The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-12-19
payable in lawful money of the United
Gtotos Q2O0 000 000

payable in lawful money of the United
States-$300,000,000.
S. 1856. A bill to authorize the issue
of $780, 100000 in declaratory legal
tender money and for other purposes,
and forthwith call in all bonds for inn
mediate redemption 100000 900.
S. GIG. A bill to direct the secretary
of the treasury to purchase all silver
bullion mined in the United States that
may be offered at Sl.29 per ounce, less
the charge for coiuing, and that full
legal tender notes shall be issued to
eight times the value of the silver bull
lion so purchased, not exceeding $780,
100000 per month, and to continue for
three years-S1 800 100000.
S. 1850. A bill directing the secre-
tary of the treasury to have coined all
gold and silver now in possession of the
government, and also to have printed a
sufficient amount of legal tender paper
money to make the whole amount of
paper, gold, and silver money Sc, 0OO,-
100000,
8. LIT. A bill directing the secre-
tary of the treasury to prepare and is
sue treasury notes to an amount equal
to three and one-half dol ars for every
dollars worth of gold and silver coin
and bullion belonging to the United
States, and set apartIor reserved by law
(estimated) $500, 900 900.
S. 2,029. A bill directing the secre-
tary to pay off all Understanding obli-
ga,ions, all treasury notes, gold and
silver certificates, and national bank
notes, and to issue paper money to the
amount necessary to pay as aforesaid,
and also to pay all salaries of officers,
or wages, and all appropriations made
by congress whatsoever-S2, 900, 000,-
000
"These hungry bills" said Sci ator
Morrill,, big, bigger and biggest, nine
of them, asking for nine or ten times
more money than there is now in use
by the whole world, were unanimously
rep )rted adversely by the committee
on finance. Figuratively speaking, the
bills were all Of one brood and of the
game, none worth charge of powder,
but legislative dodoes, unlikely ever to
be seen on earth again.
Some minor political parties come
and 90 like those diseases which affiict
nobody but once. Such parties, usually
destitute of constitutional stamina, are
ephe neral, and are soon compelled to
hoist any flag and set sail for "Cowes
and market" The eagerness of many
politicians and of some parties in the
minority to obtain ascendancy in the
control of public affairs leads them to
present pretentious and kite-fying plat
forms for popular support, which, after
the gusty winds of single season, only
fatally bewitch antiquated office seekers,
wire-pullers with no wires to pull, and
few juvenile cranks tarrying at Jer.
icho.
"These crank overtures and many
more equally sane, perhaps, eclipse
those of Absalom when he sought the
life of David, his father aud said: 'Oh,
that were made judge in the land,
that every man which hath any suit or
cause might come unto me, and would
do him JUSTICE So the people, it is
written, went out into the field against
Israel and the battle was in the wood
of Ephraim. And Absalom met the
servants of David. And Absalom rode
upon a mule, and the mule went under
the boughs of great oak, and he was
taken up between the heavens and the
earth; and the mule that was under
him rode away
"This party needs to be reminded,
while fighting against Israel, that the
mule under Absalom rode away"