Los Angeles herald., 1891-11-21
Ably Championed In the
Mining Congress.
Many eminent Advocates of
Free Coinage.
Senator Stewart Denies That He
Owns Comstock Stock.
Resolutions Agreed Upon Favoring Free
Coinage of silver Equally With
Gold, with Full Legal Ten
der Powers.
Associated Press Dispatches.

Associated Press dispatches.
DENVER, Nov. 20.-At the mining con-
gress this morning, r. G. Powers of Ari-
zona, an avowed advocate for free coin
age, occupied an hour in discussing the
use of silver from the earliest days of the
worlds history to the present time. E.
r. Brown OF Aspen said America should
declare parity of the metals. At this
juncture Senator Stewart arose and an
nounced that he did not own a share OF
Comstock stock, thus refuting the old
allegation.
Judge Harley Morse OF Colorado spoke
for twenty minutes in favor of free coin
age.
Martin Maginnis of Montana de-
nounced Governor Campbell of Ohio in
a scathing manner for his cowardice in
not advocating the platform upon which
he was nominated.
Congressman G. A. Cassidy of Nevada
declared that every man, woman and
child in Nevada was united in favor OF
free and unlimited coinage. Cassidy
advocated forcing the political parties
to make that question the dominant
issue in the next campaign.
DENVER. Nov. 20..,-The committee on
resolutions appointed by the mining
congress agreed upon report, declaring
that certificates of the government,
backed dollar for dollar by gold or silver
coin on deposit in the treasury of the
United States, is safe and sound cur
rency, and has been approved by the
people; that the first national mining
congress is unalterably in favor of BIZ
metallism; that gold and silver, not
one to the exclusion of the other, are
the money metals of the constitution !;
that gold and silver should have by law
equal rights, uses and monetary pur-
poses, and to that end it is demanded of
the congress of the United States that
it enact laws by which silver shall be
coined free in all the mints, equally
with gold, and to have with it full and
unrestricted monetary power, and that
it be in the ratio OF 16 to l and when
the coinage is represented by treasury
notes each dollar shall represent 4121a
grains of standard silver or 25.3 grains
OF gold.
''Whereas, The supreme court of the
United States has declardd that the ex.
ception of mineral lands from grants in
acts OF congress should be considered to
apply only to such lands as were at the
grant known to be 80 valuable for their
mineral as to justify expenditure for
their extraction; and
"Whereas, This dictum of the supreme
court, II it should become a law, would
invest the Pacific railway companies
holding grants of land from the govern
ment, with vast number of the best
mines discovered within the limits OF
said grants by prospectors and miners
who have located thereon in good faith
and developed and sold them in the
honest belief that said grants were linn
tied to agricultural land only, as de-
clared in the acts of congress making
them.
Resolved, That this congress pro-
tests against any construction OF the
statutes of the United States which will
result in such system of wholesale con-
fiscation and the consequent enrichment
of the great combinations already en-
joying the bounty OF the government,
and calls upon the representatives of
the people in congress assembled to
take such prompt and immediate action
as may be within their constitutional
prerogative, to destroy the threatened
danger.
Resolved, That the alien act, so far
as it operates to exclude foreign capital
from investment in mining lands in the
territories, is false in principle and per-
nicious in effect, and we demand it's
immediate repeal" rst