Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-02-16
SKINNED HIM ALIVE.
such was the Operation Performed on
John Sherman by Senator Beck.
The Old Rascal's Opposition to Silver
and Green backs shown up.
The Secretary of the Treasury is
Simply our Servant and not
our Master

Simply our Servant and not
our Master.
From the Congressional Record of |
Feb. l, we clip the following speech |
made by Senator Beck, on an amend |
ment to Sherman's refunding bill limit
ing the resumption fund to 100000 |
600.
Mr.. President, 1 rose in the first in |
stance merely to ask a question, but |
do not care about doing it now, as the
two senators from Kansas have pretty |
much answered or explained what
propose to ask. | first rose to ask the
former secretary of the treasury, now
the senator from Ohio, WHO seems to
think it terrible thing for the con-
gress of the United States to undertake
to determine that $1G0,000OOO of the /
reserve is enough to hold, and who Ar |
CUES that all public confidence will he
oyerthrown, that everything will be AT |
sea unless the measure proposed goes to
a committee to be carefully examined
i desire to know who liked the coin
reserve at its present amount. VIA,
or too tho otato, +" ! epLeSen'oVi'e e. either
,,,inn ' oST o;,I,"r " w. " '"' peoPIe 70 deter
tha | nooosaitu % % For " ;io1nt or What was
sum now lying die, to guard the g,een-
pi,,no;e paom" onJ ~ %aS llXeN arOltrarlly by
hnn5o , gu" SSs,eVO,VU1 OF ~ per cent
,n,,,;, Do,S ~ 1e Soio by MIN on his own
r,1 ie"po"'' o'l!ly, costing us iOur ana a
iua'' II haililOns per annum III order to
u ~ hSn MN the amount he desired.
-Ve'ycody must agree that II Is folly
10 Keep money lying IDLE beyond what
rs necessary, ana we are 10 assume That
"hat the tIleh secretary saiu was hects-
Sary is necessary sun, and he contends
that II Will be ViolatlVe oil all proper
CONSIDERATIONS ioi the public welfare if
the congress OF the United States ven
tHres to overthrow or change, even un-
der altered circumstances, anything
that he has done. That is the sum ana
substance OF The argument OF the SEN
ator as understand it. Forty per G. NIB
may aave been very needtul or plud' mt
thea, but times have changed; mob dy
Is now demanding gold, and n0body Is
likely to; the power Is reserved to the
secretary Of the treasury TO sell bonds
,)f the United States to any extent
necessary to prevent run on the
treasury for the payment OF greenbacks
or TO stop panic. II he Sees any
signs Of one, at any time in the future,
in order to MAINTAIN resumption, ana
he has the silver coin that our officials
have been 50 anxious to get clear of
at the treasury, and against which war
has been made both by the late secre-
tary, now the senator from Ohio, and
the present secretary, both Of them
having refused to pay it although the
law requires them to pay 1t TO the per-
sons who hold the bonds OF the United
STATES as interest Wheh they collect IL
at tne Custo'h'house'
war mas Ueeh kept up on IhaI com
ior 'he purpose vi geIVihS clear vi SIT
yer; they nave refused 10 ultlilze IL
even ior the purpose lor Willch the law
SAD u Shoulu DC specially Set apart;
ana louay' Ill pam Violation oi iaw,
10y executive authorlty' the greehDacES
be received at the custom-house by the
senator from Ohio while he was spcre.
tary of the treasury, and he has resisted
from that dayio this congress making
it legal tender to receive them there.
WhyP Because the secretary of the
treasur,. wants TO retain arbitrary au.
thority over this reserve fund to do as
he pleases with iC in order to bull OF
bear the market in New York or else.
where, and to refuse to receive green.
hacks whenever it suits him not to re.
ceive them, and thus hold them, play.
ing fast and loose, receivable for Gus.
toms dues or not at the will of the sec.
rotary of the treasury
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