The morning call., 1891-11-21
ON SILVER COINAGE.
Opinions Advanced by the Den
yer Mining Congress.
Silver Certificates Backed by Gold a Sound
Currency.
The Congress Adjourned After Declaring In
Favor Of Free COinase-Helena the
Next Meeting Place.
Epecial TO TIE MORNING CALI.

DENVER. Nov. 2O.-The Committee Oh
Resolu tions appointed by the Mining Con-
gress has agreed upon their report. 1t de.
clares that certificates Of the Government,
backed dollar for dollar by gold or silver
coin on deposit in the Treasury
of the United States is cafe and
sound currency and has been ap-
proved by the people; that the First
National Mining Congress is unalterably in
favor Of the principle of bimetalism that
gold and silyer-not one to the exclusion Of
the other-are money metals of the Consti-
tuition; that gold and silver should have by
law equal rights, uses and monetary pur-
poses, and to that end is demanded of the
Congress of the United States the enactment
Of laws by which silver shall be coined free
in all MINIS equally with gold, and to have
with it full and unrestricted monetary
power, and that they be in the ratio of 16 to
], and when the coinage is represented by
Treasury notes each dollar shall represent
412R grains of standard silver or 25.8 grains
gold. Other resolutions are:
WHEREAS, The Supreme Court of the United
states has declared That the exception of min-
G Saat nas ION grants III aG.s 0i congress should
were at the time of tbe grant known 10 he so val
liable for their minerals as 10 Justify expendl-
lures for their extraction: and whereas, this
diclum OF The Supreme Court. II IT should become
iaw. would invest me Pachc tallway compa-
viii vst ,nmhsr VI tns has, ino 6isna
within ihe Limits nf such gTants nv nInsnectnr.
and miners, who have located thereon In good
faith, and developed and sold therein In the
honest belief that said grants were limited TO
agiicullural Ishas only, as declared IN the acts
oil g,sS Songress MAKING T5sl ig,a them
any construction of Ihe Statutes OF the United
States which will result in such system Of
wholesale eonfiscatlon, and consequent enrich
hhnt9 9i S aeaGy enjoying he
of 1ha nsoS,s IN upon Tue
bIed TO take such prompt and immediaTe action
as may be In their CONSTITUTIONAL prerogatiye To-
destroy the threatened dauger.
Resotued, That the Allen Act, so far as 1t oper-
ates az IS 70 exclude foreign capital from investment
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ihh Ar fIhnNooN Il, SESSION.
IN the afternoon L. =. howell OF Califor-
MIA made speech placing his State on rec
ord as IN favor OF the free and unlimited
coinage OF silver. General Doniphan of
Missouri and Dennis Sneedy of Colorado
also spoke eloquently In favor of free
coinage. Judge Goodwin OF Utah made
an address, IN the course OF which he
SAID ne ala not oelleVe the Lower House
OF Congress would pass q free coinage
Dill thls winter unless with the hope OF the
President yetolng IT. de thought they
would come to their senses, however, in
time. de then moved that resolution for
the free coinage OF silver be passed by ac-
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