Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-01-21

| uullG SlCllCtI. liz HIS Il llullOW, hilSulai,
sharp-featured face, which terminates in a
gray moustache and short chin whiskers
TO a correspondent Mr.. Miller gave his
! financial views. Hesaid that he was against
the suspension of silver coinage, and upon
the question of national banks, which can
alone come before his committee, he express
ed himself freely. His views upon the sub
ject will be of interest. He is against ma
tional banks having circulation of cur
rency notes. He would confine them to
strictly bank business. He was opposed to
the entire national bank system until bank
ing became free. Now he thinks the system
is a very good one. He is against the re-
trement of the greenbacks, and would favor
the substitution of the greenbacks for the
national bank issue.
He also favors the issuing ofsilver certiti-
Gates upon the silver reserve in the Treas
ury. He believes that there should be a
more effective force of examiners employed
to supervise the national banks. He is in
favor of increasing the number of examln-
ers. He says if national banks were prop
ery examined often enough such deficits as
have occurred in the Marine National Bank
and other prominent national banks of late
years would have been impossible.
Congressman William l.. Scott was dis
couraged by Curtin's resignation. He re-
CARDS the promotion of Mr.. Miller to the
head Of the Banking and Currency Commit
tee as an advantage to the silver men. lie
is very anxious to get the silver men to ac-
cept his compromise proposition, which is
now so we'll known to the public. He says
that the Democratic party must unite upon
some financial policy and ihe thinks his plan
| is the best one.
Senator Stanford, the richest man in the
Senate, said to reporter that he was GER
tain nothing would be done in the way OF
financial legislation this winter. He was
asked if he intended to make any speech
during the coming financial debates. lie
said that he might. He added that he
would like to make plain business talk
unless he found his ideas fully expressed by
other Senator'S He gave an illustration of
how he cornered a prominent gold-stand-
ard Senator He was criticising Mr.. Stan
ford for his advocacy of an 50 cent silver
dollar TO this Mr.. Stamford replied, as
he took silver dollar from his pocket: II
have proposition to make. You say this
dollar is worth only so cents. / will give
you 991 cents each for 100000 of them. If
this dollar is worth only so cents you will
have splendid opportunity to make $751;
500 by accepting my proposition" Senator
Stanford says that the god-standard Sena-
tor did not accept the offer and did not ap-
pear to find at once any means of answer
ing this novel style of argument.
In further illustration of his financial
views, the forty times millionaire said
"By labor of the people silver was gotten
out of the earth and labor was expended on
it in every stage of the various processes to
which it was subjected between mine and
mint. and that when coined and stamped
it circulated mainly among the people
among those whose financial affairs were
not so extensive as to require bank accounts.
On the other hand, paper money, especially
the national bank notes, was obtained by
bankers with bonds. 1t was the bankers
money in contradistinction from silver, be-
cause it was made for bankers, issued by
banks, based on bonds, represented little
expenditure Of labor and did not, like sill
yer coins, find it's chief avenues OF circula-
tion among the people,"
Of Senator Pugh's recent speech on the
silver question, the Philadelphia Times
says: 'Senator Pugh, of Alabama, says
that he is silver man and that the banks
in New York oppose silver because that is
all that keeps them from controlling the
money market; for that if there were no
silver they could control enough of green
backs to draw every dollar in gold out of the
treasury, and gold would again command
premium and other Black Fridays be- pos
sible And this in the face of the fact that
the banking laws make it easy for Senator
| Pugh and other Alabama capitalists or any
group of capitalists in any other State or
Territory to organize a. national bank or
two national banks or three national banks
and issue all the currency for which the
money in their vicinity furnishes any de-
mand. There are few thousand national
banks outside of New York which can do
more to keep the New York banks from
controlling the money market than all the
silver men in the country. On the other
hand, if silver depreciates by reason of the
expectation of gold, as it is sure to do
if coined indefinitely, the New York
banks will control the money market sure
enough"
Of the South Carolina delegation in the
House, the Washington correspondent of
the Neps and Courier telegraphs under date
of Friday:
Five Of the members of the South Carolina
delegation in Congress will oppose the con-
tinuance of the coinage of silver, as they
are of the opinion that such course would
be best for the interests of the Govern
ment. Probably Representative Dargan has
the most pronounced views on this subject,
and it will be remembered that in the last
Congress he steadfastly opposed by his vote
any increase in the circulation of silver
coin, and, in fact, wanted it stopped. Still,
as the gentlemen referred to are in minor
ity and see no move for the success OF their
proposition they are naturally chary about
allowing their names to 60 before the public
for the present at least.
THE Charles Wilson was
hanged at st. Louis, Mo-, last Friday for
the murder of river mate some months
ago. At the execution two doctors, one on
either side, were each holding his wrist,
when the violent contortion of the hanging
figure shook them aside, and before they
could regain their hold upon the man,
whose actions showed full possession of
consciousness, he made frantic struggles to
release himself. His right hand shot up,
clutched the rope and held it firmly. 1t
seemed as if the man must die by slow
degrees from strangulation, but one of the
doctors succeeded in disengaging the hand,
and in short time the body hung a lifeless
corpse.
Noah Merryman, the wife murderer, was
hanged at Bellville, Mo. Previous to the
execution he admitted having killed his
wife, and confessed the murder of woman
peddler in East ST. Louis some six years
ago. The name Of the woman he would
not reveal.
William Madison, colored, was hanged
at Beaumont, Texas, for the murder of Al
fred Smith, also colored, last summer. The
cause of the crime was jealousy.