The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-02-28

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silver Men Ought 80 he Read out Oft
Pnrty-And Teller Gets Mad aud Deii
ant-sevcrai Days Debate Over the Gu
han Resolutions House Refuses AP
organizations 10 sectariRn Indian
s-Bankruptcy Biil Again.
Senator Morrill, made another at
tempt to call mp the tariff bill, as re-
ported from the Finance COMMITTEE
with the free oliver amendment Tues
day. He talked earnestly about tn,
need ug providing more revenue, il
which there is already $50, 600, O0
deficiency III the first eight months q
this fiscal year. But the attempt wa
knocked out, staggeringly. His motion
to take the bill M was defeated b.
d vote of 33 To -, all the Dom
ocrats, the sin Populists ant
the five extreme free silver Re
publcans. Carter and Mantle o
Montana, Dubois of Idaho and Tclle
of Colorado, with a reinforcement il
the person of Senator Cannon of Utah
uniting in the vote against him
Morrill, then announced the surrender
of the whole Republican cause. ant
SAID il would not bo becoming to ASK
the Senate for any further consumption
of timo on the bill. II was perfect,
obvious that the Republican party was
in minority in the senate. Teller
construed this AS an attempt to read
the free silver men out of the party.
He declared that they could get along
without the party as well as the party
could get along without them they
should not be read out they would get
out as soon as they saw fit. Sherman
urged that tho senate ought to rise
above party and do something to pre-
serve the credit of the country by re-
storing the revenue to equality with
the expenditures. Plat of Connect
cut on the silver question endeavored
to define the position of the Republican
party by reading the platform of 1892,
! Frye then endeavored to still further
clear the air by declaring that he re-
garded the tariff bill as dead as Ju-
Illus Caesar" and that the business
community ought to understand that
it was dead. Senator Aidrich of Rhode
Island did not make Il formal speech,
but indicated by his question and ges
lures that he agreed with Senator Frye
that no tariff legislation would be at
tempted by the Republican senators
during the present session of Congress.
Apparently tho whole series of speeches
had been arranged to make the best of
the surrender. They hope TO keep in
line tho moderate silver men by the
bimetalic promises to which Senator
Patt alludedTuesday, but they have not
the courage to cut loose from the radi
cal silver men and 10 confess to the
tlpy thoN ,,ntrnl {hn
senate. The Democratic senators
mad no demonstration but evidently
enjoyed the open break in the Repub
lican ranks, for they interposed no oD
lection to the unanimous consent I'M
der which Senator Frye spoke after
the time for morning business had cX-
pired.
Senator Garter made a speech Wed
nesday, with a motion to refer tho bill
and substitute back 10 the Finance
committee which stated unequiyocalIy
deposition Of the silver men. He insist
ed that they were better Republicans
than the Protectionists who attempted
to read them out of the party because
they demanded the fultilment of the i'm
piled pledges in the platform of 1892.
The tariff bill itself he ridiculcd as
involving the three Democratic propo-
sitions of horizontal reduction. adj |
' alorem duties, and the Wilson bill |
as the basis Of action. He contrasted |
the consistent opposition of the silver I
men TO the policies of the Democratic
president with the action of the sound
money Republicans who took their
cues from the White House and bob
bed up and down like cork at the bid
ding of the president. The tariff bill
was wholly at variance with all past
professions of the Republican party on
The tariff question. 1t was u measure
70 meet an alleged emergency, which
he chief executive stoutly asserts does
lot exist at all 1t gave but slight
to the woolgrower, while it
gave great advantage to the wool man
lfacturer, and especially to the manu-
acturer of carpets. And he went on
The Wilson tariff bill has been everywhere
ondemncd by Republicans as VIGOROUSLY in
guitablc and unjust. The pcrding bill
low proposes to make this injustice more glar.
ng. The Wilson bill was framed upon 4 theory
avnring ad valorem in preference to specific
utics. When and where did this obsolete and ,
discarded cloak for fraud and evasion become |
acred In Republican eyes; When and where did |
he Republican party become committed to the | :
orizontal movement In tariff legisatonu? :
he veto message ofthe president on true Re. d
ubcan measure would raise an issue; while I
cto message on the pending bill would raise a I
lugh at the expense of the Republican party. ;
very Republican, who joins the president in his /
emand for the absolute fixing of the single 8
old standai upon this country, to the perma. n
ent exclusion of all hope for bmctasm,
lakes his contribution TO fore destined to
isrupt and destroy the Republican party. l
The speech aroused replies from a
senator's Iioar, Sherman and Gear of c
owa. Teller Of Colorado declared +
nat the first lines of the Republican t
iGtfOrm OF 1892 were written by him s
nd Carter admitted that the platform n
as satisfactory to him because he did L
OF think the English language would b
c tortured into Misrepresentation r
Ioar put the question straight to him
neither he proposed to defeat all Re q
ublican legislation unless compound Il
/ with free silver He got very elo. r.
uent when talking about wool tariff, h
al how the party had stood by the n
DOL growers. II believe he said,
that when as a permanent policy in f
lis country protection TO wool is b
oomed, protection is doomed. " re-
Hen, the Nebraska, Populist, put the ca
tuation in the Senate in concrete pl
rm. before Senator Carter began his al
eech, by inquiring whether the Re. b.
iblicans would accept the Dingley 81
riff with free silver attached Mr.. hi
lker OF Kanass was willing to meet eV
c Populist with counter PROPOSE w
On for the coinage of the American
liver product, but the eastern Repub- III
.ans showed no disposition to accept ar
change in the tariff at the present Ii
ssion at the cost of new silver legis-