Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 January 1892 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1892."

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Foreign putSKe " tssuilly double iLcie rates. 1 communication intruded for publication in th i$yayxr mv$t. in order to rem re attention, be actompanUd ly the name and addrest of the writer, THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places: rABIS American Exchange la rarla. 30 BonleTard Ce Capuclnes. KEW YOB KO User Honae and Windsor Hotel. rillLADZLrniA A. p7KembIe, 3755 Lancaster avenue. CHICAGO rliner noaae CINCINNATI-J. JL nawley & Co., 154 Vine street X.OTJISVIIXE C. T. Peering, northwest corner Thud and JcCerson street. BT. IXTJIs Union Newi Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. 7A8IIINGT0X. P. C.-Itlggs Ilonae and Ebbltt llonae. The Republicans of Ohio nro not ready yet to tarn down Senator John Sherman. ' Ex-Governor Foraker comeg out of the Ohio senatorial fight with his tailfeathers badly bedraggled. Tne hostility which the London Timea baa exhibited against the Harrison administration is, to. me the words of Bynam, a decoration of honor. In the senatorial fight just closed in Ohio the Cincinnati Cotnniercial-Gazetto has shown bad judgment, bad leadership and bad Republicanism. Suggestion to tho Cincinnati Commercial Gazette: "Brag is & good dog, bat Holdfast ia a better." John Sherman's other name is Holdfast. If 1802 proves as prosperous a business year aa everybody now expects, it will not be easy to induce the American people to swap political horses while crossing tho stream. The only paper thus far that even excuses Senator Hill's policy is tho At lanta (Ga.) Constitution. The St. Louis Republic says: "Good-bye, David; you havo committed hara-kiri." In 18SC tho shipbuilding of tho United States was only 03,433 tons, but daring tho last fiscal year it was 294,122 tons. Tho increase is due largely to tho reciprocity clauses of tho McKinley law and tho postal subsidy, which malio a demand for American ships. Governor Hill has niado a great record as a daring and unscrupulous politician, but it is not tho kind of a record that the American people will indorse. No man ever became President of the United States by such methods, nor will Governor Hill. John Randolph is reported to have said: "Tho dome of the Capitol is a great extinguisher to local fame." Senator Hill may not be as great a man aa Governor Hill. Ho has never measured swords with such a politician as Gorman, and there aro other Democrats in tho Scnato who are greatly superior to Hill m knowledgo of public affairs. The postmistress at Teutopolis, 111., has been arrested for robbing tho mails, and several indictments havo been found against her. In 18S3 there was not a single Republican voto cast in Teutopolis. and as nono of the male residents of the Tillage was competent, this woman was retained postmistress, having been originally appointed under the Cleveland administration. The characteristics of the place nro denso ignorance and dense Democracy. The attempt to defeat Senator Sherman was unworthy and disreputable from the beginning, and all Republican!, except Foraker's infatuated followers, will rejoico that it has failed. In threatening to make war on tho administration the leaders of tho Foraker crowd show themselves very vindictive, ns well as very unwise. It is to bo hoped they will think better of the matter. Senator Hale, of Maine, when ho said that the unnecessary quarantine regulations of Great Britain were adopted to put a prohibitory duty upon American cattle, not only told the truth, but exposed the pretensions of the freetraders. A few years ago the British Postmaster-general made a contract with a German ship to carry a part of tho British mails to this country, but the British press, representing shipowners andv others, raised such a row that the contract was annulled. In that caso the Cobden Club did not see fit to remark that tho Postmaster-general had the right to hire ships in tho cheapest market. . The naval board of inspection at New York has been trying the speed and otherwiso testing tho qualities of the steamship Venezuela, with a view to employing her in the navy ifnecessary. The Venezuela was built by the Cramps In Philadelphia a few years . ago. Tho trial proved most satisfactory, the ship toming up to tho requirements of the government. One of tho plans which the Democrats in Congress rejected, a few years ago, was to encourage tho construction of merchant ships which could bo used in time, of war. Other nations have such an auxiliary navy, but tho demagogic cry of "subsidy," in- ' ipired by foreign shipping interests, caused it to be abandoned. The means by which the Hill managers captured tho New York Senate stands out as tho political outrage of the decade. Such things were expected in the South, where suffrage is a farce, but not in tho North, where intelligenco is supposed to have intluence. Two Democratic Senators wero seated ono

having nearly ono thousand votes less than tho Republican, and another because the Hill canvassing board ignored tho decision of the Hill Court of Appeals. The first thing tho Democratic Senators did when they found that thcro was a quorum was to vote in a Democrat who had 1.C00 votes less than tho Republican, without any investigation whatever. This was made possible because a few hundred Republicans in ono district voted for an independent Republican, who, as a candidate, had no conscientious scruples against deceiving voters by having hia name printed on a ticket headed "Republican," but was too conscientious to stand out and prevent a quorum until tho Democratic Senators would agreo to a fair hearing in the case where a vacancy was declared. The only source of consolation where such outrages aro perpetrated is that the conspirators who are responsible for them overleap themselves and fail in what they intend. And yet the so-called independent papers in New York city, like the Herald and the Advertiser, have not denounced these outrages at any stage, which shows that they are independent only in Dame.

PRESIDENT HABBIS0N AND INDIANA. General Harrison was nominated in 1888 largely because of tho strong support he received from this State and the assurance that if nominated he could carry Indiana. At that time ho was not very generally known to the people of other States, though he was well known to many of the politicians. Although he was regarded by many as a coming man, ho could hardly bo said to have had a national reputation. He was nominated distinctively as an Indiana man. Now tho caso is very different. Gen. Harrison is almost as well known in every other State of tho Union as bo is in 'Indiana, not personally, of course, but by reputation. No public man over grew in tho public estimation more rapidly or more steadily than he has done. Since the day of his nomination, during the months of the remarkable campaign that resulted in his election, and during tho entire period of his administration he has continued to grow in the confidence, respect and esteem of the public He has made no serious mietakes nor disappointed any of the expectations entertained of him. Ho has proved fully equal to every emergency and to all tho requirements of the high oflice ho fills. His devotion to public duty and the public interests has been remarkable. His occasional speecheshavechallenged universal admiration, and his state papers are conceded to be strong and able. Judged by any proper standard of public service, his administration is one of tho most successful and satisfactory the country has ever had, and he himself ia conceded to be tho peer intellectually of any man who ever occupied the presidential chair. Assuming the duties comparatively unknown beyond his own State, he has achieved a national reputation for statesmanship and patriotism equal to that of any of his predecessors, and has won golden opinions from his countrymen, irrespective of party, by tho honesty, fidelity and ability with which he hns discharged tho duties of his high office. In all this honor Indiana and Indiana Republicans share. The State was never brought so conspicuously before the country in a political sense as it was by the nomination and election of Gen. Harrison. He was tho first presidential candidate tho State ever had, and, of course, tho first President it over furnished. His election brought tho Stato at onco to tho front. If ho had proved unequal to the situation it would havo reflected discredit cm the State, and many people would havo said, with an I-told-you-so air, "What else could you expect from an Indiana man!" .There are plenty of people who aro still ready to sneer at the IIoosier State. If President Harrison had proved to be a weak man, and had his administration proved a failure, Indiana would have had to bear the burden of tho discredit, and it would have been a long time before citizens of this State would havo heard the last of it. Happily, the case is very different. The splendid manner in which he has sustained himself and the magnificent success of his administration havo brought great honor to the State. Under tho circumstances wo think it is clearly duo to President Harrison that he should havo the solid support of Indiana in the national convention for renomination. The Republicans of Indiana owe this to themselves as well as to him. It is not absolutely necessary to his renomination, as it was to his nomination in 1SS8, that he should have the solid support of his own State, becauso he is now in the hands of the Republicans of other States, and could be renominated without Indiana. But as a matter of justice, of gratitude and of good politics, he should havo the support of Indiana in the convention. Tho Republicans of Indiana would present a sorry spectacle before tho country if, President Harrison being in tho field, they should send a divided delegation to the national convention. Tho Republicans of other State3 would regard them with contempt. They could say, and probably would say, "What has President Harrison done since 18S8, when you supported him so enthusiastically, to deserve any withdrawal of support? What has ho done but to bring honor on the State and the party P To such questions as theso what could an antiHarrison Republican from Indiana do but 6tand mute, clothed in shame and confusion? If President Harrison is to bo defeated for renomination, let it be by other States. If the force of circumstances or the logic of events should point to ths nomination of another candidate, let the movement corao from some other quarter. If Mr. Blaino is in the field he will have, as ho should have, tho solid support of his State. Let Indiana show that tho Republicans of the Uoosier Stato havo as much Stato pride as thoso of Maine. Let It be demonstrated that political ingratitude is not indigenous to Western soil, and that Indiana Republicans know how to appreciate tho character and services of ono who has

brought great honor to the Stato a well as do thoso of Maine or any other State. Let it not be recorded that when an opportunity offered to secure tho presidency for another four years for tho Hoosier State, Indiana Republicans stultified themselves by throwing away tho honor. If they are to be deprived of it let them at least show themselves worthy of it by making a manly fight for it. If President Harrison is not renominated at Minneapolis, tho child is not born who will live to see another Republican candidate for President nominated from this State, and if he does not receive a solid vote from this State in the convention, it will be a long day before Indiana Republicans will recover from the disgrace. In fact, a party with so little State pride and so little appreciation of the true political fitness of things ns would be implied in a divided Republican delegation from Indiana would scarcely deserve to sur

vive. MANAGING A HUSBAND. Sorosis, that foremost guild of strongminded and progressive sisters, has been discussing tha subject of husbands and the best ways of managing them. The impression conveyed by the remarks of tho speakers is thatr while man may have fome redeeming traits and is apparently a necessary feature in the human economy, he is, on the whole, an evil to be endured in the best way possible, and his offensivencss is to be mitigated, more or less, by "management." There was a general agreement on tho part of the wives present that young women expected too much of their future husbands, tho necessary inference being that the less happiness they looked for in married lifo and the more faults they were prepared to find in the men of their choice, the less likoly they were to be disappointed. It was plain that these Sorosis wives had no illusions left, and while they spoko with kindness and toleration of the other sex, no man reading the speeches can escape the conviction that these advanced women regard him, everything considered, as a bad lot. Various methods of managing were suggested, but none was agreed upon ns containing all the elements of success, . so that tho objectionable being to be operated on is left to surmise what plan is to be tried on himt One member, indeed, advised with dark suggestivencss that as all present were strong-minded women and hud their own peculiar views about tho management of husbands, it was better to keep such views to themselves. Finally, after all tho others had had their say, one white-haired woman rose and talked of lovo as the key to the problem, tho one thing that would unite inharmonious elements in man and woman, tho only essential to smooth away the asperities of the marriage state. The effect of this speech was lost upon the other members, who smiled at each other, because the white-haired old lady had never had a husband, and therefore could know nothing of tho subject. Nothing was left to bo said after this, however, and the meeting broke up, and the sisters went home, tho married ones, presumably, to try each other's recipes on their respective spouses or such of them ns were not already trained. PRESIDENT DIAZ, HIS PBIEND3 AND FOES. Every citizen of the United States who realizes tho good work which President Diaz has done for Mexico will sincerely hope that tho reports which have been printed to tho effect that the recent disturbances on the border are the prelude of a general revolutionary uprising are without foundation. President Diaz has labored zealously and effectively to give Mexico a stable government and popular institutions. He has encouraged tho construction of railroads, and has so repressed disorder that capital has sought that country and undertaken the development of its rare resources. He has labored to give the people more intelligenco than they have had. To do all theso tilings ho has been compelled to ignore the pretensions of eomo of the States whose local laws and powers have deprived tho general government of that authority which such a government must have if it is to be of valuo to a people. Presidont Diaz has found it necessary to ignore the assumptions of a church party in Mexico in order to lift Mexico to a higher plane of civilization, and it is not surprising if theso people should bo stirring up insurrections. On this continent and under republican government church and state cannot get on together, and the church must go. If it were the Anglican instead of the Church of Rome, its interference with a government of the peoplo and the claiming of privileges under it would be incompatible with tho dischargo of its functions. The Catholic Church has stood in the way of tho progress of popular government in South America, as well as 'in Mexico, and tho fact i being used in this country to its detriment. The Pope has proclaimed himself in favor of popular government, yet his subordinates in Mexico and Brazil are opposing the development of democratic forms of government. It seems that he should see that these meddlesome subordinates should ceaso to interfere with the temporal affairs of republics except as citizens. But whatever comes in Mexico, the American people, recognizing the good work which President Diaz has done, aro on his side, and tho government of tho United States will see that revolutionists do not organize within its borders to assail his government. Indeed, thcro is by no means a limited sentiment in this country in favor of the United States sustaining republican rulers whero they are opposed by reactionary revolutionists. A Washington dispatch says the President is now engaged in preparing a proclamation of retaliation against those countries which have refused to enter into reciprocal trade relations with this country under the reciprocity provision of the tariff law. Under that law the President is authorized and required to suspend the provisions authorizing tho freo importation of sugar, molasses, coffee, tea and hides as to any or all countries which continue to im

poses duties on American products. Tho effect of this will be to impose a duty on all the articles above named when imported from the countries against which the proclamation is directed. This will bo a discrimination against those countries and in favor of those which have made reciprocity arrangements by which their sugar, etc., will come in free. Retaliation is the reverse side of reciprocity.

The story in yesterday's papers to tho effect that ex Governor Hill and his subservient and conscienceless followers in New York have' resolved to use their majority in the Legislature to deprive the people of that State of the privilege of voting for President by conferring upon itself the power to choose the presidential electors will scarcely bo credited., David B. Hill is a reckless politician and a bold conspirator, but the only evidence that he has lost his sagacity is found in his Elmira speech. Such nn act on tho part of the Legislature would be less revolutionary than that of the Hill canvassing board and of the Hill gang in counting out men who had hundreds as majorities, but it would create widespread indignation which would make the name of Hill a reproach and be followed 'by an uprising of tho people in other States that would eend the men who devised the scheme and the candidate for President whom it was designed to help to an early oblivion. For the Legislature of New York to take action which would enable it to elect presidential electors later on would be a confession that tho Hill leaders fear that they cannot carry that State by a general vote, such as has been tho method of choosing presidential electors in New York for more than half a century. Until Kansas ceases to have bloody wars over tho location of county seats it must discontinue its self-praiso as a center of civilization. Such affairs as that reported at Aikalon disgrace the State and justify the belief of New Englanders that tho country west of the Mississippi is a homo of savages, white as well as red. This trouble seems, as most others of the'kind, to havo originated in the eagerness of each faction to secure tho court-house at its town, in the hope of increasing the value of real estate thereby. In other words, it grew out of avarico and love of speculation. Kansas has had a reputation for intelligence and progressivenees a reputation marred somewhat by recent political events, but if murderous vendettas are anecessary accorapanimentof the prominence of the Simpsons and Peftcrt, this reputation will wane even more rapidly than it has during tho past year, and Kansas will rank with Kentucky. It looks now as if tho Chilian complication would, reach a peaceable settlement through an apology and reparation from Chili for tho killing of our sailors. If the . matter is thus settled without bloodshed it will be due entirely to the extraordinary forbearance of this govern nn;; Chili ; has been treated with far greater forbearance than .she deserved, and if sho gets off with an apology and reparation she can thank her stars that she was dealing with the United , States instead of a European power. Had such an assault as was committed on our sailors been committed on British sailors, Valparaiso would have, been bombarded inside of a week if nn nmplo apology had not been made. British vessels would havo bombarded the city first and reported to the homo government afterwards. Perhaps a temporizing, course; is wiser, but the policy of promptly resenting insults has undoubted advantages. The Louisville Commercial 6ays of Judge Lindsay, the new Interstate-commerce Commissioner; from Kentucky, that "ho stands a leader at tho bar, as he was on the bench, and his sound judgment and unusual abilities are universally recognized by his fellow-citizens." Tho Louisville Courier-Journal says: "In Judge Lindsay's selection the President has .. made one of tho best appointments of his administration. Judge Lindsay is a big lawyer, with a big brain, and should he accept tho oflico he will fill it with exceptional ability." The prevailing opinion at Frankfort, where Judge Lindsay lives is that he will accept the position. Although his law practice is worth much more than the salary, ho is in independent circumstances and able to mako the sacrifice. Judge Lindsay is six feet, two inches in height, weighs 245 pounds, and is universally regarded as one of tho best lawyers in Kentucky. TnE nomination of Senator Sherman by tho Republican caucus of the Ohio Legislature will gratify more Republicana outside that Stato than a senatorial nomination ever has before in the history of tho .'party. The Republican press outside Ohio has urged the nomination of Mr. Sherman on the gronnd of his great usefulness to the country, and it has been causo of surprise and regret that ho has met with any opposition, much less such opposition as has been offered. The re-election of Mr. Sherman, which will follow, will give the Republicans a statesman of rare experience at a timo when he is needed to sustain the intellectual ascendency of the party in tho upper branch of Congress. The contest has been, in the judgment of the Republican press of the country, a bitter and unnecessary one, but, . fortunately, such dissensions are quickly healed. United States Commercial Agent Griffen, at Limoges. Franco, reports that the exportation of French wines to this country has fallen oil very largely, while the importation of American wines to France has greatly increased. He adds that many French capitalists and vinegrowers are thinking of going to California to engage in the manufacture of wins for the French market. This leads the San Francisco Chronicle to say: This bears out the assertion often made by tbe Chronicle that the easiest and simplest way to procure French wine is to bur California wine and put a French label on the bottle, though cren that la not entirely necessary, for facsimiles of French label can sow be procured In this country very reasonably and are warranted to te lndutiniruthable from the genuine article. If France buya California wine for Ler own u.e and to prepare for export It la a good recommendation for the quality of our product, and If French capitalists come over here and engage ia wine-in akin U la proof positive that we can

make wine and that France cannot, that la. tho ordinary kinds of wine -which are most generally consumed.

BOBBLES IN THE AIR. In the Aleoagerie. Checked your grip yetr asked the giraffe. Didn't have to, replied the elephant. "I have it in my trunk." Why Two Friends Tarted. 'Oh, say! I know a good thing I'd like to put you on to." "Whatlsitr "Ice," One Way Out. After the good-bye kiss which, by tbe way, was at least eighty seconds shorter than usual she got out her writing outfit and Indited a note to him,' vhich ran after thia fashion: "Mr. Bllppus After mature consideration I have thought it best that our engagement should end. I shall never forget the happineaa I exKrienced during the first three months of our trothaL but In that time you eecm (to be plain with you) to have exhausted all your ideas. Since then you have told and retold tbe same stories, 6unur the same soncs and joked the same Jokes with such & (doubtless unconscious) relterancy that I am aure wedded life with you would be altogether too . monotonous for one of my disposition. I shall always think kindly of you, and pray that when yon meet some one hereafter whose affection may heal tbe wound I am forced to inflict your new-found happiness may be perfect, complete and eveilatinK. And the next day a young man might have been seen gaily dancing around in his room, waving a tear-stained letter above hi head, and shouting: "It worked!. I-Jlngs, It worked like a charm! BUPPy toy boy, you're a genius from away back!" ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Mrs. Jackson says in her memoirs of her husband. Gen. "Stonewall' Jackson, that whenever she visited the General in camp he "spent all of hit leisure time in playing with their baby." Representative M. S. Keaghan, of Nebraska, is said to be the homeliest Congressman, but the deficiency in personal beauty is said to be made up by the good sense he displays. Andrew Carnegie has donated 30,000 for the ereotion of a public library building in Fairfield, Ia. Senator James F. Wilson has donated a tine lot, and the building w ill be erected in the spring. Louis Kossuth is very sick at his home in Turin. He suffers considerably from asthma, and also has trouble with bis eyes. Friends of the great Hungarian fear that he will never again recover his health and strength. Ellkn Terry's signature is worth exactly 19s 6d sterling. She placed her name, unsolicited, on some SO-cent photographs of herself at an Edinburgh fair tho other night and the price of the pictures at once advanced to 5 each. John Ingalls Handley, the tallest soldier from Maine and tbe tallest but one in tho Armv of the Po torn so, died recently at Fast Wilton, N. H. His height was six feet seven and a half inches, and he was color sergeant in the Eighth Maine. The Hon. W. W. Henry, the grandson of Patrick Henry, attends the church (St. John's) in Richmond, Vs., where the latter delivered the speech that made his name famous. The seat on which tho orator stood when he cried, "Give me liberty or give iuh death!" is still shown to visitors. Again it is rnmored that Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnet will soon be back in Washington. The Post of that city says that she is expected to arrive there from London beforo the close of tho month, and her letters to American friends betray mncn better spirits now than several mouths ago. Miss Dalestirr. who is to be married to Rudyard Kipling, was a New York girl until she went to live with her brother, Wolcott Ralestier, in . London. The Ralestier family cornea from Brattleboro', Vt.. whero they still have a tine old place. Miss lialestior is not pretty, but she is very bright and entertaining. She is very petite, bine eyed and brown haired. It is reported in New York that the son of the great Ward McAllister is about to marry tbe beautiful and rich young widow of Robert Hastings. Mr. Hastings was a son of Judge Hastings, of the Supreme bnch of California, who gave the law department to the University of California. Judge Hastings's granddaughter, Miss Catberwood, is shortly to marry Mr. Ernest C. Montague, and will live in New York. Sho hns been educated abroad. Prince Bismarck recently expressed bis feelings in the following way to a deputation from a Low German club: "I am old and 'dried up,' as the foresters say, and I feel that I hare far loss strength to devote to public atlaira. I have become the slave to my domestic habits a single night in the train is a feat for me, whereas I used to be able to stand two or three of them and I sleep badly in other people's honses. In abort, my bodily vigor is on the wane." Emperor William has decided to have constructed a new royal Prussian throne. The first Prussian King, Frederick I, possessed a magnificent one, consisting of red velvet and heavy gold and silver frames and decorations. During the Napoleonic invasion in the early part of thia century the precions metal was, however, melted down, and there are now only two smaller chairs of much less valne left, which used to stand on the right and left of tho throne chair. two critical periods. . Two periods in roan's life there be Which bring to him much woe: And one Is when the mustache be Would raise comes out too slow. Tbe other comes when (period dread That comes to all at list) lie sees the hair upon his head Is coming out too fast. New York Press. MR. SAGE'S GRATITUDE. He Pays & Druggist $15 for Services Rendered at the Time of the Dynamite Explosion. New York, Jan. 6. Russell Sage came down town to-day andattendedmeetings of several railroads, ot which he is a director. Afterward, as he walked up the steps on the way to his office, he glanced across Broadway at the drug store of O'Connell, and then remembered that the druggist had never received any pay for all tha medicine, and bandages, and attention bestowed upon him. On reaohing his oflice Mr. Sage sent for Mr. OTonnelL who promptly appeared. The millionaire shook tho druggist's hand, asking if he was well, and then said that he bad seen a statement wherein Mr. O'Connoll had estimated that he was out of pocket about $15 in the way of medicine, etc., used at the time of tbe explosion. He wanted to know if that statement was true. Mr. O'Connell said that $15 was about right, but that he was not sutfering particularly from the disbursement of $15 worth of drugs and bandages, and was satisfied to know that he had been of service. Mr. gage put his baud into his trousers pocket and brought up a $10 and a $5 gold piece that he had earned at the directors meeting daring the morning. He handed the coins over to Mr. O'Connoll. who accepted them with thanks. After an hour's pleasant talk the druggist departed. It ia said that Mr. Sage will be asked to pay several bills of greater or less amounts, which will be presented by suflerers in one way or another from tbe explosion. O. B. Potter, it is said, will try to bold Mr. Sage liable for all the damage to tbe building. The newsdealer in the hallway of the Arcade, and the man who rnnsthe soda-water fountain at tbe eutrance of tbe building, wilU, it is said, send in bills for losses sustained. Denials from Colonel Ballon. Providence, E. I., Jan., C Colonel Ballon did not go to his otUco nntll noon today. He soon after sent for the newspaper men and made a statement to them, asserting his disbelief that Dr. Graves made any confession implicating him, denying that he left Denver last Saturday secretly or in a hurried manner, declaring that his associate counsel kuew ot his intended departure, and expressing his surprise at the verdict. He would say nothing about the possible action of the grand Jury against himself.

TWO VIEWS OF FREE COINAGE

Senator Morrill Points Out Sonio Flaws in tTio Arguments of the SilFeritcs. Already, He Sayi, Is the Treasury Burdened with Whits Metal, and No Amount ef Kicking cr Coaxing Will Pat It in Circulation. Mr. Teller, However, Says tho Present Coinage Law Doesn't Go FarEnonh, And Thinks It Would Be Better for the Country to Do Business cn a Silver Basis Than on a Gold One The President Attacked. MORRILL ON SILVER. The Senate's Chairman of Flnanc Points Oat the Evils of Unlimited Free Coinage. Washington, Jan. 6. Tho bill introduced by Mr. Stewart to provide for the free coinage of gold and silver bullion was taken up in the Scnato to-day, and Mr. Morrill, chairman of the committee on finance, proceeded to speak in opposition to it He said that he feared hia remarks might be as much of a drug as silver itself; but he could not afford to shirk the question. The financial instrumentalities and monetary affairs of the country were of such transcendent importance, touching not only the pocket of every citizen, bat the honor and general welfare of the whole people, that it must be conceded that they deserved to be discussed as questions of national gravity and not merely as partisan or campaign topics of local or ephemeral interest. At his time of life he could have no other impulse than a desire to be right and to speak the truth as he had learned it, bat this might comrel him in plainest words to criticise erroneous and mischievous theories, and to present such facts and arguments as appear to be conclusive in support of the public credit and that sound standard of money which would abide forever and in harmony with the money of the most enlinhtened Christian nations. He was now and ever had been ia favor of maintaining both gold and silver in circulation, and silver to the extremest boundary that could maintain it on a parity with gold. It would be a real joy for him to have silver greatly increase in actual value. He had not voted for the silver act of 1S90, for the reason that silver bullion was neither to be paid for nor paid out in accordance with the safer proposal of Secretary Windoin, and that thesilver to be purchased was fixed, as it appeared to him, at a too magnificent amount: and also, that a full price would be paid for a commodity which the government could neither sell or part from to any considerable extent with-out-a financial revolution and serious loss. For the first time in his life ho dodged the question and did not vote against the hill, not only because his vote would have not changed the result or secured anything better, but because bis distinguished friend, the senior Senator from Nevada Mr. Jones begged him not to. Mr. Morrill went on to say that the national bank notes wero rapidly being made to step down and out to give room to silver paper. Lifce Nabotn, they had a vineyard, which Abab wanted, and, therefore, were stonod and killed. The original United States notes, or greenbacks, were likely to be tbo next sacrifice demanded and stoned, in order to give tbe whole hell to silver paper. Ho expedients have been untried, and no cost withheld, to push or carry silver dollars into circulation: but it has been demonstrated that no more than about $00,000,000 of over S400.a0u.000 coined conld be coaxed or kicked outside the treasury. The weight was objected to as too heavy, and the value too light. There was in tho treasury to-day, in silver dollars and silver bullion, over twelve thousand tons, which even burglars had almost ceased to covet, and only express companies appreciated its value when they lugged it across the continent, but tbe government was required to hold and guard it night and day, together with all forthcoming monthly additions. WHERE WOULD IT END! When and where was this silver deluge toendf In ten years more under existing statutes the government might have locked up in its subterranean vaults silver to tho aggregate of perhaps more than one thousand million dollarsD for all of which its obligations, payable in coin, would be outstanding, and, should this inundation be further aggravated Dy unlimited free coinage? No silver certificates or treasury notes issued for silver bullion had been presented for payment in silver, but they were paid in gold when so demanded. How long they could be thus kept on a parity with gold was already a matter of public and profound concern and largely dependent upon an honest and proper interpretation of law, and courage, and skill of the Secretary. Whenever the gold in tho treasury should vanish and it might vanish under a cloud of silver as well as under a cloud of adverse exchanges these certificates and notes could then be paid only in standard silver dollars and these as money were known to be not worth their face value. As security for silver certificates or treasury notes which were to circulate at par with gold they were notoriously inadequate, as 4V2lt grains of silver, nine-tenths fine, would fetch no more than 74 cents. It would be hardly less safe, and certainly equally honest, to issue as certificates and notes, and circulate them as good money upon iron or copper, or upon wheat or tobaoco, purchased and accumulated in like manner at 33 13 per cent, above the market valne, as to base such circulation upon the so-called standard silver dollars under free coinage. Whatever advantage from unlimited free coinage of silver might accrue to corporate owners of silver mines, when gold advanced to a premium, will be brief and not permanent, as then no Secretary of tbe Treasury would be willing to sell us bonds in order to obtain gold to keep any paper currency paid out for silver on a party with gold. These corporations, therefore, at no remote period, wonld have their own drug return to plague the inventors. and find silver certificates or treasury notes received for silver bullion, wnen unsupported by gold, of no greater valne than that of tbe silver contamed in the free coined silver dollar. The experiment which was now being made to have the government purchase, on compulsion, a fixed monthly amount of silver had, he feared, complicated and more or less retarded any international compact relative to silver and perhaps contributed to the degradation of its value by largely restricting the demand to one country alone and by practical exclusion of aDy popnlar demand from any other. The menace of unlimited coinage, with the swelling accumulation of coined and uncoined silver in the treasury, which might, income financial.contingency.be thrust upon any or all other markets, not only tended to perpetuate its present uncertainty of value, but might farther tend to Mnk it to a lower depth. Certainly unlimited coinage would indefinitely postpone all hope of an international compact. MUST 8TAND ON ITS OWN MRItlTS. Tbo depreciation of silver has been accelerated, not only by its greatly increased abundance, but also by its dimims&ed use as money by leading commercial nations. Silver miners had no promise of an increase of wages in case of tbe free coinage of silver, and silver, as a standard of money, must, for all tho world, stand or fall upon its intrinsic merits and not upon the merits of the place whence it camo. The 6ilver propagandists declared that they onlv sought to have silver placed on an eqnaiuy wun gom, unowmtr, aa they did, that their inequality had been displayed from age to age. The transparent design appeared to be to briuz silver in America to tho front as a lower and cheaper

standard of money, with which to buy and sell as the sole measure of debts, and as a mere tempting and sinister inducement to the debtor class to follow a treacherous lead. Whether or not the measure would be honest or honorable on the part ot the government, in relation to all existing contracts, they did not care to niscus.4. noreven to consider who the debtors really are. The silver-tongued orators promised to give silver as cheaper money, and in tho next breath procured to bring it up to par with gold. Somebody was to be cheated. Who was it? Ono promise or the other must prove false. This silver bureau threatens the country desperately, as an extract from one of their circular? will show, as follows: "That if silver cannot l9 remonetized, gold will be demonetized and paper substituted for both gold and silver. 1 be people will not be destroyed for want ot money. The gold trust by rejecting one, of the precious metala has taught how both may be rejected." In conclusion Mr. Morrill said: "I havo attempted to demonstrate, first, that tha depreciation of silver is both so gTeat and universal that unlimited coinage could cot be maintained on tbe preeent atandaid with gold, but would suddenly wreck tho country by a silver revolution. 'Second That unlimited coinage wonld interdict all international silver compacts. "Third That there is no scarcity of money in circulation, but. instead. t?io amount is twice as great as it was in 157b, and is increasing on a canter. "Fourth That a silver standard wouM bo equivalent to a horizontal reduction of tariff of per cent., it not more, and an equal reduction in all pensions. "Fifth That the enormous increase of silver, to the extent of four times the product of 1854, coincident with greatly lessened demand for it, has so depreciated its value that unlimited coinage by the United States must prove a disastrous national blunder. "Sixth That there is no magio In any law of Congress which can make the world accept an ounce of silveras worth any more in coin than in bullion. "Seventh That tho parties to first profit by free coinage would be tbo corporate owners of silver mines only, and the parties to finally suffer the largest Josses by it wonld be the great mass of our people into whose bands the depreciated coin and treasury notes would finally pass. "The public credit of our great I'epublio is at 6take. Shall we have the best money standard of the foremost nations of mankind, or shall we descend to the Uickering and narrow-gauge of silver only, for tho conduct of a greater home and foreign trade than that of any other people, ancient or modern. We have paid off wore than three-fourths of our great war debt in gold when our resources were far less than now, and I am unwilling to forfeit our wellearned reputation and lose pablio confidence and all the ancestral prestige of our history by paying tho sorry remnant of this debt in a legal tender of much less value." A SILVER CHAMPION.

Senator Teller Speaks for the Men Who Would lie Benefitted toy Free Coinage. At tho close of Senator Morrill's speech, which occupied about an hour and a half in its delivery, Mr. Teller took the floor and called attention to the fact that the Senator from Vermont, as well as the President of the United States, in his annual message, treated the silver bill of July 14. 1890, as the work of the bimetallists in Congress. He Mr. Teller denied that assertion. The bill, he said, was not the work or the product of the silver people, but the product of a committee that had been known to be for many years deadly hostile to bimetallism. Ee knew that the Senator from Vermont chimed to be a bimetallism as the President also claimed to be. but they were bimetallists of the character that was always satisfied with being so in words and never in act. After quoting a sentence from the President's message to the effect that the bill "had been expected to bring the price of silver up to 1.29 per ounce, Mr. Tcllerchalleged the executive for proof of that statement, and asserted that only one Senator (alluding to Mr. Jones of Nevada) had intimated that the act of 130 would bring silver np to par. On the other hand, mora than twenty Senators had asserted that it would not bring silver to par. He had declared when that bill wan under diacoasioa that it was not a silver bill, and that it was not acceptable to the silver people. It would not do to say that that legislation had been put upon the statute-book by silver people. If disaster came, as it would come if that policy was persisted in, it would have to be laid at the door of tho men who had for fifteen years steadily resisted the general publio demand for tho use of silver on equal terms with gold. But there was, he said, another proposition coming from the executive. What was it? It was that the United States should accumulate all the gold of the world, and that then the money centers of Furcpo would say that the United States, having got all the gold, they would join the United States in the work of using silver money. Coming as it did from the executive of the Nation, he I Mr. Teller was bound to speak of it with respect whatever he might think or feeL How was the United States to accumulato the gold of the world? Even when this country had an abundance of crops, and was enjoying great prosperity, gold had left tho country at the rate of a million dollars a day. The United States was a debtor nation, owing to Europe more than two thousand million dollars. More than five thousand millions the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Stewartl said. More than two thousand millions, certainly to be conservative. How was the United States to get Europe to unload her coffers and to send her gold here! He wished some friend of the new method would tell the Senate how to get the gold from Europe. He would like to see it coming at the rate ot $1,000,000 a day. lint it was only another make-shift another method by which the inevitable should be delayed when by law tbe two metals would be put together, or else the use of silver be absolutely abandoned except for subsidiary coin. What thesilver men wanted was to have the two metals put together, tied together by law so at they would be on an equality at a ratio to be established. BANKER SELIGMAN'S TniP. Mr. Teller referred to the fact of the President having sent a New York banker I Mr. Seligman to Berlin in connection with the silver question, and said that ho supposed that that was a delightful way of giving somebody a trip to Europe at the expense of the government. Certainly all the benefit to bo derived from it would bo by the individual whose expenses wero paid. Tho President had not selected for that trip a prominent silver man. He (Mr. Teller) could name twenty men in publio lifo who could have gone to Europe and mado a report that would have been of value; but no such report would bo got from the bankers or mouometallista. lie entered a protest against tbe declaration of the executive and of tho Senator lronx Vermont that the silver men wereesponsible for the legislation of IS!!. He himself had declared that be would vote for it with extreme reluctance: that he would vote for it because he believed that it wonld revive drooping industries; would stimulate business, and would bring hope and courage to the people of the United States, lie did not 'ote for it because it was a silver bill, for it was not. A certain publio man who had not yet taken bis seat m tbe Senate meaning Mr. Hill, of New York, had announced that the act of July. lS'JO. had to be repealed, but he Mr. Teller,! asserted that it would not be repealed. There was no considerable number of public men in the couutrv wba would dare to repeal it. It might "be repealed if the same amount of money was given to the people; and that could only ha done by free coinage or by an unlimited issue of money at the option of the government. The latter would never take place, and so the act ot July. lsyo. would not bo repealed. It was on the statute book to stay fraught with all the dangers that attended it and he admitted that thoso dangers were great. His friends on tbe other side of the chamber had not voted for the bill, although they were silver men and although twenty-live of them had voted with him for free coinage. Thoy had not bfen willing to take the risk. Hut he had taken the risk, which he was not then inseuMble of. aa he wan not now. There was now 4'.',.0iXi,O(i) of silver iu the country practically in use as money; and every year added to it 54.un( 00 ounce. In ten years there would be a thousand millions of silver in tho coffers of the gov-