The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-12-10

finger of New Hampshire. Tt is so reported in the republican newspapers of this city" said Mr. AL len. Tt is not so," MT. Gallinger re- piled.
 We can pass this bill in fifteen min utes," said MT. Aldrich, "if the senator and his friends will allow us to do it." "W1ll you present to the senate and the country" MT. Allen asked, "a tariff bill that you will consent to be bound by for the next four years-at this ses- sion of congress?"
 The inquiry elicited laughter among republican senators, and shouts of "No."
 My question:" MT. Allen resumed 'provokes almost universal laughter on that side of the chamber You said to the country this fall that you would, at the first moment, take up the tariff question and settle it; and you laugh when your attention is called to it.. What is there in the tariff question that would require congress to spend six or seven months in an eXtraordi- nary session to consider it? Why not introduce the Mckinley bill, the pam acea for all evils and have it reported here within the next ten days and passed within the next sixty days? Do you want to threaten the country with an extraordinary session of congress? Do you want to sit here ninety days, principally idle, and let the country suffer when you have it within your power to put tariff bill on it's passage and have it discussed intelligently?"
 Let me ask the senator" MT. Ald- rich broke in, whether he will vote for this bill as it came from the house, or for the Mckinley bill, or for any other bill that may be presented by the re- publicans, now or at any other time?'
 No" said MT. Allen, ''I will not vote for the bill in it's present shape. You can, however, put it in such shape that l can vote for it, and that other sena- tors can vote for it who are not men- bers of your party"
 Does not the senator sec" said MT. Hale, rep, of Maine that it is an en- tirely different thing to ask the re- publican party, which is in a minority here-as it clearly is-to take up and consider and perfect a general bill, when the conditions are expected to be entirely changed in the next con- gress? The republican party expects to have an absolute majority in the senate them
 Where will you get your majority from?" MT. Allen queried.
 q say" repeated MT. Hale, that the republican party expects to have a re- publican majority in the senate next congress" !"
 ''Expects?" MT. Allen echoed with sheer.
 Then" MT. Hale went on, i've can take up a general tariff bill; and I have TO doubt that we will All that we ask now is the passage of this Dingley bill, which is a temporary measure-a meas ure that was intended to endoW a dem ocratic administration with enough revenue to pay the housekeeping bills of the government. If the senator and his friends were in favor of it. said MT. Hale, "a vote could be had at once, without further discussion. "The sena- tor from Rhode Island could withdraw his motion to refer, and a yea and nay vote on the free coinage of silver substitute had If that were voted in the bill would go to conference and 1t would be seen whether something would not come out of it. If 1t were voted down the senate would be brought face to face with the Dingley bill and could take a vote upon it at once without further discussion. "Why is not the senator ready to agree to that?" he asked. Does he not see that the republican party in this senate is not, as it hopes to be in the next con revision bill?"
 T believe" said Mir. Allen, that the republican party is in better shape than it will be in the next congress" (Laughter.)
 MT. Hale reiterated his belief that the republican senators would be able to report a general tariff bill in the next congress, but he said they were ready to vote at once on the Dingley bill.
 While the discussion was still in progress the morning hour expired and the whole matter went over without ac- tion. It does not come up again to- morrow under any rule of the senate; but the motion to take up the bill and proceed to it's consideration may be made at any time.
 The immigration bill was then for mally taken up as the unfinished bus- ness" but before its reading was fin- ished the senate proceeded to executive business and at 2:30 adjourned until to- morrow.