The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-02-07
FORTY-FTFTH CONGRESS.
The SENATE FOR sILvER-48 TO %
Matthews's Resolution Passed the Senate-De-
clarlng the Principal and Interest Of the Bonds
Payable In Silver.
FIRST SESSION.

Early IN december iaBV, oeuaJor MdV'
thews of this State introduced into the
United States Senate a Preamble and
Resolution reading as follows;
WHEREAS, by the act entitled "An act toslrength.
en- the public credit approved March Is, 1869, II
was provided and declared that the faith OF the
United states was thereby soemnly pledged TO
the payment In co or lis equivalent OF all inter-
est bearing obligations Of the United States except
in cases, where the law authorizing the issue of
such obligations had expressly provided that the
same might be paid in lawful money or other cur
Tency than gold or silver and
WHEREAS, all the bonds Of the United States au'
thOTizgd 10 he issued by the act entitled An act
to authorize the refunding OF the national debt"
approved July H. 1870, by the terms OF said act
were declared to be redeemable in coin OF the
then present standard value, bearing interest pay.
able semi annually In such coin and
WHEREAS, all bonds OF the United States au-
thorzed to be issued under the act entitled IAN
act to provide for the resumption OF specie pay
ments" approved January ii, 1875, are required
TO be Of the description OF bonds of the United
States described in the said act Of Congress APP
proved July ID, 1870, entitled IAN act to authorize
the refunding of the national debit and
WHEREAS, at the date of the passage of said act
Of Congress last aforesaid, towit: the l4th day OF
July, 1870 the coin Of the United States Of standard
value OF that date included silver dollars of the
weight of 4l2H grains each declared by the act
Elementary to the act entitled An act establishing
a mint and regulating the coins of the United
States,'" TO be legal tender of payment accord.
ing to their nominal value for any sums whatever.
Therefore,
Be Il resolved by the Senate, (tRe House Of Repre-
stntaueS cOncurriRg hereiaO That all the bonds of
the United States issued or authorized TO be issued
under the said acts Of the Congress hereinbetore
recited are payable principal and interest, at the
option OF the Government Of the United States, in
eilynr dnllaTg N pOinapn the limited States
containing 4l2% grains each OF standard silver
and that 10 restore TO lis coinage such silver coins as
legal tender in payment Of said bonds principal and
Interest is not ~ UtO!aton 9f the Pubtc !ah, nor IN
derOgation Of herights Of The pu6Hc creditor.
The final vote in the Senate resulted as
follows
Yeas-Allison, Armstrong, Bailey, Beck
Booth, Bruce, Cameron (Pa.), Cameron
wis, Chafee, Coke, Conover, Davis
(Ill.), Davis wv. Va), Dennis, Dorsey,
Eustis, Ferry, Gordon, Grover, Hereford,
Howe Johnston, Jones (Fla), Jones
| New Kirkwood, MCCreery, Mcdonald,
Mcmillan, Matthews, Maxey, Merrimon,
Morgan, 0glesby, Plumb, Ransom, sauls'
bury, Saunders, Spencer, Teller, Thurman
Voorhees,, Wallace, Withers-43.
Nays-.Anthony, Barnum, Bayard,
Blaine, Burnside, ChlistianCy, Conkling,
Dawes, Eaton, Edmunds, Hamlin, Ker-
nan, Lamar, Mcpherson, Mitchell, Nor
rill, Paddock, Randolph, Rollins, Sargent
Wadleigh Windom-22.
Paired-Cockrell, Garland, Harris, Pat
terson all for, with respectively Whyte,
Hill, Hoar, Butler, all against the Mat
thews resolution and the Silver Bill, Abb
sent unpaired-Ingalls, Kellogg, Sharon;
of these last three Ingalls, was announced
by his colleague unavoidably absent and
for the resolution. Sharon is undoubt-
edly for silver, Kellogg is claimed by
the silver men. Both are more likely to
be absent than present. Paddock and
Window, both against the Matthews
resolution, both announced that their
votes did not indicate how they would
vote on the Silver Bill, and both are
known to favor it. From these data the
strength of the Silver Bill in the Senate
can be calculated exactly. Its pure
strength is forty.three votes cast for the
Matthews resolution, plus four votes pair
ed, plus one unavoidably absent, making
a total of As votes. To these WINDOWS
vote can be almost assuredly added, and
Paddock's also, making fifty. Finally,
Kellogg and Sharon will vote for silver
if they vote at all. The sure votes against
silver are twenty of the twenty-five votes
cast against the Matthews resolution,
Paddock and Window being surer for the
other side, plus four votes paired, making
a total of twenty.four. The silver men
as shown, have sure forty eight votes
Wherefore, it may be sat down as Ger.
tainty that the bondholders have at best
only bare one-third of the Senate, and
at the most, the silver men have just the
requisite two-thirds to pass the Silver
Bill over the Presidents veto, if such aC,
ton should be necessary.
Amore important declaration than this
has not been adopted by the Senate since
the war. 1t tells the whole world that
our government debt was contracted in
silver as well as gold.
SILVER IN THE HoUsE-VoTE lS9 TO 70.
Matthews's concurrent resolution hay.
ing passed the Senate on Friday, 25th
ult., came up in the House last Monday
week, on motion OF Gen. Ewing. The
following is the vote:
Yeas-Aiken, Aldrich, Atkins, Baker
Und.), Banning, Bayne, Bell, BiCknell
Black burn, Bount, Bouck, Boyd, Bragg
Brentano, Brewer, Bridges, Bright, Brag.
don, Browne, Buckner, Burchard, Bur.
dick, Butler, Capel, Cain, Caldwell Ky,
Caldwell Tenn Calkins, Gambler, Can.
non, Carlisle, Caswell, Chalmers, Clarke,
(Ky), Clark (Mo.), Clark Ia.), Clymer,
Cobb, Collins, Conger, Cox (0hio) Cox
IN. ~, Cravens, Crittenden, Culberson,
Cummings, Cutler, Davidson, DaYis IN.
C), Deering, Dibrell, Dickey, Dunnell,
Durham, Elan, Ellis, Errett, EvansQ INDY
Evans Is. C), Ewing, FELTON,, Finley,
Forney, Fort, Foster, Franklin, Fuller,
Gardner, Garth, GAM, Geddings, Glover,
Good. Gunter, Hanna, Harris (Ga. J. Har-
rison, Hartridge, Hartzell, Haskell, Hatch.
er, Hayes, Hazleton, Henderson, Henkle
Henry, Hewitt (Ala.), Herbert, Hooker,
House, Hubbell. Hunton, Humphrey, It.
tner, Jones (Ala.), Jones (Ohio), Keifer,
Keightley, Kelley, Kenna, Killinger,
Kimmell, Knapp. Knott, Lathrop, Ligon,
IIuttrell, Lynde, Mackey Manning, Marsh
Martin, Mayham, Mckenzie, Mckinley,
Mcmahon, Metcalf Mills, Money, Nor.
gan, MORRISON, Muldrow, Neal, Oliver,
Pacheco, Page, Patterson IN, Y J, Patter-
son (Col), Phelps, Phillips, Pollard,
Pound, Price, Pridemore, Randolph, ,Res,
Reagan, Reilley, Rice (Ohio), Riddle,
Robbins, Roberts, Robinson LA. Robin
son (Ind. }, Ryan, Sampson, Sapp, Sayler,
Scales, Sexton, Shellenbarger, Shelley,
Slemons, Smslls, Smith (Ga.), Sparks,
Springer, Steele, Stephens, Stone (Mich,
Stone Ia }, Strait, Upton, Townsend (0),
Thompson, Thornburqh, Throckmorton,
Townsend Qll), Tucker, Turner, Turney
Vance, Van Voorhees,, Waddell, Walsh,
White (Pa,), White Qnd.), Whitthorne,
Williams (Wisl, Williams (Ala.) Willis
(Ky.). Willitss Wilson, Wren, Wright,
Yeates, Young-lS9.
'Nays-Bacoh, Bagley, Baker IN. Y,
Ballou, Banks, Beebe, Bisbee, Blair,