The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-10-05
COUNTY TICKET.
clerk orCfreuIt Court,
sAM,L B. MccotL0CH.
r.enrrnsorma.ion for Greenb"ek Men

,.Ofni Information for Greenbaek men.
In looking over the records on the
f~n,oc;al question in Congress yesterday
600 zane upon the following piece OF in
~;,,na,iou. which while 1t may be news to
some Of nj Democratic friends Is OF 9
,ban,cter that they should understand ID
The act Of April 12, 1895, first session,
~Tbir,y.ninth Congress, providing for a
attraction Of the volume otgreenbacks,
NAV f,irly be claimed by the Democrats as
heir own measure. Under that act, it
viii ~. remembered, the Secretary ofthe
To,..nry actually retired S4+,OOO,oO Cd
L.,al tenders, reducing the volume OF
.rrapiacks in circulation to S356,OoO,Oo,
although subsequently, afterth panic Of
lcp,r,nbcr, 1873, the Secretary re-issued
more than half Of what he had previously
withdrawn. This contraction act passed
she House March %, 1886, by q vote OF 50
y,s,. 70 q NAYS. There were s. Republic
.,n. voting yea while 50 Republicans
voted nay. There weress Democrats who
ya,-l yea and only one Democrat who
voted nay. The Democrats had the bal
anee OF power, and under tho lead OF
samuel J. Randall (for whom Col. Wilson
afterwards voted for Speaker James
Brooks, Michael c. Kerr, Samuel $ Mar
shall and Chas- A. Eldridge, threw their
united strength for the bill, while, on the
other hand, n host Of Republicans fought
the bill. sbo.a
And as il was in the House, so it was in
the Senate. There the bill was passed
Anil 9. 1866, bya vote of - yeas to .
nays. The : seven nays were all Republic
cans. andaIt the Democrats whovotedy voted
FOR the bill. Thus it appears that onythe
,assage in both Houses OF the celebrated
ill contracting the currency, the aggre;
gate Democratic vote against contraction
was 4 solitary one. Nn 20
Col. Ben. Wilson vas not in Congressat
that time. Ii he had been, no doubt he
would have voted for. contraction, as in
1872. and afterwards in 1876, he zane to
Wheeling and preached the doctrine}ot
~rc.pmD,iop Of specie payments to our
people. rgag sEo. !,
But this case is not the end Of the chap
ter. Here is a further extract from the
records that We desire to commend to the
,,,or,;or NJ Tho Greenback men OF the
" .satw h".,;no wnrrSfer 70 the Act Of
III ISSs nossod during the sec.
aaJ S"S:i,n - IN .0tb CONGRESS, which
Jaw $50 - w.. :. ]toiIows.
.EMTh.t tom and after the
massace d this Act the authority Of the
Secretary Of the Treasury TO make any re
dlction otthe currency by retlTI1s or can
Sel!ns misea n S@e7O's a"A' AAU %
rrj Vs. nosso1 n. Ho,sa December
=,h Is- h,i Io7 ross ~ 20 n.vs. and Of
,ka To- ra,s onIy o. nor, Democrats and
Wv, p-saDS;;..as 49, T1j-
H.. -, N n, 1rroi an ~ his
pu' ,,'ss : ~. a'', g ,ho Tu;.eJ States
:n on' n,S onJ '+ thon nsssod Ewino,s anti.
"'".SS: "i Mos.oh;n - foilors
~ 4G"..J %.I Tba, t1orr ond, at,er.hs
,o.so"e Of tI;s Sct. United states notes
shalI be receivable the same as coin in
gayment for the ! per cent bonds low ~,
ihorllSd. BY law, % 9e issued SUE Go ana . In nv
T Tr,e;y 0I;Sy For In Jr,fss n impoTts."
On The ca@i5s Il fbe bili a amended
hy the senate TO The House. STr.- Fort, q
RcrnbIican, moved 10 suspend the rules
and concur in the above Senate amend.