River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-02-28
OH! WHAT FACTS !

SEPARATION from the report of the Silver
| Commission of which Senator Jones, of
Nevada,--a heavy silver producer
was Chairman, gives expression to
some remarkable .'facts.' The great
complaint running through the Doc
tors article, is that silver was demon
etiZed shy stealth The Doctor talks
glibly about the characterization corl-
spiracy of 1884; he states as a''fact'
that silver was taken away from the
people, against their interests, by
fraud and stealth, and that Congress
did not know what it was doing when
it passed the decentralization act; and
so on.
Now, this is all sheer nonsense; in
fact, it is all false. No matter what
the Doctor may read on p. 80 of the
report of the Silver Commission, the
record is against his statements; and
when the great journals of the East
and their few Western echoes are pro-
foundry and aggressively silent upon
this point, it is probably for the rea-
son that they consider the falsehood
exposed sufficiently so that 40 decent
opponent will reiterate it.
What is the record !!
In compliance with resolution of
the House of Representatives a bill
revising the laws relative to the minis,
assay offices, and coinage of the U. S.
was prepared during 1869-70, under
the supervision of Comptroller Knox.
and was transmitted to the Senate by
the then Secretary of the Treasury,
April 25, 1870; this bill was accom-
panied by the views and criticisms of
the officers of the Mint and the Treas
ury, and of other gentlemen CONVEX
SAINT with metallurgy and coinage.
The report of Mr.. Knox referred spe-
officially to the silver dollar and its dis
continuance as standard. The bill,
after discussion, passed the Senate
Jan. 1871, and the House on the
9th May, 1872. AS it had been
am ID by the House, it was return
| ed Senate and passed that body
| ia 1873. 1t was then sent to
| CO. renee committee, and became a
law Feb. II, 1873, nearly three years
after its introduction into the Senate.
/ -; ii ru1anpta6
up6h some fifteen different times, by
| hvedifferent committees of each house;
was printed, in It's various forms,
| thirteen times it was discussed, at
length, by such men as Hooper, Kel-
| lev, Garfield, Maynard, Potter, Hol-
man, Stoughton, i'll the House, and by
Sherman, Bayard, Sumner, Morrill,,
Casserly, and others in the Senate, the
speeches occupying IA columns of the
Congressional Globe and yet, we
are told that the bill passed "by
stealth and that Congress didn't
know what it was doing y
Nor is this all. In the annual re-
port of the Secretary of the Treasury,
for 1872, the special attention of Con-
gress is called to the decline in the
value of silver and the following Leg
islation is recommended
Therefore, in renewing the recon.
mendations heretofore made for the
passage of the Mint bill, suggest
such alterations as will prohibit the
coinage of silver for circulation in
this country, but that authority be
given for the coinage of a silver dol
lar that shall be as valuable as the
Mexican dollar, and to be furnished at
its actual cost.
Other facts given by the Doctor,
are on par with the above. But ]
| forbear. A. EARTHMAN.