Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-03-03
A PERSONAL DEBATE FRIENDLY TO C11RA
TARIFF CRISIS IN THE SENATE RE-
SUITS IN ANOTHER STORMY DAY.
Silver Republicans Take Issue With
Their Brethren of tho East-Fo mar
Al!cge That the Party Platform of

Silver Republicans Take Issue Will,
Al'cge That the Party Platform of
'9s Is NIisconstrued.
WASHINGTON, Feb 27.-The tariff
crisis in the senate brought another
day of intensely dramatic action, of i'm
petuous debate and Of stormy personal
colloquy. The speech Of Senator Car
ter of Montana, one of the five Repub-
ican senators who voted against pro-
ceeding with the tariff bill, was the
main formal event Of the day. There
was added interest in the speech, owing
to Mr.. Carriers position as chairman of
the Republican national committee.
The senator used very plain words in
denouncing what he termed the move
nlent to drive him and his silver asso-
ciates out of the Republican party.
This, however, was but the prelude to
more stirring events. Mr.. Hoar ques-
toned Mr.. Garter as to whether he
intended to defeat any protective tariff
bill unless senators
Surrendered Their Convictions to Him,
and whether his construction of the
Minneapolis platform agreed with the
construction given to it by President
Harrison. Mr.. Carter responded with
great vigor that Mr.. Harri sons course
had not been all that was desired, but
it was at least a beacon of hope for the
future. But it was not the construc-
ton applicable to the situation in the
senate today. Mr.. Gear of Iowa sharply
questioned Mr.. Garter upon the circum-
stances Of framing the financial plank
of the Minneapolis platform, br nging
out that Senators Jones of Nevada and
Teller of Colorado had taken part in
shaping the document. Mr.. Carter as.
serted that while this was true the men
who framed that plank never dreamed
that the English language would
permit
Such Wisconsin uction of Its Terms
Thereupon Mr.. Gear, referring to Mr..
Carriers conduct of the national cam
paign 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
because the Republican party had al
ways kept it's promises, and it was now
incumbent OH that party to again re-
deem it's promises. The references to
Mr. Teller's part i'll framing the plat
form brought him to his feet with an
explanation Of what had been intended
and a fiery denunc. alton Of the b4met-
allism of Mr.. Sherman. The latter in
turn arraigned the dishonesty of the
policy Of free silver which would pay
the laboring man in 50-cent dollar.
Mr.. Sherman prophesied that even Col
orado
Would Re ject the Free Silver Idea
and accept true bimeta}lism. To this
Mr.. Teller rejoined with intense feel
ing that Colorado would never follow
the course suggested by the Ohio sena-
tor, and, if she did, he (Teller) would
cease to represent that state. He pre-
dlcted that free silver was not dead, as
Mr.. Sherman had asserted, but that it
was a living corpse which would rise in
the senate to perplex Mr.. Sherman.
MIR. Teller closed with the imprisoned
utterance that the glorious past Of the
party would lie oblitcrated
if it committed the infamy Of follow
ing the financial leadership of Mr..
Sherman.
The latter part of the day was given
to the Cuban resolutions, EIr. White Of
California arguing that the executive
was the proper branch to grant recog-
milton Of belligerency.