The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-09-13
PRETTY STRONG LANGUAGE.
r1r. Teller Speaks in the Picturesque
Fashion of Colorado.

WASHINGTON. Sept. 12.-In the Senate
Stewards resolution for committee to
ascertain whether any Senator was fnan-
cially interested in any national bank went
over till tomorrow.
The repeal bill was taken up.
Mitchell of Oregon addressed the Senate
against the bill While Mitchell was
speaking, Stewart called atten tion to the
absence Of quorum. The roll was called
and fifty three Senators responded.
Mitchell then resumed his speech. He
favored free coinage, and while he would
be willing as last resort to change the
ratio in order to secure free coinage, he
believed it should be decreased to 1515 to l.
Mitchell dwelt upon the surprising i'm
portance OF the question which confronted
Congress. and discussed the causes which
had produced the recent distressed condi-
tiOn of the country. He maintained that
the Sherman law was in no degree re-
sponsible for it. and yet repeal was to be
brought about because Of a clamor from
the banking interests. There was no
danger Of the United States becoming the
dun ping ground for foreign silver. 1t was
needed for money purposes and could not
be spared. Mitchell referred to the disas-
trous effects of the depreciation of silver
on the interests of the farmer. The money
changers of Lombard street and the un-
considerable stock gamblers on Wall
street waited with ill-concealed anxiety
the result of a vote that would increase by
half the purchasing power of gold, and cut
down in like proportion the price of every
agricultural commodity produced In this
country.
Hawley of Connecticut then spoke. He
said he was ia favor of the passage of the
pending bill, and while willing to be as
patient as possible with the opponents Of
repeal there was one general misstatement
which had been iterated and reiterated
until he was tired Of it, That was that
there was somebody who believed In the
total destruction of half the currency of
the world. 1t was terrible mis- tatement; :;
a sophistical statement; a false statement.
Practically. all who favored the repeal OF
the Sherman law expected TO continue the
use of silver literally, so far as it could
be done without reaching silver mono
metalism.
There was sharp colloquy between
Teller and Hawley, in which subsequently
Mitchell, Mcpherson and Allen Joined,
and then Teller spoke further on silver.
He said he should consider himself craven
to degree aud unworthy of his seat In
the Senate if he should allow this great
crime, as he considered 1t. to be carried
out without his protest II his protest
should ring in the ears of Senators until it
became tiresome and tedious they must
remember it was only one-third of the
country that was to be desolated and de-
stroyed, but in his judgment the disaster
would be part of tie lot of all the people
In due time. He would devote his time to
the interests of his people ard the country
at large, and there was no labor, no sacri-
fee. no contumely that could be put upon
him that would turn him from his opposi-
tion TO this damnable bill.
Hawley said that if the bill was passed
and few months should develop that the
East and West were desolated 1t was quite
competent for Congress to reconsider its
action, and it would likely DO So
Stewart finally got the floor, aud was In
the midst of long speech wien he re-
luctantiv yielded for the executive session,
after which the Senate adjourned.
The Vice-President laid before the Sem