Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1896-03-04
CONGRESS NEWS
Interesting Items Cleaned at
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All the Important Doings in
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corded Weekly.

minister and his corps of spies, ano
the Spanish lobby in Washington arr
all working along the same lines, t.
defer Congressional action in favor O
the Cubans and to prevent the
Cubans getting aid from private
parties in the United States, and 1t Is
not to be wondered at that there are
whispers of bargain. There are
certainly grounds for suspicion that
such is the case. 1t is well known
that Mr.. Cleveland has been and is al
this time using all his influence to get
congress to postpone definite action
and failing in that to have the action
of such a nature that it will not be
binding on him, and it is said that he
has positively promised the Spanish
minister that this government would
take no step likely to strengthen the
Cubans before next June. 1t is also
well known that there is strong
lobby, we'll supplied with money,
working on Congress in behalf of
Spain. These things together with
the whole power of the administra
ton being at the back and call of the
Spanish minister to be used when
ever and wherever he suspects that a
fllibustering expedition is about to
leave the United States for
Cuba are not calculated to increase
public confidence in an administra
ton already tainted by its past acts.
A more senseless bluff was never
made on the floor of the Senate than
that of Senator Allen, of Neb. Hav-
ing first ascertained by publicly
questioning Senators Aldrich, Platt
and Hawley that his propositions
would not be accepted by the repub-
icans, Mr.. Allen gravely proposed in
the name of the six Populist senators,
that they would furnish the votes
necessary to add an amendment to
that bill providing for the free coin
age of silver. And all this, mind you,
on the floor of the Senate in open
session.
No man who heard Senator Sher-
mans short speech after the Senate
had for the second time voted against
of the House tariff bill
could doubt the intense feeling that |
lay behind his words. There is no !
question about his having meant |
every word when he said: 1T is a
disgrace to our civilization; it is dis
grace to the country itself that we
are now expanding $3O,O0O,O0O a
year more than the receipts of the
and that Congress now
i0 session. with both houses fully arm
I'd with power to furnish the revenue,
is Idle and refuses to act. / will vote
for tax On tea, coffee, on anything,
in order to meet this deficiency, and |
say that if the present Congress does
adjourn in the face ofdeclarations now
made to us, of the official report sent
us; of the statements made by the
President of the United States and
he Secretary of Treasury that we
are now going on day by day like a
spend.hrift to involve the
country in debt, selling bonds when
it is the duty of Congress at once to
supply the revenue" At this point
Senator, PETER interrupted to say that
the President asserted that we did
not need additional revenue. Quick
as a flash Senator Sherman retorted
in tones sharper than he has known
to use for years, g do not care what
The President says. Every man with
in the sound of my voice knows that
We need more revenue"
Chairman DINGHY, of the House
Ways and Means committee, said of
The fate of the tariff bill which bore
his name: "Of course this ends all
chances for the passage of any reve-
nHe bill. BY solid democratic and
populist vote making in themselves a
without the votes of the five
free silver republicans who joined
hem the Senate has said that it will
not have the forty millions of revenue
3fered by the House bill to prevent
fnrther deficiencies. The House has
aone its duty in offering revenue, but
his majority of the Senate assumes
lac full responsibility fol refusing it;
nd no doubt President Cleveland is
grateful to them for relieving him
rom the different position he would
as4Ee occupied if the bill had reached
sitn and he had interposed veto.