The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-07-24

WASHINGTON, July 23.-The final
vote on the tariff conference report will
be taken in the Senate at ) p. m. to-
morrow. A unanimous agreement to
! this effect was reached in the Senate
late this afternoon, after an exciting
| and dramatic debate. The proposition
for the vote came unexpectedly, the
senior Senator from Alabama, Nor
gan, presenting it. 1t was greeted
with shouts of Good, good" from the
Senators on the Republican side, who
for the first time saw the path clear
for the final enactment of the tariff
bill
Morgan'S proposition was coupled
with one that the Senate meet at 10
o'clock tomorrow, in order that the
speeches may be heard before the vote
is taken. This was accepted as whole,
and the agreement was formally an
nounced.
Morgan expressed profound reluct-
ance in submitting the proposition, but
said he recognized the right of the ma
pority to register their will.
The agreement was preceded by the
most heated personal colloquy that
occurred during the consideration of
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Ohio and Allen of Nebraska joined is
sue 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.
There was no outward evidence when
the Senate met to-day that the session
was fast drawing to a close, although
Senators gathered in groups and dis
cussed the prospects of getting away.
The House bill was passed authoriz-
ing the President to suspend discrimi-
mating duties imposed on foreign YES
sells and commerce. Allen then moved
to proceed with the tariff conference
report, but Tillman contested this with
motion to take up his resolution adj
versely reported yesterday for an in
vestigation of alleged Senatorial specu-
lation in sugar stocks.
Tillman was about to begin speech
when Allison made the point of order
that debate was not in order and the
presiding officer sustained the point
Tillman thereupon asked for an aye
and nay vote on which his motion was
lost-yeas Is, nays 80. Those who
voted for the motion were: Allen, Ba-
son, Bate, Berry, Cannon, Chiffon,
Clay, Harris, Kenney, Mills, Roach,
Tfllman, Turney, Turner and Waltham.
A joint resolution was passed for the
erection of a Government building at
the Trans Mississippi Exhibition at
Omaha
The consideration of the tariff confer
ence report was then resumed. 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 purposes of its
| friends. It's passage, however, would
dispose of the question and enable Con-
gress to devote it's attention to other
subjects.
He regarded the money question as
| the paramount one The last campaign
was not, in his judgment, an indorse-
ment of the gold standard. A great
many people who voted for the Repub-
lican candidate did not believe. in the
gold standard, but felt the tariff ques-
ton was more important than that af-
| fecting finance.
| Teller turned his attention to the po-
Elitical methods of the last campaign.
1t was the most remarkable campaign
| in our history, he said-remarkable for
the agencies set at work and the meth
DDS employed for the first time.
system of terrorism, of deception,
of fraud, the like of which had never
| before been seen, was put in opera
| ton. And this having been successful,
the Senator expressed the fear that
such methods would become a para
mount part of our political system I'M
! til the people were aroused and repu-
dated 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 DEM
| ocratic candidate, who was charged
| with having views which he expressly
repudiated. The same method of mis-
| representation was directed against the
Democratic platform.
The Senator referred to the intoler-
ance and bigotry of Republican speak
ers, and said their bitterness exceeded
that of the heated days of the Civil
war.
Teller spoke ironically Of Republican
promises of prosperity, first during the
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| ton and then when the tariff was
framed. The Senator had not found a
man in the Senate who was satisfied
with the pending bill, except perhaps
the Republican members of the FL
nance mmittee, and certainly that
was the limit of those who approved
the measure. The bill was, he as
serted, full of absurdity and inequali-
ties, 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 a good
old-fashioned way He spoke sarcas-
tically of the reports that the President
would recommend the creation of a
Currency Commission.
Teller referred to the enforced resig-
nation of President Andrews of Brown
University, announced to-day, because
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 imprisoned tones, that
President Andrews was big enough to
refuse to be stif1ed.' He characterized
the action of the trustees as one of the
most infamous chapters in 1900 years
of our history, because it showed the
trend of public opinion in the direction
destroying freedom which our Govern
ment was found
In conclusion Teller said he had no
desire to return to the fold Of the Re-