The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-07-24
Senate Will Pass Tariff Bill This
Afternoon.
BALLOTING WILL BEGIN BY
AGREEMENT AT 8 O'CLOCK.
proposition to Close Debate Emanated
From the Democratic Side-Senate Will
Meet at 10 a. m.-The Debate Yesterday
Very Lively.

Washington, July 90 The final vote on
the tariff conference report will be taken
IN the Senate at 8 p. m. tomorrow. An
unanimous agreement to the effect was
reached in the Senate late this afternoon
after an exciting and dramatic debate.
Ihe proposition for the final vote came
most unexpectedly from Democratic
sources, the senior Senator from Ala
bama, Mr.. Morgan, presenting it. 1t
was greeted with shouts of ''good, good, !"
from Senators on the Republican side
who for the first time saw the path clear
Ior the final enactment of the tariff bill.
Mr.. Morgan's proposition was coupled
With one that the Senate meet at 10 a. m
tomorrow in order that speeches may be
heard before the vote is taken. This was
accepted as a whole, and the agreement
was formally announced. Mr.. Morgan
expressed profound reluctance in submit
| ting to the opposition, but said he recog-
nized the right of the majority to register
| their wilk
Washington, July 23.-There was no out
ward evidence when the Senate met today
that the session was fast drawing to a
close, although senators gathered in
groups and discussed the prospects of
getting away.
| A House bill was passed authorizing
the President to suspend discriminating
duties imposed ON foreign vessels and
commerce.
| Mr.. Allison then moved to proceed with
the tariff conference report but Mr.. Till
man contested this with motion to take
up the resolution, adversely reported yes
terday, for an investigation of alleged
Senatorial speculation in sugar stock.
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speech when Mr.. Allison made the point
OF order that debate was not in order and
the presiding officer sustained the point.
| Mr.. Tillman thereupon asked for yea
and nay vote on which his motion was
lost, yea Is, nay 35.
: The consideration of the tariff confer
ence report was then resumed and Mr..
Teller took the floor for a gen eral speech.
He said he did not favor the pending bill
and did not believe it would accomplish
the purpose of its friends. Its passage,
however, would dispose of the question
and enable Congress to devote its inten-
t1on to other subjects. He regarded the
money question as the paramount one.
| The last campaign was not. in his
l opinion, an endorsement of the gold stan
dard. A great many people who voted for
the Republican candidate did not believe
in the gold standard but felt that the
tariff question was more important than
| CnaG aueCUlnG unhnC0.
Mr.. Teller turned his attention to the
present methods of the last campaign. 1t
was the most remarkable contest In our
history, he said remarkable for the agen-
cies set at work and the methods en-
ployed for the first time. A system of
| terrorism, of deception, of fraud, the
like of which had never before been seen
| was put into operation and having been
| successful in this the senator expressed
| the fear that such methods had become a
permanent part of our political system,
| until the people were aroused and repudi-
ated them. If any one challenged these
statements Mr.. Teller would go into de-
tails
We would show that the press had
teemed with falsehoods as to the Demo-
ratio candidate who was charged with
having views which he had expressed re-
pudiated More than one Republican
speaker had been forced to take back his
SANDERS The same method of misrepre-
sentation were directed against the Demo-
cratic platform. The senator referred to
the intolerance and bigotry of Republican
speakers, saying their bitternss exceeded
that of the hated days of the civil war.
| Thy denounced those who disagreed with
them as Anarchist" and Socialists, :"
arraigning them as attempting to debase
and cheat the public credit and assum-
ing that the Republican organization was
the sole depository of integrity.
Mr.. Teller spoke ironically of Republi-
can promises Of prosperity, first during
the election, then preceding the inaugu-
ration, then when the tariff bill was
| framed
None of those hopes had been realized
and none would be.
The senator said he had not found a
man in the Senate who was satisfied with
the pending bill except perhaps the Re
publican members of the committee and
this certainly was the limit of those who
approved of the BILL 1t was caucus bill,
the caucus ruling as never before, and in
only one instance being overruled. The
bill was, he asserted, full of absurdities
and inequalities, if not of crime. 1t was
vicious, unfair, extravagant and unsatis-
factory. and yet if a measure had been
brought before the Senate in proper form,
a just bill and not one for trusts and
syndicates, there were enough votes in
the Senate to pass it, even if every Demo-
cratic vote was recorded against it,
| The Senator then went into the details
of the bill in particular criticizing the
provisions as to agriculture and labor and
severely commenting on the action of the
conference com mittee in abandoning the
tax on stocks and bonds.