The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-27
SILVER BEFORE THE SENATE.
allen OF NEBRASKA MAKES An
AMUSING OFFER.


list senator's I'm Favor of the House
raria Bill If the Republican Sena-
,ors VIII in Refrigeration Vote
for Free Coinage at 10 to 1-Chafr-
man Carter of the Republican Ma
,ionaI Committee Makes His
Maiden speech.
Washington Feb. 26.-In the Senate to-
s,, Mr.. Cameron presented the petition
ri -be GIassblower Bottle Blowers AssO-
carton Of the United States and Canada
,,-ring the re-enactment of the free coin
.,-e laws at the ratio Of 16 to /.
The army appropriation bill was report
Oh and placed on the calendar. 1t calls
FOR total appropriation of 81. 40a. The
senate committee increased the amount
nj the House bill by $500 only.
Mr. Allen. pop, of Nebraska, offered a
substitute for the pending Cuban resOlu-
tion. 1t authorizes and requires the Pres
ideut to issue a proclamation recognizing
+be Independence of the province of Cuba.
ne asked that the resolution lie on the
table.
Mr. Allen referred to the vote yesterday
ON taking up the tariff bill and the state
nents made by Mr.. Morrill, and others
about the tariff bill and stated that, while
he did not believe in the policy set forth
In that bill, yet if the republicans could
mite upon ii and would couple with II
an amendment providing for the free
coinage of silver-not a subshtute-the
pooulist party in the Senate would help
pass il.
The populists in the Senate now said to
the protectionist republicans: We will
swallow your measure of taxation (the
House tariff bilD, which is nauseating,
which is unjust. if you give to the people
If the country more sound money with
which to pay the increased taxation.
He sent to the clerks desk and had read
an extract from ons OF MT Mch sl
purpose of showing that the chief apostle
of protection in this country condemned
Mr. Cleveland in 1888 for the demoneti-
zation of silver; for the purpose of show
ing that the republican party outside of
congress, claims one thing BEFORE the peo-
pie and that the republican party in con-
gress claims and votes for an entirely diff
ferent thing, and for the purpose of show
ing the absolute good faith of the popu-
Bsf party He said that the populst 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
without the dctting of an or the
crossing of I'D, If the republican SEN
ators would vote for the addition to II
Of a free coinage substitute. He intro
MIR. Baker. rep, of Kansas, asked Mr..
Allen if he would pledge himself and his
party to vote for tariff bill with a
proviso for the free coinage of American
silver only. Mr.. Allen replied that he
could not pledge his party one way or the
other; but for himself he would not do it,
because it was not free coinage. The bill
was ordered TO be printed as an amend
ment to the House tariff bill.
Mr.. Carter rep, of Montana, then adj
dressed the Senate in explanation of his
vote against taking up the House tariff
question on Feb 10. MIR. Carter was still
speaking to a deeply interested audience
when the morning hour expired, and the
Cuban resolution came up as the unfln-
ished business, but, at the instance Of
Messrs. Sherman, Hoar and Frye. who all
rose simultaneously, the Cuban resolution
was temporarily laid aside and Mr.. Carter
was permitted to finish his speech, which
he did al 215 o'clock, his peroration be-
ing generally applauded.
1t was Mr.. Carters first Introduction
to the Senate IN the role of an orator or.
leader, and, holding as-he does the
post of chairman of the republican ma
uonal committee, there was much inter-
est 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 mis- peroration was warmly
applauded. The speech was made in justi-
iication of himself and the other republic
can senators who had voted against taxi
ing up the House tariff bill. For that
vote he said, he had ample justification
and no apology. The tariff bill was not
a republican measure. 1t was a measure
TO meet an alleged emergency, which ac-
cording to the President did not exist at
ALL 1t afforded no protection TO the
American wool growers, while it took
good care of the American wool manufac-
turers. AS Senator Morgan a few years
ago held up to ridicule the Presidents
democratic cuckoos, so Mr.. Carter ridi-
culed the republicans who sustained the
Presidents sound money policy as mag
pies. He appealed to the candid judg-
ment of honest men as to which republi-
cans 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 sus-
famed President Cleveland in that policy.
Ills speech was followed by a discussion
Of the money question in which Messrs.
sherman and Teller were the combatants,
on either side, and in which hard blows
were given and received.
Fhis parliamentary storm was succeed
ed by dead calm, in which the Cuban
belligerency resolution floated for an hour
or two without making perceptible prog
ress. At BIO O'Clock the Senate, after a
snort executive session, adjourned until
tomorrow
The Senate to-day confirmed the follow
ing nominations of postmasters: North
Garolina-W. F. Marshall, Gastonia; ]. a.
Little, Wadesboro; w. N. Pritchard,
Ohapel Hill; w. d. Caster, Fayetteville.