The San Francisco call., 1898-01-27
THE DAY IN CONGRESS

penses when there was plenty of silver eo eo meet pressing obligations of the Gov
 Referring in the course to his remarks 10 Ihe Presidential contest of 1S96 Teller sald that no political campaign in this country had ever been characterized by olcuVeness; He conceded the right, he said, or others to differ from him upon thls ms and other questions. but he held that he ought to be accorded the same rlght and liberty, for the people. not 9nly ot this country, but of the world, depended upon the rightful solution of to speak here for the great masses of the people and he took advantage of it because he felt that the fastening of the gold standard upon the country would simply make of the plain people hewers or wood and drawers of water. In con ciusion; after speaking about two hours Ho ana a half, Teller replied to some state ings banks.
 At the conclusion of Teller's speech Lodge called attention to some state ments in criticism of an amendment of 1ered by him Oodge) yesterday to the pending resolution. The amendment de- clared that the obligations of the United states should be paid ''in the money that IS the highest money of the world, in gold or its equivalent in gold, wheth- CT that be silver or paper" Lodge in | qulred whether Teller was in favor or | that amendment
 Well. I should vote against it, re- | piled the Colorado Senator.
 Lodge insisted on knowing whether | Teller did or did not think the amend ment me d proper PnePle Tor gd congress t6af the ne 1 Government and the Governments cred | itors ought to abide by contracts made; l "I desired 10 know" said Lodge, what | the Senator from Colorado thought of my | amendment. because l copied 1t word for l word from speech made by the Senator 1 in which he declared that every dollar this Government owes will be paid in the money that Is the highest money of the world, in gold or its equivalent in | gold whether that be silver or paper.
 Lodge thought that if the Senator from Colorado believed that his statement was | accurate when he made it, he ought not now to object to supporting it with his
 Teller replied that he had never advo- cated the payment of Government ob- legations in depreciated currency, and did
 Hoar followed in a speech fin which he maintained the position he took yester- ! day that the question under discussion was not one of law, but one of honor and integrity. He said that the advocates of the pending resolution maintained that by a crime the price of silver had been reduced until the silver in a dollar was ] worth only A cents, yet the same Sena- tors who made the charge of that "crime' advocated the payment of the Govern ment's obligation in this depreciated money-money that had been depreciat- ed, as they claimed, by crime.
 Hoar said that it had been made evil
  1 from Arkansas (Berry), to whom he re- 1 ferred as an 'honest, stalwart old Con- federate who was willing to walk up to 1 the cannons mouth," of the pending question; that it was the purpose of the silver men to go into the campaign oi 1 1900 and declare 1t to be right and honest to pay obligations fin Accent dollars and to stigmatize as "grabbers" and rob bers'' those who differed from them or the honesty of such a policy.
 The Colorado Senator, when he rose tC begin his speech, Hoar said, expressed g desire to resent something. In fact, ht was always resenting something.
 Teller arose to call Hoar's attention tC another statement, and. when he hat ! done so, MT. Hoar ridiculed him by likening him to the small boy who wa! asked what the cost of eleven pounds o | beef would be at cents a pound and re piled, You can't get no beef at no sucl price,
 Hoar was followed by Platt of Con necticut in an address in opposition tC the pending resolution.
 Daniel CD) of Virginia followed Plat in support of the resolution. Danie thought the adoption of the pending reso i lution would tend to prevent raids upoI the treasury. Daniel concluded at
 O clock On motion of Aldrich the Senate went into executive session and ten min utes later adjourned.