The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-02-21
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THE SILVER MEN.
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WASHINGTON. February IS. - After the
adjournment OF the House to-day, out
sixty members in favor of the remoneiiza-
ton OF silver, convened in the room OF the
commItter on Judiciary. They were called
10 order by Asr. Buckner, who announced
that lhe executive committee had agreed to
call the association the Silver Union.
Representative LGen offered the follow
ing:
Resided, That tomorrow, immediately
after the morning hour, motion be
mSde by Mr. Buckuer to proceed with the
business on the Speakers table. and on
reaching the bill 20 rem m,netize silver the
previous question shall be called on concur
ring IN the Senate smerdmont. and that
there De no debate.
THE DI: ELIMINATION AGAC;sF SILv-R.
Mr.. Bright thought there were serious
objections TO the ball as it was returned
from the Senate. One was aS 10 the limita-
ton Of the coinage and another striking out
the feature of tree coinage from the House
bill. lie wanted 10 make some protest
against II, Tor tins was discrimination in
favor OF the holders OF gold who were priv
ileged 10 have their gold bulIonco free
oi charge and citizens aud foreigners could
be benetiued alik- in this respect. No dis
elimination against silver should he
maIe, as silver 10 be coined under the bill
was To be ful! legai-tend in payment Of
all debts. What reason was there for the
dl>cruinatiOn against it? In the matter
OF coinage he stated several other objections
against the bill.
MIR. WRIGHT OFFERED
Z resolution as follows:
Eesaired, That the bill should be reported
as it came from the Senate
He said they had been here three months
and 1t was evident they had made decided
movement 10 carry a silver bill, and when
passed he thought as matter Of course,
/ the President would veto it. lie had no
doubt OF that, but the House could pass the
bail over the veto by majority of two
thirds, hy accepting the Senate bill. This
made
| THE MEASURE CERTAIN AND SURE
| Free coinage was a small matter, as the bill
secures silver currency. 1t would have
n good effect ON the country if the bill
should pass as ii came from the Senate.
| Ii would be a great victory.
Mr. Ewing said the people of the country
were IN intense business distress and look
ing fOr relief by the remOnetizati of sir
Yer. Under this bill they would receive
none, and he ventured the
assertion that not 100000 would
be put into circulation by it. The
Secretary OF the Treasury hai the power to
sell bonds to buy bullion in order to re-
sume specie payments. This bill remone-
tiZes silver, and every dollar Of the - 600
900, authorized to be coined per month will
be bought by Secretary Sherman for the
purpose Of boarding 1t Tor the prosecution Of
HIS RESUMPTION SCHEME,
and when this bill was passed the advocates
| OF resumption would say, " Iou strength
ened our cause by giving S24 100000 Of
coin dollars year Nr. Haskell said he
was no admirer OF Secretary sherman and
his financial policy, but Tor two years past
the Secretary and the director of the mint
have said that il the people want the dollar
"i ll2! grains they should have as much ~
they wanted so lar rs ese
gentlemen could control they would
pat II uUUuJJ IA circulation every month.
Mr. Ewing said he lid not want a cheap
send-oH ou the contrary this bill gave to
the Secretary Of the Treasury tie power to
coin either 5000 900 or 81 UOOCC0 of sill
yer dollars per month but with such res
friction ii was adhcTing, in eject, to
THE GOLD Standard.
He world not vote for it. Mr.. Butler
said that although re did not like this bill
he would take it if he could obtain
giants strength, and should exercise 1t.
H.. L 10. hot l.
thought il would be unwise to pass the bill
without aflording some time for d,bste.
This would strengthen the measure. lie
said his proposition was this: Let this bill
be treated as all public measures ought to
be, with due respect 10 the nation.
DO not remonetize silver with haste or by
trick. Let the hill be referred to the com
mittee on banking and currency, and hey
will come % a conclusion a. to what should
be done If th-y conclude that the bill
should be passed in its pr,=sa, shape, the
friends OF -mouetization could vote for it
in a body. Ii tbey should conclude that it
ouz zhl to he amended, they could vote Tor
the amendment accordingly Mr.. Southard
moved that the bill be referred to the COM
mittee ON banking and currency
MR.. PHILLIPS REMARKS.
Mr.. Phillips called attention to the
fact that the bill remhnctized silver and de-
clared it to be unlimited legal tender, and
he thought the true course To pursue was to
take the two points gained. While he was
not in favor Of the amendments OF the
Senate, he would take them if he could OBJ
tain nothing better. He said there were
bills pending in the committee on banking
and currency to further carry out the pro-
visions Of this bill
THE QUESTION WAS DIsPOsED OF
by agreeing To the motion that the bill
should be referred 10 morrow to the COM
miste on coming and currency. There
were only three or four voices against the
motion. This superseded other PROPOSE
tions which were not voted on, and the
conference then adjourned.