Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-10-26
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@ ,,,i,.,.l..i to be accomplished ahe
announced, and publicly FED.
orally upon the floor of both ses.
and many times over in print. The
simple explanation of the fact. that
certain persons then in Congress can
truthfully say, rs no doubt they 40.
that they did not know that the bill
dropped the silver dollar. is. that M
that time, no one felt any special
interest in that coin. Ii had no friends
except the bullion dealers. and no
one but they seemed to care whether
it was to be thereafter coined or not.
Ii was a coin which probably very
few of the members of either House
had ever seen. Certainly they had
never seen il in circulation, and II is
easy TO see WHY they should feel no in
terest III resisting the expressed
wish of the Treasury Department,
that il should no longer be coined.
for the benefit of the bullion dealers.
aud a loss to the Govern
ment We have seen by the
Globe that Senators Stewart
aud Nye. the two Senators who repre-
sented the state Of Nevada which wa>
then, ! believe. if not the chief. was
one Of the chief silyerproducing states
Of the Union, were present and took
part IN the discussion OF lie bin in
that body. Yet neither Of them said
word IN opposition to the proposed
dropping Of the coin, and no doubt
each Of them would have been quick
70 resist. and probably would have
been able to successfully resist that
provision OF the bill if they had inn
agined that they or the silver pro-
dneers of their state were specially
intere,tedin the continued coinage of
the ll2l grain dollar.
The statements Of the several states
men quoted by Mr. Mills Us saying, IN
effect. that they did not know that the
act of 1873 ..demonetized silver, or
dropped from our coinage system the
H. grain silver dollar Of our faith
ers. ear that they did not support
that legislation, Or that the act vas
.doctored after its passage or that
there was no written report. if those
statements were made, 10 not re-
Quire more than moments notice.
They simply show. in the eases ofMr.
Kelley, Gen,l Garfield. and Mr
Burcharl, that they had forgotten
what took place, and what the record
showed. Mr.. Mills, However, forgot
to point out that, on the next page
(l606) of the Congressional Record
Tor 1878, following this paragraph
!. hieh be- purpOrts or attempts to quote
from a speech OF Mr.. Kelley, (p 5000
appears Il reply from Gen'l Garfield, in
the cou. SO OF which he read from the
"Giobe, parts of the speeches of ldr.
Kelley. in reply to Mr.. Potter, which /
quoted above and from tie Globe" he
concIusiv, Ii showed that Mr. Kelley
did understand and explained to the
Hou.e that il was the object Of the
biIl To establish 4 single standard, and
cease coming the 4l21 gram silver
Gctar | viii give a brief quotation
from the speech Of Gen'l Garfield in
reply to Mir. Kelley, just referred to.
After having called attention 10, and
quoted from Mr.. Kelley 5 spe ches in
reply O Mr.. Potter, and to the colloquy
between Mr. Holman and Mr. Hooper
respecting the coinage of subsidiary
CONS, which | quoted above, Mr.. Gar
field sind, ('Record md Sess., 45th
Cong, vol. Z. part 2 p. 1000 'But no
matter about that, the bill which the
gentleman from Pennsylvania held in
his hand and asked the House 10 pass,
droppeG from the law the silver dollar.
His committee dropped it on the rec
concentration II the Secretary of the
Treasury. which was in print and had
long before been ret, rred 10 his com
miltee, aud in the long report of Mr.
Kuox Comptroller Of the Currency, it
was urged that the silver dollar shOuld
be dropped Upon those reports the
b,l was drawn which did drop il, and
the gentleman holding il IN his hand
said the Committee had gone over it,
every line, and it ought to pass. - The
democratic gentleman from Illinois, not
now here, rose aud stated that he had
gone over the b II thoroughly, Inc by
hne, and be was satisfied that il ought
10 pass quote the above exact, not
in support OF my quotations from the
| "Glot g" itself, but simply 70 show that
Mr.. Mills, or whoever made the extract
from MIR. Kelleys speech which Mr..
Mills purports to quote, WINGED
against light and knowledge Be
cause the quotation have just made,
rot only appears Immediately following
the speech 81 Mr. Kelley, bur il il itself
Immediately followed by another speech
from Mr.. Kelley, part Of the same DIS
GUS ion. III which, while not DEM, ing
that be did MI that III he > Owe extract
from the speech Of Gen'l Garfield, he
vas charged with doing, he sought to
escape its consequences, BY claiming
that he really had nothing 10 do with
engineering tie passage Of the biz
and be quoted from Mr.. McNeely. a
statement to the effect that be (MeNeely)
had never seen Mr.. Kelley at a meeting
Of the Committee Whoever made that
extract from Mr. Kelley speech, knew
81 ought to have known. that Mr..
Kelley. when he made il, was mistaken.
BE had simply forgotten what he did
nearly six years before. And that
.peech III Cent Garfield showed what