The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-10
SENATE'S SILVER DEBATES
Mr.. Teller MOnOpOlizeS The Entire
Afternoon Session.

Pays His Respects to the "MendaoiouS
Newspaper Press,' as He is Pleased
to Denominate it-Says the Age Of
Great Editors and Great Journals In
Gone-Grows Sarcastic over the
Presidents Congratulations to
Chairman Wilson on the Passage Of
the House Repeal BiI-Cau of the
Senate Occasionally Made to Help
Kill Time for the Silver Men,
Washington, Sept 0-The first two
hours of to-days session in the Senate
wore consumed in the discussion Of reso-
lution offered yesterday by Mr.. PETER, to
inquire into the refusal Of the national
banks of New York, Boston and Phila-
delphia to psy the checks of their deposit
ors in currency The discussion was un-
finished when the morning hour closed at
9 p. m, and under the rules the resolution
went to the calendar, whence it cannot be
taken except by a vote Of the Senate.
And so that particular resolution will be
heard Of no more during the present ses-
sion.
MR.. TELLER TIRES THE SENATE.
The remainder of the day was occupied
by Mr., Teller, in a speech most Of which
was devoted to a denunciation of the
newspaper press of the country-espe-
cially the metropolitan part of it-for its
impudence and its mendacity He
treated President Cleveland's telegram
TO Mr.. Wilson, congratulating him and
his associates on the passage Of the re-
peal bill by the House, as an instance of
newspaper falsehood, and exclaimed
(with pretended Indignation that the
President of the United States could
never be guilty Of such gross breach OF
propriety.
ANYTHING FOR DELAY.
Very few members were In their seats
when the days business was begun and
when Mr.. Teller took the floor, but before
he began his speech Mr. Stewart called
attention to the absence Of quorum
The roll was called and 43 senator's
(exactly quorum) answered. Mr..
Teller commenced his speech by referring
to the "lecturing' which the Senate was
receiving from the newspapers of the
country, Senators, he said, we're or
dered, as If they had masters, to proceed,
without deliberation, contrary to the
traditions Of the Senate, contrary to the
principles laid down in the constitution,
TO do, with hot haste, that which in the
Judgment of, if not majority, at least a
respectable minority of senators, would
be very disastrous thing to do.
"THEM HoRRID NEWSPAPERS"
Not only had senators been told that
they must vote at once. but it had been
asserted over and over again that sena-
tors who represented states fortunate
enough to be filled with mineral wealth
were representing their individual inter
ests, and had not even the right to vote
on the tariff question. In the many years
he had served in the Senate he recollected
no instance where a senator representing
a mining state had declined to vote on the
tariff question because his people were di-
rectly interested in manufactures. He
(Teller) had no more interest individually
in silver mining than any member in the
body He had no properties in silver
and had never mined an ounce Of silver
in his life. But he had come to represent
n people which had produced a large
amount Of metallic money, and he had
come to protest against any legis-
lation that would seriously embarrass the
people, not Of his state alone, but that
portion Of the country which was in
area at least one-third of the whole
United States.
NOT AFRAID OF A BOARD OF TRADE.
He should not be deferred from doing
his duty as he saw IL by any newspaper
attack or by any chamber of commerce
appeal; and if there should appear (as it
was published there would on the 25th of
this month three or four, or five or six
hundred representatives of chambers OF
commerce or boards of trades, they would
be powerless to affect his vote, or to
change his course on the pending meas
urse
Mr.. Teller went on to read from an ar
ticle in to-day's Washington Post to the
effect that President Cleveland had come
to the conclusion to grant no concession,
and would not agree to any proposition
for silver legislation after the passage of
the repeal bill, and this stand of the
President had renewed the confidence of
unconditional repeal and given them un-
wayering faith in the final passage of the
measure.
NENDACITY OF THE PUBLIC PRESS.
do not, Mr.. Teller continued, mean to
say that the newspaper statements cor
rectly represent the Presidents mind
on this subject. leave that out of con-
sideration, except to say that they pro-
fess to speak for the people. They say
that the people, without regard to party,
are demanding from US certain action.
Then they tell US what the senator from
Missouri (VeSt) says is untrue, that
the President of the United States
is interfering in this matter.
The senator from Missouri cannot change
my opinion as to the mendacity Of the pub
lie press Of the country. l know that the
day of great newspapers edited by great
editors is past, and that the publication
of a newspaper is like the running of a
manufactory. it is for money. / don't
mean to say that they are always false,
or even sometimes false; but mean to
say that they no longer represent the
public.
DECADENCE, AS MR.. TELLER SEES 1T.
1t is question Of influence upon them.
II may depend entirely upon who owns
the stock of the paper; it may depend en-
tirely upon the private views Of some
body who writes the editorials. They are
no longer headed by men like Horace
Greeley and Henry J. Raymond, whom
we all remember. There is no such
paper in the country.
But | saw the other day an equally un-
reliable statement, which shows how
mendacious the newspapers are. It pur-
ported to be a telegram from the Presi-