Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-11-26
WANTS OF SILVER MEN.
Resolutions Adopted by the National Con-
gress Denver.


gress at Denver.
DENVER, Col, Nov. 20.-The commit
tee on resolutions appointed by the
Mining Congress yesterday afternoon
was in session until o'clock this morn
ing, when the members agreed upon
their report, which received the en-
dorsement of every member of the con-
gress, except the one representing Wy
oming. The resolutions are as follows:
WHEREAS, The demonstration of silver
worked a practical violation of every con-
tract then existing in the United States,
entalled unaccounteG losses, reduced
prices more than 80 per cent, and its effect
IS practically to make debts perpetual, as
1t takes from the debtor the ability to pay;
that 1t causes contraction in the currency;
ReSotUed, That we believe the certiti-
Gates OF the government backed dollar tor
dollar by gold or silver coin on deposit i'll
the treasury of the United States is a safe
and sound currency and has been APP
proved by the people;
Re ,olOed, That the first National Min
ing Congress is unalterably in favor Of the
principal Of bi-metalism as approved by
Jefferson and Hamilton, enacted into law
by Congress in 1888, and accepted by the
country for all public and private business
OF the first eighty years or our country's
history;
Resolved, that we believe gold and
Silyer-not one to the exclusion of the
Other-are the money metals OF the constr
tuition; that we are opposed to any law
which treats silver as a commodity; that
We believe that gold and silver should
have by law equal rights, uses and none
tary purposes, and to that end we demand
OF the United States the enactment
of laws, by which silver shall
be coined free in all the minis
nl1 x.tif 10 hoIro xxritl = full
ana unrestricted monetary power; and
that they be III the ratio Of Is to l, and
when the coinage is represented by treas
ury notes each dollar shall represent 1925
grains OF standard silver, or I5S grains of
gold.
WHEREAS. BY Section S693 of the Re-
vised Statutes of the United States the
faith OF the United States is pledged to the
payment of it's obligations in coin or it's
equivalent; and
WHEREAS, BY Section 1904, it is pro-
vlded that the com paid for duties ON inn
ported goods shall be applied, first, to the
payment in coin of the interest on the
bonds and notes of the United States; Sec
ond to the purchase or payment of l per
centum of the entire debt of the United
States to be made up in each fiscal year,
which is to be set apart as a sinking fund,
and the interest of which shall in like man
ner De applied to the purchase or payment
of the public debt. as the secretary of the
treasury she'll from time to time direct;
third, the residue to be paid into the treas
ury; and
WHEREAS, Millions of dollars of duties
on imported goods have been paid into the
national treasury since the year A. ID. 1873
in silver coin and silver certificates, not one
cent of which has been by any secretary
of the treasury at any time devoted to the
first and second objects hereinbefore spe-
cited; and
WHEREAS, Every secretary Of the treas
ury, since the passage OF the Bland bill, has
violated and .disregarded said provisions;
ReAolUed, That our senators and repre-
sentatives in Congress assembled be re-
queSted to take, without delay, such steps
as shall be necessary to ascertain why the
Treasury Department refuses to obey the
statutory requirements and to insure the
vigorous enforcement in the future.
WHEREAS, The supreme court of the
United States at the October, 1890, term,
while conccding that no direct adjudica-
ton thereof had been made, declared the
legitimate differences of several of it's de-
cislons to be that the exception of the
mineral lands from grants in the
acts of Congress should be considered to
apply only to such lands as were at the
time OF the grant known to be SO valuable
for their minerals as to justify expenditure
for their extraction" and
WHEREAS This dictum of the supreme
vest the Pacific railway companies holding
grants of land from the government with
vast number of the best mines discov-
cred within the limits of said grants,
by prospectors and miners who have
located thereon in good faith and devel-
oped and sold therein in honest belief that
the said grants were limited to agricultural
lands only, as declared in the acts OF
Congress making them;
Reso1ued, That the congress protests
against It. any states Of the w Sfs
will result in such a system of whole
sale confiScation and the consequent
enrichment of the great combinations
already enjoying the bounty of the gov
eminent, and calls upon the representa-
tives of the people in Congress assembled
to take such prompt and immediate action
as may be within the constitutional pre-
rogatlYe to destroy the threatened danger;
ResoLUed. That the alien act, at least so
far as it operates to exclude foreign capital
from investment in mining lands in the
territories, is false in principle and perni-
cious in effect, and that therefore the in
terestS of the mining territories demand at
the hands of Congress it's immediate repeal.