Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1896-02-27
THE TARIFF BILL IS DEAD.
SENATE REFUSES TO GIVE IT FUR
THEIR CONSIDERATION.
Senator Morrill, Taken to Task by Teller
for Discrediting Silver Republicans
Senator Sherman Makes q Last
Appeal for Action.

Washington, Feb. 25.-In the Senate Mr..
| Davis withdrew his motion to reconsider
| the vote by which the Senate yesterday
passed the House bill extending for five
years the time for beginning suits to an
| nual railroad land patents, and the bill
now goes to the president Bacon's bill
| to prohibit future issue of bonds failed
of action by tie vote on party lines.
| A motion was made by Mr.. Morrill,, rep.
Vermont, chairman of the finance COM
mittee, to take up the House tariff bill.
/ He called attention to the deficiencies of
revenue under the existing tariff law and
said that something should be done to re-
! leve the treasury department and to re-
1 vive the business interests of the country.
The yeas and nays were demanded by
Senators Stewart pop, Of Nevada, and
Teller, rep, OF Colorado, and the motion
, was rejected, yeas 20, nays SO, as follows:
Yeas-Messrs. Aldrich, Allison. Baker,
Burrows, Cameron, Clark, Cullon, Davis,
| Elkins, Gear, Hale, Hansbrough, Haw-
| ley, Lodge, Mitchell or Oregon Morrill,
| Nelson Perkins, Proctor, Quay, Sherman,
Shoup-22
Nays-Messrs. Allen, Bacon, Bate. Ber-
ny, Butler, Caffrey, Call, Cannon, Carter,
Chiffon, Cockrell, Dubois, George, Gordon,
Gray. Harris, Hill, Jones of Nevada, Kyle,
Lindsey, Mantle, Martin, Morgan, Pal
mer, Pasco, PETER. Roach, Stewart Tel
Ter, Turpie, Vest, Walthall, Whites.
When the vote was announced. Mr. Nor
rlll stated that he did not think 1t would
be becoming in him to ask the Senate for
any further consumption of time on the
Bill. He added that 1t was perfectly OBJ
vious that the republican party was in a
minority In the Senate.
Mr.. Teller, rep, Colorado took offence
at what he said was the attempt of Mr.
Morrill, TO read the silver republicans out
of the party. lie notified that senator that
ba nj hi
cause of silver had been as Jealous AMI
worked as long in the republican party
as the senator from Vermont or his COL
leagues.
Mr.. Sherman, rep, Ohio, said that every
day since the passage of the present Jaw
the country had been running in debt and
there was no occasion for II. Already
there had been issued 1868 O00, 900 OF bonds
by this administration. The great body of
them was for deficiencies of revenue.
Speaking of the tariff bill, Mr.. Sherman
said: Let us take this bin up and IL II Is
not a perfect bill let US make IT so, Let
us give the government revenue. Our duty
is not yet performed. II the chairman OF
the committee Will not move to take UP
this bin again. l VIII make the motion at
the proper time"
Continuing he said this Senate did not
represent the people; 1t represented the
States, and he called attention to the fact
that more than ten votes cast
In the Senate came from States
whose aggregate of population did
not equal to one-thirIl that of the State of
New York. He said the cause of free
silver would never be so strong in the flu
ture as 1t had been in the past. The
sober, second thought of the people Of this
country. as expressed by their representa-
tives in the popular branch of Congress
was for sound money and against free
coinage and the sentiment In that direc
ton was rapidly and surely growing. Mr..
sherman said he would not consider the
duty OF this Congress discharged during
this session until some measure had been
passed TO give the treasury the relief It
needed, If Congress failed to do this the
men responsible therefor would be held TO
severe account when they went home TO
face their constituents
In closing the debate Mr. FRYE, rem.
Maine. made an impassioned speech, de-
claring that he had been writing TO his
constituents for months that that bill was
dead and the votes taken to-day and two
weeks ago showed he was right and that
the bill was as dead as julius Caesar He
trusted that the bill would not be heard
from again and that no republican senator
no friend of protection. would ask the
Senate to give It any further consldera-
ton. Let 1t be dead" he exclaimed,
and let the responsibility lie where it be-
longs"