The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-04-02
CONGRESS IONA1.
HOUSE,

A~OoEs
WASHINGTON, April I'm
House resumed the cohslderatioaaa e
the trade dollar bill and .was aq
dressed by Pusey in its support. ~ y
expressed his belief in the demondme
zation act aud hostility to any n.a
osition to stop the coinage of do Hop
Cassidy confined his antagonists
the first section, which he ma;.@
tanned would have the effect of cou
tracing currency to the amount u,
| trade dollars which would be retiroa
| He announced himself in favor of ~.
| free coinage of silver and argued thass
! the policy of the government shonis,
| be to 90 into the minis and get h"1H
lion coined and leave upon the ind
| yidual the buIde of placing monan
in circulation.
Bedford regarded the fourth seetio,
as q CT, ert fraud on the people ~
being in the interest Of Rothschi,d
who controlled Germany. On fl,
question of gold and silver demopeti'
cation he had always followed his
friend from Penu., Kelly, Tut last
year that gentleman mad gone n
Germany and consulted with the bru.
tai tyrant Bismarck and coming bach
had advocated practically a cessation
of the coinage of silver.
II beg leave TO say" remarked
Kelly, "that / am not conscious Of
having been in GERMANY. | did
stretch my trip as far as Paris,
where I spent three months, and b d
not the privilege of seeing any Ger.
man statesman"
"The House will recollect a series
of letters" replied Bedford, "that the
gentleman wrote after a brilliant in.
tel view with Prince Bismarck"
"When?" inquired Kelly.
1.-TWO years ago." replied Bedford.
Kelly-"If my arithmetic sustains
me on the basis of '79 and '84 it was
five years."
Belford-"Very we'll; let US get to
the next point. / say that when you
came back from Europe last fall you
introduced a bill to stop coinage, and
you are willing to stand up here and
ADVOCATE day after day the protection
of pig iron."
KeIly-"My desire is to permit the
widespread use of silver ON its own
basis, and my bill Is one which l be.
lieve we'll calculated to force arrogant
England, the prosecutor of silver
and silver nations to sue for
relief from her own arrogance by
asking the decentralization of silver
on the ancient basis"
Belford-"Why didn't you intro
duce a bill to protect arrogant Eng
land on the question of pig iron.
Laughter have always voted to
protect the industries OF PennsyI-
vania. New Jersey, Connecticut and
Louisiana. vet there's a settled
stu i d policy on the part of monoE-
olis,s East to discredit, injure md
ruin thu great industry of my
State"
Kelly-"Did any of those
olies fail to stand by you in the duties
you demanded for Colorado lead, an
industry scarcely second to silver, Or
did they fail to protect her pig iron,
her nail ia tories and her Bessemer
rail mills?"
Belford-'I can tell the gentleman
that Colorado needs 40 tariff on Bes-
semer steel. 1t costs, say $l4, to ship
a ton of Bessemer steel from PENN
sylvania to Colorado. The tariff there
is the distance. 1 can also give no
tice to my friend that Colorado need
not stand up for the relief OF pig
iron."
Continuing, Belford proceeded to
make an argument in favor of erea
silver coinage. 1t was time Cons
gress should make war OH the theory
which permitted this administration
of affairs, Look at the riot in Gin
cinnati. 1t might be said it sprung
out of an attempt to administer jus
tice in one individual case Oh, no,
the mantle was too broad for that.
1t was because the people of the
country were beginning to reali4s
and felt that no nan by honest in
dustry could earn a livelihood"
The house went into a committee
Of the whole and soon after adj
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