The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-01-15
The Enquirer.

shylocks.
| Special Dispatch to the Enquirer.
New YORK, January l3.-Your COM
missioner was kindly received by Cen
eial Butler tins morning at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel, and the General finally
consented to give the Enquirer few
Butlerlan ideas. The General WAS in full
regalis, with
ATea Rose In His BuitOn-hOIe,
and patent leather pumps. He deliver
ed mis- remarks in deep voice and
| Websteran manner, and every word
seemed to weigh ton, while smile
PLAYED over his features.
General Butler-How do you view
the action of the banks in making ron-
bination to put the ban ks on q gold basis
in case Congress should remonetize sill
ver2"
General ButIer-"If | understand what
the banks are about, and l have no
knowledge except what see IN the
newspapers, they are making confeder.
alton, or combination. Unchsrltsble
persons might call it
"a Conspiracy
"to control the currency and the finances
OF the country, in opposition to law OF
| Congress which they think u likely TO
pass. That is, they threaten 70 put
themselves in u position to Eullify the
law of Congress making the silver dollar
legal tender Either 10 threaten this
or 70 do it seems 10 me TO be marvelously
unwise. The threat is improper as we'll,
and the doings of it will provoke con-
test in which
"Tne Banks will Get "A Lesson
(which will last them sn entire geners-
tion, Us the United States Bank got
lesson which lasted 1t until this genera
lion. Whatever individuals may do, in
attempting to put business on gold basis
in defiance OF law of Congress, need
not be taken now into account But when
the banks, the creatures of Congressional
legislatiou, set themselves up against
their creator
'.There il IA Very short Way of Deal
Ing with Them,
Tow the power that made them can
and ought TO unmske them. Congress
chartered, Congress can urchsrter; and
in my Judgment it would be a duty OF
Congress to take away the charter OF any
bank or banks that enter into any COM
bination to nullity the laws OF Congress.
II, as .is admitted, there is an absolute
majority in both Houses IN favor OF q
silver currency. and as it is also admitted
that the Constitution has placed within
the jurisdiction Of the two Houses
.Ihc Right 10 Coin Money
land regulate the value thereof, then
that majority, acting with It's constitu-
tionsl power, will not permit any set OF
men Tor their own love of gain to nullify
that or any other law of Congress. 1t
will be remem 5ered that in the contest
with the United States Bank the Presi-
dent ard the House of Representatives
were alone in accord, the Senate being
against them. Now, on the silver ques-
tion, the msjority OF both Houses are in
accord, and the President is where he
will find himself 10 be when the question
comes before MIN where that is DO
not know.
The Question of SuIlificaiiOn.
"But, upon the question whether law
imposed by Congress under the forms
prescribed by the Constitution can be
nulhied, there can be no doubt where
the President must be in furnishing null
| lification. Ii Is said that this cOmbina-
tion is going TO be wide spread one
| The extent oil the conspiracy is only
reason for the swliter punishment oil 1t,
aud the more energetic measures TO break
II down. For these reasons l can see
| nothing more unwise than the reported
action of the banks. they goon with 1t
"They VIII Provoke storm That
viii sweep Them out of Exist
ence,
"And trust never 10 hear any more of
! IT, wonder thst in sll the papers
| which hsve reported their action this
view has not been hintedi and suggest
! that the question for the next financial
debating club, called a Board OF Trade
! or n Convention of Bankers-it there Is
any body there to represent more than
one SIDE Il the questionable next ques.
| ton discussed snail be:
..what VIII Become OF the Banks
ali they attempt to set themselves up in
! form-as there is q very strong prevail
ing opinion that they have 10 fact
against the will and interests OF n major
ity of the people IN this cOuntry?' have
| broken my determination not TO speak
further on public questions outside OF
Congress to say SO much upon this ques-
tion, in the hope that may awaken
the thoughts of the managers oil banking
capital upon this subject, that they may
not jeopsrdize, either By foolish thrests
! or unwlse sction, the
.Intsre.is OF the widows aud Or
phans.
/ "COntdvi 10 their care, and then come
TO Congress 10 escape the punishment
! due 10 such sctlop, on the ground that
the interests OF the widows snd orphans
will be prejudiced by the severity OF the
punishment"
Four Per Cent. Bonds for Green
backs.
/ Springfield Republican.