Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-12-26
silver would have been greatly in


creased.
While | am on the floor want TO
say one thing, and | say it with all
respect to the Senator from New York.
that il is the first time that / ever
heard a Democrat on this floor. or on
the floor of the other House rise and
defend all the acts that have been done
by the Republioan majority relative IN
coinage and relative to money. and
clamor that the faith of the nation was
involved in the maintenance Of every
act they have done. There have been
many acts done that deny that the
people of the country are Obliged 10
maintain longer than lin thew have the
power 10 reverse them and many Of
those acts that have been done have
been done against the protest Of the
whole Democratic party.
Mr.. Allison. win the Senator weld
to me for momentY
Mr.. Beck. Yes, sir.
Mr.. Allison. Do | understand the
Senator to intimate that the Democrat
ic party opposed, as q political organi.
zation, the demonetization of silver in
1873? Was that party question
Mr.. Beck. | have no doubt they
did, so far as they understood it.
Mr.. Allison. | have not the slight
est knowledge that the Democrats op-
posed it.
Mr.. Beck. When the silver bill is
taken up for discussion | hope TO be
heard upon this question as to how il
was demonetized; but say this now
In answer to the question-and the
records of Congress show-that when
the bill demonetizing silver was pend
ing in the House of Representatives,
on the 28th of May, 1872, and the gen.
tleman who then had charge Of it
brought il up within two DAYS of the
final adjournment as q substitute for o
previous bill which had been partly
but never fully read, that bill having
been up on the 9th day of April, 1879,
when the question was put TO him by
divers gentlemen, land the record will
bear me out,) he said that it made no
change in the coinage, and relying on his
statement that bill was never read, but
was passed in the House OF Represent.
atiyes without any man not priyatelv
advised knowing what il contained
Mr. Allison Yes. bnt Mr. pres;.
dent that bilI was debated in This bodv
and there was mo nartisan division
with reference 10 that bill in This bodv
Mr. Beck let me saw in answer
IN that that the hin was debated NJ
The third session of the Fortv.second
Congress- in this body brought nm bv
the oresent Secretarv Of the Treasury
The debate will he iound at the close
Of The frst mart and the beginning Of
the second mart of the Conversational
Globe for the third session Of the For.
tv.seoond Congress and the whole de.
hate was unon the co,nago CHARGE
Not one word was said in that debate
as 10 the decentralization of silver
Senators will | hone read il for them.
selves and tbey will find the fact to
be as state IT, Mr.. Casserly, of Cal.
ifornia insisted that we were TO have
an immense silver coinage: he stated
what Nevada was then producing
ego 900, 900 annually, and tho present
Secretary of the Treasury insisted on
having dIn God we trust inserted on
the face Of the coins instead of the ca
gle, which was there before and which
he said foreigners did not understand.
He thought such dollar would float
as far as the silver coin of the foreign
nations known Us the Latin union
would that was, all over the world.
Was there word said as to demone.
tizing silver in that debate? Not one,
unless / have overlooked il, and have
read it with some care.
Mr.. Allison. That is not the point
| make. That bill was pending in the
Senate for a considerable time. II
was printed in the Senate. If it
had been objected to by Demo
cratic Senators, a full and com.
plete opportunity was given TO Demo-
cratic Senators to object TO it. There
fore IL was passed without partisan d.
vision and without partisan debate.
Mr.. Beck say that debate shows
that no man claimed that that bill
sought the demonstration OF silver,
and the record VIII show the lact that
the present secretary OF the treasury
ayowed that the ooIect was 10 make a
silver dollar that would noat, 10 use
his own expression, all over inc worlo,
coextensive with the silver dollar oil
France, OF Switzerland, ana OF tne ma
tons composing the Latin Unlon'
Therefore l insist that II was not de.
monetized by the intciiigent action OF
the representatives OF the people
Mr. Herman. twas distinctly chnrg-
ed by the Senator that l acted IN some
way improperly
Mr. Beck On, no
Mr.. Herman In referring TO the de-
monetlzation oil silver: NOW aliow
me to say a word IN justice. was
not discussing the silver coinage ques-
ton. was discussing a resolution
which declares that II IS rlght 70 pay
these bonds IN the dollar OF iizt grains
oil silver, ana l calleu attention 10 all
OF them that had ever peeh coined
one other thing' ! nave hot said
one word which could make my irienu
think one way or the other as 10
whether approve these laws or not
| argued on the acts OIL our oovern-
ment the authorized uoyernmen. .a
whether u was oonc py oo'n pars'es
or by eithcrparty makes no uinerencc
TO the outsider l saio ,ne uoyern, .,l.
ment had made certhin laws anu tne