Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-12-06

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J whOmsoever uttered.
What great indignation John Shef-
| expresses, and how he poses as a mar
| tyr People might be inclined to believe
him were there not proof to contradic.
everyone of his falsely uttered words.
When he said the bill was read in con-
gress before its passage he says what
other distinguished senators have fiat
ly denied. Somebody has lied. 1t is
matter of record that Mr.. Kelly, tie
| originator of the bill, said there was no
change in the weight or 6neness pro-
vIded for. Mr.. Holman asked MIR.
Hooper, who had charge OF the bill in
the house, If it would be read and Mr..
Hooper replied: Il hope not, it is a
long bill and those who are interested
are perfectly familiar with its provis-
ions" And it was passed without be-
ing read. In the senate 1t was in charge
of John Sherman, who said when ques-
toned regarding it:
This bill proposes silver coinage exactly
the same as the French and what are called
the associated nations of Europe. who have
adopted the international standard of silver
coinage; that is. the dollar provided by this
bill is the precise equivalent of the f1Ye-franc
piece"
What glaring falsehood, when he
claims now to have known all the pro
visions Of the bill. 1t is a matter of
record that Grant did not know what
Was in the bill when he signed it as
president.
General Carried said in bis speech at
Springfield, before he was nominated
for president:
perhaps / ought 10 be ashamed to say,
but the truth is that l, at that time chairman
of the Committee on Appropriations. and
having my hands overfuIl during all that
! time, never read the bill. 1t was put through
as dozens of bills are I'm Congress, on the faith
of the report of the chairman of the COM
mittee; therefore tell you because it is the
| truth, that had no knowledge of it,
John Sherman claims that the voters
| from all the free silver states were in
its favor. In answer to this Senator
| Stewart said:
DO YOUR COueITuctlOu Oh
their meaning now, the words you used then
! induced me to vote with you, because you
made me believe that you were sending out a
bona tlde dollar as good as any in the world
| Senator Beck of Kentucky, said:
what ] complain of is that this House nev.
er knew what was in the bill. Will any sane
man believe that they tSeDators) deliberately
consented to strike down silver coinage? Mt
y SFn-f xyoll Il do hold
him"
| Mr.. Kelley, the father of the original meas
ure, who was chairman of the Committee or
Coinage said Congressional Record, Vol. VIII p
l6C5):
I'm connection with the charge that ] ad
vocated the bill which demonetized the stand
ard silver dollar, say that, though chairman
of the Committee on Coinage, was as ignor
ant of the fact that it would demonetize the
silver dollar or of its dropping the silver dol
lar from Our system of coins, as were those
| distinguished Senators, Messrs. Blaine and
voorhees,. l do not think that there were
three members of this House that knew it.
Is The Committee on Coinage who
reported the original bill were faithful and
able, and scanned its provisions closely. AS
their organ reported it; it contained pro
vision for both the standard gold and silver
dollar and the trade dollar.
Never having heard till long after its en-
actment of the substitution in this Senate OF
the section which dropped the standard dollar
profess to know nothing of its history; hut
am prepared to say that in all the Legislation
of this country there is no mystery equal t.
the demOnetzaton of the standard dollar OF
the United States. have never found a mar
who could tell how it came about or why.
wish gentlemen to know wha
the bill was; it was a bill to reorganize thu
mints and it was passed without allusion il
debate to the question of the retention o.
abandonment of the standard silver dollar
II was the chairman of the committee tina
reported the original bill, and aver upon IN!
honor that did not know that it proposed t.
drop the standard dollar, and 1 did not learI
that it has done so for eighteen months afte
the passage of the substitute offered by Mr.
Hooper,
Mr.. Holman said (Record, Vol. vii, p, 1888:
II have before me the record of the pro
ceedngs of this House on the passage of tina
bil-a report which no man can read withou
being convinced that the measure and tn,
method of its passage through the House wal
a colossal swindle. 1 assert that the measur,
never had the sanction of the House, ant
does not possess the moral force of law
Mr.. Bright of Tennessee said (Record, Vol
vii. p, 5S4):
1.-The bill passed by fraud in the House
never having been printed in advance. 1t wa
passed under such circumstances that tn
fraud escaped the attention of some of th
most watchful as well as the abest Statesmen
| in Congress.
Senator Allison said (Record, Vol. vii D. 1851
when the secret history of this bill come
to be told. it will disclose the fact that thu
House intended to coin both gold and silver
and intended to place both metals upon tn
French relation (ratio) instead OF our own"
Senator Howe said Record. Vol. vii, p,764):
Mr.. President. do not regard the demon
etization of silver as an attempt to wrench
from the people more than they agree to pay
That is not the crime of which ] accuse tn
act of 1873. l charge it with guilt compare
with which the robbery of a thousand million
dollars is venial."
Senator voorhees, said Record Vol. VIII
1859:
Il want to ask my friend from Maine wheth
er may not call him as ONO moro witness It
the fact that it was not generally know
whether silver was demonetized? Did h
know, as speaker of the House, presiding a
that time, that the silver dollar was demone
tized in the BILL
Senator Blaine:
II did not know anything that was in tn
bill. And now L should like to exchang,
questions with the senator from Indiana, W b.
was then on the floor, and whose business
was far more than mine TO know. because b!
the designation of the House 1 was TO pu
questions, the Senator from Indiana, with hi
power as DICTATOR, to unfold them. did h
kaow?'
Senator Voorhees,:
Il very frankly say l did not"
ACCOUNTS of idle labor and id,
money come from the same great cen
| terS of trade WHY can mi this AMIN