Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-02-07
WASHINGTON LETTER.
ESPECIAL ooRREs pom NOE OF THE MONITOR
Wushin qton, Jan. 3Ist, 1898.


Speaker Reed and the other repub-
lican leaders of the House were of the
opinion that the hest answer to the
Teller resolution would be it's defeat
by vote of the House; consequently
/ it was referred to the Ways and Means
Committee, unfavorably reported and
defeated 1t would have been an
easy matter to kill the resolution with
out allowing it to be voted upon, but
that method of disposing Of it would
have allowed the silver men to claim
that the republicans were afraid to
give thesHouse a chance to vote upon
it. President Mckinley also thought
that the House would better defeat
the resolution by direct vote than
by an indirect method.
It has always been the policy Of the
republican party to make every dol
lar of our money as good as any other
dollar, and to pay all government OBJ
legations in the best money The par
ty stood firmly by that policy when
the greenback craze was sweeping
over the country; President McKin-
ley's last republican predecessor
Hon. Benz. Observation-Disclosures that,
idea upon several occasions during
his term and the ST. Louis platform,
upon which, president Mckinley was
elected, spoke in no uncertain lam
guage on the same subject. Therefore
no one was surprised, although some
of the silver men pretended to be,
when PRESIDENT Mckinley said:
'Whatever may be the language of
the contract, the United States will
discharge all it's obligations in the
currency recognized as the best
thro ughout the civilized world at the
times tof payment" 1t would have
been surprising had he said anything
else. No living man is stronger
advocate of the unlimited use of both
silver 9and gold, as money metals,
provided that it can be brought about
by the consent of sufficient number
of the nations which control the
worlds commerce to prevent the sill
yer beco ming deprecated currency,
than President Mckinley, but he has
the same horror of nation trying to
pay it's just obligations in depreciat-
ed currency that every honest man
would have of a solvent business con-
Germ which sought to scale its indebt-
edness.
Three out of the four gold demo-
cratic Senators-Gray, of Delaware,
Mitchell, Of Wisconsin, and Lindsay,
Of Kentucky-voted for the Teller
resolution, declaring bonds payable
at the option of the government in
silver, and one-Caffery of Louisiaria-
against it. Murphy, of New York,
and Smith, of New Jersey, demo Gratis
who voted for Bryan, but who claim
ed to be anti-silver in their personal
views, voted for the resolution, and
German, of Nd, who is in the same
boat, was paired. The explanation
of Senator Lindsay why he voted for
the Teller resolution-that it was
nothing more than a declaration of
fact concerning existing law-may
doubtless also be palmed off on some
of their constituents by Smith of N. j.,
Murphy, of N. Y, and Mitchell, of
Wis, all of whom claim to be sound
money men and all of whom voted for
the resolution, but it is no valid ex-
cuse. The resolution has nothing
whatever to do with any existing law.
The original, offered by Stanley Mat
thews, when silver was at premium
and adopted by the House and Senate,
was onlv a concurrent resolution, and
never was a resolution. So that ex-
cuse wont wash.
In order to devote his time entirely
to the campaign in North Carolina,
Senator Pritchard will resign his place
OH the Republican Congressional
Committee, and it is probable that
Representative Pearson, who has
been steadily growing in the esteem
of his colleagues, will be chosen to
succeed him.
Speaking of his action, Senator
Pritchard said: 'sThe campaign in N.
G. this fall will command my closest
attention. We have an entire legisla-
ton to elect. and If the democrats
should carry the state, they will at
once undo all that has been done in
the way of election laws. We cannot
afford to let them get control, but the
populists will doubtless cooperate
with us, as they will see the necessity
of keeping the legislature out of the
hands of the democrats"
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