senators voted
for the free coinage of silver, contain
a less population than two-thirds of the
state Of Ohio2 The senate does not rep
resent the people. 1t represents the
states. and rightfully so, and 1 do not
complain about it But IN the house of
representatives the people are repre-
every portion Of the United States Let
me prophesy to my honorable friend that
his remedy will never be so strong in the
future as it has been in the past. In
my Judgment
THE SOBER CONVICTION
of the people Of the United States will
settle down in favor Of having the best
yet known as the standard of value,
with ample paper money, always main
tanned at par with gold, TO circulate in
all parts of the country. freely and with
out danger of its breaking UP.
"Mr. President, have said great
deal more than intended to say. will
merely add that I shall not consider my
duty in the senate discharged during
the present session until some action ti is
taken according TO the request Of the
president and the secretary Of the treas
ury: not their form of action, but will
we give them, as the executive DEPART
ment OF the government, sufficient money
collected from the people of the United
States to carry on the expenses of the
government.
"If we go home to our constituents
without performing that duty. every q an
who can be held responsible for that
condition will be severely dealt with, as
| believe by the people of the United
States"
Mr.. Allen asked Mr.. Aldrich if the Re
publican party would accept the tariff
bill with
FREE COINAGE ATTACHMENT.
Mr.. AldSich replied that he would not,