The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-01-28
THE SILVER BILL.

On Saturday morning we printed in
the ROOSTER the full text OF the reso-
luton OF Senator MATHEWS declaring
that the bonds Of the United States are
payable. principal and interest, in silver
coin, together with the vote by which it
passed the Senate. Sixty five Senators
voted upon the question, 4S in favor and
% against the passage Of the resolu-
ton. That body is composed of 76
members, and in full Senate, it would
require 62 members voting In the affirm
alive 10 pass bill over the Presidential
veto-9 moro than the MATTHEWS reso.
luton received. Messrs. CoCKRRLL,
GARLAND, HARRIS and PATTERSON, a.
sll 10 favor Of the bill, were paired
Messrs, PADDOCK and WINDOW. OF those
who voted against this resolution, have
declared themselves in favor of the silver
bill-thst n axes of the 9 required. or
the impaired sbsentees, HILL, SHARON
and INGALLS, are believed to be for the
bull, and KELLOGG is claimed by both
sides. This would seem to make the
passage of the bill over veto pretty
certain, but it is Incredible that, in the
face of the fact that the bill passed the
House by more than q three-fosrths vote
and is pretty sure to pass the Senate by
two-thirds, that the President will inter.
pose veto.
One absentee reduces the number yot-
ing to rs. two-thirds Of which is but 90.
With IS voting it would require 26 to
defeat the bill; yet 20 is the largest
number that the opponents OF
honest money are able to count as being
certain against this wise and just meas
ure-as follows:
Messrs. Anthony, Bsrnum, Bsyard,
Blaine, Burnside, Butler, Christispcy,
Conkllng, Dawes, Eaton, Edmunds,
Hamlin, Hosr, Herman, Lamar. McPher-
SOD, Mitchell, Morrill,, Randolph, Rol-
lins, Sargent Wsdleigh, Whyte-2S.
Altogether, it looks as il We are to have
the silver bill just as it passed the House
last November. The New England
States, New lork and New Jersey-but
barely eight out of thirsy-eight States of
the Union-voted solid in the Senate
against the resolution. Delaware, Mary
land, Mississippi, Oregon. California,
South Carolina and Georgia divided, all
the bslsucs are solid foc silver and good
faith toward the debtor as we'll IS credi-
tor.
What is known as the BLAND bill for
the recoinage of silver. passed the House
on the 9th day of November last by Q
vote OF l6S against "a. 1t would require
81 votes in . full House TO defeat the
passage of bill over Presidential veto,
and it is not at sll probable that any
thing like that number can be mus
tered.
This bill provides that there shall be
coined st the several mints of the United
States silver dollars of 4l23 grains Troy
weight of standard silver, IS pro-
yided In the act of 1887, which,
together with all the silver dollars here
tofors coined by the United States, of
like weight and 6neness, shall be legal
tender ct their nominal value, for sll
debts and dues, public and private. e1-
cept when otherwise provided by con-
tract; and that any owner Of silver bul.
lion may deposit the same st any United
States mint 10 be coined into dollars
for his benefit upon the same terms and
conditions % gold ID coined. In short,
tAis bill restores silver to the position it
occupied q Q circulation medium in this
country for nearly century.