Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1896-02-28

evening the grounds for his vote, in
view of his understood attitude upon
the vote of February 18TH, said: "When
the nronosition to take up the thrift bill
was before the Senate on the 18th,
inst. at that particular hour pending in
the House bill which had passed the
Semitic by the aid of the Utah votes, for
the free and unlimited coinage OF silver.
Asthis. the first commercial and indus
trial question of the age, had been set
fled so far as the Senate was concerned,
stood for taking up the tariff bill But
on the following day the measure tor
free and unlimited coinage OF silver was
Overwhelmingly defeated in the House,
thereby completely changing the sltua-
t;on I was elected to work for bimetal-
ism and protection. l do not believe
that a tariff will be effective except as
an accompaniment to free coinage, so
long as we are threatened with the
Asiatic peril. and while | was ready to
vote for tariff on the 18th inst, after
voting for bimetalism, and while olmet-
aIism was still as much of possibility
as this Dingley bill, am not ready to
help protection to march to power over
the crave of slaughtered silver. If the
Republican party sets its face against
bimetalism, it will leave ithe ground on
which prote, ton is based"
"What effect will this have on the
wool interest"
"This proposed measure will be worse
than useless to the wool-growers OF
Utah. as thev will see when the expos
ure of its insidous determinations shall
be made in the senate, on Senator Car
ter's resolution to recommit the bill to
the committee on finance.
This position of Senator Cannon was
endorsed by others of the free coin
age republicans who voted with him. on
the ground that, bi-metalism having
been killed since February 18th, he was
quite consistent in voting against con-
sideration of an insufficient protection
when unlinked with free coinage
Senator Brown, of Utah, in exPlana-
tion of his vote for consideration of the
tariff bill, said: 81 voted to take up the
tariff bill because there was an under
standing among free coinage rePubi-
cans that, having placed ourselves on
record for free coinage, and with the alb
solute impossibility of free coinage leg
islation being enacted into law, we
believed it to be due to the interests OF
the West to make an attempt to pass the
hest tariff bill obtainable. l have pre-
viously put myself on record and will do
so again whenever an opportunity &C.
ours. I do not place the tariff before
silver in Importance. Both are of high
est importance to our state and to our
section If. as stated on the senate floor
to-day. neither free coinage nor tariff
LEGISLATION can pass, and votes of sena-
tors are simply declarations of princi-
pies. 1 propose whenever opportunity
offers to 90 on record for a republican
tariff. or as near as we can get to it, just
as I have and will for the free and UNI
limited coinage of silver" !
Senator Shoup of Idaho said: al have
nothing whatever to add to my former
interview upon my vote cast on the 18th
inst. said that in my judgment vote
should be had upon both free coinage
and a tariff bill, and that l did not be-
Iieve then and do not believe now that
the tariff bill should be defeated in the
senate for the purpose of indicating
supposed added loyalty to the cause of
silver"
Senator Shoup said that he had IA ;,
vored and would favor the consideration :
If another bill in the nature of an emer- :.
pencv measure, which gave possibility 7
Of relief to the people of his state, and 7
that he could see nothing in the less
han two weeks which had inter
,ened since the last vote to change his
opinion. +
This view was evidently shared in by h
Clark and Warren of Wyoming, W
Souire and Wilson of Washington, II
Mitchell and Mcbride of Oregon and t.
Perkins of California who were not re- W
,orded with the Ave republican senators =,
Who voted to defeat consideration on II
he floor of the senate on the motion of II
senator Morrill,. ia
Washington, Feb. as. = The Senate h
committee on finance today discussed j