Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-24
Speaks on the Teller Resolution in
the Senate.
Mr.. CLEVELAND AND ANNEXATION
The Formers Views in His First
Administration.
MR.. MORGAN'S STATEMENT
SENATE.

MT Waitnau Uni 50 presented the Gre
dentials Of Mr.. H. d. s. Money as senator
from Mississippi. to succeed the late Sena-
tor George. The credentials were read and,
Mr.. Money being present. was escorted to
the Vice Presidents desk. where the oath
of Office was administered to him. Mr..
Money has been sitting as senator, under
appointment from the governor of Mis-
sissippi. Mr.. Walthall presented a joint
resolution adopted by the legislature of
Mississippi, urging the United States gov
eminent to intervene in the Cuban war on
behalf of the insurgents, "peaceably II it
can, forcibly il 1t must" The resolution
vas read and referred to the committee
On foreign relations.
Mr.. Morgan of Alabama gave notice that
he would, some time during the Day make
statement concerning what he conceived
to be an attack upon his veracity by an
ex-President of the United States (Mr
Cleveland)
Turpie on the Teller Resolution.
The Teller resolution was then laid be-
fore the Senate, and in accordance with
the notice previously given Mr.. Turpie of
Indiana addressed the Senate in support
of the resolution.
Il shall vote for the resolution willingly"
he began. Il think its Introduction timely
and opportune, especially when We are con-
fronted by a measure which ccntemplates
an increase of the public debt by thrse
hundred or four hundred million dollars
Ii IS, indeed, proper that We should repeat
The declaration that all government obIga-
tons are payable in coin-not in gold" BY
the original resolution. passed nearly thirty
years afo, Mr.. Turpie held, coin was made
synonymous with solvency, and the federal
dept was thereby made payable in botn
goIu and silver, or in either of those metals
Ihe coin bends, Mr.. Turpie thought are a
principal element in the financial question
which confronts the country. eff we aban-
don silver. said he, land agree to nav all
OF our obligations in gold. We should simply
cnnch the hold of the debt syndicate upon
the country. If, however, We maintain a
timetable stal dard and enforce that posi-
tlon by opening our minis to the free coin
age OF silver, the national debt syndicate
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 obliga-
TONS
He denounced in the course of a discus
sion of the relative value of gold and silver
coin as mendacious falsehood of the gold
men the statement which, he said, had been
made in every form that the standard sill
yer dollar was worth only half its face
value, and that some time in he future it
would be worth still less.
Mr.. Turpie analysed the bill proposed by
the monetary commission. He sharply at
tackled the proposition that all debts should
be payable in gold, inasmuch especially as
that provision made the government obi
cations payable ir gold. He suggested that
this was an indirect method of diScreditng
the standard silver dollar, which, by the
enactment of that proposition would be
left high and dry without its proper debt
! paying ability Mr.. Topic did not believe
any such proposition wGeald ever find public
favor in the United States. Indeed he had,
he said profound conviction that silver
would finally be restored to its proper posi-
ton. not by international agreement but
by the honest individual action of the vari-
Gus countries of the world.
Mr.. Turpie spoke for an hour and a
half concluding with the statement that
he and other silver advocates were willing
to rest their case with the people.
Mr.. Morgan and Mr.. Cleveland.
Mr.. Morgan of Alabama, under ques-
ton of personal privilege, rose at the
conclusion of Mr.. Turpies address, to
| make statement of what he had earlier
| given notice. Mr.. Morgan referred to a
| dispatch from Princeton, n. j., published
yesterday quoting ex-President Cleveland
| as denying statement said to have been
made by Mr.. Morgan in an executive session
! OF the Senate to the effect that Mr.. Cleve-
land was once in favor of the annexation
| of Hawaii
Mr.. Morgan said that he could not dis
! cuss his own statements made in executive
session.
mo statement for publication was made
| Cleveland. in accepting such a statement
| without first ascertainng from me what
| the facts were, shows his willingness to
| accept parte statements in Hawaiian
matters"
| Mr.. Morgan said that it was we'll known
! to some of Mr.. Clevelands. friends dur
| ing his first administration that he was
| in favor not only of the annexation of
| Hawaii but also of Cuba.
| 81 cannot" declared Mr.. Morgan, sac
| cept Mr.. Cleveland's statement that he
| was always opposed to Hawaiian annexa-
| ton. / can name at least one confidential
| friend of Mr.. Cleveland who will support
| me in the belief that that statement is
| not true"
| Mr.. Morgan then presented an extended
review of Mr.. ClevelandS connection as
| President with Hawaiian affairs, in the
| course of which he denounced the accred-
| iting of Special Commissioner Blount to
| the government at Honolulu las a piece of
| duplicity without paramount"
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