The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-27

WASHINGTON, May 26.-Tariff and
finance each came in for share of
consideration in the senate today. Early
in the day Mr.. Sherman succeeded in
having the filled cheese bill taken up,
whereupon Mr.. Dubois CRep., Ida.) Of
fered an amendment adding rs cents
per barrel to the tax on beer. The
tended to test the sincerity of senators
who expressed the patriotic desire to
aid the treasury by raising more rev.
enue.
Mr.. Sherman opposed the amendment
as a Skillful means to defeat the cheese
bill. His motion to table the Dubois
amendment was defeated-yeas %, nays
So On the question of adopting the
amendment, the debate became general,
Senators Mills and Gray supporting
and Nelson, Aldrich and Villas opposing
it. The bill and the pending beer
amendment were displaced ait 2 O'Clock
by the bond bill, which was advocated
by Mr. Pritchard (Rep., n, c. and OPP
posed by Mr.. Lindsay Dem, Ky)
A bin was passed to pension at SIS
per month the widow of General
George Spencer, at one time United
States senator from Alabama.
WHERE HE IS AT.
Mr.. ThurSton, in view of his depart
ture, owing to the sickness in his fam
lily, defined his position on a number
of important pending measures, viz:
Favorable to the election of senators
by the people; to the bill amending the
law for punishment for contempt of
court; to the filled cheese bill, and op-
posed to the bill prohibiting the issue
of bonds. AS to the last measure, Mr..
Thurston explained that his opposition
was not due. to the principle of the
bin, which he might approve at another
time, but he felt it was too late in the
session to withhold from the admins
tration the means of avoiding none
! tary crisis.
AS soon as the filled cheese bill was
taken up, Mr.. Dubois offered an amend
ment to the cheese bill, placing an ad-
dttional tax of Is cents per barrel on
beer, porter and ale.
In supporting the amendment, Mr..
Dubois said it offered an opportunity
to Mr.. Sherman to execute the patrT-
otto purposes he had recently expressed
without resorting TO the Dingley tariff
bill, an unjust, unsatisfactory section
al bill which cannot pass the senate"
THIS BILL WAS A TRAP,
transparent and unfair This beer
amendment would yield SIS 900 900 adj
OPTIONAL revenue, Mr.. Dubois said; SEN
! ators could accept this, or else quit
posing before the country as the only
PATRIOTS
Mr.. oSherman Rep., Ohio replied
briefly, urging that this was a move
TO cripple the cheese bill, which was
in no sense a general revenue bill
Thirty million of revenue already was
raised from that very useful and com
Portable drink" and he (Sherman)
thought the consumers of beer paid
about enough. He moved to table the
beer amendment, which motion was
! defeated-yeas %, nays 80, as follows:
Yeas-Republicans; Aldrich, Allison,
Baker, Burrows, Cuflom, Davis, Gal
! linger, Hawley, Mitchell (Ore.) Morrill,,
Nelson, Perkins, Platt, Quay, Sewell,
Sherman, Shoup and Wilson'S. Dem
ocraits: Cockerell, Hin, Mitchell, Pal
mer, Paseoe, Turpie, Vilas-7. Total
rs.
Observation-Disclosures Brown, Cannon,
Garter, Dubois, Hanshrough, Petit
grew, Teller. Democrats: Bacon,
Bate, Berry, Caffery, Chiffon, Daniel,
Faulkner Gray, Harris, Jones ARK J,
Lindsay, Mills, Morgan, Pugh, Roach,
Best, Walthall Whites. Populists:
Allen, Butler, Kyle, PETER, Stewart
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