Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1891-11-23
RESOLUTIONS OF THE MIN.
ING CONGRESS-. .--

The Mining Congress, which met
at Denver last week, adopted the fol-
lowing resolutions:
WHEREAS: The demonstration of
silver worked practical violation Of
every contract then existing in the
United States; entailed uncounted
losses, reduced prices more than 80
per cent. and its effect is practically
to make debts perpetual, as it takes
from the debtor the ability TO pay;
that it causes contraction in the
currency, which reduces values until
there is no profit left to the farmer,
planter or man Of small capital, who
depend upon the sale of their pro-
ducts for returns for their labor; that
we believe the certificates OF the
government, hacked dollar for dollar
by gold and silver coin on deposit in
the treasury of the United States, is
a safe and sound currency and has
been approved by the people; that the
gold and silver of the west, pouring
in steady stream upon the east for
forty years, vitalized every form of
business there, steadied and upheld
the cry of the nation through the
great war and made resumption pcs
sible; and that what we now demand
is as much more to the interest of the
east than OF the west, as the pro-
duotions of the east exceed in value
the productions Of the west.
Resolued, That the first National
Mining Congress is Nnaiterably in
favor of the principle of bimetalsm
rs approSed by Jefferson and Hamil-
ton enacted into law by Congress in
1893 and accepted by the country for
all public and private business for the
first eighty years of our couDtry's
history; that we believe gold and sill
yer, not one to the exclusion of the
other, are the money metals Of the
Constitution; that we are opposed to
any law which treats silver as COM
modify; that we believe that gold and
silver should have by law equal rights
OF uses and monetary powers; and
to that end we demand of the Con.
gress Of the United States tho enact
ment Of law by which silver shall he
coined free in all the mints equally
with gold, and To have with it free
and unrestricted money power, an6
that the coinage be in the ratio o.
sixteen to one, anti when the coinage
is represented by treasury notes each
dollar shall represent 1929 grains OIL
standard silver to % Sgrains of gold
WHEREAS, BY section 1904 it il
provided that the coin paid for dutie
on imported goods shall be set apar
for special fund, and shall be ap
piled first to tho payment in coin o
the interest on tho bonds and note
Of the United States; second, to tn,
purchase or payment Of l per centun
of tho entire debt of the United State
to be made within each fiscal Yea,
which is to DO set apart rs sinkin
fund, and the interest Of which shall
in like manner, be applied to the pun
chase or payment Of the public deb
AS the Secretary of the Treasury shaI
from timo to time direct. Third, tn
residue to be paid into the treasur,
and
WHEREAS. Millions Of dollars G
duties on Imported goods have bee
paid into the national treasury sine
tho year A. ID. 1878, in silver coin an
silver certificates, not ono cent {
which has been by any Secretary {
the Treasury at any time devoted {
the first and second object herei
before specified; and
WHEREAS, Every secretary of tn
Treasury since tho passage Of tn
Bland bill has violated and disregard
oil said provisions.
RcsOtUed, That our Senators nm
Representatives in Congress nsse