St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-26

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before. The suggestion is that we who
nave not voted to take up this bill are
not Republicans. For thirty days the
great Republican metropolitan press
has read out of that party enough
members to make it in the minority, if
| it had heretofore a majority here. Ev-
| cry man who voted for the free coin
age amendment to the bond BILL no
matter what was his motive for vot-
! ing for it, whether he was a free coin
| age man, and anxious to promote that
| purpose and that end, or whether he
was against the bill, has been read out
of the Republican party by the Repub-
! lican press. AT the proper time, I am
| prepared to show that the great metro
! politan Republican press has declared
! that eighteen members Of this body
| are not worthy to be called Repub-
| Icans, and we have been notified
| that unless we change our views upon
| the financial questions and submit to
! the Cleveland Democracy and Morrill,
| Republicanisrn of this country on the
| financial question, we must
GO OUT OF THE PARTY,
"Mr. President, we can get along
without the party as well as the party
can get along without US. But we
deny the right of either the newspa-
pers or members of the committee on
finance to read us out of the party. We
w
ready to go out, and we shall discuss
those questions that are so important,
not from a partisan standpoint, but
from the standpoint of an American
senator, charged with great things,
charged with doing that which the SEN
ate has shown itself incompetent to do,
and nobody more incompetent than the
men who voted for the gold proposition
of this administration; charged to
bring to this country prosperity, which
has been denied to it under our legisla-
ton for twenty years; charged to de-
wise some system that shall satisfy
the people that we can enter upon that
degree of prosperity to which we are
entitled by reason OF advantages Whlch
exist in this country.
81 wish to enter my protest and to
say that I am not to be fr1ghtend
by the sneers Of the chairman of the
committee nor by the attacks Of
the press. 1 shall do what I think it
Is my duty to do here, regardless of
consequences, and it seems to me that
it would be in better taste and more
in accordance with the dignity of the
senate if we should hear less and else
where about our partisan duty"
SHERMAN TAKES A HAND.
Mr.. Sherman, Of Ohio, followed Mr.
Teller, and said: "Mr. President, as a
member of the committee on finance,
l disclalm all partisan feeling in re-
spect to that bill which the senator
| from Vermont moves to bring before
the senate. That bill does not belong
to any party; 1t is not the representa-
tive of any party. The only merit in
| the bill is that it proposes to furnish
$40,00O,000 of revenue for the support
| of the government; enough to meet the
current expenses of the government.
1t is bill prepared for an occasion,
not political one. I say now, Mr..
President, 1 shall vote for any tax
whatever. which may be proposed by
anybody, whether Democrat, Populist
or Republican, which shall supply
sufficient revenue for the support of
the government.
1T is disgrace to our civilization;
1T is disgrace to the country itself,
that we are now eXpending $50, 900, 900
| a year more than the receipts of the
| government, and that congress now in
| session with both houses fully armed
with power to furnish the revenue is
| idle and refuses to act. l will vote
| for tax on tea, on coffee, on any
| thing in order to meet this deficiency
| and l say that if the present congress
| does adjourn in the face of the dec
| larations now made to us, out of Off
! cial representatives sent to us of the
| statements made by the president of
| the United States and Of the secretary
| of the treasury that we are going on
| day by day like a careless spendthrift
| to involve the country in debt, selling
| bonds when it is the duty of congress
at once to supply the revenue"
PETERS PUT IN.
| Mr.. Peffer-The president asserts
| that we do not need any more reve-
| nue..
Mr.. Sherman do not care what
| the president says.
Mr.. Peffer-I thought so.
| Mr.. Sherman: Every man within the
sound Of my voice knows that we need
more revenue. There is a statement
showing that since the first day Of July
| and up to the present month of Febru-
| ary, 1886, there has already been a de-
| fciency in the current revenue of $780,
/ 696,000, and that before the end of the
| fiscal year, at the same ratio the
amount Of deficiency will be $50, 900, 000
If such a condition should occur in
Great Britain or any other country
where they have parliamentary law
it would dethrone any party in power
and an immediate effort would be made
to increase the income tax or to provide
| some other form of taxation to meet
| the current expenses Yet now and
| every day and every hour since the
| passage Of the present law and even
before, in view of it's passage, we have
! been running in debt and increasing
our debts. There is no occasion for it.
| A tax on tea and coffee would be paid
chiefly by the people of the United
States. Any tax whatever, the most
obnoxious that could be collected,
would be supported by the people Of the
| United States rather than see the debt
| increase. Already 1858 200, 900 of bonds
have been issued during the present ad-
! miristration. The issuance of the
| great body of these bonds was made
necessary by deficiency Of revenue,
and as for the remainder, it was caused
! by the doubt whether under this pro-
cess of financiering we should be able
! to maintain the standard Of our money
| In this country.
"Sir, I have not one word to say
about Populists; l have not one word
! to say to wound my friend, the senator
frcm Colorado (Mr Teller, or any one
else; do not wish to arraign any indi-
vidual, but what l do Is to appeal to
the senate Of the United States. The
other house having sent us over
SO FAULTY A BILL,
| let US take it up, and if it is not right.
let us make it right and send it back to
| the house, and we will have a ready
concurrence, but for us to adjourn
with those DEFICIENCIES accruing more
! and more is, as l say, not manly ac-
ton to be taken by either of the parties
or by any party that is responsible for
| it. Any private citizen who would pur-
sue such course in his financial af-
| fairs, however rich he may be, would
soon lose his credit and his reputation
for solvency and good sense. There
is no poverty in this country, no un-
! will