The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-07-23
TEE INFAMOUS TARIFF
Last Act Today. Probably
Teller's Bitter Denun-
citation.

WA5f1l4N0IO1Ns JyAh eo, 4ovt.| l iiS
House has taken recess until five o'clock
tonight in anticipation of action upon
the tariff conference report by the
Senate this afternoon.
There was no outward evidence when
the Senate met today that the session was
fast drawing to a close, although Sena-
tors gathered in groups and discussed
the prospects of getting away.
A house bill was passed authorizing the
President to suspend discriminating du-
ties imposed on foreign vessels and COM
nerce.
Mr.. Allison then moved to proceed with
the tariff conference report, but Mr.. Till
man contested this with motion to take
up his resolution. adversely reported yes
terday for an investigation of alleged
senatorial speculation in sugar stock.
Mr.. Tillman was about to begin a speech
when Mr. Allison made the point of order
that debate was not in order and the pre-
siding officer-sustained the point. Mr.. Till
man thereupon asked for year and nay
vote on which his motion was lost,yeas, Is;
nays, 35. Those who voted for the motion
were Allen, Bacon Bate, Berry, Cannon,
Chiffon Clay, Harris, Kenney Miller,
Roach. Tillrnan, Turley, Turner and Wal
thall.
The consideration of the tariff confer
ence report was then resumed and Mr..
Teller oColo.) took the floor for a general
speech.
He said he did not favor the pending
bill and did not believe it would accom-
plish the purposes of it's friends. Its
passage however, would dispose of the
question and enable Congress to devote
it's attention to other subjects. He re-
garded the money question as the para
mount one. The last campaign was not,
in his judgment, an endorsement of the
gold standard. A great many people
who voted for, the Republican candi-
date did not believe in the gold
standard. but felt that the tariff
question was more important-than that
affecting finance. Mr.. Teller turned his
attention to the political methods of the
last campaign. 1t was the most remark
able contest in our history, he said, re-
markable for the agencies set at work
and the methods employed for the first
time. A system of terrorism of decep-
ton. of fraud, the like of which had
never before been seen, was put in OPP
GRAFTON. And having been successful in
this the Senator expressed the fear that
such methods had become a permanent
part of our political system, until the
people were aroused and repudiated them.
If anyone challenged these statements,
then Mr.. Teller said he would go into de-
tails.
We would show that the press had
teemed with falsehoods as the Democratic
candidate who was charged with having
views which he had expressly repudiated.
More than one Republican speaker had
been forced to take back his SANDERS
were directed against the Democratic
platform The Senator referred to the
intolerance and bigotry of Republican
ness exceeded that of the heated days
of the civil war.
They denounced those who disagreed
ists,'' arraigning them as attempting to
cheat and to debase the public credit and
assuming that the Republican organiza-
ton was the sole depository of integrity.
Mr.. Teller spoke Ironically of the Re-
publican promises of prosperity, first dur
in the election, then preceding inaugural
tion then when the tariff bill was framed.
None of these hopes had been realized
and none would be. The Senator said
he had not found a man in the Senate
who was satisfied with tne pendlng , Pill pll.,
of the Finance Committee, and certainly
that was the limit of those who approved
the measure.
as never before, and in only two instances
being overruled The bill was, he assert
ed, full of absurdities and iniquities if not
of crime. 1t was vicious, unfair, ex-
travagant and unsatisfactory bill
And yet, if a measure had been brought
before the Senate in proper form, just
bill and net one for trusts and syndicates
there were enough votes in the Senate to
pass it, even If every Democratic vote
was recorded against it.
Mr.. Teller commended the recent State
Department paper on the seal question
as e"that remarkable paper of good Am
erican ideas expressed IN good Old
He said he did not know who the au-
thor was, but would congratulate him If
he did.
methods and British. influence. in shaping
the benefits conferred by the bill. Great
sums Of money had been used IN the last
he hss'',i said. He had heard it stated that
the Republican party had spent more
money in the last campaign than in
all the previous campaigns of its origin.
However this mibht be certain it was that
every great industry was taxed, that ev-
cry great financial institution was taxed,
and they all contributed.
The world would never know what those
sums were and they could be judged only
by examining this tariff bill. There
great contributing concerns had come
here and said in substance:-"As we
helped win that fight against anarchy
and socialism, what ar are we to have e. to
basis could a hundred things in this bill
be explained. :,
"It would be worth mint of money"
exclaimed Mr. Teller, if we could know
what the sugar trust gave, what the
Standard Oil Company gave. and what
the great financial concerns gave. sup
pose the Finace Committee knew and