New-York tribune., 1898-01-29
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TELLER RESOLUTION PASSED
FREE SILVER PRONUNCIAMENTO ADOPT
ED BY THE SENATE
THE FINAL VOTE WAS 81 TO 32-sEvEN REPUB>
LrcANs JOINED THE COALITION CAP
Ferry THE ONLY DEMOCRAT IN oP-
POSITION ALL AMEND
MENTS REJECTED
lBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRTBrNE.l

washington Jan. 2S.-The battle OF the wind.
mills, which has been raging in the Senate
Tor ~ week past over the sO-called Teller reso-
iuuon' ended this evening by the adoption OF
that ineIectual and ambiguous pronunciamento
by vote OF ~ TO 30. What for a day or tvo
al least has taken on the appearance Of a set.
Gus political and parliamentary struggle ha.
thus seemingly terminated In a decisive success.
Tor the free-conage coalition But no genuine
importance has been attached or Is IN be At
'ached TO the contest which the friends ~ suvar
Drought to a victorious close to-day For ons
thihg the Teller resolution has not and canno,
nave uhder any circumstances the force Of
a. 'uai ia"' II is the merest legislative shadow.
with neither statutory form nor binding efsec,
For another thing. as Mr.. Aldrich aptlv suggested
this evening in closing the debate. the financial
eccentricities Of the American Senate have
ceased to interest the American public 70 .nx
appreciable extent"
MAKEUP OF THE COALITION
The Teller declaration was passed by the
votes or no less than five groups OF Senator'S
Silver Democrats. Sound Money Democratic
Populists. silverites. and Republicans with lean
ings toward the immediate reconciliation Of
silver Many Of its supporters Consequently ac-
cepted completely opposite views Of the meaning
ana implications OF the resolution some ASSERT
Ing that IL should be construed az q conoroa
sional approval OF the policy Of free and unlr-
TIED silver coinage. and others contending that
IL was subject 10 no such construction but SIM
ply reindorsed the policy which the Treasury
mas followed in the payment OF its bonded obli-
ga'iohs Tor The last twenty years The am
plgulties or the text. indeed enabled so-called
roid standard Democrats-like Mr.. Gray OF
Delaware; Mr.. Lindsay. Of Kentucky and Mr.
Smith. Of New-Jersey-to take shelter for the
first time since 1896 under the same tent with
their Chicago platform colleagues; while Demo-
Gratis like Mr.. Murphy. of New-York; Mr. Cor
man. or Maryland, and Mr.. Mitchell OF Wiscon-
sin. who mad supported Mr.. Bryan with some
reluctance. found IT easy on the same ground
to give the resolution their enthusiastic SUD-
port.
On the other hand. the supposed innocuousness
and futility Of the declaration drew to the coali-
tion Republicans like AIessrs Warren and Clark
OF Wyoming and Pritchard, Of North Carolina
who would perhaps not have voted at this time
for an actual free-silyer coinage bill Mr. Caf.
ferry. Of Louisiana. was the only Sound Money
Democrat who lived up to the Indianapolis plat
form and aided the Republicans generally In
antagonizng the Teller resolution from begin
ming TO end.
PARTY DIVISIONS on THE VOTES.
The vote by which the resolution passed--ii
to 32-showed some interesting party divisions
Thirty-one Republicans and one Sound Money
Democrat, Mr.. Caffery. were recorded in the
negative. or the forty-seven affirmative votes
twenty-eight were cast by Democrats, two by
Sound Money Democrats-Messrs. Gray and
Lndsay-six by Populists. four by Sllverites
and seven by Republicans. In this last group
were included Messrs. Chandler, Of New Hamp-
shire; Clark and Warren. of Wyoming; Carter
Of Montana; Shoup. Of Idaho: Pritchard, OF
North Carolina, and Wocott of Colorado.
Half dozen or more amendments We're voted
down before the resolution itself reached
The first, offered by Mr.. Nelson and declaring
that gold and silver coin used in redeemng
Government obligations should be kept at Q
parity, laid on the table by - votes
TO 37-the closest division OF the day.
Messrs Gray Catfery and Lindsay supported
the amendment and only four Republicans op-
posed it-Messrs. Chandler. Carter. Shoup and
Wolcott.
Mr. Lodges amendment. making the National
obligations payable in gold coin it's eQuiva-
lent. was next defeated by 53 votes TO 81 These
Republicans opposed It's adoption: Chandler,
Carter, Clark. HansbrOLgh, Nelson Perkins,
Pritchard. Quay. Shoup. Thurston. Wilson.
Warren and Wolcott. Mr.. Caffery voted in its
favor Amendments sent 10 the desk by Messrs
Hoar. Quay and Foraker then laid on the
table by votes OF 46 to 32 Al TO 81, ~ to 33
and Al to SO
The coalition stood firm az every point on
which II tried and the Republican man
ayers finally yielded the fight.
The debate, which for another long after
noon. was marked by several good short
speeches. notably that OF Senator Aldrich; but,
as a whole Il showed a falling off Of interest
as compared with that Of two or three previous
days.