Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-01-09
FROM RIO oRANDE.

FROM RIO 0RANDB.
San ANTONIO, Tex, Jan. 9.-N
news Of startling nature has bee
received at military headquartor
eonct ming the situation on tn
border, Tut several interesting re
pOi's have been received, one @
Them Icing from Captain Hardie, o
the Third cavalry, who is at Solone
TcAas. Captain Hardie reports tn,
capture Of two revolutionists
While scouting down the river Al
far as Roma, a band Of fifty mer
were located on ranch. They arr
supposed to be- revOlutionisls,
SILVER COINAGE.
| WASHINGTON, Jan. 8. - Th,
national executive silver coinag,
committee yesterday issued an ad
dress, which says: Continued
experience demonstrates that there
can be no adequate final solution o
the money question, but by re
endowing silver with the money
function and making silver coins
standard money co-equal with gold
for all money purposes. The present
policy Of making subsidiary money
Of silver to be redeemed In gold and
If piling higher the fabric of credit
and credit money on the constantly
diminishing basis Of gold is un.
sound and unsafe, and must end
The facts are that the supply Of
gold Is admittedly inadequate tc
provide for the worlds needs OF
money, and that many times more
people are made to use gold exclu-
sively as standard money than IN
1873.
Tie production Of gold Is dimin-
ishing, while population, wealth,
commerce and the consumpti OF
gold in the arts Is rapidly increasing,
the Increase in the demand for arts
and dentistry in the United States
alone being sufficient to absorb, at-
cordlng to the report of the director
Of the mint, in ten years, more
than the entire gold product of this
country. The value Of gold under
these influences Ia largely increased
and must continue to increase and
prices as certainly continue to fall,
is manifest. The bugaboo of foreign
silver coming here no longer alarms
intelligent men. Under free coin
age, silver would he $l24 an ounce
here. 1t Is $l.3S In India, and with
open mines 1t would he 81 .33 In the
states of the Latin union, which Is
the value of all the coined silver of
Europe.
The silver question is an issue,
and one that vitality concerns the
welfare not only OF the industrial
classes, but of business men gener.
ally, and II viii not down at the
bidding of any party; nor can it be
ignored or lodged. IL is a living
issue, and must be met and settled,
and the only permanent settlement
of 1t il the restoration Of free bi.
metallic coinage, or the ultimate
abandonment of the principle of
automatic regulation of money
through the production of the
precious metals.
BALTIMoRE's SAILORS.
VALLEJO, Jan. 9.-The lnvestiga-
tion into the assault upon the Bal
timole's sailors by Chileans at Val
paraiso was continued yesterday. |
The facts sdduced, while mostly In
of Thursdays testi-
mony regarding the murder of
lsiggin, they also brought forth
more strongly than ever the fact
hat the assault had been planned
Beforehand. AT the the time Riggin
VAS lying ON. the pavement, while
wo policemen watched the mob
,lunging knives into his back, aud
wo negro coal beavers were flying
rom mob of Chilean men-of-war-
nen, who finally overlook them,
tabbed one aud robbed the other Of
III his money. Another man In
bird part OF the district was chased
ND thrown into the bay and would
lave been drowned but for the pro-
ectlon given him by French naval
hlcer. The only thing TO the credit
{ the Chilean's 80 far Is that a
quad Of army officers escorted five
Z six Of the Baltimore's sailors to
he wharf aud sent them aboard
heir ship,
The claim made by the procurator
seal Of Valparaiso, that all but two
the witnesses testified that the
olice had done their duty has beon {
demolished. OF seven /
illnesses 80 far examined. flve state ,
lat they testified 10 the exact con.
AIRY before the Chllian court. Ii L.
so beccming evident that the
altinlore men were really sober =,
hen on shore that October amer. |,
pon. Not only do they assert this a
lemse,ves, but the statement of
10 officers aud the characters Of
Ie men prove Il. Captain Schley
Us he saw number OF them only >
fenty minutes before the row '"
gan, and was astonlshed TO see
~ sober and well behaved they
IRE. Forty-lhree Of the men who
're ashore were petty officers, aud X
ne men who rec ived special Gl
lvlleges on account OF their long Tn