Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-02-12
TELLER RESOLUTION
REACHES The HOUSE
Leaders in That Branch of Congress
Promptly Defend the
Measure.
VOTE NEARLY ON PARTY LINES
Minority in tho House Protest
Strongly Against the Limitation
OF Debate But the Rule
Is Adopted.

Washington, Jan. 31.-The house
ways and means committee decided
this morning-11 to Son a party vote
to report at once the Teller resolution
for the payment of bonds in silver
with the recommendation that 1t do
not pass.
The committee met on special call at
1890, there being a full attendance
with the exception of McMillin, dem,
of Tennessee. Chairman Dingley at
once brought forward the resolution
and without discussion Payne OF New
York moved it be reported TO the house
with the recommendation that 1T do
not pass. Bailey of Texas, on behalf
of the democrats, moved an amend
ment that it be reported with the rec
ommendation hat it pass. The vote
on the Bailey amendment was first
taken and resulted in it's defeat-5 10
las follows:
Y~eas-Bailey, Wheeler, Robertson,
Swanson, Mcclellan, all democrats.
Nays-Dingley, Dalzel!, Hopkins,
Grosvenor, Russell, Dolliver, Steele,
Johnson, Payne, Evans, Tawney, all
republicans.
On the Payne motion the previous
vote was reversed, all republicans vot-
ing in the affirmative, the democrats
in the negative. No amendments were
proposed or discussion INDUCED in as
to the programme, as Chairman Dingley
stated that would depend on the action
Of the rules committee.
Following the session of the ways
and means committee Speaker Reed
and his associates on the committee
on rules met and decided to take a
final vote on the Teller resolution at
5 o'clock this afternoon.
Reaches the House.
Washington, Feb. There was
great activity among the leaders on
both sides of the house before it met
in anticipation of a very exciting de-
bate owe the Teller resolution declar-
ing bonds of the United States pay
able in gold or silver at the option Of
the government, which those in con
troll had decided to knock out before
shutdown today. Members had been
notified in advance and the attendance
on both sides was very large. lmmed-
lately after the reading of the journal
Dingley, rep, Maine, chairman of the
ways and mean committee, reported
back the resolution with a recommen-
dation that it be not passed.
Henderson, rep, Iowa, one of the
leaders of the majority, then presented
the special order agreed upon by the
committee on rules, providing for a
vote on the resolution at 5 p. IN. today,
without intervening motion. In or
der to satisfy many who desired to
speak to resolution for whom the brief
time was allowed would not furnish
an opportunity, the rule provided gen.
eral leave to print remarks on sub
ject for five days from the date.
Bailey, Texas, democratic leader,
said while the minority s%trenuously
opposed the undue limitation of de-
bate proposed by the rule, his side
would not consume time by demand
ing a roll call.
Wheeler, dem, Alabama, and Dear
mond, Missouri, protested vigorously.
The latter said if he had had opportu-
nifty he would have proposed the Gu
ban belligerency amendment. The
speaker said curly it would not be in
order, DeArmond appealed to him not
to decide the question hastily. The
speaker said too plain for argument
that it is not in order.
While this was going on there were
evidences of a disturbance On the re-
publican side of which Johnson, rep,
Indiana was the center. At last John
son insisted on asking Henderson if it
were true that all time for debate was
to be consumed by the members of the
ways and mean committee. DalZell,
rep, Pennsylvania, called out there is
no such proposition, but Johnson was
not satisfied and continued to protest.
The speaker cut off further talk by
putting the question and the rule was
adopted, 143 to 115. Then followed a
controversy over the division Of time.
TO the suggestion that the time be
divided between the democrats, popu-
lists and republicans, Dingley retort-
ed: 81 was not aware there is any dis
tinction between the populists and
democrats as at present constituted"
He added the time should be equally
divided between those for and against
the resolution.
Dingley opened the debate in oppo-
sition to the resolution and said if it
was passed by both houses it would
not have any force. 1t would be mere
~ an expression of the opinion Of the
two houses.
ut Importance, therefore," contin-
ued Dingley, Lies in the fact that if
]concurred in by the house it would
be legitmately and inevitably regard
ed, not only here, but by the world, as
an expression of the deliberate judg-
ment of n majority of the American
people as to their standard of honor
and good faith in the discharge not
only of national, but also of private
obligations. This resolution was not
presented for the purpose of securing
an expression by congress as to the
power of the government, either as to
the payment of it's obligations or as to
what may be declared a legal tender.
No one denies this. No other nation
has the power to pay in gold, or silver,
or paper, or copper, according to its
pleasure. Payment cannot be en-
forced against a sovereign nation. It's
obligations are measured by its own
sense of honor and good faith. The
nations honor and credit are its title
deeds to permanency and prosperity.
"The sting of disbonor in the pend
ing resolution is in its tail. That sting
was well nigh harmless twenty years
ago, under the conditions then exist
ing, but it has been made deadly by
the changed conditions of today. The
deadly tail to the resolution reads: