The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1893-09-30
KEEPING UP The FIGHT
LEGAL ASPECTS OF SILVER
The Idea OF IN tnterDa tional Agree
ment q oeiusIor and q Snare
-Four Unsuccessful At
tempts on Record.

VotUpS8 on N9COf0s
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.-Cameron Of
Pennsylvania presented q petition from
the Phiiadelphia manufacturer, asking
leGsslation to retain the protective tariff
and the integrity Of silver ~ o money
metal, In accordance with the programme
hsretofore sent in thcse dispatches. He
said the siRaers represented S7S.0oOOO0 Of
capital and yearly product Of Sl50, 900.
900.
The repeal bill was then taken up Har-
ris, democrat, of Tennessee, spoke against
it. He declared il practically meant o
gold standard, as thereafter silver could
ouly be used as fractional currency. He
favored the coinage of oil American sill
Yer, but hoped Sherman would join him
In rehabilitating the Bland Allison act
and going back to that amount of coin.
age. II not more.
Sherman said he believed the continued
purchase OF silver, ether under tho Bland.
Allison act or the act Of 1880, would even.
tually drive gold from circulation -.od .iI.
yer would be the only sta-.aard. Frcs
coinage would have tho same AFFECT an ho
favored the aban,, ,,onment Of the system.
Harris cor ..,nuing said: ~ Thought 1t
an o""~9e to ask men like myself and
o'".srs absolutely to sweep from under sill
ger currency every vestige Of law. That
is not what we meant at Chicago. At that
tame voorhees, said that while he would
vote for the repeal OF the Sherman act, 1t
must be In connsction with something
better. "When the senator from Indiana"
said Harris, "shall have passed the bill.
as probably he may, he will flnd himself
utterly powerless to enact any other law
Tor the use OF silver or to repeal tho 10 per
cent. tax on state bank circulation to i'm
crease the volume OF money. Most Of
those who aid him now want to diminish
the volume Uf money. Pass this bill, w hicl
will desert aud oppose the wishes of the
serator from Indiana this is q trap In
which do not intend TO he caught"
Morgan of Alabama then addressed the
senate. He began by discussion OF the
probability OF securing treaty with Great
Britain on the silver question, which he
said was very remote. An International
agreement In respect to monetary matters
is impossible Of execution and al
most impossible OF contemplation In
. legal sense. In this critical
period 1t would not do to oifsr such
ring to the repeal bill, Morgan said: "Why
this haste2 Congress would better UNDER
take to secure something within the view
OF constitutional power. We would better
again declare our indepe ndence of Great
Britain and maintain It than undertake
by treaty agreement, fnesse, cajolery,
hattery and the like TO persuade Great
Britain to allow US TO legislate for our
people In . way that the government
ought to legislate for its people,"
Allison observed that the United States
had four times attempted to secure an
International agreement.
''Yes," said Morgan, land the senator
is now back from Q recent conference at
which il was agreed that nothing could be
done. After four Of these disappoint.
ments, We want Independence. We must
be Independent from Great Britain. The
repealcrs know there Is need Of haste,
they fear decision of the supreme court
Of the United States on q case pending be-
fore that court, No. 15049, entitled George
5. Merritt. ct al, vs.. Charles Foster,
secretary of the treasury" tho silver
brick easel.
After talking for two hours, Morgan sud-
denly dverged from his legal argument
that tho right Of the owner of silver bullion
TO have IL coined free aud without limita-
ton still existed, and said: "No man,
whatever his powers may be, can exoner-
ate me from the discharge of my duty to
grant to tho people all their constitutional
rights; nor can any man crowd me into
silence when I choose to speak. This is
an arena in which I have the honor to be
one of the ambassadors of sovereign
state. vhosa Guffra0a khnll not ha takan