The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-01-29
SILVER BOND PAYMENTS
The Teller Resolution Passed by the
|. National Senate. ..-...
SILVER REPUBLICANS FOR IT.

Mr.. Wolcott, of Colorado, Announces
That the Resolution Does Not Conn
nit Those Supporting 1t to the Free
and Unlimited Coinage OF silver.
Washington, Jan. 29.-After de-
bate animated at all times and occa-
sionally acrimonious, which occupied
the greater part Of this week, the sen-
ate last evening. by the decisive vote
of AZ to 80, passed the Teller concur
rent resolution. The resolution Is a
practical reaflirmatinn OF that Of STAN
ley Matthews in 1878, and is as fol-
lows:
THAT all the bonds of the United
States issued or author lied to be issued,
under the said acts Of congress hercin-
before recited, are payable principal
and interest, at the option of the gov
ernment of the United States. in silver
dollars of the coinage of the United
States containing il2H grains each of
standard silver; and that to restore to
its coinage such silver coins as legal
tender in payment OF said bonds, prin-
Cipai and interest. Is not in violation
Of the public faith nor in derogation of
the rights of the public creditor"
All efforts to amend the resolution
were voted down by majortes rang
Ing from to 20. Mr.. Lodges gold
standard substitute being defeated by
the latter majority. The vote on the
Lodge amendment was: yeas, 81; nays,
S.
The events of the day leading up TO
the final vote were full of interest and
Importance. 1t was field day for the
orators of the senate, no less than 25
senators embracing the opportunity to
speak upon the subject under discus
sion. That the debate was interesting
was attestedAby the attendance in the
galleries, which were crowded through
nut the day, and that it was important
was evidenced by the statements of sew
= eral of the speakers that the discus
Sion ~sas but the preliminary argument
Of the great political parties for the
contest of 1900
From 10 o'clock in the morning until
] in the evening the contest was contin-
ued. - When the voting began 1t was ev-
tdcnt that party lines were being broken
on both sides of the chamber, but it
was on the substitute offered by Mr..
Lodge, of Massachusetts, that the most
decided break occurred. On the Re
publican side Mr.. Allison, of Iowa, and
Mr. Burrows, of Michigan, did not an
ewer to their names on that roll call and
many of the Republicans voted di-
yectly against it. Upon the final pass
age of the resolution some Republicans
who supported Mckinley and the st.
Louis platform in 1896, like Carter OF
Montana, Chandler of New Hamp-
shire, Clark of Wyoming. Pfitchard Of
North Carolina, Shoup of Idaho, War;
zen of Wyoming and WolCott of Col
Orado. voted for the resolution, be
cause, as Mr., Wolcott announced, they
did not believe the resolution commit
ted those who supported it to the free
md unlimited coinage of silver.
The vote on the Teller resolution was
q follows:
Yeas-Allcn, Bacon, Bate Berry, butter,
Cannon, Carter, Chandler, Chiffon. Clark.
Elay. Cockrell. Daniel Gray, Harrs, HeiL-
field, Jones (Arkl, Kenney, Kyle, Lindsay,
MclGnery McLaurin. Mallory Mantol,
Martin, Mills Mitchell. Money Morgan.
Murphy, PasCo. Pettigrew, Pettus, pritch-
ard. Rawlins, Roach, Shoup. Smith. Stew
nj HsivrTtsurtr r.'".' 90 49,.
: Nays-Aldrich, Allison, Baker, Burrows.
Caffery, Culom, Davis. Fairbanks, For
eker, Galinger Gear, Hale, Hanna Hans
brough, Hawley, Hoar. Lodge. Mcbride,
MsMillan, Mason. NORTH. Nelson. PEN
rose. Perkins. Plat Comm, platt IN. W, =
Quay. Sewell, Thurston, Wellington, Wet
more and Wilson. -
The pairs throughout the voting werea
Turley with Deboe. Faulkner with Ell
kins, German with Frye, Jones (Nev.)
with Proctor, Walthall with Spooner.
The first named would in each case
have voted with those sustaining the
resolution and against all amendments,
while the last named would have voted
against the resolution and for the
amendments.
The bill to pay the book publishing
company of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. South, $2SS. 600 for damages
sustained by that corporation during
The war was piloied to it's passage in
the house yesterday by Mr.. Cooper, of
Texas, who was in charge Of the meas
uTe. The vote on the bill was 1888 to g.