The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-07-27

The PropoSttt0n Made by Senator MorGan
4 Sensational and Personal Dispsts He.
tween snstor Allen and YornksF-Ok.
lection to Passing Bills in the Ho1ss-Efs
forts 10 Allow ChaiFmsn Of HOUSE Cons
mittees 10 Appoint Clerks During Reefs
SENATE.
Washington. July z3.-The house bill
was passed authorizing the president
to suspend discriminating duties Inn
posed on foreign vessels and commerce.
Senator Allison then moved to pro-
coed with the tariff conference report,
but Senator Tillman contested this with
a motion to take up his resolution. adj
versely reported yesterday. for An in
vestigation of alleged senatorial spec
ulation in sugar stock.
Senator Tillman was about to begin
the point of order hat debate was not
in order and the presiding officer sus-
tanned the point. Senator Tillmar
~thereupon asked for a yea n nay
vote, on which his motion was lost
years. Is; nays, 35.
The consideration Of the tariff con-
ference report was then resumed and
Senator Teller, of Colorado, took the
floor for a general speech. He said he
did not favor the pending bill and did
not believe it would accomplish the
purpose of it's friends. It's passage,
however, would dispose Of the question
and enable congress to devote it's at
tention to other subjects. He regarded
the money question as the paramount
one. The last campaign was not, in
his judgment, an endorsement Of the
gold standard. His speech was a Sc
we're arraignment of the bill and the
political methods of the last campaign.
The galleries broke into applause as
the Colorado senator took his seat.
Senator White followed, speaking for
about an hour. He questioned the rev.
enue qualities Of the bill.
Senator Mantle, silver republican, of
Montana, briefly expressed his regret
that the senate conferees had not been
able to retain in the bill cotton ties
and cotton bagging, and mating and
those other things which the senate by
a yea and nay vote had transferred to
h free list. 1t was, in his opinion, a
~stupendous mistake on the part of the
republicans, looking at it from a polit-
ical standpoint. They nae missed an
opportunity to p~opularize this meas
ure.
Senator Pettus, of Alabama, follow
ed, a~ntagOnizing the action of the con
fereeS on cotton ties, cotton bagging,
etc. In asking that they be placed on
the free list, he said he was pleading
for the American farmers. The pro-
fession that this bill was to be enacted
in the interest Of American labor, he
denounced as a "damnable pretence."
He CnnEo 1oic1,ro1xy ord 1o-~&L
against the bill. He referred to the
vote Of a democratic senator (McEne-
ry) for the bill, although, senator Pet
tus said, not more than 500 men owned
sugar lands in Louisiana.
Senator McEnery challenged this
statement, saying hat one-half of the
people Of Louisiana were interested
directly or indirectly in sugar pro-
duction.
Senator Allen, Of Nebraska, reviewed
what he called the remarkable things
of this remarkable extra session. He
referred to the inaction Of the house of
representatives, it's meetings only twice
a week, due, he declared, to the course
of the speaker of the house in manag-
ing affairs as suckers were strung
on a string. Not only this strong
man Of the house coerced his own
branch Of congress, but hat coercion
a OSCh SAlCIloCo " luC SCudlC.
Speaker Reed was on the floor when
Senator Allen begun and for a time
listened without mere passing inter-
est. Senator Allen spoke of the large
campaign funds raised last fall and
the influence it had in corrupting the
vote of Ohio, Illinois and other states.
The first stirring incident of the day
occurred at this stage, when Senators
Foraker and Allen INDUCED in a COLO
~,,x, r,L;oL -,4 Ro-% .:, 800 -
times personal. senator Foraker came
forward with census figures for the
purpose of d~isproving Senator Aliens
charge as to the swollen vote in Ohio.
He said senator Allen must have spO-
ken in ignorance of the. facts.
1T is not the first time I nave been
accused Of ignorance" commented
Senator Allen.
Il do not accuse the senator of ig-
norance, but of being ignorant of spe-
ciic facts" Hurriedly reading from
statistics, senator Foraker said the
vote Of Ohio in 1896 was LOOP, 726,
while the population was about 4,OO9,-
900 or about one vote for every four
persons. In Cleveland the statistics
showed about one vote for every foul
persons. That ratio was about h av-
erage on a full vote.
Did not Mr.. Bryan have a larger
vote III 1880 tndu MT. harrison ndQ IN
1922" asked Senator Allison.
YES" answered Senator Foraker,
because neither of the candidates in
'92 was calculated to bring out the full
party strength and in my judgment
there was not a full vote for either Mr..
Harrison or Mr.. Cleveland. On the
other hand the campaign of sc was
unusually energetic and an exception
ally full vote was polled. Not since
1885 has a question of fraud
arisen in Ohio Inc then Gov
ernor Hoadley, a democrat, exposed
and denounced the frauds that had
been practiced. Since then neither
democrats nor republicans I'VE insin-
uated fraud and today the Nebraska
senator makes the first insinuation of
that character. He bases it o. the ra-
ito of the vote to the population and I
have shown that his ratios are incor-
rect. I ask the senator to confess he
was in ignorance and withdraw his
charge"
But Senator Allen made no with