Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-01-24
SENATE FINALLY BRINGS UP THE
TELLER RESOLUTION.
VEST SCORES A. VICTORY
Measure Providing for Payment OF
United States Bonds in White Metal
Money Brought Before the Senate
The House Enjoys a Senatorial
Episode.

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days ago by Mr.. Teller (sil., rep, COLI
providing for the payment of bonds OF
the United States in silver at the OPP
! ton of the government. Mr. Vest
! (dem., Mo- the member of the
the resolution, spoke briefly upon it,
but disclaimed, any desire at this time
to thresh over the old straw Of the
financial discussion. He said that
twenty years have passed since the
Stanley Matthews resolution was first
put on the statute books, but he be-
lieved that there was no reason why
/ there should not be a reit-
GRAFTON of the resolution of the
| declaration contained in it.
The senator maintained that the
! issue involving a consideration OF
the resolution had been thrust upon
the senate by the administration and
that the senators were required either
to remain silent and by their silence
| give tacit assent to the recent declara-
lions of the secretary of the treasury
in favor of the gold standard, those
declarations being evidently endorsed
by the president, or else to reaf1rm the
| Stanley Matthews resolution which
had been passed by the senate by a
! vote of more than two to one and
by the house by an overwhelming ma
jority cit will be recalled said he,
''that the present president of the
| United States was then a member of
the house and voted for the resolu-
ton" Mr.. Vest held that the time
had now arrived when the coun-
/ try must either go to the
gold standard or make last and
overwhelming contest for financial
system which he believed the great
majority of the people were in favor
Off, Mr.. Vest announced his Intention
to secure a final vote on the resolu-
ton as. soon as, one could be reached
and accumulated his intention by fore
| ing a displacement of the census bill
with the Teller resolution as unfin-
ished business. Following is the vote
| in detail by which the motion of Mr.
Vest to take up the Teller resolution
was carried:
| Yeas ALLEN. Bacon, Bate, Berry
Butler, Cannon, Chiffon, Clark,
Clay, Cockrell, Faulkner, Harris, Heit-
field, Jones (Ark.), Kenney, Kile, Nc
Emery, Mallory, Mantle, Martin, Mills,
Mitchell, Money, Perkins, Pettigrew,
( prit oh ND
Roach, Shoup, Stewart, Teller, Till
man, Turpie, Vest, Walthall, Warren,
White, Wolcott; total Al
| Nays Aldrich, Allison, Baker, Gull
lon, Davis, Fairbanks, Foraker, Frye,
| Gallinger, Gear, Gray, Hale, Hanna,
Hansborough, Hoar, Lodge, Mcbride,
Morrill,, Nelson, Platt Comm, Proc
tor, Sewell, Spooner, Thurston, Wet
more; total %.
Mr.. Morgan (dem., Ala con-
cluded his four days speech to the
| senate on the Hawaiian treaty during
the executive session. He spoke for
almost four hours and when he
finished there were not more than
half a dozen senators present. Mr..
| Teller will speak when the treaty is
next taken up.
| The senate will today consider the
| nomination of Attorney General Nc
Kenna to be associate justice of the
| supreme court.
HOUSE.
Washington, Jan. 21.-Speaker
Reed from the rostrum of the house
and MIR. Bailey, leader of the demo-
Gratis, from his place on the floor.
glared at each other at the close of
the Cuban debate and joined issue
on veracity. This sensational episode
completely overshadowed the interest
in the Cuban debate which continued
Uninterruptedly in the house for three
days during the consideration of the
diplomatic consular bill. The debate
was opened by Mr.. Clark (dem., Mo. }
who made a breezy speech declaring
that the duty Of this country, if Spain
does not bring the Cuban war to
close shortly, is to expel her from the
western hemisphere. He declared that
the democrats of the house are ready
to give $50 votes for a vigorous for
eign policy, and if only q republicans
would join them, before sunset the glad
tioing would ring around the world
that Cuba was free by act Of the
American congress. At the conclusion
Of Mr.. Clarke's remarks Mr.. Hit
yielded to Mr.. Often (rep., Wis., who
called attention to the embezzlement
of money by Francis Hinton of Wis
con, who died some years ago in
Paris. Mr.. Williams (dem., Miss },
member of the foreign affairs commit
tee, followed. He sneered at the
statement made by Mr.. Hit, that the
granting Of belligerency rights to the
Cubans would afford them no advan-
tage. Mr.. Williams was followed by
Mr.. King (dem., Utah) who recently
returned from visit to Cuba He de-
scribed the narrowing conditions there,
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