The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-24

WASHINGTON, July 23.-The final
vote on the tariff conference report
will be taken in the senate at p. m.
tomorrow. A unanimous agreement
to that effect was reached in the SEN
ate late this afternoon after an excit-
ing and dramatic debate The propo-
sition for the final vote came most un-
eXpectedly from Democratic sources,
the senior senator from Alabama Mr.,
Morgan, presenting it. 1t was greeted
with shouts of good, good" from sem
ators on the Republican side, who, for
the first time, saw the path clear for
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 re-
luctance in submitting the proposi-
ton, but said he recognized the right
of the majority to register its will.
The agreement was preceded by the
most heated personal colloquy that has
occurred during the consideration of
the tariff bill. Senators Foraker and
Allen joined issue over Mr.. Aliens
charges Of fraud In the Ohio elections
of last year. 1t led to such epithets
as ''balderdash' and to pointed refer
ences to the methods of court "peti-
toners" The early part of the day
was given to speeches against the bill
by Senator'S Teller, White and Pettus.
Mr.. Allison, as soon as the senate
convened, moved to proceed with the
tariff conference report, but Mr.. Till
man contested this with a motion to
take UP his resolution. adversely re-
ported yesterday, for an investigation
of alleged senatorial spH hulation III
Sugar stock. Mr.. Tillman was about
to begin a speech when Mr.. Allison
made the point of order that de|e.,e
was not in order and the presiding
officer sustained the point. Mr.. Tillman
thereupon asked for a yea and nay
vote, on which his motion was lost,
yeas Is, nays 80. Those who voted for
the motion were: Allen, Bacon, Bate,
Berry, Cannon, Chiffon, Clay, Harris,
Kenny, Mills, Roach, Tillman, Turley,
Turner and Walthall
The consideration of the tariff con-
ference report was then resumed, and
Mr. Teller (Col.) took the floor for a
general speech. He said he did not
favor the pending bill, and did not be-
lieve it would accomplish the purposes
of it's friends. Its passage, however,
would dispose of the question and en-
able congress to devote its attention
to other subjects. He regarded the
money question as the paramount one.
The last campaign was not, in his judg-
ment, an Endorsement of the gold stand
ard. 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 i'm
|
Mr.. Teller spoke ironically of Repub-
lican promises of prosperity first during
the election. then preceding Inaugural
tion then when the tariff bill was franz
ed. The senator said he had not found
man in the senate who was satisfied
with the pending bill, except perhaps,
the Republican members of the finance
committee, and certainly that was the
limit of those who approved the meas
ure. The bill was, he asserted, full Of
absurdity and inequalities If not of
crime. 1t was a vicious, unfair, ex-
travagant and unsatisfactory bill.
Mr.. Teller stated that great sums of
money had been used in the last cam
paign by the successful party. He
had heard it said that the Republican
party had spent more money in the
last campaign than in all the previous
campaigns of it's origin. 1T would be
worth a mint of money" exclaimed
Mr.. Teller, "if we could know what
the Sugar trust gave, what the Stand
ard Oil company gave, and what the
great financial concerns gave"
Mr. Teller spoke sarcastically of the
reports that the president would
recommend the creation of a currency
commission. The American people
were not yet ready to turn over the
great monetary question to a commis=
sion or to the Indianapolis convention.
10 themselves
would settle that question and settle
| it rightly in 1900. The house and sem
| ate We're commissioned by the people
to legislate, and he intimated that the
president was diScOurteOuS to congress
| to ask that it be taken out of their
| hands. Mr.. Teller next referred to the
| enforced resignation Of President An
| drews, of Brown university, announced
| today, because Of his advocacy of the
free coinage of silver, which he de-
nounced as one of the most shameful
acts of abasement the world had ever
seen. THANK God,'' said he, In i'm
| passioned tones, that President An
drews was big enough to refuse to be
stifed."
In conclusion Mr.. Teller announced
that he had no desire to return to the
folds of the Republican party The
galleries broke into continued applause
as the Colorado senator took his seat.
Mr.. White (CaI) followed Mr. Teller
He read a carefully prepared speech
dealing with the general questions in
volved in the bill The great trusts
and corporations, he said, knew what
they were doing when they invested
their money in the Republican party
last fall They would not only get the
principal back as the result Of the
enactment Of this bill, but they would
get compound interest at higher rates.
Mr.. White was particularly severe in
his criticisms Of the silk schedule in
which, he said, the rates when trans
lated into ad valorems ranged from
30 per cent to 700 per cent. He said
this schedule would still further COM
plicate our trade with China and
Japan. In general, he said, that one of
the worst features of the bill was the
commercial warfare it everywhere
| challenged.
When Mr.. White closed at the end of
about an hours speech, Mr.. Mantle
| (Sil. Rep, Mont.) briefly expressed his
regret that the senate ,conferees had
not been able to retainein the bill cot
| ton ties. and cotton bagging and mat
ting and those other things which the
senate, by a yea and nay vote had