Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-03-17
St3EI AN PlJ " ERtZ BECK


renfed Attack On the g 40 8 afes ma n
md 1sC orrected by the ter in g Way
ss hat Jan Not Be AZ sud
ST. liorIn an and Dom n.st !: ~ Il g.
B WASHINGTON March In the 6ena.e
yesterday Senator Beck (Ky.) delivered a
7spe Oh Id support of his bi / to provide for
the retirement Of the United SGaseS legal
sGender md National bank notes Of small
'dsnominatlOnssinI lieu of god certi fcasea
In the course of his remarks he took oc-
scasion TO make a bitter att ok on Senator
Sherman. waom made an able reply in defense
of his actions
Mr. Sherman said that as matter of
course he would OF mi take to rep;y to
the rgnmsnt Of the Senat OF fro i kentucky
zon the silver al sstion. but he ouid rep
briefly to one or two matters OF personal
Character which the Senai orfron Kentucky
felt Justified in lugg NC In To- the contro-i
sversy rnat Senator hid never found him
(Shermsnl doaging responsibility OF eYad-
ing an lssu5. The s snator's answer to-day
TO what Ne (Snsrman) had said wslen h q las i
spoke on tnesubiec was lame and napotant.
10 The last degree. How had he answered
it? BY going 70 the Record AN seeing
whes her the Deinonetiz ton law was ~
tfiroug in q se ret Wi "? Not at All DuD oy
the ssrlssle AMI gross. misapplying them
He {Sernlanl was now able, from the
or gsatI Senate records, to show that the
8bsI n question had been openly discussed
ftl IL consiae cred. sui mitted TO pubic opin-
i'm in every FORM inside of Congress and
ouasJste I6s was not "a bill OF his d sy.sing
s. e u q never seen it uni! ibwss Sent TO
him IS chairman of h finance gonlnitFee
by the Sci re a;:iy of the Ire sury. IL did
not eeeo ne s. law Tor three Years after.
w T 81, and IN shs N meantime it had been.
20 GhlrIeefltl Tines ana mad bsen dsDas ed
~ e iiha over q g m copies OF Sne Dill mad
psen s5nG afOund lnVltsng CT s1c SIN; ana one
OF i 9 provisions was taa5 tn silver coin
shon q consist OF q d oilar Col 55S4 gram y. a
half 9 ,llar q quarter do lar ana d dime,
ant hat sue sityers coin; should be a legal
tender IN any one paymen for all sums
snosexcsed hg fYa dollars That was the
lien lei form IN VIII ch that section ap-
pared in tue last bill as it, came FRO n tie
#Houses:o the Senate = ila5 part ular sac
Ion 4pne,red throughout bae Woe history
Of the bill fro the beginning % the end
The House had insis ed On radncing tle
light Of The Il v II d I'll r 10 3Si grains. or
just the exast equ yalen OF half dol
ans, thHs .naains Gha silver dollar prac 81
Nv VI ~ Ii
The inal bill, the old silver dollar had
been dropped aud in it's place minor or
subsidiary con subs Situte
From that time April. 1870 till the pas
sage OF he law Of February, 1873. that
PROV sion had STOOL in the Jaw, nd had
- en- pr nEed 4oNs;r IN l. over AGAIN in hOtle
Hous s. And yls5 members of Congress b d
been quo ed as say sng tsist they did not
know W4lab was in the bill. II nol w .osa
fault was its + w::s IN lift arence to the
wishes OF he PACT q coast tlat the Senate
bad 81 at znse for the subs e1i :ry silver
90 II Tses d ed by ssa House the trade dol
lar Of s42o grazing. troy. Anl vet men.
then, sssif he, pleadaS tie baby act in the
iraItar He knew what was in th bill He
knew bhat the original pro pos ton of the
#Hsuse was to convert the silver
do1iar into minor coin; and he.
betlgYed in th Il. H AS believed it be5-5
de1.fii.5to have a coin according to the
desires Of the Gaiifornia paop y 5hat would
become co Il OIL cosEmefc&. B!i5 there VS.
one tstinrr Waseh he d ID mousse. He did nol
! see n 0 the fatuus He did not foresse tha5
tie siiY,:s. iot al " ilieh was 55hsn at a pre-
AZ u5s,@of Zee per Cent. over the gold dol
lar would within fifteen years lie worth
only seven y cents u anybody had told
m g. SO ne would have thoughs hi.l Cray.
So that ali IN re wsssabout it was that Con-
gIess mad no iosaseen the change in tae
value OF the silver dollar When any one,
ia the ight of thess facts, said that any
tfipsss was. sougb BIT to be done by indirec-
ton ;s1ls secrecy, he did inlastjce to him
self nd yf1e record $ to ne pay r,entof
3 the Inter ~ ofs Omitted stHtes bon g IN ci'a
s which ~ r. Beck has found SO much fault
sWAaih) ne thanked God that that had been
slegIslated for II 1t had NOT been,
: what, ne asked, would have become of
{ 6hs6 National credit! Without that
ssIong anchor OF coin interest
tle United States bonds would
have disappeared like the Confederate
bonds INTO the ar unhonored and unsung
As 60 the Sena or's talk about resumption,
who did moi feel, he asked, that that great
work OF courage (not only of Congress,
but OF the departments and OF the peo-
ple) was one of the proudest triumphs Of the
Nation. As to the silver question he w s
/ not opposed to silver. H Wishsd that he
all ,ha silver in the world and in the mines
But silver dollars would have to be main
tanned ~ the gold standard, either by re-
ceiying them and boarding them or by
Increasing their weight If the silver
Collars now in the Treasury were forced
into circulation their ere lit would
brea' down. But he did not want to.
precipibate this silver question. He did
not care to discuss it. His views on
the subject were known. Whenever he
could see his way clear with the general
consent of the people, with the consent of
any ssep @ asal Win inc silver question
tous that th time n gbt CONE wban az al
the silver product 81 the country might be
.rspress ntad BY coin certificates; but then
lsiweuid nave to- be beught at It's market