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

Washington, July 23.-There was no
outward evidence when che senate met
today that the session was fast draw
ing TO a close, although senators gath
cred in groups and discussed the pros
poets of getting away.
The house dill was passed authorizing
the president to suspend discriminating
duties imposed on foreign vessels and
commerce. Mr. Allison then moved TO
proceed with the tariff conference re-
port, but Mr.. TiIlman contested this
with motion 10 take up his resolution,
adversely reported yesterday, for an in
vestigation of alleged senatorial specu
latiOn in sugar stocks.
Mr.. Tillman was about to begin a
speech, when Mr. Allison made the
point of order that debate was not in
order, and the presiding officer sustain
ed the point. Mr.. Tfl1man, 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, Bacon, Bate,
Berry, Cannon, Chiffon, Clay, Harris,
Kenney, Mills. Roach, Tillman, Turney,
Turner and Walthai-
A joint resolution was passed for the
erection of government building at
the Trans Mississippi International ex-
position at Omaha.
THEN CAME TARIFF.
The consideration of the tariff con-
ference report was then resumed. Mr..
Teller Colorado took the floor for
general speech. He said he did not
favor the pending bill and did not be
neve ii would accomplish the purposes
of its friends. Its passage, however,
would dispose of the question and en-
able 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
standard. 4 great many people who
voted for the Republican candidate did
not believe in the gold standard, but /
felt that the tariff question was more
important than thai affecting finance. |
Mr.. Teller turned his attention to the !
political methods Of The last campaign.
It was the most remarkable contest in |
our history, he said, remarkable for
the agencies set at work and the |
methods employed for the first time.
A 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 success
full. the senator expressed the fear that
such methods had become a paramount |
part of our political system, until the
people were aroused and repudiated !
them. If anyone challenged these
statements. then Mr.. Teller said he
would so 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 had eX-
pressly repudiated. The same method
of misrepresentation was directed
against the Democratic platform The
senator referred to the intolerance and
oigOtry Of the Republican campaign
speakers, saying their bitterness ex-
ceeded that of the heated days of the
civil war.
TELLER GROWS IRONICAL.
Mr. Teller spoke ironically of Repub-
lean promises of prosperity, first dur
ng the campaign, then preceding in
3uguratiOn, and then when the tariff
was framed. The senator said he had
not found man in the senate who
VAS satisfied with the pending bin,
except, perhaps. the Republican mem
1srs of the finance committee, and
that was the limit of those
who approved the measure. The bill
vas, he asserted, fun of absLrdity and F,
inequalities, if not of crime. 1t was a ! !,
ricious. unfair, extravagant and I'M
bill. Mr.. Teller commend
ID the recent state department paper
N the seal question as that remark
! :
expressed in a good old fashioned
way" He said he did not know who 6
he author was but would congratu- ,
ate him f he did. Mr.. Teller stated !
hat great sums of money had been
lsed in the last campaign by the sue !
essful party. He had heard it said
hat the Republican party had spent
more money in the last campaign than
n all the previous campaigns since its, t
rigin. al
1T would be worth mint of +
loney" exclaimed Sir. Teller, IF we @
ould know what the Sugar trust gave. h
hat the Standard Oil trust gave and q
hat he great financial concerns
ave" +
Mr.. Teller spoke sarcastically of the Is
aports that the president would recon- Ri;
1end the creation of a currency com $
lission. The American people were a
OF yet ready to turn over the great n
lonetary question to a commission or lrc
ae Indianapolis convention He be- ID
eyed the people themselves would f,
sttle that question. and settle it right "
2. in 1900. The house and senate were "A
commissioned by the people to legislate Y
ID he iniimated that the president h
as Giscourteous to congress TO ask Il
lat It be taken out Of their hands c,
r. Teller next referred to the enforced D.
slgnaGion Of President Andrews of