The record-union., 1896-02-26

When the vote was announced Morrill,
stated that he did NOT think it becoming
of him to ask the Senate for any further
consumption of time on the bill. He
added that it was perfectly obvious
that the Republican party was in mi
nority in the Senate.
Teller (Rep) of Colorado took offense
at what he said was ar attempt to read
the silver men out of the party He no
titled the Senator that he and his coll
leagues 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
hot propose to be read out of the party;
they would only go when they saw fit.
They could, he assured the Senator get
along as well without the party as the
party could without them.
Sherman (Rep) of Ohio, a member of
the Finance Committee, disclaimed all
partisan feeling in relation to the House
tariff bill. That bill did not belong to
any party. It's only merit was TO fur
niSh forty millions additional to the
revenues of the Government. 1t was a
bill to provide for an occasion. He has
declared it was a disgrace to the coun-
try and to civilization that the Govern
ment of the United States was now
spending $30.000,000 year beyond it's
income. Here was Congress in ses-
sion, both houses fully armed and with
power to furnish the remedy, but Con-
gress was idle, and refused to act. He
would vote to put a tax on tea, on coffee,
or on anything in order to meet the de-
fciency of revenue.
The President says" PETER Pop.) of
Kansas broke in, that we do not need
any more revenue"
81 do not care" Sherman declared ex-
citedly. what the President says.
Everybody within the sound of my voice
knows that we need more revenue. If
that same thing occurred in Great Brit
ain or in any other parliamentary coun-
try it would dethrone the party in
power, but now, everyday and every
hour, we have been running in debt and
are increasing our debts, and there is no
reason for it. A tax on tea and coffee
would be paid cheerfully by the people.
Any tax, however obnoxious, would be
supported by the people rather than see
the funded debt increased. Now that
the House has sent us so faulty a bill,
let us take it right up, make it right
and send it back to the House, but for
US to adjourn without providing for
this deficiency is not a manly action
for either of the great parties or for any
cne else who is responsible for it. Let
us, in the name of heaven, do some-
thing"
Harris Oem.) of Tennessee asked
Sherman why he did not advise the
Treasury Department to coin the S55,-
000,000 of Sc and the rest of
the silver lying idle in the treasury and
utilize it for the purposes Of the treas
ury, as it was bound to do under the
third section of the Sherman Act.
Sherman replied that that question
had been tested in the House of Repre-
sentatives, and that by vote of more
than to l that foolish and dangerous
policy of departing from the now lawful
standards of money Of the country had
been denounced. That was the action
of a body directly representing the pee.
pie, while in the Senate ten States where
Senators voted for the free coinage of
silver contained less people than two
thirds of the State of Ohio.
He prophesied that Senator Harris
remedy would never be as strong in the
future as it had in the past. In his
judgment, the sober convictions of the
people would settle down in favor of the
best standards of money. He would not
consider his duty discharged until some
action was had on the subject. If they
went home without performing the duty
of providing for the treasury every man
of them would be held responsible to
the people. He intimated that he would
make another effort to have the House
bill taken up and acted upon.
Stewart (Pop.) of Nevada said he
could not hold his peace and allow the
false pretense to exist that the House
tariff bill was designed to produce rev.
enue or that there were any necessity
for bill to produce revenue. The most
wicked part of the recent bond sale
was the impounding of the peoples
money in the treasury.
After Stewart had been speaking for
some quarter of an hour Allen (Pop) of
Nebraska expressed regret facetiously
that his Populist colleague had talked
Senators Morrill, and Sherman out of
the chamber
They always leave the chamber
when I talk" Stewart said, with an air
of triumph. 1T is impossible for them
to hear me speak of their misdeeds. :"
Gaughter)
Allen said nothing practical was to
come out Of the discussion. The Sem
ators from Vermont and Ohio had been
permitted to run away after the Sen
ator from Vermont had undertaken to
cast on the Populist party the response
fOr fcf To feaT n
ton. 1t was perfectly willing to as
sumo that responsibility In the absence
of those Senators, he would ask the
Senator from Rhode Island (Aldrich),
who always coached the Senator from
Vermont, whether he was willing to
take the House bill with free silver
coinage amendment to it?
Il say no, sir" Aldrich promptly re-
piled. with as much emphasis as it
is possible for me to use"
would you take the Mckinley Act
with a free coinage provision?" Allen
asked.
The answer mo" came simultaneously
from Aldrich and Platt
Are there any circumstances, AL
len said, under which you would take
free coinage?"
No, sir, Aldr1ch replied, except by
an international agreement
There are no circumstances under
which you are bimetallist," Allen said.
You have lied on the question, if I
may speak metaphorically general
laughter) for three years to my certain
knowledge. For three years you have
stated in this chamber and undertaken
to make people believe that you were a
bimetallist'
The discussion ran on this way all