The age-herald., 1898-01-27
Postal Appropriation Bill Sounds the Gong
 For SparrinS in the House.
LOUD AND QUIGG PRINCIPALS
The Former Was Hoarse and Could Scarcely 7 Speak Above Whisper, While He Char acterIzed Assertions by Quigg
 False and Unfounded.

Washington, Jan. 26-At the opening of the senate today MT. Hale, of Maine, pre- sented the report ofthe conferees on the urgent defciency appropriation bill and the report was agreed to.
 Upon motion of MT. Vest the senate took up the Teller resolution The debate was opened by MT. Teller, the author of the resolution. MT. Teller maintained that the existing contract concerned the money in which bonds of the United States were payable and the government had a right to all the advantages the contract af- forded it.
 MT. Fairbanks asked Mr. Teller whether the present secretary of the treasury was now paying out any gold in liquidation of the bonded obligations of the government.
 MT. Teller said his belief was that the administration was paying the interest on coin obligations of the government, and no other obligations had matured.
 Paying in Legal Tender.
 q have absolute information" retorted MT Fairbanks "that the administration is paying the obligations I refer to in legal tender notes On January 1, $29,0O0,0O0 of bonds matured and I ann informed by the secretary of the treasury that these bonds were paid not in god, not in silver but in legal tender notes''
 of that be SOL said MT. Teller i've might as well discontinue this debate and taken a vote upon the pending resolution now"
 The point had been reached, thought MT. Teller, when the effort is being made by the national administration to put the country on a gold basis.
 In response to statement by Mr. Teller that $2G2, ,000, GOO of bonds were sold for the purpose of maintaining the gold standard, Mir Gear, of Iowa, said that it was well known that more than S2OO O00, GOO of those bonds were sold to meet deficiency in the treasury.
 A Flat Contradiction.
 This statement was latly contradicted by the Colorado senator, who maintained that there was no necessity for the sale of bonds to meet current expenses when there was plenty of silver to meet press. ing obligations of the government
 Mr. Hoar, of Massachusetts, followed in a speech in which he said that the ad- vocates of the pending resolution main- tained that by a crime the price of silver had been reduced until the silver in a dol lar was worth only A cents, yet the same senators who made the charge of "crime" advocated the payment of the govern ment's obligations in this depreciated money-money that had been appreciated, as they claimed, by crime.
 MT. Hoar said it had been made evident by the statements of the senator from Arkansas (Berry), to whom he referred ~TI foIo who was willing to walk up to the can non's mouth" of the pending question, that it was the purpose of the silver men to go into the campaign of 1900 and declare it to be right and honest to pay obligations in 4O-cent dollars and to stigmatize as "grabbers'' and robbers" those who diff fered from them upon the honesty of such a policy. 1
 Child Labor Assailed
 In the course of his remarks, Mr. Hoar referred incidentally to the present in- dustrial situation in New England and its relation to the Dingley tariff law. He was glad and the people of New England were glad of the industrial prosperity of South Carolina, Alabama and Georgia, but he did hold that the people of New
 
 competition with communities where long hours are the rule in industrial establish ments and where child labor was employ ed in the factories. He said that these practices were not known in New Eng land, where limited hours for workmen and no child labor were provided for by law.
 Competition upon basis of equality of laws would be welcomed by New England. Our policy said Mir Hoar, 'is not bounded by state lines. We are New England men, but we are above all Amer icans."
 Mr Platt of Connecticut, then took the floor in opposition to the pending resolu- tion. He declared that it was the purpose of the advocates to override the solemn declaration of congress that the parity of gold and silver coins should be maintained
 Without Destroying Debt Paying Power
 Mir Platt said that if he could believe that this country could coin silver freely without destroying the debt-paying power of silver. he would be glad to enter upon that policy. He could not, however, enter tain the possibility of such policy.
 In brief colloquy between MT. Platt on the one side and Messrs. Allen and Till man, MT. Platt stated this country now had bimetallisn. To this MT. Chandler took exception, saying any definition of bimetallism which omitted the free coin age of both metals at ratio fixed by law was not only incorrect, but obsolete.
 MT. Daniel of Virginia followed MT. Platt in support of the resolution. He said We were confronted on all sides with tile clamorous statements of the gold men that agitation of the financial question was un-