The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-06-02
MIR. BLAND, CDEM.) OF MISSOURI
This Representative spoke with more
than usual point and force He said

Mr. Chairman, this is only the beginning OF
the we are 10 have in the future. 1t is not a
question of boarding silver, but this whole
proceeding on the part OF the Secretary of the
Treasury and the Government officials is act
ed here for no other purpose than to discredlt
in the eyes Of the American people and he
world the standard silver dollar THIS is tn,
beginning OF the 2cdr that Is 10 come up IN The
merit Congress and 10 enter into the coming cam
DaigE ami lCAich has been foresh Sl05Ced BIZ The
Secretary Of the Treasury lCbsH he recommended
the repeal Of the S1Fsr lac and further iiDlita-
; ton upon Stlrer coinage That is the whole
object ct it. Newspapers, in commenting upon
it, call ii the silver nuisance. The Secretary
of the Treasury Is sasEipg Congress to provide
him vaults ana houses to heard up money
which he should have paid long long ago in
interest on the public bonds and for redemp-
ton. Tis peop}e throughout The country demand
ot him 10 Peg tbtS money out IN interest on the
public debt and n pubic officials and IN eUerY
other ray IA rbich money IS paid ont Let it 90
out into the country and let the bank vaults
hold II, and there are plenty of them in the
country for that purpose. There is no neces-
sity for this law and the object is not so much
70 secure this money in the vaults of The coun-
try s. Il is to bring discredit on silver: and
the war has commenced here now to culmi-
nate in nothing more or less than bill to be
presented at the next Congress to repeal the
silver law because the coin is boarded IN
vaults and there are Is TO take it.
There is but one way to get rid of silver, a
legal and proper way, ana a way which the
people of the country demand and that is
that the Secretary of the Treasury shall with
draw from his agreement with the clearing
house at New York, by which he proposes to
pay all demands there in greenbacks and not
to pay dollar in silver
Let him withdraw from that agreement as
he ought 20 do do, and he can soon get il out
We all know thatin defiance of the Jaw of this
land, IN defiance OF the wishes of the people
of THE SOUntry, in defiance of right and of
Justice, the Secretary Of the Treasury entered
N u a 4 n Il nv W ha
eliminated againt silver in favor of gold and
greenbacks in the New York clearin house.
l want to know if this House is going to sane
ton such agreement on such provision as
that from such a source. Applause.
The silver men triumphed, and the
motion TO strike out, which simply
meant that instead of providing costly
building for boarding the coin, it should
be paid out to the creditors of the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS by vote of
107 ayes to 65 noes But as said by
Mr.. Bland, the question will come up
again. The issue has been made by the
fraudulent Administration IN its recon-
mendation 10 discontinue the silver
coinage and establish a contracted legal
tender currency of gold exclusively land
by its surreptitious scheming to keep
the former out of circulation by methods
indicated in the above extracts. The
monomentalist champions and the adj
vocates of the privileged classes have
forced the fight" and il could not be
avoided, even if the Democracy were
not willing to take the initiative as they
should do, and prosecute the war until
silver is restored to the position it occu-
pied when it was corruptly and stealth
lily struck down in 1873.