The age-herald., 1900-01-18
ARRANGEMENT FOR
 THE FINAL VOTE The Financial Bill Will Be Voted
 on February 1.5 DELAGOA BAY RESOLUTION
SenatorT Teller Delivered Forcible Speech on the Currency Bill and Contend
 ed That American People All ways Favored Bimetalism

Washington, January h.-An agreement
 was easily reached in the senate today to
 take the final vote on the pending bin fix
 ing gold as ,the standard of value in the
 United States, on February 15.
 After several minutes of debate the reso-
 lution in regard to the conduct of the Phil
 ippine war was adopted It was introduced
 by MT. Hoar of Massachusetts, and practi-
 cally was adopted as a general substitute
 for resolutions of a similar but less ex- tended character, offered by MT. Pettigrew and MT Lodge. Besides a vigorous speech
 of MT. Pettigrew the resolution aroused no debate, as it is within the discretion of the information requested.
 The resolution offered by MT. Hale of
 Maine as to the seizure of flour by the British authorities was adopted, but only after a spirited debate and after the, reso- lution had been materially amended. MT. Teller, silver republican, of Colorado addressed the senate upon the financial bill, and will continue his speech tomor- row.
 At the conclusion of routine business the
 resolution of inquiry introduced by MT. Hoar of Massachusetts and amended by
 MT. Lodge of Massachusetts, calling for general information regarding the conduct
 of the insTrection in the Philippines, was laid before the senate Mr Pettigrew of South Dakota said he
 desired to address the senate upon the reso-
 lution before 1t was passed. He favored the passage of the resolution, believing that the information asked for was en- tirely proper. He declared that he had re- ce1ved information since the introduction
 of his resolution that assured dim of the facts he had asserted.
 ''The blood of every soldier" satd he. "who has fallen since the war began is on
 the hands of the administration The blood
 of the sixty soldier boys of South Dakota, who lost their lives after being conscripted into an unwilling service after their terms had expired, lies at the door of the admin
 istration, and there is no escape from it.
 l charge that the censorship of the press and the suppression of facts are for the purpose of advancing the political ambi- | tions of MT. Mckinley"
 The Administration in a Hole If this action, said MT. Pettigrew, puts | the administration in hole, as was stated l it was not his fault
 | Mr. Pettigrew reverted to the assertion that the acquisition of the Philippines was brought about by the act of God, but he
 said the only way he could see Gods hand in the work was that God must have used MT. Mckinley as prophet or appeared to | the president in vision.
 At the conclusion of Mr. Pettigrew,s speech the resolution of Mir Hoar was passed without division.
 The resolution introduced several days | ago by MT. Hale, of Maryland, calling on the secretary of state for information in possession of the state department relating | to the seizure and detention of American | flour toy Brttish authorities in Delagoa hay South Africa, was laid before the senate After 1t had been modified Mir Platt of Connecticut, made a speech, in which he said ne did not believe the passage of the resolution at this time wise.
 Ihe senate adopted the modified Hale | resolution as to the seizure of flour in Del- 1 agoa bay. The resolution as it passed tba | senate, reads: A | whereas, It is alleged that property of l citizens of the United States not contra. band of war, has been lately seized by the military authorities of Great Britain in and near Delagoa Bay, South Africa without | good reason for the same, and contrary tc
 the accepted principles of international | law: and Whereas, It is alleged said propertv is now unJustly detained by the military au- thorfties of Great Britain, in disregard of | the rights of the owners of the same: liners. fore, ''-e- Resolved, By the senate of the United states, that the president is hereby re- quested to send to the senate if in his onin ron not incompatible with the public inter. est all information in possession of the state department relating to said aIlaeod seizure, and detention, and also to inforn, me senate what steps have been taken and Tn requesting the restoration of propertv
 taken and detained as aforesaid" Teller's Speech
 MT. Teller then addressed the senate n, the financial bill. MT. Teller contanded tba f the history of the American people showed that they were favorable to bimeta lMsm Iie renewed nus charge that the financial Dlll IS practically a caucus measure. and had been accepted by the junta of ignorant men who constituted the Indianapolis con Vent1on. This he denounced as an ahroea-
 tlon or the executive forces. Still he was
 satisfied that the bill would be on the
 statute DOCKS as law because they were
 unable to resist the measure, notwith-
 standing the bill was contrary ito the con-
 victiors of some republican senator's and
 notwithstanding that as late as 1890 the re-
 publican president had upheld bimetalMsm.
 As for himself, he said, few men had re- ceived more honors at the hands of the republican party than him self, but this was due to the fact that he had been an advocate of
 bim.stallism. That this attitude was fin ac- cordance with the convictions of the people of his own ssate was shown by the plat form declarations of all the political par ties of his state.
 MT. Teller declared that the silver dol-
 lars had been maintained fin full value de- spite, he said, all the islanders uttered in this chamber and in the house. because the people demanded the silver dollars as money. and with every one of them they could procure a dollars worth of anything to be had He maintained that the Ameri-
 can people and the American nation were great enough to do anything they deemed right to do. And if they should determine