Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-29

day adopted resolutions stating that the
characterization of silver had made debt per-
petual, and denouncing the measure as caus-
ing contraction of the currency. A demand
was made upon Congress to provide for the
free and unlimited coinage of the favorite
metal.
ST. LOUIS, November 28.-Delegates to
the silver convention filed into convention
hall slowly this morning, it being known
that the Committee on Resolutions was still
engaged in its work of revision.- Chairman
Warner, in calling the convention to order,
stated that the order of business would be
the report of the Committee on Resolutions,
but that any other business could be taken
up while waiting the pleasure of the CON-
mittee.
A resolution was offered by Mr.. Fitch, of
Nevada, providing for the appointment of a
national silver committee, which should be
empowered to call another national silver
convention, and provide for the election of
delegates thereto. Also that the said ma
tional silver committee be empowered to
provide for the organization of State and Ma
| tional silver leagues for the promotion of
the objects of this convention. 1t was
adopted.
THE MONTANA IDEA.
The following resolution, adopted by the
Montana House of Representatives, was then
read to the convention:
Resolved That we, the House of Representa-
tives of the State OF Montana, recognize the
| importance of the convention and its delibera-
tions, to the people of our State, its power and
| the force of its utterances as representing the
rapidly growing interests and increasing re-
sources of the West to combat and counteract
| the gold-sustaining and silver-destroying COM
| binatioDs of Wall street and the extreme East;
that we extend to them our hearty support in
| their efforts to sustain and remonetize silver,
and to this end we call upon the delegates rep
resenting there the interests of our State as
well as others having at heart the prosperity of
| the silver producing districts Of our Union, to
do all in their power to persuade the convention
to views favoring the unlimited coinage of sill
yer, and to lend their hearty support to all
| measures proposed that may be conducive to
that end.
Congressman Bland, Chairman of the
Committee on Resolutions, presented the
following report:
The National Silver Convention, held in st.
Louis November 26. q and & 1889, adopted this
preamble and resolution as their deliberate
opinions:
A VIOLATION OF CONTRACT.
That the demonetization of silver has worked
a practical violation of every contract then ex-
isting in the United States, entailed uncounted
losses, reduced prices more than 30 per cent.
and its effect is practically to make debts per-
petual, as it takes from the debtor the ability
to pay; that it causes contraction in the cur
rency which reduces the value until there is no
profit left to the farmer, planter or men of
small capital, who depend upon the sale of
products for returns for their labor.
That believe the certificate of the Gov
ernment. backed dollar for dollar by gold and
silver coin: on the product in the Treasury Of
the United states, is safe and sound currency
and has been approved by the people.
That considering the contraction caused by
the surrender Of national bank notes during
the past three years and the vast sums that
must be collected by the cancellation of gov
eminent bonds during the next three years, the
necessity of restoring silver is as mani
fest as is the justice of such policy.
That the gold and silver of the West, pour
ing in steady stream upon the East for forty
years, vitalized every form of business there
and steadied and upheld the credit of theNation
through the great war and made resumption
possible, and that what we now demand is as
much more to the interest Of the East than of
the West as the productions of the East exceed
In value the productions of the West.
ON AN EQUAL BASIS.
That we believe in the equal rights Of gold
and silver, and free coinage tor both, and that
DO nation ever had or ever will have too much
gold and silver coins. Now, therefore be it
Resolved, That the Fifty first Congress be re-
quested by this convention to provide at its first
session, for opening the mints of the United
States to the free and unlimited coinage of
standard silver dollars of the present weight
and finenesS, to be legal tender for all debrs
public or private, equal with gold, and that
until such provision is made the Secretary of
the Treasury he required to coin the maximum
100000 worth of silver per month, as now
authorized by law.
Mr.. Bland announced that the gentleman
from Iowa, Mr.. Weller, desired that his re-
port, sent in these dispatches last night, be
printed as part of the proceedings of the
convention, and that he would offer no fur
ther opposition to the adoption OF the ma
jority report. He did this in the interest of
harmony. The report OF the Committee ON
Resolutions was then adopted by vote of
135 to z.
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.
A resolution offered by General Odin
Ginter, of Missouri, favoring an interna-
tional silver congress during the Worlds
Fair was tabled. Resolutions were adopted
thanking the people of st. Louis for cour-
tesies extended, and the committees for at
tentions shown.
Mr. Fitch, of Nevada, was, by special re-
quest, called to the platform. and delivered
a long address. The convention was COM
pletely electrified, and the address was one
of the best delivered before the convention.
having in it good deal of fun and humor.
Gus hits, as we'll as argument