Los Angeles herald., 1890-05-15
A TROJAN HORSE.
A Case of "TimeO DanaOs ct
DOna Ferentes."
Senator Teller's Opinion Of the
Window Bill.
The GOld-Bugs' Eagerness for 1t Is
Enough to Condemn 1t.
The Silver Debate in the Senate, Tariff
in the House and Other Wash
ington News.
Associated Press Dispatches. !


WASHINGTON, May 14.-In the senate
today, among the bills placed on the
calander, was the senate bill, subjecting
imported liquors to the provisions OF the
law of the several states.
Hoar, member of the judiciary COM
mittee, explained that the bill was
rendered necessary by the late decision
of the supreme court. He fully con-
Cured in the purport of the BILL but
supposed that the principle of the courts
opinion extended to other things than
distilled spirits Ito opium for instance),
and he should have preferred that the
bill should have applied to all articles Of
which the states might desire to pro-
hibit the sale. However, in order not
to delay action in the matter, he had
assented to the report of the bill.
Edmunds Qalso member OF the judici-
airy committee) expressed the same idea.
After further discussion. Plumb de-
sired to know what question was before
the senate, and was informed by the
vice-president that there was no question
pending. He then demanded the reg,1-
lar order, and when Hoar desired to
make some further remarks, Plumb OBJ
iected and insisted ON the regular order
This was resented by Hoar, who re-
marked that he had never seen such an
exhibition of boorishness before.
"Then you never looked into a glass. !"
was the retort of Plumb
Edmunds introduced bill to estab-
lish the university of the United States,
and had it referred to select committee.
The silver bill was taken up and
Teller addressed the senate. He spoke
of the bill as relating, perhaps, to the
most important question that had been
represented in the senate since the de-
monetization of silver in 1873, if it could
be truthfully said that the question had
ever been presented to the senate. He
disclaimed any anxiety or any special
interest in promoting the price of silver,
save and except that silver was an
American product, and therefore every
American ought to have an interest in
advancing it's price. The people of Col
orado had comparatively little interest
in the advancement of the price of sill
yer, because, although they produced
one-sixth of the silver produced in the
world, they did not depend upon the
silver product, and very shortly other
interests of the state would outweigh
the interest OF mere silver produc-
ton. The silver production of the
United States (50000,000 ounces
last Year, was insignificant in COMPARE
eon with the great interests of the
country that were involved in the rehab-
ilitation of silver as a money metal. 1t
would not do to say that the silver
barons of the west were demanding it,
or that its demand was in the interest
of cheap money. 1t was demanded in
the interest of humanity; in the interest
of civilization; in the interest of pro-
gress; in the interest of the whole
human race.
He criticized WINDOWS bill and said
he could not see what the purpose and
object that scheme was. That scheme
met the approval of the gold mono-metal-
lists everywhere, and that was reason
enough to warrant the supposition that
it was a Trojan horse.
OF the bill reported from the finance
committee he said it was founded
on some system of financial policy,
and there was some philosophy in it,
but it did not propose to use silver as
money; its fundamental idea was, as in
the other bill, that silver was metal
and nothing else.
Teller went on to speak of the silver
plank in the national republican plat
form as promising the full recognition
of silver as money, and said the plank
was inserted in recognition of the uni
versal demand of the country for the use
OF silver as money, and he would insist
upon its observation, whether it parted
him from the administration or not.
Did the pending bill, he asked, recognize
silver in accordance with the platform? ?
He thought not.
Without concluding his speech, Teller
yielded to motion to go into executive
session. When the doors were reopened
the silver bill was laid aside informally
till tomorrow, and the senate proceeded
to business on the calendar, and after
passing several bills adjourned.