The San Francisco call., 1898-01-08
FROM CIVIL SERVICE ID CURRENCY DEBATE.

party of the gold standard, and 1t Is equally plain that there is no dlstlnc- tiOn between the sentiments Of the President and the Secretary of the Treasury upon this question"
 Teller then discussed at length the efforts that have been made to obtain an international agreement upon the silver question. He declared that ev- cry intelligent person knew when the message of the President was laid be- fore Congress, on the 24th day of last July asking for a monetary commits sion there was no possibility of an 1n- ternational agreement.
 Teller quoted from Secretary Cages statement before the House Banking and Currency Committee. lndlcaung that it was the desire of the Secretary to commit the country thoroughly to the gold standard.
 He referred in terms of high respect to the Secretary personally, ana eX- pressed his qualification that Mr.. Gage had the courage of his convictions ana was willing to stand sQuarely on his opinions. The Secretary was, in the opinion of MT. Teller, an exception in this respect to many other prominent Republicans.
 Chandler of New Hampshire said he desired to call the attention of the sen ator from Colorado to matter which
 
 ''The point I make" said Chandler, ''is that the President speaks for him. self either through State papers or in such other manner as he may deem wise, and he is not to be Judged by what his Secretary of the Treasury may say upon any question. Neither is he to be judged by the utterances of the Senator from Indiana, made Tn the full flush of enthusiasm of his en- trance into the Senate of the united States before an audience of his con stituents in Indianapolis. The Presi- dent, as I said, must of course speak for himself, and we cannot fairly judge him or his opinions by the ut terances of anybody else"
 Chandler maintained that the Sena- tor from Colorado (Teller) was doing much to prevent the successful frui- tion of the efforts to bring about in- ternational bimetallism.
 He thought that such efforts as the Colorado Senator was making were not only unfair, but unwise in view of his CTeller's) heretofore expressed desire to bring about international bimetalliSm. He hoped, therefore, that he would do nothing to paralyZe the efforts now making in favor of an international agreement upon the silver question.
 T should like to bring about inter national bimetallism," said Teller, "and l think I have done as much to bring it about as any man in this chamber, If l except the Senator who sits in front of me (Allison). When he returned from Europe, however without success, l felt that it was practically useless to proceed further in that direction"
 Incidentally, Teller drifted into dis cussion of the foreign relations of the United States. He maintained that the money power held the country so firmly within its grasp that the Government was unable to take such action on for eign questions as the people desired should be taken. He hoped that the time would soon come when we would say to a fifth rate power like Spain: Take your hands off that bountiful island-an island which you have near ly depopulated," and say it, too, with out fear of the opinion of the money power.
 'I do not believe" said Teller, "that war would result if we should put our hands out to support Cuba. It would be humane thing for us to do-a req sonable and just act. The French came to us at a time when we were Strug- gling as are the Cubans, and it is doubtful whether we could have achieved our independence without their aid"
 At the conclusion of Teller's speech, Turner of Washington called up the inn migration bill, saying that as he was about to leave the city. he desired to submit some remarks upon the pend ing measure. He strongly opposed the bill. He was not in favor of an edu- cational qualification and insisted that the enactment of that feature of the bill into the law would falsify the en- tire record of this country. His speech was mainly directed against what he termed the transportation monopoly and other trusts.
 Fairbanks of Indiana gave notice of a speech in support of the immigration bill next Tuesday.
 Butler of North Carolina presented a joint resolution proposing an amend ment to the constitution providing for the election of a Federal judiciary by the people. The resolution went to the table to permit Butler to make a speech on it.
 A message from the President in- formed the Senate that the sale of the Kansas Pacific Railroad had been post poned to February 16-19, and also sub mitted the agricultural department re- port on experimental stations.
 At 2:45 o'clock the Senate went into executive session and at 3:10 adjourned until Monday.