Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1892-10-04

ate IN the presence ol Jollil oIio iii''AA
have repeatedly made that as ertlon
in the Senate in debate with John
Sherman himself, and proved the
truth of my assertion.
The printed documents relating to
the subject, accessible TO the pubic,
having been exhausted, resorted to
the original files in the vaults of the
Capitol at Washington and caused to
be printed in a speech | made on the
9TH of June, 1890. fac SMILES of all
the proceedings had in tho Senate OF
the United States with regard to the
Mint bill of 1873 | now hold that
document in my hand. From it, it
appears that on the 9th day of May,
1872 the bill came from the House
and was referred to the Committee
on Finance. On the 16 day of De-
cember, 1872, it was reported by the
committee with amendments On
January II, 1873. additional amend
ments were reported which We're
ordered to be printed on the 18th
day of January, 1873, the bill was
considered at length, extensively de-
bated in full Senate, and passed.
The amendments of the commits
tee were first in order They were
considered seriatim and acted upon
with the exception Of the amends
ment which demonetized silver.
That amendment, as appears from
| the Globe, was neither read nor vot
ed upon in the Senate. Section 10
was stricken out.
No action was taken with regard to
section Is. The next amendment
reported at the clerk 5 desk was to
section II and related to subsidiary
coin. Section IS was then amended,
The amendment to section 10 pro-
vided that upon the silver dollar AID
minor silver coins the figure of the
eagle should be omitted and the.
weight and tineness substituted there
for. Mr.. Casserly Of Cal, objected
to the omission of the eagle and in
CURED of Senator Therman why that
was done. Senator Sherman replied.
that the silver dollar contained in
the bill was designed TO float all ov-
er the world, and that foreigners
might not understand what the
eagle meant, that they might mis-
take it for buzzard or some other
bird, but the weight and tineness
would inform them of the exact value
of the coin. This explanation salts
fed the Senate with the change.
After furthur unimportants the bill
passed No one supposed that Sen
ator Sherman would offer an amend
ment providing for the superscrlp~
ton on the silver dollar if no dollar
was provided for in the bill, nor did
any one suppose that he stated false
to the Senate in saying such dollar
was provided for in the proceeding
section of the bill. On examination
of the original bill substitute for
section 16 was marked as agreed
to" by the Senate. Whether the
omission to read this fatal amend
ment was accidental or by design,
there is no means Of proving; but
the Globe, copy of which | hold in
my hand, shows that it was never
brought to the attention of the Sen
ate. There never was one word of
debate at any time in the Senate
either on the act of 1873 or any 9th
er bill in which the demonstration
of silver was alluded to or squinted
at.
President Grant signed the bill.
If he did so knowingly he was par
ty to the infamy so vigorously de-
nounced by Mr.. Woodhurn, but
President Grant was not guilty of
the crime. He was ignorant of the
fraud as is conclusively proved by
the fact that nearly two years after
wards in January 1879 when he
signed the specie resumption act he
sent special message to Congress
recommending the erection of more
mlnts to coin silver to provide for
the resumption of specie payment
which was to take place on the LIST OF
January 1879. 1t would seem hard
" possible, if Mr.. Woodburn be
lieves that President Grant and the
Republican party were guilty OF
knowingly committing the crime OF
demonetizing silver that he would
adhere to that party, and trust Sena-