The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-20
The Proceedings.

Washington, Feb 19.-Immediately
upon the closing of the doors of the
senate, the general treaty of arbitra-
ton with Great Britain was taken up
for consideration, and Mr.. Nelson of
Minnesota made another speech urg-
ing that action be postponed until the
senate convened on March 9Th next.
He called attention to the press of
business on the senate calendar and
dwelt especially upon the need for the
passage Of some form of bankruptcy
act.
Mr.. Platt of Connecticut again an
tagonized postponement, believing that
the best interests of the country de-
manded immediate action.
Mr.. Frye of Maine, who, as stated
yesterday, was inclined to think post
ponement would be the proper course
come out this morning in a short but
spirited speech advocating action by
the senate today.
Senator Stewart of Nevada strongly
urged postponement and was followed
by Senator Teller of Colorado in the
same vein.
Mr.. Teller, as a member of the COM
mittee on appropriations, told his col
leagues that the senate would have al
it could do to pass remaining apprO-
priation bills between now and March
4th.
The demand for an immediate vote
was made almost as soon as the doors
We're closed by Senators Lodge and
Frye, each OF whom spoke for five min
utes.
Mr.. Teller promptly retorted that no
vote on the treaty itself could be had
and the debate that then began indi-
Gates that il is the intention of the
opponents to wear out the senate until
in sheer desperation it is willing TO
vote to postpone
No M ha troa ~ 1,a lie,
cussed in full on the motion to post
pone, and this was done.
In the course Of his argument Mr.
Teller said that he was not prepared to
say that he should not vote for the
arbitration treaty. He favored tho
principle of arbitration, but the treaty
had been badly drawn. and he be
lieved there should be ample time for
its consideration. The more the treaty
was discussed the more prominent be-
came the objections that had been
made to it. The senate Mr. Teller
said, ought not to be called upon to
vote upon so important a question at
this late day in the session. The state
department had been four years ir
framing a treaty which it believed to
be now perfect, but which the majority
of the senate knew did not protect the
interest of the American people If
the state department, with its men
skilled in diplomatic procedure, had
been four years in preparing a treaty, /
why, Nh. Teller asked, would the ad- /
rninistration and the country be so
insistent that the senate should deal
finally with the subject in a few /
weeks?
Mr.. Daniel of Virginia made one of |
those speeches, finished in oratory and /
rhetoric, for which ne is noted. He
addressed the senate for upwards of |
two hours. and made powerful i'm
preston. He was against the treaty
and advanced some of the stroneasr
arguments that have yet been heard.
War was not bad thing, Mr.. Daniel
said, when the nation that went to war
had the right on its side and was up
holding the honor and integrity of its
people. The United States was the
only country that Great Britain feared
and if she could put us under bonds to
keep the peace, Great Britain would
go ahead with her policy of aggression
and ACKNOWLEDGMENT and laugh at any
protest that we might make, or defy
any position we might assume against
her oppression of the peoples of the
western hemisphere; The American
people were a people of peace; the
policy of the country for hundred
and twenty years had been one of
peace. 1t had arbitrated its decision
references time and again and was
pledged to that principle, but when il
went into solemn compact for that
purpose with Great Britain there
should be an equality of terms. The
United States had everything TO lose
by the treaty and Great Britain every
to gain. The congress of the United
States had never declared war unless
such war was justifiable: the United
States had never acquired any terri
tory by war unless as the result of a
war that was of defense or necessary
for the perpetuation of the republic.
Il love the blood of the revolution"
said Mr.. Daniel in one of his imDas-
stoned utterances. 1T is full Of all
that is great and noble in the history
Of this country