MAJOR GENERAL HENRY M. TELLER - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 03/03/1896 - HFSID 321280
Price: $320.00
HENRY M. TELLER
As Senator, the future Secretary of the Interior writes a letter of
introduction to Stilson Hutchins, founder of the Washington Post, on
behalf of an inventor.
Typed letter signed: "Henry Teller" in black ink. 1 page, 8x7½.
Written on U.S. Senate letterhead. March 3, 1896. Washington, D.C. In
full: "Dear Sir: This letter will be handed to you by Gen. H.P. Hurst,
who wishes to talk with you in regard to an invention of his, in which, I
understand, you have taken some interest. I can commend the General to you as a
gentleman on whose statements you can rely in every particular. I have known him
for nineteen years. Yours very truly". Henry M. Teller (1830-1914)
was a United States Senator from Colorado (1876-1882, 1885-1909) and one
of the first Senators to represent that state. He was also Secretary of the
Interior (1882-1885) under President Chester A. Arthur. Teller was a
leader of the Silver Republicans, which supported the free coinage of
silver and bimetallism and which split in the 1890s from the main
Republican Party, which supported the gold standard. His most important
legislative act was probably his amendment to the United States' declaration
of war against Spain in the Spanish-American War in 1898. Teller sponsored
this amendment to prevent the United States from annexing Cuba, thought at the
time to be a major reason for the Spanish-American War. His amendment was
largely overridden in 1901 by yet another amendment - this one by Senator
Orville H. Platt - which gave the United States broad powers over Cuba, as well
as economic and military territories on the island like Guantanamo Bay Naval
Base. Normal mailing folds. Toned. Typed inked slightly smeared. Pencil notes in
upper right margin in unknown hand. Corners rounded. Otherwise, fine
condition.
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