Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-10-15
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 is, withal, rather an inter
esting figure. He was born in New York,
educated in Wisconsin, and taught school
in Pennsylvania. He fought valiantly in
the war as an officer in one or the regi-
ments OF the last-named State, and then
went to Ohio, where he studied law and
engaged in other pursuits. Finally, turn
ing up as a politician, he was elected a
Representative from the fifteenth district
in the Forty-sixth Congress, reelected to
the Forty-eighth, and returned to the
Forty-ninth. General Warner is very
large man, tall, heavy and dark. His
face is scared with the marks of small
pox. He walks with difficulty, as he
is still disabled by a severe wound
he received at Antietam. 10 help
his step he carries famous crookneck
cane, which he hangs over one arm when
excited, while he threatens his adversary
with the long forefnger of his free hand.
He talks loud and long; but he is studi-
GUS and wide-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
old soldier. He and General Americas
Vespucius Rice, of Ohio, had quite a
rivalry in this speciality. Both were
Union Generals, both Democrats. both
crippled with wounds, both Ohio Repre-
sentatives, and both, like Chatham, made
their crutches a useful auxiliary in de-
bates. 1t was the desire of both to outdo
the Republicans in liberalizing the pen
sion laws, and owing in great degree to
their labors in this direction the Arrears
OF Pensions Act and other generous legis-
lation was passed.
General Warner, however, did not con-
fine himself to the cause of the soldier,
but at an early day took a leading 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 organiza-
ton of the House. In the late Congress
he was not on any of the finance or i'm
portant committees, but by stubborn
work on the floor he obliged Congress to
listen to his views. He is now acting as
a feeler for the administration, and is
trying to get the sentiment of the whole
country without committing anybody.
He some time ago proposed a COM
promise silver bill, which was greatly
modified at the suggestion of the re-
representatives. of the anti-silver SEN
timent His visit to the capital this time
was for the purpose of presenting this
modified bill to the fnanciers of the Adj
for their opinion. This
having been done, and few changes
made according to suggestions, he now
announces that the bill will be submitted
to the members of Congress
and all the bankers and financiers in the
country, with a request for their views on
the subject
Mr.. Warner says that the bill in it's
present form has been approved of by
several very prominent silver men and
quite Il number of the opposition, includ-
ing Mr.. Williams, president of the Chem
cal National Bank of New York. The
main features of the bill are about as has
already been stated. The silver certif-
Gates are to be issued upon the market
value of silver. This value is to be de-
'ermined either by the market of the
previous month or else the previous day,
he latter being favored by Mr.. Warner.