The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-02-16
SHIP SUBSIDY GRF7
PRACTICALLY KILLED
Teller and Others Will Allow No Vote This Session
on the Scheme to Loot Treasury.
Hanna is Angry at Death Of His Pet and Makes Heated
Speech-GrOut Bill to the Front.

before the senate for the purpose Of
pushing aside other business in order
that there would be an excuse for an
extra session TO consider those subjects
and incidentally TO pass the shipping
bill He said that the SpOoner amend
ment TO the army bill would require
and would receive ample olSeusslou5
and he believed that the Cuban ques-
ton, TOO. would be brought to the SEN
ates attention.
THE question here" he said, is
whether we shall keep faith with cuba
and the world. The cuban question VIII
be discussed at this session whether Ine
constitution they have framed snail
come here or not. There is q sentiment
growing up and believed By certain
influences and by newspapers or the
country that we are TO break faith with
Cuba. I propose to take up the reso-
luton we adopted in the last congress
and show that il expressed the senu-
ment of the people and the executive or
this government
Hanna Defends Himself.
Mr.. Hanna (O1 addressed the senate
briefly on the bill and was given care
full attention both by the senators and
the galleries. He said that ne had
listened attentively and with astonlsu-
ment to many statements that nad been
made concerning it by the opposition.
insinuations had been suggested that
would bring the blush of shame to any
senator's cheeks. He had listened to
the scOlding of the senator from Colo
RADIO" but desired to remind him that
the senators were not children, and he
desired him to understand that he had
a purpose and a desire to withhold and
extend the interests Of the advocates or
the pending measure. He did not know,
as the senator had stated, that the bill
would not pass at the present session.
An honest and earnest purpose to Sc
cure the passage Of the bill was being
made because its advocates believed
that the enactment of the measure
would tend to the upbUilding OF the
merchant marine and extend the ship
building industry of the country.
II know something about economic
measures" said he. i think ] am en-
titled to the same consideration in con-
nectiOn with such measures as IS ac-
corded to any other senator. 1 do not
J propose to be considered as advocating
any measure to loot the treasury when
/ [ am working for the interests Of the
United States
He referred incidentally to the Efforts
! of the senator from Colorado and other
| orators on the opposition stump during
the last campaign to break down the
/ principles advocated by the kepubi-
can party, and. shaking his finger at
/ Mr.. Teller. he added;
You got your verdict, and you viii
( get it again"
( He insisted that being honest and
+ earnest in his advocacy of the shipping
bill. he should be accorded fair and
/ just treatment
III not be sidetracked, he declared,
/ by any senator of the opposition. Il
/ I am 10 take a sidetrack / VIII decide
myself when I shall take il"
( He next resented the insinuatiOns
! that he said had been made against
/ him by the chairman of the national
/ Republican committee, and denounced
/ them as unfair treatment in matters
Z of legislation. He said he was not ad-
/ vOcating the pending bill in the inter
ests of his party. but in the interests
1 of the whole world.
If it is the objects Of measures pend
ing before congress merely to get
money out Of the treasury, said Mr..
Hanna, in conclusion, what are the
river and harbOr bill? I say that there
are portions of that bill that would
make the shipping bill look pale
Mr. Teller made a brief reply to Mr.
Hanna, and the senate, at 8 o'clock
adjourned.