Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-03-18
MONETARY CONFERENCE.
Favorable News Concerning 1t al
Home and Abroad The Dele
gates TO Confer.

Washington, Mch. lo.-Ine slX mem
bers of the monetary commission ap'
pointed by the house to take part in q
council of nations by which worlds bi-
metallic standard may bo recommended
are looking anxiously forward to the ses-
sion which may mean 80 much to this
country.
It has been learned here that the six
commissioners will soon meet together to
ascertain just how they stand on that
question.
The delegates selected by congress
were as follows:
Senator Horny M. Teller (Rep.) of Colo
RADIO, for silver.
Senator James K. Jones (Dem.) of Ar
kansas, for silver.
Senator John W. Daniel (Dem.) OF Vir'
ginia, for silver.
Speaker Charles F. Crisp (Dem.) Of
Georgia, for silver.
Representative David B. Culbersor
Dem of Texas, for silver.
Representative Robert R. Hit (Rep.) oi
Illinois, bimetalist.
Notwithstanding their anxiety to get te
work, however, they will have to wait un
til some foreign country, most likely
Germany, issues the call for an interna
tional bimetallic conference.
The commissioners will receive no sal
laries, but their expenses will be paid
They have no power to bind this country
to any financial policy, but they can rec
ommend to congress the adoption o1
whatever policy Is agreed upon by tht
conference, if it meets their approval.
It WAS the necessity of having com
mission indorsed practically by the unan
imous sentiment of the senate that caused
political feeling in that body, at the enc
of stubborn fight over the selection o.
the senatorial delegates, to be laid aside
For two hours tho senate, in executive
session, coutended over the choice of thu
re representatives.. The Republicans led b!
Senators Aldrich and Chandler, demanded
that two out of the three commissioner
should be chosen from their ranks, bu
Mr.. Aldrich finally announced that th'
Republicans would be willing to aocep
two Dem ocrats if ono of them was con
servative silver man.
President Cleveland has not yet an
nounced the names of the three remain
ing members of the commission. 1t il
said that he will choose prominent mel
from three widely separated cities, 81
that the various sections OF the countr.
may be represented. The radical fre'
silver meu say he will surely select thre'
eastern gold men, but the friends of tn
president say his advisers have intimatet
that he will name at least one southern
or western silver man out of the three.
THE SITUATION ABROAD.
Berlin. council of state to-da!
ad 10 pied the resolution of the silver ad
vocates, indorsing Chancellor Hohenlohe'
monetary statement in the relchstag, ant
sfterward rejected the proposal of tn
gold advocates that the present currenc.
continue unaltered.
It is learned that France has informed
Germany of her willingness to cooperate
in settling the currency.
At the time his resolution was intro
duced Hohenlohe said: "Without preju
diciug our imperial currency one mus
confess that the differences in the valu
of gold and silver continue to react upol
our commercial life. p
"Following, therefore, the tendencie
which lead to the appointment of silve
commission, am ready to consider, ii
col junction with the federal government
whether we can not enter upon a friendl
interchange of opinion as to common
remedial measures without the othe
states which are chiefly interested ii
maintaining the value OF silver"