Morning journal and courier., 1893-12-15
NEWS BY TELEGRAPH. From All Quarters. VOORHEES, SILVER BILL. He Says He is in Favor of
 Silver Coinage. MISS HARRISON WAS ON THE STAND Tells of Her Fathers Murder
 With Great Effort. L0eKEP-0UT MEN GAIN SYMPATHY, They Have Been Promised
 Weekly Aid.
LeeKEp-OUr MEN GAIN SYMPATHY.
NEW SILVER BILL.

Senator Voorhees, Introduces a BiIl That ts Intended to Do Away With
 Bank Notes of a Less Denomination M Than Ten Dollars-No More Five | Dollar Gold Pieces 10 be Coined- Two Million Silver Dollars to be Coined a Month.
 l WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.-Senator Voor- hees introduced into the senate to-day a bill for the coinage of silver dollars and the retirement of small denominations of gold and paper. The full text of tn 6 bill
 Is as follows:
 Be it, etc., that the seignorsge or profit fund which resulted from the coinage of silver bullion under acts of February 2S, 1878, and July IA, 1890. or which would result from the coinage of such bullion, shall be coined into silver dollars of stand ard weight and fneness with full legal ten der at the rate of not less than two million dollars psr month, until such dollars shall
 bs covered into the treasury.
 Section 2-That when all the seignorsge or profit fund bullion specified in the first section of this aet has been coined ss there in directed 1t shall be the duty of the geo. retsry of the treasury to purchase each month silver bullion at the market price in quantities sufficient to coin not less than two millions each and every month, and he is hereby directed to coin the said bullion monthly, as fast as purchased, into stand ard silver dollars, and a sum sufficient to carry into ( If .ct the provisions of this act Is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise sppropri- ated.
 Section 3-That when any paper circu- lsting notes or certificates of whatsoever character of denominations less than ten dollars issued under authority of the United States, except national bank notes or certificates redeemable only in silver dollars shall be received at the treasury or any sub-tressury they shall not bs re-is- sued, but shall be assorted, counted and recorded, and immediately destroyed in accordance with the existing provisions of law and as rapidly as notes or oertifc ates are destroyed they shall be replaced by an equal amount of like notes or certificates ot denominations not less than ten dollars.
 Section 4-Hereafter no bank note shall be issued of denomination less than ten dollars, and all such bank notes when re- ceived at the treasury or any sub-tressury shall be destroyed in accordance with law and ths national banking associations, whose notes are destroyed under the pro visions of this act, shall be respectively required to substitute notes of denomina- tions not less than ten dollars in lieu of those destroyed.
 Section 5-That from and after the pas sage of this act the coinage of two and one- half dollar gold piece and the five dollar gold piece is prohibited, and the coins above named shall not be struck or issued by the mint of the United States, and such coins when received at the treasury or any sub treasury shall be withdrawn from cir culstion and recoined into eagles and double eagles in accordance with law.
 Section 6-The president of the United States is hereby authorized to appoint five commissioners to an international confer snce to be held at a place to be hereafter designated with view of securing inter nationally fxity of relative value between gold and silver as money by means of & common ratio between these metals with free mintage at such ratio and for compen- eation of such commissioners and for all reasonable expenses connected herewith to be approved by the secretary of state including the proportion to be paid by the United States of the joint expenses of such conference, $50, ,000, or so much thereof ss may be necessary is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not oth- erwise appropriated.
 Inasmuch as MT. Voorhees, represented the administration in the repeal contest it might be inferred that the wishes of the president and Secretary Carlisle were ex- pressed in the bill. This, however, MT. Voorhees, denied.
 s'No," he said, "I am solely responsible for my bill. It is in no sense an admins Il tration measure. It is not the result of a word of consultation with any one. It will be carefully considered in committee ! and come before the senate some time after the holidays. It will not be allowed to get in the way of the tariff bill, but will be | taken up under proper circumstances. I
 think it will pass the house by large ma- | jority."
 "Certainly no one will be surprised by my introduction of such bill. Indeed it would have been very surprising had not done 80. It had all the time been my
 openly declared purpose in the senate and
 in all other proper places to follow the re-.
 peal of the Sherman act with other and
 wiser and safer legislstion on the subject of silver. I have never for 6 moment
 thought that the coinage and use of silver
 was to cease in this country. On the con-
 trsry the repeal of the Sherman act pledges
 the government to the use and coinage of
 gold and silver money alike.".