The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-25
Senator Turpie Speaks for tho
Teller Resolution.
THE BIG DEBT SYNDICATE
The establishment of Bimetallism Would
Make 1t Staunch Frierd of Sill
ver-Mr. Morgan Takes Fall
Out of Cleveland

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question of personal privilege. The Ala
bama senator had been represented as
saying in executive session substantially
that ex-President Cleveland was in IA
vor of Hawaiian annexation. This state
ment called out a denial from Mr.. Cleve-
land and in support of his original state
ment, Mr.. Morgan addressed the senate
at great length. One of the features of
the session was an elaborate speech by
Mr.. Turpie of Indiana in support of the
Teller resolution.
The pension appropriation bill was
called up and debated for nearly three
hours, but was not passed, the senate
adjourning until tomorrow, pending the
disposal of a point of order made
against an amendment offered by Mr..
Allen of Nebraska to the pending bill.
BY the original resolution passed near
ly 80 years ago, Mr.. Turpie held in
discussion of the Teller resolution. that
it was synonymous with solVency and
that the funded debt was thereby maze
payable in both gold and silver, or in
either of those metals.
IF we abandon silver" said he. "and
agree TO pay all of our obligations in
gold we should simply clinch the hold
of the debt syndicate upon the coun
try. If, however. we maintain a b
metallic standard and enforce that po-
siton by opening our mints to the free
coinage of silver. the syndicate of ma
tonal debt would become as strong
friends of silver as is my friend from
Colorado, the author of this resolution,
for they would naturally see to it that
they would not lose anything on their
holdings of government obligations"
. He denounced as a mendacious false
hood of the gold men the statement
that the standard silver dollar was
worth only half its face value and that
some time in the future 1t would be
worth still less.
Mr. Turpie analysed the bill pro-
posed by the monetary commission and
sharply attacked the proposition that
all debts should be payable in gold in
asmuch. especially, as that provision
made the governmental obligations pay
able in gold. He suggested that this was
an indirect method of discredlting the
standard silver dollar. which, by the
enactment of that proposition, would be
left high and dry without the proper
debt paying ability.
Mr. Turpie did not believe any such
proposition would ever find public favor
in the United States. Indeed he had.
he said, a profound conviction that sill
Yer would finally be restored TO it's
proper position, not by international
agreement, but by the honest individual
action of the various countries of the
world. Mr. Turpie spoke for an hour
and a half, concluding with the state
ment that he and other silver advocates
We're willing to rest their case with the
people
Mr. Morgan of Alabama, under
question of personal privilege, at the
conclusion of Mr.. Turpie,s address.
rose to make a statement he had earlier
given notice of.
Mr. Morgan referred To a dispatch
from Princeton, n. J., published yes
terday, quoting ex-President Cleveland
as denying a statement said to have
ecutive session of the senate to the eff
feet that Mr.. Cleveland was once in
favor of the annexation of Hawaii.
Mr.. Morgan said that he could not dis
cuss his own statements made in eX-
ecutive session.
made by me-" said Mr.. Morgan, hence
Mr.. Cleveland. in accepting such a
statement without first ascertaining
from me what the facts We're. shows
his Willingness to accept ex parte state
ments in Hawaiian matters
Mr.. Morgan said that it was well
known to some of Mr. Cleveland's
friends during his first administration
that he was in favor not only of the
of Hawaii. but also of
Cuba.
Il cannot" declared Mr.. Morgan.
accept Mr.. Cleveland's statement that
he was always opposed to Hawaiian
] can name at least one
friend of Mr.. Cleveland
who will support me in the belief that
the statement is not true"
Mr.. Morgan then presented an ex-
tended review of Mr.. Cleveland's con-
nection, as president, with Hawaiian
affairs, in the course of which he de-
the accrediting of Special
'nfaa mis- Si pInInf tn tho
ment at Honolulu as piece of duplic
ity without parallel.
Mr.. Morgan reiterated his belief that
MIR. Cleveland was in favor of annex
alton. but that Mr.. Dole's honesty
forced the president to abandon his
policy of overthrowing the provisional
Hawaiian government. The CORE
spondence he read. he said, laid the
for the broad predicate
that Mr.. Cleveland was capable of de-
claring one policy and intending to
carry into effect another.
Mr.. White of California facetiously
to Mr.. Morgan's discussion of
and declared that the senator's re-
marks showed the utter futility and
folly of confining the discussion of such
matters to the executive sessions OF the
senate.
Mr.. Vest of Missouri thought il would
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the fact were not at this time called to
the senate's attention that resolution,
passed by congress in 1895, relative to
this policy concerning foreign affairs.
which Mr.. Vest conceived. divldei be-
tween the president and congress The
responsibility for the administrator 5
attitude upon the Hawaiian matter.
In accordance with notice previously
given, Mr.. Perkins Of California called
up the pension appropriation bin. Mr
Gallinger Of New Hampshire secured
the adoption Of an amendmeul royii-
ing that hereafter no pension shall ne
paid upon power of attorney from pen
sioners residing in foreign countries
After the adoption of the committees
10 the bill. Mr.. iinIman
briefly addressed the senate upon the
He said that lilt. bill DID not
larry within s.. .0000a0 or $4,000 atl of
the sum necessary for the pensions Of