Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-15

day. He declared that silver must be
placed on an equality with gold as a money
metal. The Window bill was vigorously
denounced. and the Senator declared he
would stand by silver whether it parted him
from the administration or not.
WASHINGTON, May 14-In the Senate
this afternoon the silver bill was taken up
and Mr.. Teller addressed the Senate. He
spoke of the bill as relating to perhaps the
most important question that had been pre-
senied to the Senate since the demonetization
of silver in 1873, if it could be truthfully
said that that question had ever been pre-
sented to the Senate. He disclaimed any
anxiety or any especial interest in pro-
noting the prices of silver, save and except
that silver was an American product and
that therefore every American ought to
have an interest in advancing Its price.
The people of the State of Colorado had
comparatively little interest in the advance
ment nf the price of silver because, although
they produced one-sixth of all the silver
produced in the world, they did not depend
upon the silver product, and very shortly
lin the immediate luture) the other inter-
estS of the State would far outweigh the In
terest OF mere silver production.
THE REAL QUESTION.
The silver product Of the United States
go. .OOO. 600 ounces last year) was insignif-
cant IN comparison with the great interests
of the country that were involved in the re-
habilitaton Of Filver as a money-metal. II
would not DE- 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 human
itv, ia he interest of civilization, in the in
terest 81 progress, in the interest Of the
whole human race. There was in the coun-
try general feeling (not confLed to any
clss) that silver ought 10 be used as money,
OF equal terms, so far as practicable, with
gDld. He did not know u Senator, except
cue, who did not hold that the demand Tor
dlver coinage was proper demand, and one
that ought to be met
Senators who had hitherto been avowed
supporters of the gold standard now ad-
mitted that silver was wanted as money.
He criticised the Window bill, and said be
should regard himself (after the study which
e had given TO the question: as an imbecile
he could not see what the purpose and
0iect OF that scheme was. That scheme
met the approval OF the gold mono netallists
eNefyWDefe, ana lndI Was IcdSOH euOuEu U
warrant suspicion that it was a trojan horse.
SILVER AND THE ADMINISTRATION.
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 die not propose
to use silver as money. Its fundamental
idea was (as in the other bilD that silver
was metal and nothing else. Mr.. Teller
went on to speak of the silver plank in the
national Republican platform as promising
the rull recognition of silver money, and
said that that plank had been inserted in
recognition of the universal demand of the
country for the use OF silver as money, and
that he would insist upon its observation
whether it parted him from the administra-
tion or not.
Did the pending bill, he asked, recognize
silver in accordance with that platform? He
thought not. Without concluding his
speech Mr.. Teller yielded to a motion to 90
into executive session.
When the doors were reopeneu the silver
bill was laid aside informally till to-mor-
row and the Senate proceeded to business on
the calendar.