The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-10-25
A CHAMPION OF SILVER.
How General AdOniram Warner
Has Pushed Himself to the
Front.

General Adoniram j.. Warner is just
now filling large place on the public
horizon. He was born in New York,
educated in Wisconsin, and taught
school in Pennsylvania. Het fought
valiantly in the war as an officer in one
of the regiments of the last-named
State, and then went to Ohio, where he
studied law and engaged in other pur-
suits. Finally, turning up as a politi-
clan, he was elected a Representative
from the Fifteenth Districtin the Forty
sixth Congress, reelected to the Forty
eighth, and returned to the Forty-ninth.
General Warner is a very large man,
tall, heavy and dark. His face is SCARED
with the marks of smallpox. He walks
! with difficulty, as he is still disabled by
severe wound he received at Antietam
To help his step he carries famous
crookneck cane, which he hangs over
one arm when excited, while he threat
ems his adversary with the long fore
finger of his free hand. He talks loud
and long, but he is a studious and wiGc.
awake man, so that there is generally
some pith in what he says.
Once in Congress he pushed himself
directly to the front as champion of
the cid soldier. He and General Amer
icus Vespucius Rice. of Ohio, had quite
a rivalry in this speciality. Both we're
Union Generals, both Democrats, both
crippled with wounds, both Ohio Repre-
sentatives, and both, like Chatham,
made their crutcheS a useful auxiliary
III debates. 1t was the desire of both to
Guido the Republicans in liberalizing the
pension laws, and owing in great degree
to their labers in this direct on the Ar
rears of Pensions Act and other -gener-
Gus legislation was passed.
General Warner, however, did not
confine himself to the cause of the
soldier, but at an early day took lead
ing part in the silver debates. and from
the first has managed to keep himself
before the people as a leader in this
field, though not recognized as such in
the organization of the House. In the
late Congress he was not on any of the
finance or important committees, but
by stubborn work on the floor he obliged
Congress to listen to his views. He is
now acting as a sort of feeler for the
Administration, and is trying to get the
sentiment of the whole country without
anybody. He some time
ago proposed a compromise silver bill.
which was greatly modified at the sug-
gestion of the representatives Of the
anti-silver sentiment. His visit to the
Capital this time was for the purpose of
presenting this modified bill to the finan-
CIers of the Administration for their
opinion This having been done, and
a few changes made according to Sug-
gestiOns, he now announces that the
bill will be submitted privately to mem
bers OF Congress and all the bankers
and financiers of the country, with a
request for their views on the subject.
Mr.. Warner says that the bill in its
present form has been approved of by
several very prominent silver meR and
quite a number of the opposition, in
Guiding Mr.. Williams, President of the
Chemical National Bank of New York
The main features OF the bill are about
as has already been stated. The silver
certificates are to be issued upon the
market value of silver. This value is to
be determined cit! er by the market If
the previous month or else the previous
day, the latter being favored by Mr..
Warner.