The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-09-11

struck silver down and destroyed
| the double standard Of our fathers
The Record therefore shows that q
republican had charge Of the bill,
and, by motion 10 suspend the
rules, cut of debate and forced 1t TO
a vote. But the Record shows more,
! II shows that this giant swindle had
been submitted to the republican
Secretary Of the Treasury, the re.
publican director and controller Of
| finances, and was by him approved,
The Record on this point is as fol-
lows:
Mr.. MERRIAM. Has this bill been
submitted to the Secretary of the
Treasury; and, if SO, does it meet his
Mr.. HOOPER, of Massachusetts,. II
has been submitted to him and he
not only approves it but strongly
urges its passage.
Thus, Mr.. Speaker, this monstros.
ity, this unmitigated villainy which
struck down silver when it was high.
or in the market than gold, simply
to make ''money scarce" and increase
the burdens Of the country, wasmani.
pulated and carried through by a re-
publican member of the House under
! the full sanction and support Of the
re publican Secretary of the Treasury,
Passed as the bill was, under suspen.
sion of the rules, without debate, and
not even read, there is no evidence
on earth that any living man knew
| it demonetized silver except the
Secretary and member l have nam
ed.
We now come to that
PRINCE OF DEsTnoYERs
tho resumption act of 1878. Like
other similar acts it was passed with.
out debate. Discussion was cut off.
The vote in the Senate stood repub-
licans-"ayn32 tho" only II The
Democrats voted solid "no." In the
House the republicans voted only "a
no." and "ay" 1876, making more
than five 10 one in favor Of this great
crime against the prosperity and
happiness of the country. The DEM
ocrats voted solid "a to defeat it. In
the Senate even Carl Schurz com
planned that he had "found the bill
on his table to-day for the first time,
and had not had time to read it or
inform himself intelligently Of its
contents" In answer to this oppor-
tunity to understand this important
measure John Sherman, the present
republican Secretary ofthe Treasury,
rose in his place in the Senate and
boldly declared that he would "press
the bill to its passage from that hour
forward" Evidences that he kept
that promise faithfully and too well
are found in the blasted homes and
fortunes and hungry women and
children from the Atlantic to the Pa
cifc Ocean.
These, Mr. Speaker, are the lead
ing financial issues upon which the
the two great parties have divided.
They mark the line between the mon
ey sharks on the one side and the
people on the other. The republican
party had the President and both
branches Of Congress during all that
time. AT the yery threshold of the
system Mr.. Stevens declared to his
republican associates on the floor oil
the House:
We are introducing new practices
all around. We are making one cur.
rcncy for the people and another for
other purposes.
And, sir, that policy was pursued
from 1862 to 1875. The republican
party pursued it. With a determin.
ed purpose, with unrelenting yigor,
with a singleness Of object that no
human appeal could divert and no
human misery deter, the republican
party went lnadly on in this desper-
ate financial career and never did it
call a halt until
CONFRONTED BY 4 DEMOCRATIC MAJOR.
ITY
| in the House of Representatives Of
the Forty-fourth Congress.