The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-15
WEIGHED DOWN BY GREED
REPUBLICAN, POLICY DICTATED
BY THE MONEY LORDS.
THE PEOPLE HOPE NOTHING FROM IT
amendment to financial B II Authorizing APP
pointment of Commissioners to Any BIZ
metallic Conference Called De-
feated by as to Is.
feated by as to Is.


session today the Senate had theFinan-
cial Bill under discussion. After two
o'clock the debate proceeded under the
ten minute rule and at times became
spirited and interesting
Late in the afternoon a test vote indi-
eating approximately the majority on the
passage of the bill, was taken. Mr..
Chandler, (Rep., y. H., offered an
amendment to authorize the President II
appoint commissioners to any interna-
tional bi-metallic conference that might
be called and il was defeated by a vote
of 40 to -. The Chandler PROPOSE
ton out of the way the discussion pro
ceeded ON the amendment brought in by
the Finance Committee. providing that
the provisions Of the bin are not intended
To place any obstacles in the way Of in
tcrnational ti-meta,lism. The Democrat
IL Senators aTraigned the Republicans for
reporting the amendment. declaring they
were insincere and that the proposition
WAS intended to hoodwink the people and
10 catch votes.
No vote on the amendment was reach
ed. The final vote ON ahe amendments
and the bill will be taken some time to-
morrow.
Mr.. Teller was recognized to reply to
the speech delivered yesterday by Mr..
Allison. He took strong issue with Mr..
Allison that the United States was now
on the gold standard.
we are now OH the gold standard
except by the unauthorized action OF the
Treasury. We are ON what is sometimes
called Il limping silver standard and
sometimes limIing gold standard.
Nobody outside of the United States
has considered the United States on the
gold standard, but it may be said that
we practically have been forced by eX-
ecutive usurpation and transgression Of
the law to proceed as if we were on a
gold standard.
FEARS OF THE GOLD BUGS.
This pending bill, he said, was to he
enacted into law, because the gold stand
ard advocates were afraid that the AM
erican people would put some man in the
White House who would not favor the
gold standard
Mr.. Teller said there never had been
an hour since 1879 when there was the
slightest doubt that the greenbacks would
be redeemed in gold. Through the sever
est panics they had always been as good
as gold. for it was realized the Govern
mcnt would not in any event rcpudatc
fore there was no reason for the legs
lation proposed i'll the pending measure.
In conclusion Mr.. Teller said he would
he llntrue to himself if he did not say
that the Republican party had abandoned
its principles which were for the greatest
good for the greatest number. 1t had.
he said, fallen into evil hands and WIS
being used by evil influences.
There is no hope" said he, for the
eouptry from it. Its policy will be de-
tated from the great commercial centers
and be overborne and. weighed down by
greed
The Republican party, he said. had
come into existence rs Il protest against
slavery. The agencies which control it
now would not allow it to stand for
righteousness and justice.
He said that Mr.. Depew in suggest
ing " gold and glory as Il proper motto
for the Republican banner. had not pro
posed a phrase that had ever been raj
lying cry of the party. The people
would rise in their might and tear down
the banner unless the Republican leaders
placed upon il the old slogan of Justice
Righteousness and equality for all the
people
THE DOOM OF THE PARTY.
After picturing the time when the Re
publican party should he dominated by
the influences against which he had in
Weighed, he said:
when that time comes, the Republi-
can party viii 90 down to defeat and
disgrace"
When Mr.. Teller had concluded Mr. Al
drich asked unanimous consent that the
committee amendment relating To M
metalism should be considered simply
as a new section of the Senate substi-
tute.
Mr.. Jones, (Ark), objected to this
proceeding and insisted that the com
mittee amendment should remain pending.
Mr. Chandler. On. H.. then proposed
an amendment to the committee amend
ment providing that the President be
authorized to appoint commissioners to amy
international conference called by the
United States or any other country to
arrange a bi-mttallc agreement
Mr.. Jones, (Ark.). expressed doubt as
TO the intention of the majority to have
the amendment providing for Internal ION
al agreement carried into effect if it
should become part of the law. He
regarded it as a mere scheme to catch
votes.
IT'S AIM TO KILL SILVER.
Mr.. Vest, Mo-, announced his pur-
pose to vote against both the AldIich
amendment and the Chandler amendment
to it, because he regarded the proposition
for an international conference a fraud
and preteXt, Just as was the adoption
of the McEnery resolution after the rat
tfication of the Paris Treaty which was
merely for the purpose of supplying SOM"
Senators with a shallow ford over which
to cross the stream and had since been
entirely ignored. The intention of the
pending bin was to kill silver and il
would prove as effective in that office as
n dagger or a dose Of prussic acid would
be in disposing Of animal life. The first
declaration of the bill was sufficient in
dication to establish its character and TO
show its intention to establish the gold