The morning times., 1896-12-17
D|NGLEY BILL LAID AWAY.
Continued from First Page.

| Capulets, why, he asked, should time he
wasted in talking about it? When Sena-
| tor Aliens. resolution for a committee OF
| inquiry should be before the Senate IL
would be his pleasure and duty TO deilne
| his position in connection with the pro-
| posed investigation as to the use OF money
In the late election
Mr. Allen asked Mfr. Chandler whether
| it was the settled purpose on the Repub-
! lican side OF the chamber TO pass the
Dingley bill
Mr. Chandler replied that that would de-
bend almost entirely on the action of the
] Senator from Nebraska himself. If. that
Senator Were sincere in having the bill
taken up and would get rid OF the silver
obstruction TO its passage, he had no doubt
| that it could be passed. He thought that
| the Senator from Nebraska and the Sena-
| tor from Missouri ought to define their
position and tell the Senate whether they
| had come instructed by the results of the
late election 10 help pass through the
Senate bill TO fill the Treasury of the
United States and to protect American in
| dustry.
MR.. ALIENS QUESTION.
Mr.. Allen repeated his question, and
was asked by Mr.. Chandler whether he
would vote against the free silver amend
ment TO the Dingley bill; to which Mr.. Allen
responded that he would not be guilty OF
such a lack of intelligence.
Mr.. Chandler asked Mr. Allen If he did
not know that with the free silver amend
ment ft would be impossible TO pass the
Dingley bill.
mo, / do not Mr.. Allen replied, "as
| the Senator from New Hampshire has de-
clared himself a bimetallst. and as several
other Senators have declared themselves BIZ
metallists.''
a,
| Mr.. Chandler, 'that this bill cannot pass
unless the Republicans OF the Senate are
(; helped by some OF the Palmer Democrats
| or by some OF the Bryan Democrats or by
some OF the Populists.
II do not think that the Dingley bin is
dead, " Mr.. Allen remarked. The assertion
| that il was consigned to the tomb OF the
| Capulets was a mere poetic license on the
| part OF the Senator from Missouri"
| Mr.. Allen went on TO say that instead OF
| having an extra session OF Congress, the
most sensible thing that Congress could do
was to adjourn and not to convene for two
years, and let the country have some rest.
| The Senator from New Hampshire knew
| very Well that there was some reasonable
1 prospect of the present Chief Executive
| signing the DingIey bill, il passed. The
! President had, committed himself to the
Republican doctrine Of gold monometaiism
| and laughed at the great joint victory at
the late election. Was it not possible, MIR.
| Allen asked, sarcastically, that there was
| Republican influence enough in the two
| houses to induce His EXcellency'' TO sign
| a permanent tariff act.
with a free silver amendment Mr..
| Gallinger queried
CLEVELAND CRITICISED.
"The President of the United States Mr.
| Allen replied, "has become a Republican.
would like to hear the Senator from New
| Hampshire point out the difference be-
| tween political principles which the Presi-
dent advocates today and the principles
| advocated by the Republican party. You
would have TO put tag on the principles
of the Republican party and tag on the
principles of Grover Cleveland before you
could distinguish them apart
$50 far as the free coinage of silver in
this country is concerned said Mr.. Gal
| linger, Il think the Senator is correct.
Both the Republican party and the Presi-
| dent are committed against it,
1T seems,' Mr.. Allen added, "that the
| President is a convert TO RepublicanisIn.
He has no party of his own. He lost
control of the Democratic party at Chi
| cago last fail, and has now following
| OF barely 125 700 voters in the United
| States calling themselves Gold Democrats
| assume, therefore, that the President
| has gone over, body and soul-and that
includes a good deal-to the Republican
| party. Why would he not then, under
those circumstances, sign moderate tariff
bin?''
Mr.. Sherman addressed the Senate briefly
but passionately. The deficiency n the
| revenue, he declared, was almost crime.
1t was the first duty OF Congress to pro-
vide for tue ordinary expenses OF the
government. How TO raise the money to
pay these expenses and to carry on the
| operations of the government was a ques-
| flnn which the pn
tirely apart-one believing that duties
should be levied on imported goods, but
only for reyenue-and tue other believing
that the duties should be so levied as to
raise revenue and encourage domestic man
ufacturers. The result had been that on
account OF this dispute the government had
been for several years eXpending more
than it's receipts. That state of things
was disgrace to Congress, and ought to
be put stop to whenever the opportunity
offered.
Mr.. Sherman called attention to the fact
that the public debt had been reduced
from 1S66 until the beginning of Mr..
Cleveland's last administration, by 81 $50 :
600, 900, and that since then it had been
increased by $265, 900, 900. That in
crease, he said, was not the fault of Mr..
Cleveland, but was the fault OF the ex-
listing tariff law, There was no doubt
about that.
care in what form it comes, or on whose
motion. / am willing to take up the Ding
ley bill. The first thing to be done is tt
provide an increase of revenue so that the
incoming administration may not be com
PEELED to go into debt every year.
MR.. TELLER TALKS.
Mr.. Teller made his way into the dis
cussion and declared positively that il
had been well known that IL every Pc
publican Senator voted for the Dinglay
bill it would have still lacked one of q
majority, and that it was the merest
pretence for anybody to say that he hat
expected that bill to become law. /
had not been introduced TO be passed anC
was not fit bill to pass. The Republican
| party, he continued, was about to com
into power. He would not be temple,
now to express an opinion as to how il
had secured that power. Some other tim,
he would probably do so. 1t was comm,
into power with the promise and pledge
To the American people that the distressed
condition of affairs which had existed fol
many years, would disappear with The
coming in of the Republican party.
If the era of confidence had struck the
country he had failed to observe it, The
Republican party had a duty to do to the
American people and 1t would not do it
by talking about the Dingley bill, unless
| Is said to be the country that that was the
bill which it wanted He declared empha-
tically that the Dingley bill would never
become law, and that there was not q
man on the floor who did not know it.
Why, therefore, he asked, should the Senate
| spend time over it.
Mr.. Chandler remarked with a point of
sarcasm that Republican Senators had not