The age-herald., 1898-01-26
GAGE SHOULD
 BE KICKED OUT
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words of the secretary of the treasury that he would not obey the instructions" MT. Hale, of Maine, said that when the present law was put on the statute books silver was about twice as valuable as 1t Is now, and MT. Aldrich interjected to in quire whether in view of the fall in the price of silver the senator from Arkansas take advantage of it's creditors and pay them in the cheaper metal.
 Should Live Up to Contracts
 MT. Berry replied that he was as much in favor of maintaining the honor of the country as the senator from Rhode Island, but he held that the bondholders ought to be willing to live up to their contracts and accept coin in payment.
 MT. Lodge said that it was well under stood that the bond purchasers were to be paid in gold, as they paid gold for the bonds and he quoted from a speech of Mr Teller showing that he (Teller) had the same idea.
 MT. Berry denied that there was such understanding, and he would defy anybody to establish that such was the case.
 In the course of his remarks MT. Berry said that the country had before it the spectacle of a secretary of the treasury who wanted to redeem silver dollars in gold and firmly to fasten the gold stand ard upon the country yet the president had not the nerve to sick him out of the cabinet"
 MT. Hoar dissented from MT. Teller's proposition that this resolution involved only a question of law, and urged that It had come now to a question of honor .This is not question of law" said he, cit is a question of the violation of the public faith.'
 MT. Teller waxeth Warm
 MT. Teller conterded that he had quite as much regard for the national honor as had other senators. "I am getting tired" shouted Mir Teller "of the position as- stunned by certain senators here because they live in the eastern part of this coun- try They are no more honest, they are no more strenuous in upholding the public honor than am. I want to say here and now that believe in paying the debts of the government in silver, even if that is a cheaper metal. The government has the right to the difference according to it's contract The silver dollar which the gen. tleman from Iowa (Allison) says is as good as the gold dollar, Is paid to the mechanic. artisan and laborer in liquidation of obli- gations incurred with them and hold that the bond purchaser is no better than the man with the blistered hand, and ought to be paid in the same money. The sec- retary of the treasury is now bound by law to regard the interests of the people, but that department has been making law to suit itself for twenty years"
 The Treasury Robbed
 Mr. Teller held that there could be no degradation in paying the debts of the government in silver. The Colorado sena- tor declared in conclusion that he had seen the national treasury robbed in transaction, the most disgraceful ever ac- complished by a national administration. In view of that fact he thought the ar- rogaton to themselves by the opponents of the resolution of all honesty was not warranted by the facts.
 MT. Halle of Maine declared that the debate during the day had settled the fact that it was the desire of the advocates of the resolution to bring the country to silver basis and to make the payment of all ueDlS, puDiic anu pIlNotc, III SHNeT, which was now worth less than half what gold is worth. He was willing, he said, to have the people of the country pass upon that proposition.
 Tt was voted down in 1Ss;' declared MT. Hale, land I have no fs4 That the American people will now take .he back track upon it."
 Not Monometallists
 MT. Vest insisted that the Maine sena-