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Show THE .SILVER HILL, .Senator Teller Haa Ills Inning In the Debate. WASinxoTOs, D. O, May 11. Senator Teller, In addressing the Senate on the silver bill todayfspoke or the bill as relating; to perhaps the most important question that has been presented to the Senate since tlie demonetization or silver in lSTi if it could be truthfully said that the question had ever been presented to the benate. He disclaimed any anxiety or any especial interest in promoting the price of silversave and -except that silver was an American product, and therefore every American ought to have an Interest in advancing its price. Tho nle of Colorado had comparativo-. comparativo-. ttle interest in tho advancement advance-ment or the price or silver-because, although they produce one-sixth or all the silver produced In the world, they did not dei.-nd on the silver product and very shortly the other interests or the 'State would Tar outweigh tho interests of meresllver production. The silver product of the United btates (50,000,000 last year) was Insignificant In-significant in CODiiurisou with tlie great interests of the country tliat were involved in the rehabilitation or SILVEH AS A JIONEV METAL. ItwouIJ not do to say the "silver barons or the West" wen, demanding demand-ing it, or tliat Its demand was in the interestor cheap money. It was demanded de-manded in tho interestor humanity, in the interest or civilization, in the interest or progress u the Interestof tlie whole human race. HecritlcizMl theWlndom billand said he could not sco what the pur-poseand pur-poseand objector that scheme was. That scheme nut theappro valor the gold muuo-metallsts everywhere, aud that w as reason enough to w arrant ar-rant the uspiciou that it was a Tio-jau Tio-jau horse. Or the bill reported from the finance fin-ance committee, he said it was founded on the same system or financial fin-ancial iolicy, and there was the same philosophy in It, but it did not Iiropu-e to use sliver as money. Its fundamental Idea was, as in the other bill, that silver was a metal, and nothing eK.. Teller went on to siieak or the silver plank In the national rejiubli-can rejiubli-can pLifformas promising rull recognition recog-nition or silver as money, and said the plank was inserted iu recognition recog-nition or the universal demand or ' the country ror the use of sliver iw ' money, and he would Insist uioo Its observance, whether it parted him ! rrom the Admi uistratlon or not. Did the pending Mil, ho asked, recognize silver in accordance with the platform? He thought noL j Without concluding his sjtili Tel-Ier Tel-Ier yielded tn a motion to go into ! executive session. j Triple Jtiinlrr. Washington, Penn., Stay H. Xews reached here today of a trip'e murder committed at IJenlysville, near here, la-t tilcht. John (Touch, an aged and wealthy farmer, his wife and agrotvn-upsou were found tills morning In U-d with their throats cut fmni cir to ear. Thedoor of the house was standing open and tlie lied clothing, furultureand walls wcrestalned with blood. Thuscenc-wsshorriblenudthenewsspre-ul rapidly rap-idly about tlie villa ge.Theniurdervd persons were the wealthiest In Hint section of the country, and the theory Is that the murder was committed com-mitted to get money, generally supposed sup-posed to lie kept aliout the house. Search parties Marte-l out lu all di-re-ctions but no clue was found to tho peretrator. There U-Iug no telegraph or telephone facilities nettling more could l learned to-uighL to-uighL -Vo Jlore. Chicago. Stay H. A sicc!al from ew York says it is lielievcd there will Ik- nu more meetings of the iecl-htlvc investigation committee com-mittee fur some time. It is rumored that a deil lins Uvn fixed up to stop Inquiry into tlie ntTalrs or the city, much to the n hrf of tho Tammany leaders. I vim cT the committee Is going to Kiim-e and will remain all summer. Whither P.rondman will continue the Investigation or not during the summer w ill lie decided . .. -vwii. u(..4- w men iiieeis inn aftcrueiu. Se intor I"ae-tt Is i n tin citynml will attend the caucus. "You may deend ujion it thai there will tic- no Investigation until just Ls fore e-let tiou," said an inde-pendent inde-pendent politician. The wife ol Senator Fa-ctt is one of the heirs ol tlie late William Crocker. The Crocker estate in California must be divided uu June 5th and Senator Fasselt Is going to Cullforul.a to pna-teU pna-teU his wife-'s Inten-sts. The Itnjlmail -nilnrlr. ItccilKSTFTt, N. V., Slay H. The general convention t the Order of Hallway Conductors ile-eldiil today to eliminate from ths constitution the clause iirobibltlugstrikes. There has liccn i hot fight on this point, Grand Chief Wheaton aud eastern delegates opting it. It was -on this Issue thai Wheaton stood for reelection, re-election, aud he will now probably withdraw. a'arll.le Abend. FrtAXKFuBT, Ky., Slay H. The democratic caucus tonight took lour ballots, only six names being voted upon, Carlisle. SlcCreery, Lindsay, Lind-say, Knott, Moore and Settle. Mtwrs. Jiukuer, McKenzIe and Reeves we-ro left out entirely. The fourth lallot stood: Carlisle-, 39, a gain of five-over the first ballot; SlcCreery, Slc-Creery, 12, a gain or two over tlie fiisl lalli t; Lindsay, 2S: Knott, 1C: Moore, 12; r-'ettle, 9. Carlisle is undoubted!. un-doubted!. strouger tonight, and his men are in a mnod to push the contest con-test to a close tomorrow. e Itearter Traveling Chicago, Slay 11. The Burlington Burling-ton Railroad has announced that ncxtSatuiday the rale to St. Paul rrom Chicago would bo reduceel to 53. Tho present rate Is $S. The cut will bo generally met, This afU moon the Slllwaukce A SL Paul retaliated on the Burlington, Burling-ton, by making a three-dollar rate between Chicago and Council Bluffs, Omaha and Kansas City, and $5.20 to Sioux City, as well as maklinr a cut to St. Paul. s The Canadian Parlar. SroXTBEAL, Stay 11. At the annual an-nual meeting or the Canadian Pacific Paci-fic Railroad Company today tlie old board ol directors was re-elected, with one exception. The report for the past year shows the gross earnings earn-ings to lie $!5.(W),GG0: net earnings $8,O0G,0i9; surplus for the year after the payment of the supplementary dividend, I,510,02i; surplus from the previous year, $325,-l2t; Increasu in rimflts net.,- fl,.. ,.u..i,...- .. $2,230,255. The report expresses the belief that there is no ground for anticipating hostile legi-J.iUon at Wasliliigtoii, aud states Ills tlie Intention In-tention to cnnlluuu the 5 i.t cvut, dividend. IWerrlng to the completion comple-tion or the line from.Toronto to I)e-trolt, I)e-trolt, the report stales that traffic arrangements ar-rangements Iiave been mado witii the Wabash and the two SHchlgan roads, and says tho great system of the Wabash will afford a long needed independent connection with Chicago, St. Louis and other western aud southwestern points. The connection with the two Important Im-portant Michigan railways will be of very great value. William ( Van Horno was roelccttti presUIent, |