Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1896-02-27
THE RENEGADES EXPLAIN.
SILVER SENATORS WANT TO BE RE-
PUBLlCANS YET.
Discussion Over tho Proper Interpretation
of the minneapolis Piatform-An
Honor Proposed to Gen. o. o.
Howard Tho Speeches.

day MIR. Cameron, rep, Pennsylvania, pre-
sented the petition of the Glass Bottle
Blowers association of the United States
and Canada, urging the re-enactment Of
the free coinage laws at the ratio Of 16 to
/. The army appropriation bill was re-
ported and placed on the calendar.
A bill was introduced by Mr. Hale, rep.
Maine, for tho appointment of O. o. How
ard as lieutenant general on the retired
list of the army.
Mr.. Allen, pop, Nebraska, offered
substitute for the pending Cuban resolu-
ton. 1t authorizes and requests the pres
ident to issue a proclamation recognizing
the independence of the republic of Cuba.
He asked that the resolution lie on the
table. Mr.. Allen referred to the vote yes
terday on taking UP the tariff bill and
the statement made by Mr.. Morrill, and
others that the tariff bill was dead and
stated that while he did not believe in tho
policy set forth in that bill, yet If the
republicans could unite upon 1t and would
couple with 1t an amendment providing
for the fire coinage of sllver-not subsu-
tute-the populist party in the Senate
would help pass 1t. The populists in the
Senate now said to the protectionist re-
publicans: I'VE will swallow your mea-
sure of protection (the House tariff bilD
| which is nauseating, which is unjust, IL
you give to the people of the country
more sound money with which to pay the
| increased taxation"
A discussion was started by Mr.. Hoar,
rep, Massachusetts, and participated in
by Senators Carter, Gear, rep, Iowa, and
| Teller, rep, Colorado, as to the proper
| interpret alton of the b-metallic clause in
the Minneapolis platform. Mr.. Carter as
serted that under the Interpretation given
to 1t in the east 1t meant the wiping from
| he statute book of every vestige of legs-
laton in favor of silver. Mr.. Carter said
in part:
| Profoundly impressed by and posse ssed
| of deep reverence for the ancient and hon.
orable traditions of the Senate and it's ex-
! perienced and distinguished members the
silence | have maintained during my brief
service has been both agreeable and pro-
litable to me. THAT silence would not
now be disturbed did not feel constrain-
ed to repel printed charges onh insinua-
tions of dislayalty to the principle of the
party with l have affiliated here and with
which l have become in the mutations of
political controversy prominently identi-
fled before the country"
Continuing his rema rks Mr. Carter COM
planned that four members Of the Senate
including himself had been indicted by
the leading journals of the East ard pro-
| nounccd guilty of treason without trial.
Against this judgment I've set up the fact
that the tariff bin presented was at vari-
ance with all past professions of the re-
!
is admitted" he said, that the House bill
Is not and was not intended to be an ex-
preston by the party of IT'S views. 1t has
been and is now distinctly asserted that
It Is not a republican measure 1t Is a
measure to meet an alleged emergency
which the chief executive officer of the
nation, chosen by majority of the peo-
pie in 1892 stoutly asserts does not exist
at all. The party, then, Is in the attitude
of forcing uncalled for relief upon rcluc-
tant democratic administration
| Aside from this, Mr.. Carter contended
that the method employed was seriously
Objectionable. 1t built upon existing law
as foundation. The Wilson tariff bill
had been everywhere condemned by repub-
licans as notoriousy inequitable and un-
just. 1t assumed to protect the manufac-
| turers and cast the producers of the So
called raw materla, throughout the coun-
try into open composition with cheap la
Dor everywhere. The pending bill now
proposed to make this injustice more glar-
ing. The Wilson bill was framed upon q
theory favoring ad vaorem in preference
to specific duties. on high authority II
was asserted that ad valorem tariff had
been repudiated by the principal CONNER
cial nations in their tariff systems. When
and where, he asked, did this obsolete and
discarded cloak for fraud and evasion
become sacred in republican eyes? The
raise on u schedules of the Wilson bill
When and where did the republican party
become committed to the horizontal move
ment tariff legislation? The Wilson bill
the ad valorem tariff and the horizonta
scheme had each in turn been emphatic
ally condemned by republican platforms
orators and papers and never commended
anywhere by republican authority. How
then, he inquired. could 1t become treason
able for a republican to oppose all three
of these elements combined?
Mr. TVler explained the part which he
took in drawing up that provision and
declared that the republican party had
never taken step In favor of that pro-
vision. The only men who did so We're the
silver men because they believed in main
tanning all the provisions of the platform
and not q part of It,"
Mr. Sherman replied to Mr.. Teller and
defended his own position on the money
question. He asserted that there was
more silver in circulation now than ever
before and that in England and in France
silver was maintained at par with gold. Ir
this country, now he said, the laborine
man was paid in dollars that had the
same purchaseable power as gold while
under the bimetallism claimed by the
silver advocates. the laborer would be
cheated out of half his hire.
Mr.. Teller said that the Minneapolis
convention would never have entertained
such a definition of bimetallism as the sen
ator from Ohio gave. 1t would have beer
laughed out. The senator could not pu
the republican party on that kind of bi
mettalldsm. Everybody knew that the
people could not get along without subsi
diary silver coin. no define that as bimet
talism was playing on the American peo'
Pile what might be called. in common par
, lance. a 'bunco game"
In the further course of his speech, de
livered in very excited manner, Mr.
Teller exclaimed that the senator from
Ohio would find that the silver corpse was
a living corpse that would rise to haun
him and his gold. The only thing tina
, would bring prosperity and progress to tn,
country and would Silence the discomfort
of the people which was shown by re-
, publican success one year. a democrati,
success the next year. and popultst sue
cess the third year, was honest sount
, money made up OF the two metals "Mr
President" he declared in conclusion
"you will not discard silver. 1t may b,
, that for a time the advocates of the golt
standard may deceive the people. Blu
they cannot do Vt long. They cannot do 1
always. And II the republican party putt
itself in the lead of the senator from Ohit
the pride and glory and splendor Of tina
party will be obliterated and destroyed
In the infamy of this transaction
The discussion on the Cuban belliGer
ency resolution was then resumed. Mr.
White, DEM, California, a member of thu
committee on foreign relations. address
ed the Senate In advocacy Of the substd
, tute for the resolution, which he hat
! offered a few days ago. There was n,
senator, he said, who did not sympathix
with the struggling patriots In Cuba
;; no senator who would not be rejoiced t,
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