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Excerpt from The Problem in the Philippines: Speech of Hon. Henry M. Teller, of Colorado, in the Senate of the United States, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, February 11, 12, and 13, 1902 As I said two years ago, the thing for us to address ourselves to is what is to be the relation of those people to us, and not whether or not we have the power, if we see fit to exercise it, simply to hold their country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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The Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978 contains the world's most comprehensive collection of records and briefs brought before the nation's highest court by leading legal practitioners - many who later became judges and associates of the court. It includes transcripts, applications for review, motions, petitions, supplements and other official papers of the most-studied and talked-about cases, including many that resulted in landmark decisions. This collection serves the needs of students and researchers in American legal history, politics, society and government, as well as practicing attorneys. This book contains copies of all known US Supreme Court filings related to this case including any transcripts of record, briefs, petitions, motions, jurisdictional statements, and memorandum filed. This book does not contain the Court's opinion. The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping ensure edition identification: Eagle Ore Sampling Co v. Chisholm Petition / HENRY M TELLER / 1906 / 142 / 203 U.S. 587 / 27 S.Ct. 776 / 51 L.Ed. 329 / 10-31-1905
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Excerpt from Prosperity Under the Protective Policy Speech of Hon. Henry M. Teller of Colorado, on the President's Message, in the Senate of the United States, Mar, 15, 1888 At the commencement of this session the President of the United States sent a rather remarkable document to the Senate and House of Representatives; it was called his annual message, but it was devoted exclusively to the question (if import duties and a reduction of the surplus revenues of the country. There has been since that time considerable discussion in the Senate over this message, and, it seems to me, on the part of the friends of the Administration, a disposition to avoid the real issue presented by the President. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Henry Moore Teller was born into a large Methodist family on a farm in Granger, New York, in 1830. His parents were John and Charlotte (Moore) Teller. He was a descendant of Wilhelm Teller, who settled in Albany in 1639 and later moved to New York.
Henry attended rural schools in the vicinity of his home and the academies at Rushford and Alfred, N. Y.
He was admitted to the bar at Binghamton in 1858. Immediately thereafter he moved to Morrison, Ill. , where he practised law and engaged in politics. Three years later he went to Colorado and established a law office at Central City.
During the Civil War period he became one of the leading figures of Colorado. He was an unconditional Unionist, a major-general of the militia, and took an active part in raising troops and preparing Denver for the defense against threatened Indian attacks. After the war he devoted his energies to his legal practice and business enterprises, serving as attorney for numerous corporations and as president of the Colorado Central Railroad (1872 - 76), and building the territory's largest hotel. When Colorado was admitted into the Union in 1876, Teller was elected to the United States Senate as a Republican, serving until April 17, 1882, when he resigned to accept the position of secretary of the interior in the cabinet of President Arthur. He was again elected to the Senate in 1885 and served four terms, the first two as a Republican; the third as an Independent Silver Republican; and the fourth as a Democrat.
His most spectacular legislative activities were aimed at the remonetization of silver, and his fight against the repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act in 1893 probably marked their climax. His most notable speeches were those of September 1893 when he attempted to convict the bankers of bringing on the panic, and that of October 26 on the evils of the appreciation of money on the gold standard.
In the field of national politics his bolt from the Republican Convention of 1896 over the silver question was an event of outstanding significance. For a few weeks following, he was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president, and the agitation back of his campaign stimulated the drift in the convention to Bryan. The Republican bolters organized the Silver Republican party, and during the campaign this group supported the Democratic nominee, an alliance that was repeated in 1900.
After the latter campaign Teller announced himself a Democrat. Although traditionally an expansionist, at the outbreak of the war with Spain in 1898 he secured the adoption of the Fourth, or Teller Resolution, which pledged the United States to an independent Cuba. Teller voted against a similar pledge regarding the Philippines, but the Administration's policy of crushing the Aguinaldo government brought forth a devastating attack from him in February 1902. He manifested a like opposition to Theodore Roosevelt's policy toward Panama.
Teller's later years in the Senate were taken up with perfecting legislation regarding public lands, Indians, reclamation, and the monetary system. When he retired from the Senate in 1909, he retained his place on the National Monetary Commission, on which he served until it was disbanded in 1912.
Rather retiring by nature, he was usually willing to let his Colorado colleague assume the burden of debate and floor leadership. His fight over the silver question began as a defense of local interests, but as its relation to the larger struggle between the debtor and creditor classes became clearer to him, he tended more and more to align himself with the weaker groups in society. Certain reforms, unpopular at the time, such as woman's suffrage, always had his support, but after 1890 he was found with considerable regularity supporting discriminating income taxes, the government regulation of large-scale business, and laws for the protection of native interests against those of a distant government.
He died in Denver.
He served as a US senator between 1876–1882 and 1885–1909, also served as Secretary of the Interior between 1882 and 1885. Among his most prominent achievements was authoring the Teller Amendment which definitively stated that, following the Spanish–American War, the U. S. would not annex Cuba rather that the purpose of their involvement would be to help it gain independence from Spain.
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In personal appearance he was a moderately tall, slender man, almost always dressed in the conventional black frock coat of a senator of the eighties. His most striking feature was a shock of stiff dark hair which he unsuccessfully tried to comb straight back. His beard was full and his upper lip smooth shaven. Rather puritanical in his tastes and outlook, he was cosmopolitan in his friendships. He was not an orator but in the opinion of his contemporaries ranked among the more effective debaters in the Senate.
On June 7, 1862, he married Harriet M. Bruce of Cuba, N. Y. , by whom he had three children.
