Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-02-28
Tariff and Silver Men Engage in a
Spirited Debate.
Result of an Attemptto Have the Tariff
Bill Considered-House Passes In
dian Appropriation Bill.


business interests of the country. The
yeas and nays were demanded by Sen
ators Stewart (pop,, New and Teller
(rep., COLI, and the motion was re-
jected: Yeas, %; nays, 80, as follows:
Yeas-Messrs. Aldrich. Allison. Baker,
burrows. Cameron. Clark. Cullom, Davis,
ley. Lodge. Mitchell (Ore.), Morrill,, Nell
son. Perkins. Proctor, Quay, Sherman,
Shoup-2z.
Nays-Messrs. Allen, Bacon, Bate, Ber-
ry. Butler, Caffery, Call, Cannon, Carter,
Chiffon. Cockrell, Dubois. George. Gordon,
Lindsay, Mantle. Martin, Morgan, Palmer.
Pasco, PETER. Roach, Stewart, Teller,
Turner, Vest, Wathall, White-33
When the vote was announced SEN
ator Morrill, stated that he did not
think it would be becoming in him to
ask the senate for any further con-
sumption of time on the bill. He added
that it was perfectly obvious that the
republican party was in a minority in
the senate.
Teller Takes Offense.
Senator Teller (rep., Col.) took Of
tense at what he said was the attempt
of Senator Morrill, to read the silver
republicans out of the party. He noti-
fled that senator that he and his col
league who believed in the cause of
silver had been as jealous and worked
as long in the republican party as the
senator from Vermont or his col
leagues. The silver republicans did not
propose to be read out of the party;
they would only go when they saw fit.
They could, he assured the senate, get
along as well without the party as the
party could without them.
Senator Sherman Calls for the Bill.
Senator Sherman (rep., o. said that
every day since the passage of the pres
ent law our country had been running
In debt, and there was no occasion for
it. Already there has been issued
$263,0O0,9o0 of bonds by the administra-
ton. The great body of it was for de-
fciencies of revenue.
Speaking of the tariff bill, Senator
Sherman said: "Let us take this bill up,
and ii it is not Il perfect bill, let us
make 1t so. Let us give the govern
ment revenue. Our duty is not yet per-
formed. If the chairman of the COM
mittee will not move to take up this bill
again, I will. will make the motion at
the proper ime."
. Senator Harris asked Senator Sher-
man why he did not advise the treasury
to issue the $55,0oo,OOO of seigniorage
and the balance of the silver to meet the
deficiencies
Senator Sherman, in reply, said that
question had been tried and tested.
The house of representatives pro
nounced their denunciation of that
most foolish and dangerous fallacy by
q vote of almost two to one This SEN
ate did not represent the people; it rep
resented the states, and Senator Sher-
man called attention to the fact that
more than ten votes cast in the senate
came from states whose aggregate Of
population did not equal one-third that
of the state of New York. Senator
Sherman warned Senator Harris that
the cause of free silver would never be
80 strong in the future as it had been in
the past. The sober second thought of
the people of this country, as expressed
by their representatives in the popular
branch of congress, was for sound
money and against free coinage, and
the sentiment in that direction was
rapidly and surely growing.
Senator 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. II
congress failed to do this the men re-
sponsible therefor would be held severe.
~ responsible when they went home to
face their constituents.
Frye's Impassioned Speech.
In closing up the debate Senator
Frye (rep., A1e.) made an impassioned
speech, declaring that he had been
writing to his constituents for months
that that bill was dead, and the votes
taken Tuesday and two weeks ago
showed that he was right, and that the
bill was as dead as Julius Caesar. He
trusted that the bill would not besheard
from again, and that no republican SEN
ator, no friend of protection, would
ask the senate to give it any further
tChsideration. ''I1et it, he exclaimed,
s"be dead, and let the responsibility lie
where it belongs
Indian Appropriation Bill Passed.
Washington, Feb. 25.-Immediately
after the journal of Mondays proceed
tngs had been read, the house wentinto
committee of the whole, to further con-
slider the Indian appropriation bill.
After striking out an unimportant
provision relating to New York In
dams, the committee rose, the bill was
reported to the house, and passed.
Seal Fishery Bill Passed.
Mr.. Dingley (rep., Me.) called up the
bill introduced by him and unanimous
~ reported by the committee on ways
and means, relating to the fur seal in
dustry. 1t directs the president to
enter into negotiations with the govern
ments of Great Britain, Russia and
Japan, or either of them, for the APP
pointment of joint commission to in
vestigate the fur-seal industry in all its
bearings and toreportwhat,i if any, addi-
tional regulations are necessary for the
preservation of the fur seal herd. 1t
Llso provides for the establishment of
q modus vivendi between the several
governments under the findings of the
Paris tribunal of 1893, respecting the
protection of the seals, with proviso
that If this modus be not concluded in
time to govern the season of 1896 the
secretary of the treasury is directed to
kill every seal that can be reached on
the Priblyoff islands and sell the skins
for the benefit of the treasury.
The report of the committee setting
forth the necessity of the proposed