Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-11-19
=; he Attack On the Silver Dollar.

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CE CURRENCY SAYS.
Judge Buchner, chairman Of the House com
mittee on banking and currency. told a STAR
reporter this morning that no attack on the
silver dollar at the next session would be su,-
teSsful il his committee.
Sta.:--Would any measure to limit the coin
age OF silver pass?
Btichs!s r:-Never; TO. never
Stct:-Nouid proposition to increase tie
weight OF tie dollar be approved
hursEer:-No. sir. We will fight for the silver
collar and will not entertain favorably any
mea: ure oStile to il.
Sto,:-Do you think then that free coinage
will be secured by the silver advocates
BacknaT:-IeS, We viii very likely secure free
coinage at the coming session.
THE NATIONAL BANKS INVITING WAR TO END
IN THEIR DEFEAT.
SIar:-N nat 90 you think OF the action OF the
banks IN demonetiZinE- silver.
HncEnef:-Ihey are simply inviting war
against themselves and a defeat. They cannot
maintain the stand they have taken as regards
tie silver dollar.
TGr:-Will there he war on the banks at the
next session?
BurAmtr:-They have invited war and will no
doubt be hit at pretty hard. do not, however.
expect that much will be accomplished against
them. We will get through the House the bill
TO retire their circulation and substitute green
backs therefor, but it viii not pass the Senate
The next congress Will. however, have the na-
tional banks in their power, and they may nave
70 90.
TEE BI-NETAILIC STANDARD nISAPFRoTEp.
Sdr:-What do yOU think OF The success Of
tie Gi-Getallic standard?
Et;ckncr:-In view OF the fact that most for
e1gn countries have taken stand against a
standard OF both silver and gold and, in c0n,id-
Grafton Of the unsettled ratio between the two.
II may he doubtful whether the dOu6.e standard
VIII he juGicfOus. In case Il Single standard
must be adopted. am in favor. decidedly in
IaNof. ot single standard OF silver IN prefer
eGce 10 gold one.
QUEER MIXTTBE or TRUTH AND FtISEHooD
Commander Evans who has been directed b.
Secretary Thompson TO secure from Captain
skare, Of Tie Folto. at Baltimore. all he knows
concerning Buder. left last evening on his mis-
SION. Il is expected that lie will be heard from
Io-hcrTGW Acting assistant Secretary Of the
Navy. Hogg. has gore TO PhiIade}nhia 10 learn
what lie can from .'Wm. Budef. a2s y street.
Philadelphia. wLO drew from the depart men.
The amount SO. which fell 10 the heirs OF each
q the crew of tie Huron who were lost in the
WIecE. This is all that is Lew at tie depart
nitht Today concerning BIder.
TWO THEORIES
Naval officers with whom a reporter OF THE
STAR conversed. have TWO theories concerning
Buder. Some officers think that lie was drafted
flGm the colorado to the Huron: but deserted
bef0To traJ vessel sailed, and That he is telling
tie story CT his being rescued from the iii;:On
ii older to avoid arrest and punishment as Il
deselter Others hold that he has c0ncOctej
his story in order 10 Gain the back pay which
falls TO Mrs. BuGeT if he was not lost in the
wreck. In ccncocting this story they say he is
assisted by an unusual faculty for .'yarning"
IhiS 1acuify cones TO all Seame1 after long ser
vice: but has been remarkably developed in 50
young subject as EuQer.
II FAVOR OF BUDER
2lc tie facts that Win. Bonner testified yaSIer-
Gay that he tlUder) was drafted to the Huron
from the Colorado: that lie worked with Buder
on the colorado. and !new the man with whom
ne worked and the Buder whose case was I'M
GeIgOnG Investigation TO be one and the same
AGAINST BUpER
IS LIE statement OF Tie captain and crew OF the
Fo'Ie Nhlch lie says picked him up at sea.
taPf Ska1e say he. was IN the Mediterranean
at The IlEe OF Inc disaster. and could not posi-
bly, have picked him up. Blider also has against
him numerous details Of the wreck. as told by
him contrary 10 tie statements OF the slryi rors:
and there alC many other points which fail TO
ioin together in his story. The theory CT hi
dCscrton before lie Huron sailed seems tob
most generally accepted.
LATER-BUDER AN INPoSToa
Mr. Hogg teIegTa?Eed the Secretary this af-
tcino0n that lie had seen the father OF the rea'
Nm. Eu(ef. who vas lost on the Huron, and bj-
con paItsOn Cf his letters to his sisters from the
Colofado 2nCl Huron aud ty Inquiries. lie had
a cefTatEed beyond a doubt that the man here
Claiming 10 be WIN. Euder is an imp0st0r.
BUDER TURNS Up MISSING.
Commodore Febeiger this afternoon informed
Secretary Thompson that the man VIM. Buder
claiming te be Huron survivor. left the Pas
sale, at the navy yard last evening. about six
were getting their hammocks. He got off from
the yard and has not since been heard from.
WHAT CAPT. sKARE SAYS ABOUT BUDER
In his examination by Secretary Thompson
yesterday, Buder, who claims to be a survivor
Of the Huron disaster, said that Capt. s. Skare.
OF the Forto, the vessel which according to
Buder'S statement picked him up, "could not
write any English The FortO is row in Balti-
more The Baltimore Sun this morning says
that Capt. SkaTe, like nearly all Norwegian cap
ta1ns, is an educated man and speaks English
fuently and correctly. Capt. Skare says the
man he shipped at Antwerp and who answers
TO Buder's description was no account asa hand.
TO the championship. The captains eXplana-
ton was corroborated by half a dozen of his
crew, ana one OF the sailors said he boarded last
himself Billie, and claimed to be a deserter from
an American war ship.
BUDER BELIEVED TO BE DEsERTER
ON the PaSSalc the officers and Seamen believe
the man to be Buder, and that he deserted from
the Huron before that vessel left Norfolk on her
fatal royage. AS his name remained on the
crew list he was set down among the lost, and
me grave OF one OF the unfortunate men, then
believed to contain the body OF Buder, is marked
with The name OF the man.
AN IMPROBABLE STORY
representative Of the Baltimore Gazette YES
terday questioned seaman named Edward
lralnoT, belonging TO the L. S. sloOp-of-war
saratoga, relative TO the loss of the Huron and
the story OF VIM. Buder, who claims to be
survivor from the lost vessel. TrainOr. who is
an intelligent, gray-haired old tar, was On the
Huron at the time she was lost. He states that
he remembers German seaman named Buder
on the Huron, but is positive that he was lost.
TralnOr further states that it was absolutely
impossible for a spar or a man to float to sea at
the time, as it was flood tide and the wind was
blowing heavily on shore. All the officers OF
the Saratoga state the story OF the man who
claims to be Buder is highly improbable, as it is
ridiculous to suppose that a spar with a man
clingiDg to it could be swept off to sea in the
face OF the terrific hurricane blowing on shore
at tie time of the disaster.
District Indebtedness.
TREASURER GILFILLAN'S SINKING FIND PLAN
Treasurer Gllfllan, in the exercise of his