The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-25

sissippi to succeed the late Senator
George. and the oath of Office was ad-
ministered to Mr.. Money, who has been
sitting as senator under appointment
from the governor.
Mr. Walthan presented a joint res
olution adopted by the legislature of
Mississippi. urging the United States
government to intervene in the CUBAN
warfare on behalf of the insurgents,
peacefully, but forcibly if it must"
The resolution was read and referred
to the committee on foreign relations.
Mr. Morgan of Alabama gave notice
that some time during the day he
would make statement concerning
what he conceived to be an attack upon
his veracity by Mr.. Cleveland
The Teller resolution was then lald
before the senate and in accordance
with notice previously given Mr.. Tur-
pie of Indiana, addressed the senate in
support of the resolution.
TURPIE'S ADDRESS.
81 shall vote for the resolution will
lingly," ne began, L think 1t oppor-
tune, especially when we are confront
ed by a measure which contemplates an
increase of the public debt by three or
four hundred million dollars 1t is in
deed proper that we should repeat the
declaration that all government obli-
cations are payable in coin-not in
gold"
By the original resolution, passed
nearly 80 years ago, Mr.. Turpie held
coin was made synonymous with SOL
vency, and that the funded debt was
thereby made payable in both gold and
silver. or in either of those metals.
If we abandon silver" said he, land
agree to pay all Of our obligations in
gold, we would simply clinch the hold
. ~. H. he
try. If, however, We maintain a BIZ
metallic standard and enforce that po-
sition by opening our minis to the free
coinage of silver, the syndicate of ma
tional debt would become as strong
friends of silver as is my friend from
Colorado, the author of this resolution,
for they would naturally see TO 1t that
they would not lose anything on their
holdings of government obligations"
FALSEHOOD DENOUNCED.
He denounced as a mendacious false
hood of the gold men the statement
that the standard silver dollar was
worth only half its face value and that
some time in the future it would be
worth still less.
Mr.. Turpie analysed the bill proposed
by the monetary commission and
sharply attacked the proposition that
all debts should be payable in gold,
inasmuch, especially, as the provision
able in gold. He suggested that this
was an indirect method of discrediting
the standard silver dollar, which, by
the enactment of that proposition,
would be left high and dry. without its
proper debt paving ability.
Mr. Turpie did not believe any such
proposition would ever find public ia
vor in the United States. Indeed, he
had. he said. a profound conviction
that silver wonld finally be restored
TO its proper position. not by interna-
tional agreement, but by the honest in
dividual action of the various countries
of the world.
Mr. Turpie spoke for an hour and
half, concluding with the statement
that he and other silver advocates were
willing TO rest their case with the PEG
pie.
Mr. Morgan of Alabama. under
question of personal privilege. rose at
the conclusion of Mr.. Turpie's address
to make a statement of which he had
earlier given notice.
MORGAN AND CLEVELAND.
Mr.. Morgan referred to a dispatch
from Princeton, y. J.. published yester- E
day, quoting eX- President Cleveland as
denying a statement said to have been
made by Mr.. Morgan in an executive
session OF the senate. to the effect that
Mr.. Cleveland was once in favor of the
annexation of Hawaii. Mr.. Morgan said
that he could not discuss his own state
ments made in executive session.
No statement for publication was
made by me" said Mr.. Morgan. hence +
Mr.. Cleveland. in accepting such
statement without first ascertaining /
from me what the facts We're. shows .
his willingness TO accept ex parte state /
ments in Hawaiian matters"
Mr.. Morgan said that it was well .
L. t.r To-, -
friends during his first administration
that he was in favor not only of the
annexation of Hawaii, but also of
Cuba.
Il cannot declared Mr.. Morgan, "ac-
cept Mr.. Cleveland's statement that he
was always opposed to Hawaiian an
neXatOn- / can name at least one con-
fidential friend of Mr.. Cleveland who
win support me in the belief that the
statement is not true
Ny. Morgan then presented an ex-
tended review of Mr.. Clevelands con-
nection as president, with Hawaiian
affairs. in the course Of which he de-
nounced the accrediting of Special Com
missioner Blount to the government Of
Honolulu as a piece Of duplicity with
out parallel"
CLEVELAND'S POLICY.
Mr. Morgan reiterated his belief that
Mr.. Cleveland was in favor Of annex
alton. but that Mr.. Dole's honesty
forced the president to abandon his
policy of overthrowing the provisional
Hawaiian government. The CORE
spondence he read, he said laid the
foundation for the broad eradication
that Mr.. Cleveland was capable IF de-
claring one policy and iE-eadiag to
carry another into effect
Mr.. white of California facetiously
referred to MIR. Morgan's discussion of
the Hawaiian question in open ses-
sion. and declared that the senator's
showed the utter futility and
folly of confning the discussion of such
matters to the executive sessions of the
senate.
Mr.. Vest Of Missouri thought il would
be unjust TO ex-President Cleveland if
the fact We're not at this time called to !
the senate's attention that resolution ,
passed by. congress in 1895 relative to
this governments policy concerning :
foreign affairs, which, Mr.. Vest con- !
ceiyed. divided between the president 5
and congress the responsibility for the ,
administrations attitude upon the I
Hawaiian matter. {
The pension appropriation bill was
called up and debated for nearly three
hours, but was not passed, the senate
until tomorrow, pending the
disposal of a point of order made J
against an amendment offered by Mr..
Allen of Nebraska to the pending bill
JERRY HAD THE FLOOR.