The record-union., 1896-02-27

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Senate galleries were highly enter
tanned to-day by an outbreak in the
Republican ranks, started by Carter of
Montana, and upheld by Teller of
Colorado.
1t was Carter's first Introduction to
the Senate in the roll of an orator or
leader, and holding as he does the post
Of Chairman of the Republican National
Committee, there was much interest and
Importance attached to his words. He
made an excellent impression at the
start, speaking in slow time and in
soft, well-rounded tones, without any
undue excitement or passion, and he
kept it till the close, when his preoration
was warmly applauded.
The speech was made in Justification
of himself and the other Senators who
had voted against the House tariff bill.
For that vote he said he had ample
justification and no apology. The tariff
bill was not a Republican measure. It
was measure to meet an alleged emer-
gency, which, according to the Presi-
dent, did not exist at all. It afforded
no protection to the American wool
growers, while it took good care of the
American wool manufacturers. As
Senator Morgan a few years ago held
up to ridicule the Presidents Demo-
cratic cuckoos, Carter ridiculed the Re
publicans who sustained the Presidents
sound money policy" as magpies He
appealed to the candid judgment of
honest men as to what Republican
Senators were recreant to their party
those who resisted the obliteration of
the last vestige of legislation in favor
Of silver from the statute books, or
those who sustained President Cleve-
land in that policy.
His speech was followed by a discus
sion Of the money question, in which
Senators Sherman of Ohio and Teller
of Colorado We're the combatants on
either side, and in which hard blows
We're given and received.
This parliamentary storm was sue
ceeded by a dead calm, in which the
Cuban belligerency resolution floated
for an hour or two without making any
perceptible progress.
A bill was presented by Hale (Repl
of Maine for the appointment Of General
Q. o. Howard as Lieutenant-General
on the retired list of the army.
Allen Pop.) Of Nebraska reported a
substitute for the pending Cuban reso-
luton. 1t authorizes and requests the
President to issue a proclamation recog-
nizing the independence of the Republic
of Cuba. He asked that the resolution
lie on the table. Allen referred to the
vote yesterday on taking up the tariff
bill and the statements made by Nor
rill (Rep.) of Vermont and others that
the tariff bill was dead, and stated that
while he did not believe in the policy set
forth in that bill, he believed that if the
Republicans could unite upon it and
would couple with it an amendment
providing for the free coinage of silver
not a substitute-the Populist party in
the Senate would help pass it. The
Populists in the Senate now said to
the protectionist Republicans: eve will
swallow your measure of taxation (the
House tariff bilD, which is nauseating
to US, if you give to the people of the
country more sound money with which
to pay the increased taxation
He said that the Populist votes, added
to the forty-four Republican votes in
the Senate, would carry the House tariff
bill by majority of five, and the Popu-
list Senators would give their votes
for it if the Republican Senators
would vote for the addition to
it Of a free-coinage substitute. He
introduced and sent to the Clerks desk
a bill in that form.
The bill was ordered to be printed as
ar amendment to the House tariff bill.
Lindsay Dem) of Kentucky offered
an amendment instructing the Com
7nittee on Finance, when it reported the
tariff bill back, to do so with a provision
striking off the duty of 10 per cent. on
sugars end the additional one-eighth of
one cent per pound on refined sugars
This amendment practically places all
sugars on the free lis.
carter (Rep) of Montana then ad-
dressed the Senate in explanation of his
vote against taking up the House tariff
bill ON the 18th of February. Carter in
the course of his speech, complained
that four members of the Senate, in
cluding himself. had been indicted by
the leading Eastern journals and pro-
nounced guilty of treason to the Repub-
lican party without trial. Against this
Judgment he set up the fact that the
House tariff bill, which they had helped
TO defeat, was at variance with all past
professions of the Republican party on
the tariff question.
ct is admitted" he said, chat the
House bill is not, and was not, intended
TO be an expression by the party of its
views Tt has and is now distinctly
stated that it is not Republican meas
ure It is to meet an alleged emergency
which the chief executive officer of the
Nation stoutly maintains does not exist
The party. then, is in the attitude Of
forcing alleged relief upon reluctant
Democratic Administration.
Aside from this, Mr.. Carter contend
ed that the method employed was seri-
ouslv objectionable. 1t built upon law
as foundation. The Wilson tariff bill
has been everywhere condemned by
Republicans as notoriously inequitable
and unjust. 1t assumed to protect the
manufacturers and cast the producers
of so-called raw material throughout
the country into open competition with
cheap labor everywhere. The pending
bill now. proposed to make this injust-
ice more glaring. Certain Republicans
of mature Judgment, wide research and
unquestionabIe integrity Of purpose,
had urged the party TO undo by law the
mischief brought about by this law
This element in the party was known
as the free silver element. Recently
certain self-constituted eensors OF
party action had been pleased to de-