The daily gazette., 1877-12-10
BLAND,S SILVER BILL.

Many persons have not read the bill
which Mr.. Bland, of Missouri, offered in
the House last winter, and which then
passed almost unanimously. 1t was
again presented to the House on the 9th
of November, and passed by vote of
164 ayes to "a nays. Most of the men,
bers not voting we're absent and ''paired."
But there were five who were not paired
who would have voted for it and Mr..
Alexander II. Stephens, in voting 'no,"
said he had no objection to the general
object of the bill, but simply to some of
the details. Thus the vote would stand
ITO ayes to "a nays. This is the bill.
One might think it would pass unani-
mously;
The first section provides that there shall
be coined at the several mints of the Uni
ted States the silver dollar of the weight of
412X grains troy of standard silver, as pro-
vided in the act of January 1s 1887, on
which shall be the devi ces and superscrip-
tions provided by said act; which coins,
together with all silver dollars heretofore
coined by the United States of like weight
and fineness, shall be a legal tender at their
nominal value for all debts and dues, pub
lie and private, except where otherwise
provided by contract; and any owner of
silver bullion may deposit the same in any
United States coinage mint or assay office
TO be coined into such dollars for his bene-
lit upon the same terms and conditions as
gold bullion is deposited for coinage under
existing law.
Section provides for repeating all acts
and parts of acts inconsistent with the pro-
visions of the act.
If gold is not coined free, silver will
not be. Silver is money the world over.
Here are the names of those who voted
against the bill
NAYS-Messrs. Bacon, Ballou, Blair,
Brewer, Briggs, Chlttenden, Claflin, Cole,
Covert, Horace Davis, Denison, Eames
Field Frye, Gibson, Hardenberg, Hart
Hendee. Abram S. Hewitt, Joyce, Leonard,
Lindsay, McGowan, Morse Norcross, Ped
DIE, Powers, Reed, William W. Rice,
Schleicher, stephens, Swami, Ward, and
Wood-34.
One of the remarkable things is that
the interested parties who oppose the
passage of Bland's Silver bill, little
while ago were CHASING paper money
with the French assignats, now have the
etfrontery to say that greenback is worth
more than silver dollar-the repreSen-
tdttce dollar is worth more than the real
dollar. They say also that the silver
dollar is only worth 92 cents at the same
time the New York papers all quote gold
at only 1929. That means that the
brokers will give you 500 in gold for
S202.624 in silver or in greenbacks.
The editors of the metropolitan journ-
ais must prompt their reporters for their
Board of Brokers more carefully. For
either the editor or the reporters fail to
tell the truth. Silver money is not re-
fused at the banks or anywhere else that
we know Of except for duties.
If Bland's Bill now passes the Senate
we will have more money and better
money and farmers and merchants ant
mechanics will all have better times
more to do ; better times and better pay
And specie resumption will take plac,
as soon as the mints get fully in opera
tion. 1t is the order of the constitution
that Congress shall coin money. AM
silver and gold are money as soon as the
are coined. The constitution says the
only are legal tenders and it also say
no State shall coin money. Thus
shows that Congress is bound to furnis
the people with coined money.