People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1896 — LEAVE THEIR PARTY. [ARTICLE]

LEAVE THEIR PARTY.

REPUBLICAN SENATORS VOTE WITH SILVERITBB. DwWn Ttto Afklut T*kta( Up the ItoniiM Bill for Consideration —House Basse* Indian Appropriation BUI —The Treasury Boserre. Washington, Feb. 26. —After the senate had disposed of much routine business on Tuesday Mr. Morrill, chairman of the finance committee, offered a distinct surprise in the form of a resolution to take up the tariff bill. He said it had been apparent for many months that there was a deficiency in the revenues. During every month since the present tariff bill went into effect there has been a deficiency. “How was it before?” interjected Mr. Cockrell. Mr. Morrill went on to state that the deficiency up to this time reached $20,000,000. If we went on at the same rate the deficiency would be $30,000,000 for* the year. It was certainly manifest that congress should do something to relieve the treasury and assist in the revival of business. Therefore, concluded the senator, he moved that the senate proceed to the consideraton of the tariff bill. The roll-call proceeded with many interruptions in order to allow senators to pair. The announcement that Mr. Morrill’s motion had been defeated —yeas 22, nays 23 —was not unexpected in view of the vote some days ago. The detaleid vote was as follows:

Yeas —Republicans: Aldrich, Allison, Baker, Brown, Burrows, Cameron, Clark, Cullom, Davis, Gear, Hale, Hansbrough, Hawley, Lodge, Mitchell (Ore.), Morrill, Nelson, Perkins, Proctor, Quay, Sherman, Shoup—22. Nays—Republicans: Cannon, Carter, Dubois, Mantle and Teller —5. Democrats: Bacon, Bate, Berry, Caffery, Call, Chilton, Cockrell, George, Gordon, Gray, Harris, Hill, Lindsay, Martni, Morgan, Palmer, Pasco. Roach, Turpie, Vest, Walthall, White—22. Populists: Allen. Butler, Jones (Nev.), Kyle, Peffer and Stewart—6. The pairs were as follows, the names of those who would have voted yea being given first: Chandler with Murphy, Mcßride with Smith, Hoar with Pugh, Warren with Jones (Ark.), Wilson with Irby, McMillan with Blackburn, Pritchard with Blanchard, Wetmore with Voorhees, Pettigrew with Gibson, Frye with Gorman, Squire with Daniel, Wolcott with Brice, Platt with Vilas, Elkins with Faulkner, Sewell with Mitchell (Wis.), Thurston with Tillman.

As soon as the vote was announced Mr. Morrill again addressed the senate. It was now evident he said, that the republican party was in the minority in the United States senate.. Mr. Morrill proceeded to state that in his Judgment the tariff bill was defeated by a vote including five silver republicans and six populists. There was no substantial change in the present and former votes. It settled all questions of doubt. The senator said the republican members of the finance committee would be ready at any time before congress adjourned to come to the relief of the treasury. “But as to this bill,” concluded Mr. Morrill, “I do not think it would become me to ask any further time.” Mr. Teller secured recognition as soon aB Mr. Morrill concluded. He said: “Mr. President, I charge here (and I shall undertake to make the charge good before this debate is over) that this bill was never introduced in either body, nor has it been supported in this body, with any reference to its becoming a law. It was not intended that it should become a law. Of that I shall speak at another time. It was known when this bill w T as introduced in the house of representatives that it could not pass the senate unless it had democratic or populistic support. It was said publicly that it was not expected to pass; it was said publicly that it was for the purpose of political gain and political advantage. “At the proper time I am prepared to show that the great metropolitan republican press has declared that eighteen members of this body are not worthy to be called republicans, and we have been notified that unless we change our views upon financial questions, and submit to the Cleveland democracy and Morrill republicanism of this country on the financial question, we must go out of the party. “Mr. President, we shall stay in the party until we get ready to go out, and we shall discuss fhese questions that are so important, not from a partisan standpoint, but from the standpoint of an American senator charged with great interests, charged with doing that which the senate has shown itself incompetent to do —charged to devise some system that shall satisfy the people that we can enter upon that degree of prosperity to which we are entitled by reason of advantages which exist in this country.”

Mr. Sherman (O.) followed Mr. Teller and said: “Mr. President, as a member of the committee on finance I disclaim all partisan feeling in respect to that bill which the senator from Vermont moves to bring before the senate. That bill does not belong to any party. The only merit in the bill is that it proposes to furnish $40,000,000 of revenue for the support of the government, enough to meet the current expenses of the government. It is a bill prepared for an occasion, not a political one. I say now ( Mr. President, I shall vote for any tax whatever which may be propoked by anybody, whether democrat, populist or republican, which shall supply sufficient revenue for the support of the government* "It is a disgrace to our civilization; it is a disgrace to the country itself that we are now expending $30,000,000 a year more than the receipts of the

government .and that congress now la ■onion, with both houses fully armed with power to furnish the revenue, is idle and refuses to act.” Mr. Harris —"Why does not the mb* ■tor from Ohio advise the treasury department to coin the $55,000,000 of sefgniorage and the balance of the silver that lies in the treasury idle and utilize it to answer the purposes of the treasury?” Mr. Shefman—“That has been tried and tested, and if ever that question piet its final solution it was in the house of representatives elected by the people, where, by a majority of almost two to one, the judgment of the house —the representatives of the people from equal and exact districts throughout the country— pronounced their denunciation of the most foolish and dangerous policy of departing from the now lawful standards of money in the country.”

Mr. Allen asked Mr. Aldrich if the republican party would accept a tariff bill with a free-coinage attachment. Mr. Aldrich replied that he would not and added that he desired to have it understood that he made the statement with as much emphasis as he was capable of. “Are there,” asked Mr. Allen, "any circumstances under which the republican party would accept free coinage?" To this Mr. Aldrich replied that there were none except under an international agreement. Mr. Platt contended that the bimetallism of those who stood with the senator from Nebraska was silver monometallism. The republican party, he said, is going into the next campaign on the same declaration that it made in the last, on gold, silver and the currency generally. Mr. Fry spoke briefly, saying that it must be seen by all that the tariff bill was as dead as Julius Caesar, and that there was no resurrection for it. The business men of the country ought, to know this. It was 2:10, the hour for taking up the Cuban resolution, when Mr. Morgan was recognized to proceed with his speech on this question. The senator closed at 3:30 p. m. and was followed by Mr. Gray (dem., Del.). He urged that the recognition of belligerency was not within the powers of congress. The president fiad the sole power in this direction. Messrs. Lodge, Stewart and Call also poke briefly. At 5 o’clock the resolutions were laid aside, and after Mr. Squire had submitted the report of the committee on coast defenses, the senate held a brief executive session, and at 6:05 p. m. adjourned until today.

The Gold Keaarve. Washington, Feb. 26. Tuesday’s treasury statements showed the gold reserve to be $123,522,378. Of this amount $91,685,705 represents the aggregate in gold paid for in bonds to date. The amount of bonds issued, however, is only $70,650,050, of which $43,413,650 are in coupons and $27,237,400 in registered, the balance being held on call from the purchasers. The total amount of the deferred gold payments, therefore, is only about $20,000,000. Since Jan. 6 last, the date of Secretary Carlisle’s bond circular, the total withdrawals of gold from the treasury amount to $32,413,396, of which $22,989,263, or about 25 per cent of the whole gold receipts, was not exported, but was used, it is assumed, in the payment of bonds.

Censure for Mr. llayard. Washington, Feb. 26.—Chairman Hitt of the foreign affairs committee on Tuesday reported to the house the preamble and resolutions agreed on by the foreign affairs committee censuring Ambassador Bayard for portions of speeches he delivered at Edinburgh and Boston. Accompanying the preamble and resolutions is a brief report which sets forth that Mr. Bayard did make the speeches containing the features alleged to be objectionable, and saying that no action had been taken by the government thereon.