The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-10-24

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Four months after the passage of this
act, the House had under consideration a
bill to amend the banking law, to guard it
with greater restrictions, and 10 provide
better security for the pubic. On that
occasion 1HADDEUs STEVENS said:
"t move TO strike out all that part OF the
grcenhocks. NV otinion T. that instead of the
Iorniciuus provisions uf this hill urtaliug the
circul ton ten per cent. ought 10 pioridc for
~ fncrtds ~ circulation. la INV Judgment this
whole htnking sy-tem was a mistake. | Thought
80 at be time it WIS adopted, aud | think so
ought 20 be issued by the GoveTnment Of the
presai c'c@dion is not adequate to tic business 1
~ tie tCUn.TU.'
On the final division Mr.. HAYES voted
for STEvENs's amendment, with minority
of twcnty-scven others. tSec Congressional
Gtobc, vol. CO. page 4,l5i.)
This is the record from the journals of
Congress. But Mr.. HAYES, when contest
ing the state Of Ohio with Judge Thur
MAN us rival candidate for Governor,
goried in his vote against the Resumption
act of 1865, to which we have already re-
ferrcd He proclaimed boldly in speech
at Sidney, ohio, Sept. 4. 1867 (see How
ARD Campaign Life of HAYES" page 206) /:
" The very measure which was Intended to
carry out this policy Of Secret nv MCCULLoCH
to enable him to take up the grcenbaCk cur
rency with interest-bearing bonds, was intro
duced IN Congress IN March, 1875. have here
the VOTES on tNat question. aud | say to YOU
that The Dcmocrittc ptriD IN both Houses-dH the
vJfcd for Sccre. ary MCCULLOCus Ilan, and
that Nr JuLiAN. Judge sCorIELD Mr.. LAW
HENCE-all OF whom see here-and miIStV. with
maJorit Of the Republican members. voted
against tne scheme. and II became a law because
he unanimous rofce Of Tie Democraic pd,fn
| supported l.. and because, when IL was submit
ted to ANDREW Johnson. Instead OF vetoing IL,
as he did all Mon party measures, he wrote h 3
name, on the l2fh Of April. at the bottom. 'Ap-
proved. ANDREW JOHNSON l think, then,
am authorised In saii til It these gentlemen are
mistaken when they accuse the Union party VI
being In favor Of taking up the greeenbaek cur
rency, and putting In the ~ &c Of II Interest,"
bearing. non-taxable bonds"
We have thus followed Mr.. HAYES
through all his votes of Importance while
n member of Congress. On every occasion
he went with the wild innationists. and
against resumption. lie has never re-
tracted these votes, and to-day he is play
irg the double part of being rag-money
man in the West, and a hard-money man
in the Fast. Mr.. SCHURz and Others who
support him for President, and advocate
him AS sound on the currency, cannot pos
sbly be ignorant of this record OF his uui-
form votes for soft money, and for land
grants and railroad oorpomtlons, nor OF
his votes for jobbery and fraudulent
claims Yet they have the effronterv to
try and put this impostor upon people
whose material interests have been sacri-
feed by sustaining similar frauds The
cheat will not succeed.