The St. Johns herald., 1898-01-15
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Senator Teller Intends to Offer
 a Resolution.


 From Our Regular Correspondent
 WASHINGTON, January z, 1898.
 Senator Teller has little surprise that he intends to spring on those republi- cans who, although pretending to be bi- metalists, are doing nothing to counter act the effect of Secretary Cages efforts to have the entire world believe that Mir. Mckinley and the republican party stand for gold mono-metallIsm. Sena- tor Teller believes there should be no further masquerading on the financial question; that the constituents of every senator have a right to know to a cer- tainty whether lie fayors bin.etallism or gold monometallism, and that his little surprise, in the shape of resolution he intends offering and pressing until a record vote is taken on it, will do the trick. This resolution did not originate with MT Teller, but was written by the late Stanley Mathews, republican sen s7ur i.5a. Ohio was adopted by e. publican votes iu the scDatc i- 7e7e Y declares that "a.l the bonds of the E..tct eac-. .--rcd or authorized t9 be .s-aeJ. uuler t.c Iel..I5rs act Of 1870, the act 10 provide for the resump- ton of specie payments, etc.,) gre pay able, principal and interest, at the op- ton of the government of the United States, in silver dollars of the coinage of the United States, containing 4122 grains each of standard silver; and that to restore to its coinage such silver coins as legal tender in payment of such bonds, principal and interest, is not a violation of the public faith, nor in der ogation of the rights of the public cred itor." Reckless assertions have been made concerning alleged changes among senators on the silver question. Fol that reason, if for no other. Senator Tel ler's idea is good one. In addition to smoking out the would-be straddlers, a vote on this resolution will doubtless convince Secretary Gage and his gold bug assistants, in and out of congress, of the hopeIessness of their efforts to secure from this congress legislation au- thorizng the issue of gold bonds for the funding of our public debt, or for any other purpose.
 The administration has put itself in position to get a new batch of trouble, by meddling i'll the contest among the Maryland republicans over the election of Senator Gorman's successor. It was supposed that when the administration ascertained that it could not force the election of Postmaster General Gary to the senate, it had dropped out and de- cided to allow the Maryland republicans to choose their own senator, but that was only supposition. Within the last three or ioui aaye ,Ao .,L4.u5s...tfo0 has openly shown it's advocacy oi Judge McComas for the senate, and has com pe!!ed Governor LoWndes 70 "iih9Fa" in favor of McComas.
 Extension Commissioner Murphy ls opposed to the publication of the eh'iie pension roll by the government, because of the large expense. but he thinks It would be productive of good results to furnish the newspapers with the com pIete Est of all pensioners within the radius of their circulation. When MT. Murphy was in charge of the office, all newspapers that applied for lists of pen sioners in their localities were promptly accommodated.
 The republicans are doing more crow inc over the small surplus shown by the government receipts and expenditures for the month of December than they will over the big deficit that January will certainly show. Mir. Dingley has taken advantage of the situation to issue rosy statement in which he easily makes it appear-on paper-that the de- fciency of $44, ,0O0, ,0O0 for the first half of the current fiscal year will not be in- erased during the last half, upon which the country has just entered, as though that was something of which he and his party had right to be justly proud. What would the stockholders ot a big business corporation think of a manage