The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-11

report on the war revenue bill was
agreed to by the senate, after a dis
cussion lasting four hours. The de-
bate on the measure was without
special interest and was entirely devoid
of acrimonious features. The debate
indicated generally that the bill as
agreed upon by the conferees, was
reasonably satisfactory to everybody
except as to the bond provision. The
votes cast against the adoption of the
report reflected the opinions of those
| senators who are opposed to any in
crease in the interest bearing debt of
! the country.
The report was agreed to by the de-
cisive vote of 43 to %. Every Re-
publican voted for the measure. and
their votes were supplemented by those
of eight Democrats, one silver Re
publican and one independent. The
/ Democrats who voted for the adoption
| of the report were: MesSrs. Caffery,
German, Lindsay, McEnery, Mitchell,
Morgan, Murphy and Turpie; the silver
Republican was Mr.. Mantle and the
independent was Mr.. Kyle. The vote
against the report was cast by 16
Democrats, three silver Republicans
and three PoDulists.
I As soon as the engrosSed bill ca.
| be signed by the presiding officers of
the two branches of congress it will
be sent to the president.
Just at the close of the session this
evening a bitter personal discussion
was precipitated by Mr.. Butler, Popul-
! list, North Carolina, who attacked Mr..
Kyle for having voted for the issuance
of bonds. Mr. Butler, speaking as the
| chairman of the Populist national COM
mittee, officially declared that Mr.
Kyle did not represent the Populist
party. Mr.. Kyle replied warmly, say
| ing that he was responsible for his
political actions. not to Mr.. Butler, but
to his conscience and to his constitu-
ents. Subsequently he denounced as
Intentional and malicious false
hoods some statements made about
him by MIR. Pettigrew.
AN OFFENSIVE UNDERLYING.
Mr.. Jones (Ark), offered a resolution,
directing the secretary of the interior
that special instructions be given to
Charles NJ. Schlierholz, special agent of
the land office at Batesville, Ark. MIR.
Jones complained that the agent of the
government Schlierholz, was in the
habit of Selling timber RATS floating
down the White river to Batesvilie and
compelling the raft owners to prove
that the timber was not cut from gov
eminent land. He said that some of
the acts of this "underlicg' were a
disgrace and an outrage" and ne
ought to be kicked out of his position"
The resolution was adopted.
Mr. Aldrich (R. l., presented the re-
port of the committee on conference on
the war revenue measure, and when it
was read said that senators were
familiar with the details of the report,
he would make no formal statement.
OPPOSED BY JONES.
Mr. Jones (Ark.) said that as one of
the conferees he had not signed the
report and would vote against it. Many
things in the report were satisfactory
to him, particularly the retention of
the 715 per cent beer rebate, the sleep
ing car, tea and other taxes put in the
bill. He did not favor the reduction in
the matter of silver to be coined each
month, but he was gratified that the
provision for the coinage of all the sill
Yer bullion in the treasury had been
retained in the measure.
The proposed addition to the bonded
debt of the, country was, in Mr.. Jones
opinion, seriously Objectionable, so !
much so, in fact, that he would oppose /
the adoption of the report. He read
a newspaper clipping, announcing that /
arrangements had been perfected at |!
the treasury department for the imme |
date issue of 5000, 600 of bonds. He |
had no doubt the statement was accur- |
ate.
Mr.. Aldrich called Mr.. Jones atten- |
ton to the provision of the bill that |
the bonds should be issued only as a /
means of raising money with which |
to prosecute the war.
Mr.. Jones replied that he did not /
doubt, however, the statement in the |
newspaper. He had one other very |
serious objection. he said. to the adop- |
ton of the report. 1t retained the |
stamp tax on deeds, checks etc, of the
people, and had released the railroads
from the requirement to pay similar
tax on bills of lading. This, he be-
lieved, was hard on the people and un-
necessary.
wOLCOTT SLABS GAGE
Mr. Wolcott of Colorado, in a brief
speech, paid high tribute to the SEN
ate conferees. He said it had been
long time since a bill of so great i'm
portance as this one had created so
little friction. The report of the con-
ference, he thought, was eminently
fair and just and reflected great credit
upon the conferees of both the senate
and the house.
TT may be true" said Mr.. Wolcott,
"as the senator from Arkansas (Mr.
Jones) says, that the secretary of the
treasury inadvertently may have done
secretary of the treasury has done
many foolish things. But the bill so
hedges about the secretary with condi-
tons that he will be forced to follow
the law
Mr.. Wolcott said he was satisfied
that the people of the country would
take the bonds offered by the govern
ment He did not share the fear of
Jones that the secretary would place
the bonds in the hands of the big
banks and financial corporations.
Mr.. Chiffon of Texas objected seri-
ously to the striking out of the pro-
vision incorporated by the senate, and
was particularly annoyed because the
stamp tax amendment which he had
offered had not been retained.
COINAGE PROVISION A FRAUD
Mr.. Bacon announced his opposition
to the conference report. saying the bill
was even more Objectionable to him
now than when originally before the
senate. Referring to the silver provi-
sion. Mr.. Bacon said it was merely an
effort to deceive the country into the
belief that something had been done in
that direction, as the coinage of silver
authorized by the conference agreement
was but very slightly in excess of the
coinage under the existing law. +.
TELLER ASKS QUESTIONS.
Mr.. Teller called attention to the !
change made by the conference in re- s