Morning journal and courier., 1890-05-15
THE FlrrY-Ilasr CONGRESS.

THE FIFTY-RlRsT CONGRESS. The silver Question In the Senate-An |
 Address by MT. Teller of Colorado |
 The Tariff Debate Resumed In the
 House-Three More Pages of the Bill l
 Consldored.
 WASHINGTON, D. O., May IA. The silver | bill was at p. m. taken up and MT. Teller l addressed the senate. He disclaimed any l the prices of silver, save and except that sil- | yer was an American product, and that l therefore every American ought to have an l interest in advancing it's price. The people l of the state of Colorado had comparatively l little interest in the advancement of the | price of silver because. although they pro- l duced one-sixth of all the silver produced in l the world, they did not depend upon the silver product, and very shortly Gin the i'm 1 mediate future) the other interests of the state would far outweigh the interest of mere silver production. The silver product of the United States 60,000,0 900 ounces) was in- significant in comparison with the great interests of the country that were involved in the rehabilitation of silver as money metal. It was demanded in the .AAsoASSo oA All tA0 AhtoAE5U Ol SANA- ization, in the interest of progress, in the in- terest of the whole human race. There was In the country general feeling (not confined to any class) that silver ought. to be ueed as money on equal terms so far as practical with gold. He did not know @ senator except one who did not hold that the demand for silver coinage was a proper demand and one that ought to be met. Senators who had hitherto been avowed supporters of the gold standard now admitted that silver was wanted as money. Coming down to discussion of tue Windom bill MT. Teller said that even if he was convinced that that bill would put the price of silver up not to s1.29 an ounce but to $1.50 an ounce it would never receive his support. It was clear to him money metal would not remain at the price at which it might be put. In further dis- cussion of that bill he said that nothing would suit the secretary of the treasury but treasury note payable in commodity. It was the first time that the t'store system' which prevailed in mining and manufaotur- ing regions was proposed to be applied to the treasury department of the United States. He could not support such a wicked and nefar- tous proposition. It had brought great satis- faction to certain class of people in the coun- try and to some senatore who said that that was the end ot the coinage of silver. They said that there was no longer any danger of getting on silver basis. Silver was te be taken in as e commodity and to be put out as commodity. It had alway been treated in the treasury as g commodity. And yet that bill was said to be in the in- terest of silver; and that 1t ought to be satis- factory to the silver men if silver was put up to par. Nobody, he said, knew better than the men who stood behind that scheme that it would not put silver to part and nobody was more determined than those men that II. l.. fooled some people there were good many whon they were not able to fool with that kind of statement. Coming down to the bill as reported from the finance committee he said that that com mittee was composed of silver men Gall ex- cept one), and that it had prevented another scheme that was said to be an improvement the objectionable feature of payment of treasury notes in goods. It was founded on some system of financial policy. There was in it at least some philosophy. It provided for the purchase ot $4, 500, 900 worth of silver every month. For whata To be coined with the treasury of the United States as the credit on which the treasury notes were to be issued. And yet the senate was told that the bill was in the in- terest of the use of silver as money and that it ought to be satisfactory to the silver men as it would raise the price of sil- yer. He had no doubt that it would raise the price of silver to some extent. But if it was desired to put the price of silver back to | what 1t was in 1878 it's money function would have to be recognized. Without concluding his speech Mir. Teller at 2:30 yielded to g motion to 80 into executive session. The doors were re-opened at 3:05 and or l motion of MT. Ingalls, the silver bill was laid aside informally till tomorrow and the zen. ate proceeded to business on the calendar. The following bills, among others, were l were passed:
 Senate bill for the relief of Major Good 1 line, paymaster United States marine corps | (Crediting with sums lost through the defal
 cation of his clerk)
 Senate bill in relation to the pay of Rea
 Admiral James E. Jouett, retired. (Allow
 ing him the highest pay and compensation O his grade as rear admiral.
 Senate bill to pay $205 to the heir or heir
 of John Howard Payne, due on his salary a consul to Tunis.
 The senate at 4:3O adjourned till to-mor
 row.
 On motion of Mir. Morrill, of Kansas tn
 house insisted on it's amendment to the sen
 ate pension bill and conference was ordered
 The house then went into committee of tn
 whole on the tariff bill.
 MT. Bynum of Indiana moved to reduc the duty on common earthenware from 25 t
 15 per cent. ad valorem.
 MT. Bynum's motion was defeated-66 t
 SC.
 MT. Dunnell of Minnesota moved to reduc
 the duty on china, porcelain, etc., from 5 ! to 35 per cent. ad valorem. Lost-76 to 91 1 Mir. McMillin of Tennessee moved to re
 move the duty on decorated chinaware fron
 60 to 45 per cent, stating that the sixty pc
 cent. duty proposed, taken in connection
 with the package clause of the administra
 tive customs bill amounted to oonsiderabl
 increase from existing rstes. MT. McAillin'
 motion was defeated.
 Various other amendments looking to
 reduction of the duty on earthen and glass
 ware were made on the democratic side bu
 met with no success.
 After further discussion Mr. Bynum c Indiana charged that the committee of way and means in hearings on the tariff questio
 had shut out the labor of the country an admitted manufacturers.
 Messrs. Flower of New York and McKfr ley both denied this.
 Mr. Candler of Massachusetts offered a
 amendment fixing the rate of duty on lam
 chimneys ct 40 per cent. ad valorem. Lo
 --55 to 57.
 Having considered sixteen of the 156 psg, l of the bill the committee rose and the hou! at 6 o'clock adjourned until il o'clock t, morroW.
 t Fined $500 and Costs. , SPRINGFIELD, Mass, May 14.-James ] : Saford, president of the City National ban
 pleaded nolo condere to the charge
 adultery in the superior court to-day al 3 was fined $500 and costs. The complaint , which the indictment was found was ma
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