Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1889-11-29
NATIONAL SILVER CONVENTION.
Fitch. Of Nevada DeIivers a
Lengthy Address.

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 2S.-ln the silver
convention this morning q resolu-
ton was offered bF Fitch, of Ne
vada, providing for the appoint
ment Of n national silver committee,
which should be empowered to call
another national silver convention
and provide for the election of dele
gates thereto; also, said national
silver committee 10 be empowered
to provide for the organization Of q
national silver league for the pro-
motion Of objects Of this convention.
Adopted.
The following were appointed as
such committee: Alabama, AlonzO
Irwin, Selma; Arksnsas, John G..
Fletcher, Little REQ. Arizona, w.
]. Cheyney, TOmbs. C; California,
James McSudden, Vallejo; District
Of Columbia, Lee Crandall, Wash
ington; Illinois, w. j.. Phelps, Elm
wood; Indiana, Thomas II. Nelson,
Terre Hsute; Kansas, w. NJ.
FoItsscus, LeavenwOrth; Ken
lucky, Yoder Poignard, Tay-
louisville; Missouri, Colonel
John Doniphan, st. Joseph; Mich
igan, Hon. Ben Calvin, St Charles;
Montana, Charles +. MusigbrOd,
Deer Lodge; Nebraska, Allen Root,
Omaha; Nevada, Hon. Thomas
Fitch, Reno; New Mexico, Samuel
Baldwin, Santa Fe; Ohio, James
Kilburn, Columbus; Texas, Charles
Longuenar, FL PasO; Tennessee, An
drew J. Keller, Memphis Virginia,
John l.. Cochrane, Charlottesville;
Utah. Hon. William +. James, Salt
Lake; Wyoming, NJ. NJ. Grant, Lar
annie; Iowa, Hon. l.. U. Miller,
Nashua.
A RESOLUTION
adopted by the Montana House Of
Representatives, urging the cOnven-
ton TO views favoring the unlimited
coinage Of silver and to lend their
hearty support to all measures cOndu-
Give to that end in Congress, was
presented. Bland. chairman Of the
committee on resolutions, presented
the follow report:
The National Silver Convention held
i'm St. Louis, Missouri, Nov. 26th, nth
and 2Sth. 1889, adopted this preamble
and resolution
WHEREAS, IL Is their deliberate
opinion that the decentralization Of
silver has worked practical violation
Of every contract then existing in the
United States, entailed unwOnied
losses, reduced prices more than 30 per
cent and its effect Is practically TO
make debts perpetual. as it takes from |
the debtor the ability TO pay; that il |
caused contraction Of currency
which reduces values until there is no |
profit left TO the farmer, planter or men |
OF small capital. who depend upon the |
sale OF the products for returns Of |
their labor; that we believe the certifi- |
cate OF the government, backed,
DoLLAR ron DOLLAR,
by gold and silver coin on deposit in
the treasury OF the United States. is a
safe and sound currency and has been |
by the people; that, con-
sidering the contraction caused by the /
OF national bank notes dur !
ing the last three years and the |
vast sums that must be cOllec-
ted by the cancellation Of gov
eminent bonds during the next ]
three years, the necessity OF restoring |
silver IS as manifest rs is the justice Of
such a policy: that the gold and silver
OF the west pouring in steady stream
upon the east for forty years yitali,ed
every form OF business there and
steadied and upheld the credit Of the
nation through the great war aud made
pnssib,e and that which !
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; that we believe in the equal
tights OF gold and silver and free coin
age for both, and that no nation never
had or will have too much gold, and
silver coin; now, therefore, be it
Rcs0lrod, That the FifIy-frst Con-
-ress be requested by this convention
10 provide, a; its first session, for the
opening Of the minis for n free and
unlimited coinage OF standard silver
dollars Of tlS present weight and fine
ness, TO be