The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-24
FINAL VOTE
ON TARIFF
Set for Three O'clock This
Afternoon
MORGAN MAKES THE MOTION
RECOGNIZING RIGHTS OF THE
MAJORITY
MORGAN MAKES THE MOTION
After Tomorrow All American Citi-
zens May Pick Prosperity From
Bushes by the Roadside


Associated Press Special Wire.
WASHINGTON. July 23.-The final
vote on the tariff conference will be
taken in the senate at p. m. tomorrow.
A unanimous agreement to this effect
was reached in the senate late this after
noon after an exciting and dramatic de-
bate.
The proposition for the firal vote came
most unexpectedly. the senior senator
from Alabama, Morgan, presenting it.
1t was greeted with shouts of Good,
good" from the senat tors on the Repub-
lican side, who for the first time saw
the passage clear for the final enactment
of the tariff bill.
Morgans proposition was coupled
o'clock 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.
Morgan professed profound reluctance
in submitting the proposition, but said
he recognized the right of the majority
to register their will
The agreement was preceded by the
most heated personal colloquy that oc-
Cured during the consideration of thu
tariff bill.
Senators Foraker of Ohio and Allen of
Nebraska Joined issues over the charges
of fraud in the Ohio elections of last
year
The early part of the day was given to
speeches against the bill by Senators
Teller, White and Pettus.
TELLER'S SET SPEECH
The House bill passed authorizing the
President to suspend discriminat ting du-
ties imposed upon foreign vessels and
commerce.
Senator Allison then moved to proceed
with the tariff conference report, but
Senator Tillman contested this with a
motion to take I'D the resolution ad-
versely reported yesterday for the in
vestigation of the alleged senatorial
speculation in sugar stocks. Allison
made point Of order that debate was
not in order, and the presiding officer
ed for vote, or which the motion was
lost, Is to 80.
When the consideration of the tariff
conference report was resumed,
Senator Teller, 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 pur-
poses of its friends. Its passage, how
ever, would dispose of the question: and
enable 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 be-
lieve in the gold standard, but felt the
tariff question more important than that
affecting finance. Teller turned his at
tention to the political methods of the
last campaign. 1t was the most re-
markable contest in. our history, he said,
remarkable for the agencies set a. work
and the methods employed for the first
time. A system of terrorism, deception
ard fraud, the like of which was never
before seen was put in operation. and
expires ssed a fear that such methods had
become paramount part of our polite
al system until the people awoke and
repudiated them. If any one challenged
these statements then, Teller said, he
would go into details
He would show that the press had
teemed with falsehoods as to the Demo-
cratic candidate, who was. charged with
having views which he had expressly
repudiated. The same method of mis-
representation was directd against
the Democratic platform. The senator
referred to the intolerance and bigotry
of the Republican campaign speakers,
saying their bitterness exceeded that of
the heated days of the civil war.
Teller spoke ironically of Republican
promises of prosperity first during the
campaign, then preceding the Inaugural
ton and then when the tariff was
framed. The senator said he had not
found a mar. in the senate who was sat
isfed with the pending bill except per-
haps the Republican members of the
finance committee, and certainly that
was, the limit of those who approved this
measure.
Ine Dill Was, he dSSeTteu, lull VI dU-
surdity and inequalities. if not of crime.
1t was a vicious. unfair, extravagant
and unsatisfactory bill
Teller commended the recent state
department paper on the seal question
as that remarkable paper of good
American ideas, expressed in good.
old-fashioned way" He spoke sarcas-
tically of the reports that the president
would recommend the creation of a
currency commission
Teller next referred to the enforced
resignation of President Andrews of
Brown university, announced today, be-
cause of his advocacy of the free coinage
of silver, which he denounced as one of
the most shameful acts of abasement the
world had ever seen.
Thank God!' he said, in impa
tones. that President Andrews was b &
enough to refuse to be stif1ed."
He characterized the action of the
trustees as ops of the most Infamous
cha pters in 1900 wears of our history be-