The Irish standard., 1896-02-29
!. TARIFF. CHATTER
Lively Tilt In the Senate Over the
81 Never Ending Question $ .

( Lively Ill HI Liz 0SUoSS OVSi8 AAtS
ia. Never Ending Question
Washington, D. c., Feb. 25.-ln the
/ senate today during the business of the
morning honr, "a motion was made by
Mr.. Morrill, (Rep., Vt), chairman of the
finance committee. to take up for consid-
GRAFTON and action the house tariff bill.
He called attention to the deficiencies OF
revenue under existing tariff law, and
said that something should be done to
relieve the treasury department and to
! revive the bushes interests Of the
country. The yeas and nays were de-
manded by Senators Stewart and Teller,
and the motion wasYrejected: Yeas, %;
nays, So. as follows:
Yeas -Messrs. Aldrich, Allison, Baker,
Burrows, Cameron, Clark, Cullom, Davis,
Elkins, Gear, Hale, Hansbroush, Haw-
ley Lodge, Mitchell (Oregon), Morrill,.
Nelson. Perkins, Proctor, Quay, Sherman,
Shoup--22.
Nays--Messrs Allen, Bacon, Bate. Ber-
ry, Butler, Caffery, Gordon. Gray, Har-
ris, Hill, Jones (Nevada), Kyle. LINDSAY,
Mantle, Martin, Morgan, Palmer, Pasco.
PETER, Roach, Stewart, Teller, Turner.
Vest, WalthaN, White-333.
When the vote was announced MI.
Morrill, stated that he did not think it
would be becoming in 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 minority in the senate.
Mr.. Teller Rep., COLI took offense at
what he said was the attempt of Mr.. Nor
rill to read the silver Republicans out OF
the party. He notified that senator that
he and his colleagues 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 not
propose to be read out OF the party. They
| would only go when they saw fit. They
could, he assured the senate, get along
as we'll without the party as the party
could without them.
Mr.. Sherman (Rep., Ohio) said that
every day since the passage of the pres
ent law our country had been running
in debt, and there was no occasion for it..
Already there had been issued 1888 ,O00,-
600 of bonds by this administration. The
great body of it was deficiencies OF rev.
enue.
Speaking of the tariff bill MI Sher-
man said: Let us take this bill up, and
if it is not a perfect bill let us make it
So Let us give the government rev
enue. Our duty is not yet performed. Ii
the chairman Of the committee will not
move to take up this bill again | will.
| will make the motion at the proper
time
Mr.. Harris asked Mr.. Sherman why he
did not advise the treasury to issue the
Sc. 600 900 OF seignorage and the balance
OF the silver to meet the deficiency.
Mr.. Sherman, in reply, said that ques-
ton had been tried and tested. The house
of representatives pronounced their de-
nunciation of that most foolish and dan
gerous faiiacv by a vote Of almost to l..
This senate did not represent the people:
it represented the states, and Mr. Sher-
man called attention to the fact that
more than 10 votes cast in the senate
came from states whose aggregate popu-
laticn did not equal ono third that OF the
state of New York Mr.. Sherman warned
Mr.. Harris chat the cause Of free silver
would never be so strong in the future
as it had been in the past. The sober sec
ond thought of the people of this coun-
try, as expressed by their representatives
in the popular branch of congress, was
for sound money and against free coin
age and the sentiment in that direction
was rapidly and surrey growing.
Mr.. Sherman said he would not con-
slider the duty of this congress dis
charged during the session until some
measure had been passed to give the
treasury the relief it needed. II con-
gress failed 10 do this the men RESPONSE
bic therefor will be held severely re-
sponsible when they go home to face
their constituents. In closing up the de-
bate Mr.. Frye rep, Maine.) made an i'm
passioned speech, declaring that he had
been writing to his constituents for
months, and that that bill was dead, and
the votes taken today and two weeks
ago showed that he was right, and that
the bill was as dead as Julius Caesar.
He trusted the bill would not be heard
from again. and that no Republican SEN
ator. no friend Of protection, would ask
the senate to give it any further consid-
Grafton. Let it be dead, and let the re-
sponsibility lie where it belongs.