The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1896-03-06

Mr.. Teller responded with Intense feel
Ing. He declared that he ana his ID!
yer Republican associates could not
be read out Of the Republican party. 4.
The house passed the Indian apprO-
prtation bill, the sixth of the thirteen
general appropriation bills, and sent
1t to the senate. The house also
passed without debate the Dingley
hill authorizing the secretary of the
treasury to take and kill the Alaskan
seal herd II a mOdus vivendi could not
be concluded before the opening Of
the present season for permanent pro-
lection of the herds with the countries
Interested,
Washington, Feb. %. The tariff
crisis In the senate brought another
day of Intensely dramatic action, Of
impctuOus debate and of stormy per-
sonal colloquy. The speech of Senator
Carter Of Montana, one of the five Re-
publican senators who voted against
proceeding with the tariff bill, was the
main formal event of the day. There
was added interest In the speech ow-
ing to Mr.. Carter's position as chair
man of the Republican national COM
mtttee. The senator used very plain
words In denouncing what he termed
the movement to drive him and his
silver associates out Of the Republican
party. In concluding his speech Mr..
Carter said:
ut is time Republicans who claim
to he within the party should take
their cues from the party platform
rather than from the White House.
If 1t shall occur that this senseless cru
SADIE against the Republicans who be-
lieved in good faith in the Minneapolis
platform when 1t declared for bimetal-
lism as we'll as protection, shall he
carried to such IN extent as may re-
suit in the adoption of President
Cleveland's scheme by the st. Louis
convention, l submit that the Repub-
lican success will be rendered utterly
impossible. If the platform of 1896
announces to the country that the
plank Of bimetallism adopted at Min
neapolis was a delusion, a fraud and
snare, it would be just as we'll for
the Republican party not to make a
nomination at st. Louis at all"
This was but the prelude to more
stirring events. Mr.. Hoar questioned
Mr.. Carter as to whether he intended
to defeat any protective tariff bill I'M
less senators surrendered their con-
victions to him, and whether his con-
struction of the Minneapolis platform
agreed with the construction given to
it by President Harrison. Mr.. Carter
responded, with great vigor that Mr..
Harrison's course had not been all that
was desired. but it was at least q
beacon of hope for the future. But it
was not the construction applicable to
the situation in the senate to-day. Mr..
Gear Qowa) sharply questioned Mr..
Carter upon the circumstances of franz
ing the financial plank Of the Minneap.
oils platform, bringing out that Sen
ators Jones (Nev.) and Teller (Colo.)
had taken part In shaping the docu-
ment. Mr.. Carter asserted that while
this was true, the men who framed
that plank never dreamed that the
English language would permit such
lnisconstruction of its terms. There
upon MI. Gear, referring to Mr. Car
ter's conduct of the national campaign
in 1892, asked If this plank was not
the one by which he CARTER and the
senator from Colorado (Teller) sought
to carry the State of Colorado for the
Republican party. Mr.. Carter replied
that the plank was so accepted he.
cause the Republican party had always
kept its promises, and it was now in
cumbent on that party to again re-
deem its promises.
The reference to MFR. Teller's part in
framing the platform brought him to
his feet with an explanation of what
had been intended and a fiery de.
nunciation of bimetallism of Mr. Sher.
man. The latter in turn arraigned
the dishonesty of the policy of free
silver which would pay the laboring
man in 5O-cent dollar.
The house discussed the Van Horn.
Tarsnev election contest, but no action
was taken. $500.