The San Francisco call., 1898-01-27
MR. TELLER
 DEFENDS HIS
 RESOLUTION FinancialDebate Con- tinUed in the
 Senate. Six-HOur Session Replete With Argument and
 Oratory. HOar Clashes With the Cobra dan in Replying to His
 Contentious. THE END IS IN SIGHT By Agreenne ent the Issue Will Be Voted On Before Adjourn
 nlent To-Day.
HOaP Clashes With the Cobra dan in Replying to His
 Contentious.
THE END IS IN SIGHT.
By Agreement the Issue Will Be Voted On Before Adjourn
 naent To-Day.
Special Dispatch to The caIl.
Call Office, Riggs House, WaShiugtOn. Ian. 26.


 Washington, Jan. 26
 For more than six hours the Senate had under discussion the Teller resolu- ton providing that the Government pay the principal and interest of the bonds of the United States in silver. By agree ment the resolution and pending amendments are to be voted on before adjournment tomorrow. The debate was devoid of the sensational incidents and acrimonious colloquies which char acterized that of yesterday, but it was replete with arguments and oratory. The time was consumed by Teller (Sil. RI of Colorado and Daniel (D.) of Vir- ginia. who supported the resolution, and Hoar (R) of Massachusetts and Platt (R) of Connecticut in opposition to it. All delivered set speeches ex- cept Hoar, whose speech was In reply to some points advanced by Teller yes terday.
 At the opening of the Senate Hale of Maine presented the report of the con- ferees on the urgent denclency appro- priation bill. and the report was agreed Chandler of New Hampshire. secured the adoption of a resolution calling upon the Attorney-General for report as 10 whether there have been recent viola tions of the constitution in Louisiana by the exclusion from service on Juries in the United States courts of duly quail lied citizens on account of color
 Upon motion of Vest T, of f, Missouri the The debate was opened by Teller or Colorado the author of the resolution, who began by stating that he would per faith.
 would bring about such a condition of affairs as would be disgraceful, what ever the opinion of the Senator from Massachusetts Q1oar) may be of my opinions or convictions. The Massachu- settS Senator tried to make 1t appear that my position was on parallel with the making of $1O piece out of cop per cent Such a proposition ] do not advance and 1 do not think 1t would find much support in this or any other legis- Teller said he was willing to retire from public life if by so doing he could bring about an international bimetallic agreement. He maintained that the ex- isting contract concerning the money in which bonds of the United States were payable could not be changed without action of CongreSs-one of the parties to the contract-and that the Government had a right to all the advantages the contract afforded 1t
 Fairbanks asked Teller whether the present Secretary of the Treasury was now paying out only gold in liquidation of the bonded obligations of the Govern ment.
 the Secretary of the Treasury is doing. My relations with the present administra- tton are not such as to enable me to ob- 
 Being further pressed by Fairbanks Teller said his belief was that the ad- ministration was paying the interest on certain obligations of the Government no such obligations themselves having Inatured, in gold.
 T have absolute information retorted Fairbanks, that the administration is paying the obligations I refer to in legal tender notes. On January l $29 ,000, 600 of bonds matured, and I am informed by the Secretary of the Treasury that these bonds were paid, not in gold not in sil- yer. but in legal tender notes.''
 If that be SOL said Teller. i've might c vote on the pending resolution now"
 The point had been reached, said Tel Ter, when effort was being made by the national administration to put the country on a gold basis. There had been too much sophistry and evasion of the financial question among those who dis cussed 1t during the past twenty years, and in his opinion, the time had arrived for all parties to walk squarely up to the cannons mouth of the question and deal fairly and honestly with themselves and the people.
 , In response to a statement by Teller that $262, eco 900 of bonds were sold for the purpose of maintaining the gold stan dard Gear of Iowa said it was well known that more than S200 ,000 600 of those bonds were sold to meet a deficit in the treas ury. The statement was flatly contra dicted by the Colorado Senator, who maintained that there was no necessity for the sale of bonds to meet current ex-