The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-26

| Dill, as l shall vote against une pIIi
if my judgment dictates that l should
and / shall remain in the Republican
party in spite of the suggestion OF the
senator from Vermont. 1t was known
when this bill was introduced in the
| house of representative that 1t coulc
not pass the senate unless 1T nae
| Democratic or Populist support II
was said publicly that it was
NOT EXPECTED TO PASS.
1t was said publicly that it was for
! the purpose of political gain and Pc
! litical advantage
1T is a play Mr.. President, which is
! degrading to the American senate and
! degrading to amy member of the party
! TO which l claim to belong, who shall
/ take part in it
/ Mr.. Morrill, have read no man
! out of the Republican party, but 1 al
Jude to the fact that there are SO SEN
abors in this body of which the Re-
publicans have only 44 who claim to
be Republicans. Of course we are in
the minority.
that before. The suggestion is that
we who have not voted to take up this
bin are not Republicans. For thirty
days, the great Republican metropoll-
tan press has
READ OUT OF THE PARTY
enough members to make it in the mi
norfty if it had heretofore majority
here. Every man who voted for the
free coinage amendment to the POND
bill, no matter what was his motive
for voting for it, whether he was "a
free coinage man, and anxious TO pro-
mote that purpose, and that end, or
whether he was against the bin, mas
been read out of the Republican party
by the Republican press.
At the proper time l am prepared
to show that the great metropolitan
Republican press has declared that is
members of this body are not worthy
to be called Republicans, and we have
been motif1ed that unless we change
our views upon financial questions
and submit to the Cleveland Democ-
racy and Morrill, Republicanism of
this country on the financial question.
we must go out of the party.
'.Mr. President, we can get along
without the party as we'll as the party
can get along without US. But we
DENY THE RIGHT
of either the newspapers or members
of the committee on finance TO READ US
out of the party We shall stay in the
party until we get ready to go out, and
we shall discuss these questions that
are so important, not from a par
tfsan standpoint, but from the stand
point of the American senator, charged
with great interests, charged with do
ing that which the senate has shown
itself incompetent TO do. and nobody
more incompetent than the men who
voted for the gold proposition of this
administration: charged to bring TO this
country prosperity. which has been de-
MED to it under our legislation now
for twenty years; charged to devise
some system that shall
SATISFY THE PEOPLE
that we can enter upon that degree of
prosperity to which we are entitled by
reason of advantages which exist in
this country.
Il wish to enter my protest and to
say that 1 am not to be frightened
by the sneers of the chairman of the
nor by the attacks of the
press. ! shall do what I think is my
duty to do here, regardless of conse-
queuces, AMI it seems to me that it
would be in better taste and more in &C
cordance with the dignity of the senate
if we should hear less here and else
where about our partisan duty"
AIr. Sherman. of Ohio, followed Mr.
Teller. and said:
'Mr. President, as a member of the
committee on finance. l disclaim all
partisan feeling in respect to the bill
which the senator from Vermont |
moves to bring before the senate. That |
bill does not belong to any party, it !
s not the representative of any party |
The only merit to the bill is that it pro-
poses to furnish $4,000, 600 of revenue
Tor f1ad e-rYTor ,f
enough to meet the current expenses |
# the government.
1t is prepared for an occasion. not |
political one, say. Now, Mr.. Presi-
lent, I shall
VOTE FOR ANY TAX
whatever which may be proposed by
anybody, whether Democratic, Popu-
list or Republican, which shall supply
sufficient revenue for the support of |
he government.
1T is a disgrace to our civilization:
t is a disgrace to The country itself
hat we are now eXpending $50, 600 900
/ year more than the receipts OF the
government and that the congress
low in session, with both houses fully
armed with the power to furnish the |
'evenue, is idle and refuses to act
I will vote for a tax on tea, on
offee, on anything in order to meet
his deficiency, and [ ray that If the
PRESENT congress does adjourn in the
ace of the declarations now made to
is, of the official reports sent 10 us,
f the statements made by the presi-
ent of the United States and of the
Jcretary of the treasury, that we are
low going on day by day like a care
ass spendthrift to involve the country
n debt, selling bonds when it is the
uty of congress at once to supply the
evenue-''
Mr.. Peffer-The president asserts
hat we do not need any more u,eve-
ue.
Mr.. Sherman do not care what
he president says
SARCASTIC PETER.
Mr.. Peffer-I thought so.
Mr.. Sherman-Every man within thu
ound of my voice knows that we
eed more revenue. There is a state
tent showing that since the first day
July, and up to the present month
February, 1896, there has already
cen a deficiency in the current reve-
ue of $2O.696.O00 and that before the
nd of the fiscal year at the same
tito the amount o. deficiency will be
10 900. 900.
IF such a condition should occur in J
reat Britain or any country where
ley have a parliamentary law. it
ould dethrone any party in power,
nd an immediate effort would be !
ade to increase the income tax, or
} provide some other form of taxa
on to meet the current expenses. Yet
Nv, and every day, and every hour. :
nee the passage of the present law, )
IN even before in view Of ;te no.