The age-herald., 1898-01-25
MORGAN JUMPS
 ON CLEVELAND Says the Ex-President Favored
 Hawaiian Annexation. ACCUSED HIM OF DUPLlCITY In AecrsditIns Special ssionsr BlOunt to Government a5S )lulu. CAPABLE OF OEcLAF Ss. POLICY While Really Intendir {. Carry Into
 Effect a DiffeFem One.
Denounced as Mendacious Falsehood of the Gold Men the Statement That the Stands ard Silver Dollar Was Worth Only
 One-Haif Its Face Value.

NdsHiHBton, Jan. zf-At the opening of the senate today Mir. walthal of Missis- sppi presented the credentials of H. DeS. Money as senator from Mississippi to suc- ceed the late Senator George, and the oath of office was administered to MT. Money, who has been sitting as a senator under appointment from the governor of Missis- sippi. MT. Walthall presented joint res- olution adopted by the legislature of Mis- sippi urging the United States government to intervene in the Cuban war on behalf of the insurgents, "peaceably if 1t can, forcibly if 1t must"
 The resolution was read and referred to the committee on foreign relations.
 MT. Morgan of Alabama gave notice that he would some time during the day make a statement concerning what he conceived to be an attack upon his veracity by an ex- president of the United States, MT. Cleve. land.
 The Teller resolution was then laid be- fore the senate, and in accordance with notice previously given MT. Turpie of h. diana addressed the senate in support of the resolution. q shall not vote for the resolution willingly" he began. 'I think its introduction timely and opportune, es- pecially when we are confronted by a nnaasnrA ~hinh contemnlates increase of the public debt by three hundred or four hundred million dollars. It Is indeed proper that we should repeat the declara- ton that all government obligations are payable in coin-not in gold.
 The Original Resolution.
 By the original resolution passed nearly thirty years ago, MT Turpie held coin was made synonymous with solvency, and 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 should simply clinch the hold of the debt syndicate upon the country If, however maintain a bimetallic stand ard and enforce that position by opening our hints to the free coinage of silver, the syndicate of national debt would become as strong friends of silver as is my friend from Colorado, the author of this resolu- tion, for they would naturally see to 1t that they would not lose anything on their holdings of government obligations"
 He denounced as mendacious falsehood of the gold men the statement that the standard silver dollar was worth only half its face value, and that sometime in the future it would be worth still less. MT. Turpie analysed the bill proposed by the monetary commission and sharply attack ed the proposition that all debts should be payable in gold, inasmuch especially as that provision made the government oblf- gations payable in gold. He suggested that this was an indirect method of discred- iting the standard silver dollars, which. by the enactment of that proposition would be left high and dry without its proper T.trr, pn believe any such proposition would ever find public favor in the United States. In- deed, he had, he said, profound convic- tion that silver would finally be restored to it's proper position, not by international agreement, but by the honest individual action of the various countries of the world
 MT. Turpie spoke for an hour and a half. concluding with the statement that he and other silver advocates were willing to rest their case with the people.
 Morgan's Reply to Cleveland.
 MT. Morgan, of Alabama, under a ques- tion of personal privilege rose at the con- clusion of MT. Turpie's address to make statement which he had earlier given mo- tice of.
 MT. Morgan referred to despatch from Princeton, N J., published yesterday quot ing Ex-President Cleveland as denying a statement said to have been made by MT. Morgan in an executive session of the sen- ate to the effect that Mir. Cleveland was once in favor of the annexation of Hawaii. Mr Morgan said he could not discuss his own statements made in executive session. NO statement for publication was mate by me-" said MT. Morgan, thence MT. Cleveland, in accepting snch a statement without first ascertaining from me what the facts were, shows his willingness to accept ex parte statements in Hawaiian matters"
 MT. Morgan said that it was well known to some of Mr. Cleveland's friends during his first administration that he was in favor not only of the annexation of Hawaii, but also of Cuba.
 q cannot" declared Mir. Morgan. accept Continued on Sixth Page.)