New-York tribune., 1885-02-18
NATIONAL CAPITAL. TOPICS.
THE DORSHEIMER SILVER BILL.
WHAT is THOUGHT OF 1T IN THE HoUsE-THREATs
OF THE BLAND HEN
fnYT TEIEGR APH TO TRIBUNE.l

OF THE BLAND HEN.
rBY TELEGRAPH TO lee TRIBUNs.i
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.--The House Commit
,.e ON Coinage will hold q meeting tomorrow to hear
an ARGUMENT by exAttorney oneral Plerrepont In favor
of the silver bill offered IN the House to-day by Mr.
Dorsheimer The bill authorizes the issue OF demand
notes of the denominations OF g. So $40, $50 ana SoV
each TO he payable silver dollars OF the present stand
ard inencss and weighing 4So grains each ore hoic
may receive stamped bars of stan lard silver at the r
Of 4SO grains for each dollar. Al person may o'P
standard silver dollars in amounts OF not n
tban dftv ounees Troy or standard silver punlon'
The nroduct OF the United States and receive thcreo
silver dollars or bars weighing $50 grains e"cn' 9o0
{, provides for free gold coinage ana 'i"' aii'
sha be free for United States silver CON- anu Ior e''
,i silver bullion, the product OF the Ohlteu 0cS'
Foreign silver and bullion are excluded from tle
r,viIece OF coinage and, If imported, shall pay the
highest of duty upon any manufactured sNer oo"
ing from abroad Section provides fOf the Issue ol o
new silver notes. dollars and ba-S, In e1change LOT 'o
standard silver dollars coined under the Act OF Fe'rday
25 1875 and the silver certificates now outstanding.
Sch exchanges must be made within year after the
nsssase of this act Buzzard dollars and silver cert-
any part of the coin or currency of the United States
Section authorizes the Secretary OF tie d
any time standard dollars OF 4So grains , Satn @
many may think likely to be needed NC'Gs for ' m
dues public and private. unless otherwise exPIessS
tInnlated I'm the contract Section requires the Secre
fary OF the Treasury 10 call In all outstanding gold GER
taates and to issue no more certificates of that kind
Section repeals the Bland law. go . .,u,.o,
Chairman Bland. OF is hostile to the proposed
legislation. Representing, as he does one OF tle o9t
Ignorant constituencies IN the United states ne nous
firmly 10 the opinion that free al unlimited coinage OF
'.buzzard dollars will bring them to par Vito WIN go'G,
Congressman Pays9n, of Illinois, with whom perhaps
half dozen ether Republicans In che House agree on inc
silver question: also is strongly opposed
10 the Dorsheimer bill. He said: am
against the stoppage of the silver coinage anu
asaisst any proposition 70 increase theweght ohe sa
dari silver dollar II it be deemed necessary to eqna
the intrinsic value of the gold and the silver dollar II WI"
be better to do by taking few grains OF goIa ION 'o
former coin" a., rr,s. ,oy -
Among the extreme silver men in the House iew n III
apy fake kindly 10 the DOrsheimer plan IL nus soe
friends however, among men who are lhcnheu 10 si
port a proyislon repeating suspepdlng the OpeIauuh
Of the Compulsory clause OF the BLAND law fo SA
ample Mr. Washburn, Of Minnesota, whO "a nlSlhoct
of the Approprat Committee favOrs proVlSln OF
The ind mentioned d" rider" to the Sundry oNIss
hill said he would object TO the unlimited coinage OF
$50 9ran silver dollars. He also said that decided
majority OF the Appropriations Committee Is III Ia
vor of stopping the coinage Of " buzzard' dollars
and viii vote To insert in the Sundry Civl Oil a pro
vision to that effect II that shall he done VIII pro
woke bitter fight in the House Chairman Bland ana
ker extremists declare that II necessary they VII
flibuster until March 10 prevent its adoption Inc III
dicatOns are that it will receive the support OF ABOUT
half OF the Democrats and all the Repuol cans except
perhaps eight or ten If SO. it viii pass the House