Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-03-03
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TARlFF CRISIS SENATE RE
SUITS IN ANo -TtIERssssT ORMYsDAY sI:ss Il

/ silver Republican ~ Issue with
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Al,cge That the Part Plat form 81
'0e IS 1Itsconstrued.
WASHINGTON FEB. al. he tariff
crisis in the senate brought another
day of intensely dramatic action, Of I'M I'M
petuous debate and Of stormy personal
colloquy. The speech of Senator Car
terof Montana, one Of the FIVE Repub-
lican senators who voted against bro.
ceeding with the tariff bill, was the
main formal event of the day There
was added interest in the speech, owing
to Mr.. Carriers position as chairman Of
the Republican national committee.
The senator used very plain words III
sdenonncing what he termed the move.
ment to drive him and his silver assoc.
ciates ont Of the Republican party.
This, however, was but the prelude to
more stirring events. Mr.. Hoar ques.
toned Mr.. Garter as to whether he
intended ia, defeat any protective tariff
bill unless senators
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and whether his construction Of the
Minneapolis platform agreed with. the
construction given to it by President
Harrison. Mr.. Carter responded with
great vigor that: Mr.. Harrison's course
had not been all that was desired, but
it was at least a beacon of hope for the
future. But it was not the construc-
ton applicable to the situation in the
senate today. Mr.. Gear of Iowa sharply
questioned Mr.. Garter upon the circum-
stances Of framing the. financial plank
Of the Minneapolis platform, bringing
out that Senators Jones of Nevada and
Teller of Colorado had taken part in
shaping the document. Mr.. Carter as.
serted that while this was true the men
who framed that plank never dreamed
that the English language would
permit . -. i .rse .. !.
i Such Wisconsin uction of Its Terms.
Thereupon Mr.. Gear, referring to Mr..
Carter's conduct of the national cam
paign in 1892, asked if this plank was
not the one by which he (Carter) and
the senator from Colorado (Teller)
sought to carry the state of Colorado
for the Republican party. Mr.. Carter
replied that the plank was so accepted
because the Republican party had al.
ways kept it's promises, and it was now
incumbent on that party to again re-
deem its promises. The references to
Mr.. Teller's part in framing the plat
form brought him to his feet with an
explanation Of what had been intended
and a fiery denunclation of the bimet-
allism of Mr.. Sherman The latter in
turn arraigned the dishonesty Of the
policy of free silver which would pay
the laboring man in a 50-cent dollar.
Mr.. Sherman prophesied that even Col
orado Il. .sf@s z -
Would Re ject the FREQ Silver Idea
and accept true bimetalism. To this
Mr.. Teller rejoined with intense feel
ing that Colorado would never follow
the course suggested by the Ohio sena-
tor, and, if she did, he < Teller) would
cease to represent that state. He pre-
dicted that free silver was not dead, as
Mr.. Sherman had asserted, but that it
was a living corpse viii would rise in
the. senate to perplex Mr.. Sherman.
Mr.. Teller closed with the impassiomed
utterance that the glorious past Of the
Republican party would obliterated
if it committed the infamy of follow
ing the financial leadership of Mr..
Sherman. sl: 5I.5s. :. =
The latter part Of the day was given
to the Cuban resolutions, Mr.. White Of
California arguing that the executive
was the proper branch to grant recog-
milton Of belligerency.