The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-01-07


to the committee on civil service re-
form.
Vest said it was impossible that the
administration should know every man
who solicited an Office If Vest had his
way he would make it misdemeanor
for any man to solicit Office. But what
was the Postmaster-General to dc? 1t
had become a sort of common law in
both parties for men to recommend
people for Office. Was the Postmaster
General to go to the Republicans for
recommendations? Vest characterized
Hale's position as mere cant. He
! (Ves) had before now seen in the
departments at Washington such en-
dorsed by Vest and Cockrell'' and,
therefore, the appointments had been
refused Yet the Senator from Maine
had discovered what he pretended to be
new evil. But for the Democratic
successes OF 1882, there never would
nave been civil service law passed
by the Republican party. Civil
service had been in the Senate
for years without attention until the
pro .pect of a Democratic ascendancy
had been made clear to the Republicans.
Hale said that he had nothing to do
with the question under dispute.
Vest said his colleague (Cockrell) and
himself. in the course of their investiga-
tons heretofore, under Republican, ad-
miniStration, had found unmistakable
evidence of the use of money in the at
tainment of public offices and though
they could not put their fingers on
letter showing any use of the money,
they could convince the moral sense of
any man that money had been used.
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three Presidential postmasters and
some other minor postmasters had been
changed by the present administration.
1t seemed to Voorhees, that that simply
showed that not as many changes
had beenE made in the postofices of
| Maine, as the people, by their votes last
year. intended should be made by the
administration.
VOORHEES, sympathized with the Re
publican postmasters who had been
turned out. They would get used toit
after while. as Democrats had gotten
used to it. Voorhees, was not here to
defend Brown. He thought Hale had
done service to the Democracy by ex-
posing such man. But did Hale sup,
pose he could make the impression on
the country that the Democracy of the
! United States favored the course pur-
: oUCO ny DIDmA OOlACCo O1uO1C0
| from Vest in one thing. He (Voorhees)
was willing to put in power and Office
men who had helped to elect Demo
Gratis. He believed it to have been the
intention of the trainers of the Consti-
tuition that the government should be
administered by the friends of the ad-
minlstration, which the people should
place in power.
Gray called up Beck's recent resolu-
ton of inquiry regarding the payment
of custom duties in coinage and the
application of that coin to the purposes
of the sinking fund. etc. Gray said he
would vote for it, but for reasons very
different from those which actuated
Beck and those who thought with him.
The act of 1878, Gray said, was tenta-
tive, it was based on the idea that
silver would shortly reach an interna-
tional ratio with gold; 1t was the hope
of the attainment OF this international
ratio, that actuated many thoughtful
men in voting for that bill. This hope
had been disappointed, the object OF
the bill had been defeated, and the
dollar worth 90 cents in 1878 was now
worth less than 50 cents. The passionate
inyective on the part of the
silver men would not enhNce the
value of the silver dollar. The actions
and recommendations OF the President
and the Secretary of the Treasury on
the silver question were right. He
| (Grey) was not here to defend anyone,
but economic laws were always the
same. He was neither bondholder
nor the son OF bondhOlder, but he was
! for paying bondholderS in honest
money. The true issue in question was
whether the true relation of gold and
silver could be reached by a continu-
ance of the present plan of silver coin
age. He asserted this could not be
done. Silver coinage had served a use
| full purpose as a subsidiary coin, but no
country desired a basis of silver coin
alone, and if gold were supplanted by
silver, we would have a silver basis.
The gold standard had kept us in
easy relations with the rest of the world.
Bi-metalism could not be reached by
any one country alone. France had,
long ago, stopped her silver coinage; n
and should we, by continuing our pre-
sent course, drive out Of the country
several bundled millions of gold coin
If we did SO, we should have contrac-
ton indeed. The act of 1873, having
failed to raise the value OF silver. per-
sistence in our present plan OF silver
coinage would bring US to silver stand
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basis of an so cent dollar, and
thus the government of the
United States, would, in fact, be
scaling its own debt. This would be a
public misfortune, as eyidencing con-
dition of public dishonesty, which. to
say the least, was equally reprehensible
with individual dishonesty. Many of
those who favored silver coinage, were
not, in Gray's opinion, the solid conser-
Yative business men, but those OF
speculative turn. He desired to see sill
yer in circulation .eoncurrently with
gold but the failure of the
! best efforts to get it inro that
condition was sufficient proof that our
continued coinage would be OF no avail
| in that direction. We were all en-
barked on the same great voyage
debtor and creditor-one fate awaited
us all. We should, therefore, honestly
endeavor to adjust our differences. In
order that the interests of all our people
may be honestly and fairly advanced.
Mcpherson followed on the same sub
| ject The United States Treasury, he
said. had become a vast and compll-
Gated machine. There were seven diff
ferent factors in our circulation. in the
form of various kinds of notes. If
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