The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-07-24
TELLER CALLS IT A CRIME
4 SEVERE, DRAMATIC ARRAIGN.
 MENT OF THE TARIFF.

MENT OF THE TARIFF.
 Says That it Is Framed at the Behest of
 the Trusts-AIludes to the designation
 of President Andrews and Says 1t Shows
 the Trend of Opinion Among Capitalists
 Galleries Applaud Him.
 Washington, July 23.-The trumpet blast of revolt on the tariff bill for which everyone in Washington has been watching for several days was sounded to-day by MT. Teller in the senate. He began his speech against the bill this afternoon with great mod eration of manner, rehearsing the story of the last presidential campaign. say- ing that the republican party, although committed to the gold standard, had re- fused to make the money question the paramount issue, but had everywhere pushed the tariff to the front. Hence the party was absolutely bound to pass a new tariff law. But the people were assured that this change should not be a return to the Mckinley tariff of 1890. Nevertheless, the senators who believe in the principle of protection are call- ed upon to vote for a tariff bill which was prepared in the other house, where the republicans are in an overwhelming majority, and can do what they please.
 He 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 certainly that was the limit of those who approved the measure It was caucus bill the caucus ruling never before, and in only one instance being overruled. The bill was, he as- serted, full of absurdities and inequal- ities, if not of crime. It was vicious, unfair, extravagant and unsatisfactory bill. 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 democratic vote was recorded against it. The senator then went into the details of the bill in particular crit- icislng its provisions as to agriculture and labor and severely commenting on the action of the conference comrnittee in abandoning the tax on stocks and bonds
 After examining the annual expendit- ures of the government, MT. Teller de- clared that the tariff bill would not produce sufficient revenue and that 1t would fail in its purpose of being a revenue measure.
 MT. Teller spoke sarcasticaily of the reports that the president would rec commend the creation of as currency commission. It was stated too, he said, that the secretary of the treasury had { call to his aid that remarkable agency. the Indianapolis monetary convention. a combination of self constituted econC- mists, who got together in behalf of the gold standard. The senator in indig- nant tones said he resented this sug- gestion that the president would say to congress Authorize me to pick out a commission of ten men to tell you what to do on the financial question:" The American people were not yet ready to turn over the great monetary question to commission or to the Indianapolis convention. He believed the people themselves would settle that question and settle 1t rightly in 1900.
 The house and senate were comnlis- stoned by the people to legislate and he intimated that the president was dis- courteous to congress to ask that 1t be taken out of their hands. Mir. Teller next referred to the enforced resigna- tion of President Andrews because of his advocacy of the free coinage of sil- yer, which he denounced as one of the
 most shameful acts of abasement the ! world had ever seen. Thank God" said he in impassioned tones, "that President Andrews was big enough to refuse to be stified."
 The trustees of the university de- clared that President Andrews was not i in accord with the views of the great patrons of that institution. This dem. onstrated, said MT. Teller, the methods which those millionaires who had grown rich by robbery and robbery pursued. Their influence compelled the
 trustees of a great educational instttu- | tion to force from the head of the in
 stitution an eminent educator because
 his continuance might alienate some of
 the patrons of the college.
 l There was not a big college in Europe, MT. Teller continued, that did
 not have one or more professors who were to-day teaching the economic doc- trines which President Andrews held
 He made this statement, he said, on
 the authority of a professor of Ox-
 ford. In no other country of en1ighten-
 ment and decency save this could such
 a thing have occurred, said MT. Teller.
 He characterized it as one of the most | infamous chapters in one hundred years of our history, not because a l famous educator had been turned out, | but because it showed the trend of pub- lie opinion.
 Mir Teller announced that he had no desire to return to the folds of the
 republican party. The galleries broke into applause as the Colorado senator | took his seat. So pronounced was the demonstration that MT. Faulkner, who
 was in the chair, was obliged to rap
 vigorously for order and to warn the
 occupants of the galleries that If the demonstration was repeated the gall | leries would be cleared.
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