The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-02-03
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4 HOUSE
Special Correspondence. ,lt19
WASHINGTON Feb. 1.-The Teller
concurrent resolution passed after
many days Of debate by the senate
and defeated very promptly in less than
ilfe hours Blythe house, must not DO
misunderstood.
ut Only sought to give expression TO
the opinions OF Two political bodies,
Popocratlc senate and q Republican
house. as to how the secretary OF the
treasury should construe existing laws
relating to the payment of the govern
ments obligations.
Such n resolution, had It passed both
houses Of Congress, would not have had
8 any more effect than a similar resolu-
tion passed by my political state or
county. concentlon. The whole matter
3 In q nutshell amounts to this and Moth
! Ing more. Say, Popocratic conven-
{ ton in WctEel county resolves, and re-
fersJ the resolution to an Ohio county
istary OF the treasury ought to pay the
4 debt OF the government in silver, and
that 1t would be legally and morally
4 right for him TO purchase silver at 40
( cents an ounce, and coin 1t into silver
dollars to pay those peole who loaned
I'm silver or gold when silverAwas one
dollar an ounce. What would the Re-
i publicans OF Ohio county in convention
assembled do with such resolution, or,
any other coming from q convention of
ssWetzel county Popocrats, or from q
u Popocratio convention from any other
county? Why. they would do just as the
3 Republican house OF representatives
did last Monday, turn It. down. II
Back Of Senator Teller in this scheme
Is the scheming. Bryan, Jones and Stew.
/ art, Free silver and Mining Syndicate"
+ They are after bolstering up their lost
& cause. Why, did not Senator Teller "go
the whole hog" and offer measure
to establish the free and unlimited
coinage OF silver In place OF this reso-
\ luton? 1t would have passed the sem
ate Just as his resolution did, and
would not have met a worse fate than
Z he knew his resolution would. All! 1t
would not serve his purpose, and for
this reason: A free coinage measure
would have passed the senate by about
Z four or FIVE majority, with as many
Il Gold Democrats voting against 1t as
s there would be silver Republicans vot-
Z ing for IT This five majority would
represent the Popullsts of the senate.
Any one at glance can see this would
Y not suit his purpose. Such a small ma
jority, and that owing to the Populists,
would place them, in the eyes OF the
world, beyond what they always have
been, and arc now, q mixed combina-
J Nan.
Senator Teller preferred to have the
votes of Gold Democrats of the senate,
+ who would be quick to take advantage
4lof the opportunity to play a little poll
tics. and to.yote for harmless measure.
It did not commit them to free silver.
Y II allowed them to playa little political
& dodge, and make themselves solid with
/ the Bryan wing of the party. Such a
course gave Senator Teller q majority
Z ofgflftecn on 4 shrewdly worded resolu-
stIon Intended TO gull the people into be-
7 lievlng that sound money Democrats In
the senate Ore weakening. They are not,
and this is oneSo of the reasons that Sena-
tor Teller did not prepare O free silver
measure. 4. 3. q. 5:&-.z;
~ Sound money and prosperity are
I. again to be the issues in the coming
4 Congressional elections. The country Is
willing they should be, and after every
voter in. the land has heard and pom
derd over the sentiment that Is ,breathed
in every word OF the following short
speech. delivered by the Hon. John Dali
eel last Monday, In the house Of repre-
sentatives. no one need fear the result.
It's not the vaporings OF demagogue.
nothing but the honest convictions OF an
There Is not one word OF politics In 1t;
honest man, who appeals to his coun-
trymen to be. honest with world:
~ Mr.. Dalzell. Mr.. Speaker. I find It ut
:terly impossible. in the brief time left
me for discussion, to undertake to DEM
onstrate the propositions that had In
tended to demonstrate had the time
been allowed me.
- This concurrent resolution afiirms. In
y tile first place, that certain bonds issued
under certain acts OF Congress, arc
properl payable in the silver. coin OF the
limited States, and 1t afilrms. in the sec
and place, that such payment Is not In
violation OF public faith, and not In der
ogation OF the rights OF the public cred
Z itor. I,
/ affirm, upon the contrary. that such
z q payment, within the meaning Of this
resolution, Is In violation of the public
- faith and in derogation OF the rights OF
s. the public creditor.
The declaration made In this rcsolu-
tion has no significance at all unless It
signifies the opening OF our minis to
the free and unlimited coinage OF silver
at a ratio OF sixteen to one. At the
time of the Issue OF the bonds mention
ed In this resolution the gold and silver
y dollar stood on parity. The word
5&"coln" In these acts Of Congress meant
n hundred cents OF gold value, whether
that was represented by alsllver dollar
or by gold dollar. 8,
When this Matthews resolution was
4 passed In 1878, 1t made no difference TO
@thespublic creditor whether he received
I n dollar in silver or a doliariin gold. or
Kin any other funds-hc received 100 cents
tofyalue measured in gold. To. day un-
;. der iexisting law every silver dollar is
1.-THE equal Of cvry gold dollar because
s5iit hns behind 1t the resources, the con-
science and the Integrity OF the Amor
idsicanFpeoplc. cloud applause on the Re-
publican side) It follows ms a neces-
}i sarys consequence that this resolution
8 does not relate 10 the past or to the pres
x ert, but IL relates to the future.
Sih1tiis n proposition that you shall open
At Work Again.
A few applications Of Salvation Oh 1
I twill readily cure sprains and bruises,
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