The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-24

Senator White of California followed
Mr.. Teller. He read a carefully pre-
pared speech. dealing with the general
/ questions involved in the bill The
| great trusts and corporations, he said,
| knew what they were doing when they
invested their money in the Republican
party last fall. They would not only
! get the principal back as the result of
| the enactment of this bill, but they
| would get compound interest at high
rates.
mr. White ridiculed the idea of a
| currency commission which. il was I'M
| derstoOd, the president would recon-
mend as soon as the tariff bill was a
law No action would be taken. Every
body knew that. he said, but he (White)
was at a loss TO understand what good
/ could come from the appointment of a
! commission. He questioned the reve-
nue. producing qualities of the bill. In
! speaking of the sugar schedule, Mr..
White declared that the country had
grown tired of this sugar scandal. and
he predicted that the next Tariff bill
would give no differential to the trust
Mr.. White was particularly severe in
his criticism of the silk schedule in
which he said the rates, when trans
planted into ad v2lorems, ranged from
so to 100 per cent. He said this sched-
ule would still futher complicate our
trade with China and Japan. In gen.
eral. he said. one of the worst features
of the bill was the commercial warfare
it everywhere challenger. When Mr..
White closed. at the end of about an
hours speech. Mr.. Mantle (Sil. Rep,
MONTH briefly expressed his regret that
the senate conferees had not been able
to retain in the bill cotton ties and
cotton hagging and mating and those
other things which the senate, by
yea and nay vote, had transferred to
the free list. 1t was. in his opinion, a
stuDendous mistake on the part of the
Republicans, looking at it from a po-
litical standpoint. They had missed an
opportunity TO popularize this measure.
If, by voting against this conference
report. he could achieve a reverse of
the decision on these points. he would
gladly do so, and stay here another
month. But he realized that his vote
would be useless. and with much re-
luctance and many regrets he an
nounced he should vote for the report.
PETTUS PINCHBS THEM.
Mr.. Pettus of Alabama followed. an
tagonizing the action of the conferees
on cotton ties, cotton bagging, etc. in
asking that they be placed on the free
list, he said he was pleading for the |
American farmer.
be enacted in the interest of American
labor he denounced as a damnable |
pretense.
Mr. Pettus spoke leisurely and at /
length against the bill. He referred |
to the vote of a Democratic senator /
(McEnery) for the bill, although, Mr.. |
Pettus said, not more than 500 men /
owned sugar lands in Louisiana.
Mr.. McEnery challenged the state /
ment, saying that one-half of the peo-
pie of Louisiana were interested direct
~ or indirectly in sugar production.
Mr.. PettuS closed with an arraign-
ment of trusts, and as he sat down
he received several scattered hand
cdaps.
Mr.. Allen of Nebraska reviewed what
he called the remarkable things of this
rema rkable extra session. He referred
to the inaction of the house of repre-
SentatiVeS. its meetings only twice a
week, due he declared, to the course
Of the speaker of the house in man
aging affairs as suckers" were strung
ia string. Mr.. Allen spoke of the
large campaign funds realized last fall
and the influence 1t had in corruDting
the vote of Ohio, Illinois and other
states.
HEARS IT NOW"
Mr.. Foraker of Ohio, who sat across
the aisle, arose and said: The vote
# Ohio was an honest one and 1 never
until this moment heard it insinuated
hat it was not an honest vote"
Then the senator hears it now
responded Mr.. Allen.
"On what ground does the senator
base such an assertion?" asked Mr.
Foraker.
"On the ground" Mr. Allen replied,
that if the vote of Ohio in 1896 was {
fair and honest one, there is one 7
roter for every two and half or three
II the population, and in the city of {
Cleveland almost the whole popula-
ion were voters. The honest people of {
raud and L believe it was produced :
" money and other corrupting in
Iuences." il
Mr. Allen said the same was true of )
Illinois, where the vote of Chicago was c
wollen over 200, 900 votes. The senator c
commented on the effects of the bill in i
IS provisions on white pine and ar t
icles Of household use; on the home T
"a kers and housekeepers of the fXest. &
'hese provisions were barefaced. +
owardly surrender of the interests of t
he people in order TO favor a few i
-eal1hy men who controlled the white q
inc and other necessaries of life.
At o'clock a motion by NJ. Pettus A
0 go into executive session was lost. +
OHIO'S SWOLLEN VOTE. il
Mr.. Allen had resumed his tariff y
peech when Mr.. Foraker came for =,
ard with census figures for the pur- L
ose of disproving Mr.. Aliens charge =
5 to the swollen vote of Ohio. He :.
aid Mr.. Allen mus. have spoken in 3
of the facts. :,
Hurriedly reading from statistics, y
II. Foraker said the vote sof Ohio in :,
'96 was LOOP, 726, while the population -
as about 100000. or about one vote y
II every four persons. In Cleveland
lie statistics showed about one vote
" every four persons. The ratio was
bout the average on full vote.
Did not Mr. Bryan have larger
lte in 1896 than Mr.. Harrison had in =
92?''- asked Mr.. Allen.
Yes, answered Mr.. Foraker. ''be- b
use. neither of the candidates in 1892 CT
as calculated. to bring out the full fl
irty strength and in my judgment II
ere was not a full vote for either 90
+. Harrison or Mr. Cleveland. On the OIL
her hand, the campaign of 1896 was
usually energetic and an exception fo
~ full vote was polled. To
Mr.. Teller caused a temporary diver n,
On by citing the fact that the Ohio pl
tie in 1892 was only $4,000 and in 1896 OF
ID increased TO 1,014,297. &C
Again Mr.. Foraker insisted that the =
tie in 1892 was exceptionally small be
ALLEN IS STUBBORN.
Sena4ers@Alien and Foraker then con- be
lued their dispute at considerable
lgth, Senator Foraker maintaining
al Senator Allen should withdraw his
argos, and Senator Allen as stub
rniy maintaining that fraud was pal "