The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-06-04

again made good progress on the tariff
bill today, covering about ten pages of
the metal schedule and almost com
pleIing it.
The formal contest against the meas
ure was maintained, but all amend
ments tending to change the bill as
presented were voted down and the
finance committee sustained.
The debate was mainly of a techni-
cal character, the Republican senators
continuing the policy of refraining
from making speeches.
TILLMAN AND SUGAR
( Before the tariff bill was taken up.
Senator Tillman, of South Carolina,
gave the senate another hour of ex-
citing controversy over the proposed
sugar investigation. He defended
himself from published charges rela-
tive to his administration of the gov
ernorship of South Carolina, and then
moved that the committee having
charge of the sugar resolution be dis
charged from further consideration of
it, thus bringing the subject directly
/ before the senate.
Mr.. Gallinger, of New Hampshire, in
behalf of the committee, made
spirited protest against this course. and
also urged that the senate should not
\ turn aside from its publid work TO in
vestigate charges affecting the private
| character of senators.
There were frequent lively exchanges
between Mr.. Tsllman, Mr.. Gallinger
| and Mr.. Jones, of Nevada, but in the
end Mr.. Tillman withdrew his motion.
a bill was passed for a public build
| ing at San Angelo, Texas, to cost $780,,
600
BLEACHING BONES.
Mr.. Vest of Missouri, offered a reso-
luton, which was adopted, reciting
that the skeletons of the American
soldiers killed at Buena Vista in 1S47
were now exhumed aand asking the
state department to investigate the
subject and report the facts to con-
gress. A letter was read in this con-
nection from Consul-General Critten-
! den saying the matter should receive
the attention of the authorities at
Washington. A Clipping was enclosed
stating that the bones of American
soldiers were bleaching in the sun.
Mr.. Tillman began his statement by
presenting a newspaper clipping which
referred to charges made against him
in connection with his administration
while governor of South Carolina.
These charges. he declared, were stale.
He had met them before and he read
an open letter written to the people of
South Carolina, characterizing the
charges as ISLANDERS. This was an at
tempt to divert attention from the
sugar scandal the senator declared;
but the attempt would fail. All the
crimes in the decalogue had been
charged against him. He had appealed
TO his people, and they had sustained
him, sending him to the senate after
a heated canvass. Now the same old
eggs were brought forward. If any
man desired to look into his character,
Mr.. Tillman said, he courted the fullest
inquiry. And any other senator,
| against whom there was breath of
scandal, should have the charges
probed to the bottom and the scandal
dispelled. ~
Mr.. GalIinger then secured recogni-
ton for a statement of the attitude of
I the committee.
STING OF FALSE CHARGES.
Every man in public life feels the
sting of false charges" he said, land
must the senate pause every time such
accusations are brought up to spend
its time and the money of the United
States in pursuing these charges? II
that was the case then there would
never be a tariff bill or any other bill.
AS for himself, Mr.. Gallinger said, he
would decline to enter into an inquiry
as TO the character of the senator from
South Carolina or any other senator
In its own good time and after the
resolution had been carefully examined
there would be & report to the senate
Mr.. Gallinger stated.
Here Mr. Vest suggested that there
was a precedent for ignoring charges
against the personal character of a
senator. He cited the attitude of Sen
ator Thurman when an investigation
was proposed against one of his asso-
ciates. He had held that the courts
were open for private redress and thai
it was not for the senate to undertake
to right private wrong.
Mr.. Tillman was again on his feet
The newspapers were trying to make
fire in his rear, he said, while he
was engaged in a fire in front. His
resolution simply sought to determine
whether the finance committee wa:
the creature of the Sugar trust, wheth-
Ter senators were the tools and paiC
agents of the Sugar trust" or whether
they were here performing their dutie:
as honorable men.
Mr.. Gallinger, proceeding, said the
people of each senator's state mus
pass upon his character. Intimation!
and vague charges had been made
against the members of the finance
committee and against the senator
from New Jersey (Smith), Mr.. Gal
linger said. Senators needed no inves
tigation to show the charges wer'
false.
SENATORS VS.. REPORTERS.
The senator from Rhode Island. Mr.
Aldrich, a leading member of tn
finance committee, had arisen an'
made a complete and sweeping denia
to the senate; so that. declared tn
senator, it was the word of Nelson A
Aldrich against that OF the correspon
dent of a New York newspaper. Which
was the senate to accept? Was Their
to be a moments hesitation in accept
ing the statement of Mr.. Aldrich?
Can Senator Aldrich and the com
mittee deny a hearing queried MI
Tillman, when the paper making tn
charge offered to appear and prove tn
charger" s
Mr.. Gallinger said this investigation
of charges might &c on indefinitely
| Suppose another paper made anothe
+. charge. Must the senate start an in
vestigation of that charge?
Mr. Tillman was still standing at hi
: desk and hurled back the answer, i
these charges are false then it is tim
ID stop the lies spread before the pub
l lic this SANDER of ink, and to punis
the men guilty of the falsehood. an
: until you do so, you stand convicte
/ before the American people,.
The time had not arrived, said Nj
Gallinger. proceeding calmly. whe
the American press was to be muzzle
in the manner suggested by the senate
from South Carolina.
PROTEST AGAINST RAILROADINo
Mr.. Gallinger closed with an earnes
/ protest against ''railroading' the resc
luton OF the committee in defiance {
l,rrecedeut and the usual courtesy pre-