Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-03-17
SHERMAN PlJl vERiZ5S BECK

SHERMAN PlL ~ ERiZ5S BECK.
rhe Kentucky Senator Makes An U.,.var-
ranted Attack on the 10 s Statesman,
and 4 Corrected by the Latter in q Way
That Can Not Be NJ sns. a srstood- mr..
Sherman and Demon Il szalion.
WAsHINGToa,s March 1I-In the Senate
yesterday Senator Beck (Ky.) delivered a
spe sch in support of his bi to provide for
the retire nent Of the United States legal
tender md National bank notes of small
lieu of god cerGifs Gates
In tie course of his remarks he took oc-5
casion to make bitter att ok on Senator
Sherman, w 40 made an able reply in defense
sof his ac5ions.
Bs MI Sherman said that as matter of
course be would not undertake to Iepiy 10
the rgument of the Senator fro S: Kennedy
on the silver QUESTION. but he would rep y
briefly to one or two matters OF a personal
e aracter W Aich the Senato from Kentucky
felt Justified in lugg NJ mo the contro-
versys Inat Senator b ID new ar found him
& Shermanl dodging a Responsibilities or evaii-
ing IN ISSUE. The Senator's answer Today
to what lie Sherman had said Wien he las 5
10 the lasg gree How had he answered
it? Ely going 10 the Recosd an 4 sseing.
Whe! her the Deuonetz ton law was 81
thfongS in a sc ret W. Not at all !; buy ~
quoting speeches made, on the stump or in
the Ssn..Ee. an grossly misapplying them.
He Goaerman) Was now .able, from the
OF gsai1 Senate records, to show that the
bill n question had been openly discussed,
fuli ~ considered. sn mi6ted 10 pubic opin-
isIl IN ey>,ry form, inside Of Congress and
outside I6 Was not Il bill OF his d.v.sing.
5siie h d never seen It until it VS. sent TO
him Us chairman of h 3 T n ;tnca Co !nlli5Eee
by the Secretary of the Ire. sury it did
not Become q law for three years after
VIZ s, and in the meantime it had been
prin ed thirteen times and had been d bas ed
over. and overssg in. Copies of the bill had
been ssnt u1nYit.ng cri lie SIN; and one
oil. 4 provisions Was Glla1s tn silver coin
shou consist of a dollar (of 534 grain y. a
nall d9llar,T q quarter dolsr and a dime,
and hat suca sityec coin should be a legal
fenfter IN any one paymen for all sums
tnousexceed hg five dollars. That was tue
4 ienelc 4 form IN VIII ch that section ap-
peared IN tue last bill as it came IRON tie
House 20 the Senate. .Tiia5 parts uiar sac
Ion pne .tred- throughout 5sie Woe history
The House hadsinsis ed on reducing the
Weight OF the i II d Ill II 10 3S4 grains or
just the exa;t equ yalen or wv half dol
lars, thus maxim :, 6ile silver dollar prac :
cally III nor or subsidiary con So tn 1t in
The original bill, the Old silver dollar h Id
been dzopped aud IN it's place minor or
subsidiary CON substituted W
: From that time april, 1870 till the pas
sage OF he Jaw OF February, 1873, thai
prov sion had stood in the Jaw, nd had
p en- pr. med OVER IN | over iigs.n in hotl
Houszs. Aad ys5njambers of Congress b d
been quo-ed as sly ng ti;.t they did not
know Wlaa Was in the bill II noJ, Waose
fault Was il? [, w4s Indifference to the
Wishes OF he Paci c COST tlat the Senate
Itad 81 st ute for the subs di ny silver
con pao! . ed by tie House the trade dol
lar Of APO gTainf, troy AnI ye5 men,
then, saii he, pleaded tie baby act in the
matter He Knew what WAS in til bill lie
knew chat the original pro pos ton of the
HSuse Was to convert the silver
do4iar into minor coin; and lie
bstiJved in III t. Fl believed it be-
der to have a con according to the
desires CT the California pAopia chat would
.ne2oms !! co 4 o. co Elnerca. Bi5 there VS.
one t;,inr Wh5eh he did nos see. He did noj
see II 0 the futnrs. He did not foresse that
tie sifvti. ,ios al. which was chen at u pre-
~ Il e OF rss per Cent. over the gold dol
lar would within fifteen years lie worth
only seven y cents II anybody had told
hi n so ne would have thought htll crazy
SO that ali h re WIS about it was Ghat Con-
gIess had no to.eseen the change in the
value OF the silver dollar When any one,
ia the light of these facts, said that any
thing was sought to be done by indirec-
ton md sacrecy, .he did injustice to him
self nd therecords AS to Tie. %psysnent.of
the interas s. Of United st.ites bon IS in cp:1
(Which Mr. Beck has found somuch fault
Witty he thanked God that that. had been
legislated for II it had not been,
what, he asked, would have become of
that National credit? Without that
s.Tong anchor OF coin interest
the United States bonds would
have disappeared like the Confederate
bonds into the air 'sunhonored and unsung )"
As to the Sena or's talk about resumption,
who did not feel, he asked, that that great
work of courage mot only of Congress,
but Of the departments and OF the peo-
pe) Wasone OF The proudest triumphs Of the
Nation. As to the silver question he w
not opposed to silver He wished that he
could add tn rty per cent to the value Of
all sha silver in the world and in the mines
But silver dollars would have to be main
tanned a5 the gold standard, either by re-
ceiyng them and boarding them or by
incre sing their weight If the silver
dollars now in the Treasury were forced
into circulation their ere Lit would
break down. But he did not want to
precipi5ate this silver question. He did
not care to discuss it. His views on
tue subjaet were known. Whenever he
could see his way clear with the general
consent of the people, with the consent of
Colorado, Nevada and California; to take
any step 80 deal with the silver question,
he was perfectly willing to do it He
though that the time might come when all
the silver product OF the country might be
rspres entsd by coin certificates; but then
itweuld nave to be bought at it's market
value, not at an artificial value After all.
what had his silver friends made BY their
forced at emp.s to ge5 silver into circuia-
ton. Silver had gone down steadily He
would like to see an advance in value.
Congress and the Nation were powerful in
many Things, but they were not powerful
enough to create values. These had to be
fixed by the value making mercantile ma.
lions
Mrs. stewards VIII.
s New Y DIRK, March IA The contest in the
viii of the late Corneia Stewart. the widow
of the late A.. e. Stewart, instituted by
Resale Butler, a relative was begun before
THE surrogate yesterday The chief ground
of the contest is that Judge Henry TiIton