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Show TELLER DENIES ANY INTENT TO REVISE QUESTION Of SILVER WASHINGTON, Dec. 22. Referring to tho publication of a letter written by him on the financial question to Sir Moreton Frcwin, Senator Toller said today to-day that ho had no intention of reviving reviv-ing tho silver question, but that, his only purposo had been to call attention to the present conditions of exchange between Europo and America un one side and Asia on the other. "Tho question of exchange." ho said, "is one of worldwide importance, ami there has come to bo such a divergence between prices in tho gold-using and the silver-using countries, that, the situation sit-uation is growing somewhat acute. Jt is so much in cvidenco that any one who gives tho least attention to financial finan-cial questions must observe it. Honco I make no apology for my reference to it in n personal letter to Mr. Frewin. "1 do not see," he continued, "why aii3' of the members of the monetno' commission should be astonished at m utterances, as some of them aro represented repre-sented by the newspapers to have been, as my letter did not purport to bo written writ-ten on behalf of or to express tho opinion opin-ion of the commission. For the last twelve years T have corresponded more or less with Mr. Frewin as to tho mon-'etnryri mon-'etnryri conditio. of exchange between Europo and the United States and Asia. He is a gentleman well informed on all these questions. When he visits the United States ho always calls ou mo, and wo havo discussed these questions ques-tions very frecly. Justifios Statement. "I did say in my letter to him that the commission would hear him at tho proper time, and I hnvo no doubt it will. I was justified in this because tho commission had sent a portion of its membership to Europe in search of information as to the monctarj system of the world and the condition of commerce com-merce and finance of those countries. "The members who went to Europe certainly acquired a fund of information informa-tion that will be useful not only to the commission, but to the country at large. I practically stated that I was speaking speak-ing tor myself as to what I supposed the commission would do. I have understood un-derstood that, the object of this commission com-mission is primarily to obtain information informa-tion as to the monetary condition of the world, and ultimately present that information to congress, with or without with-out its recommendations, as' it may deem proper. 'I did not indicate that the commission commis-sion was considering or would consider the Goschen plan for small notes of ton shillings or twenty shillings, nor that I was for it. Goschen was a mono-metallist mono-metallist of tho extreme type. His proposition was based on the idea that the small notes, legal tender ten dollars dol-lars only, would make uso of some silver, sil-ver, anu that would enable the governments govern-ments to accumulate gold. This was not accepted by the silver people, cither in Europe or the United States. Personally. Per-sonally. I think there is sufficient merii in the Goschen plan to justify the commission com-mission in considering it. "As a member of the 'commission, I do not propose" 16 attempt to interfere with tho legislation since 1806. which established the gold standard in this country. I consider that question settled set-tled for at least a generation, but. even though the finances of the United States be fixed, the question of exchange between be-tween this country and others is not settled, and I do not believe that the commission is burred from its consideration." consid-eration." ' |