The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-02-27
THE SILVER BILL.
Congressman Earter Gives His
Side of the Question.
SAYS THE BILL WILL NOT PASS.
At Least Not in Its Present Shape.
If II Goes Through at All 1t Will
he With Proviso That All PEN
sions Shall be Paid in Gold.

sions Shall be Paid in Gold.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.-Concerning
tbe caucus on the silver question Mr..
Harter the anti-silver leader, made the
following statements:
"The results of the caucus are, in the
main, gratifying to the enemies of dis
honest financial methods. In the first
place all present came away satisfied
that passage the Bland bill swindle
will disrupt the Democratic party. In
the second place our action has placed
upon the shoulders of majority present
the responsibility for the consequences
of such legislation to the party.
"Men may and do differ in their judg-
ments. My own opinion remains the
same as it has been for weeks past,
which is that no bin providing for the
free and unlimited coinage of silver bull
lion into full legal tender dollars will
pass the house. OF course am count
ing upon the active resistance of the
country at large in the shape of letters,
remonstrances, ETC., addressed to the
members. If the 900 people out of 900
who will be robbed and pillaged by the
Bland bill sit down quietly and make no
effort to strengthen our arms here such
a bill may pass, but l look for no such
result.
A Proviso for Gold Payments.
n "If passed it will be with provision
that all pensions shall be paid in
that the depositors in savings
49, shall have the right to demand
gold from the banks, that all holders Of
life insurance policies shall be entitled
tn hnf
woman or child working for wages, or
who receives any yearly salary of less
than 81, 500 shall have the right to pay
ment in gold. In this way the most de-
serving people i'll the land will be pro-
tected from the consequences of this
kind Of legislation. The richer classes
will protect themselves, as the silver
rlng now does i'll many of the silver
states and territories of the far west, by
making debts due them payable in
United States gold coin.
The People Must Protest.
''But if the people at large, without
regard to calling on political assucia-
tlon, Will reach their representatives
here by mail, by telegraph and in per-
Bon, as is their right and under the
present grave circumstances their duty,
think the passage of any legislation
"There is no man here who is opposed
TO the degradation of the standard of
- and who understands that the
\; If passed. will be under the whip
~ through the iictation of the silver
ring and the lobby but will resist it to
the end, The time has arrived, how
ever, when all classes of people should
let the members Of the Fifty second
Congress know in an unmistakable way
that no excuse will be taken next No
Tember for ignorant, mischievous or dis
honest tampering with the standard of
value under the name of free coinage"
The date which will be set by the
rules committee for the consideration OF
the silver bill as special order will
probably not be SO early as the free
silver advocates want or SO late as the
other side desire The 9th or 9th OF
April is believed to he the day.