The advocate., 1895-07-24

pie controlling or directing this matter,
After correspondence with large num-
Der Of these experts upon mints and coin
age, the bill was framed, and with the
correspondence was submitted to congress
in the most complete form and with an
elaborate report from Mr.. Knox, which ex-
planned all its provisions. Every step taken
in the inCipiency of this measure was as
open as the light.
II am now reading from my own articles
and consequently use them without quo
tatlons Thousands of copies Of the bih
were sent broadcast to all parts Of the
country. The Bankers Magazine In It's
number Of July, 1870, printed this report
of Mr.. Knox and commented on the same.
The bill prepared by Mr.. Knox was en-
dorsed by Secretary Boutwell, Of the treas
ury, and transmitted to the senate on
April Is, 1870. The bill as It was at that
time drafted dropped the dollar silver coin
of the United States and changed the unit
Of value. That was in the original bill as
1t was sent to the senate With letter from
the secretary. Now, nobody tried to cover
up that fact. In this report of Mr.. Knox
were found all the letters Of these different
experts to whom had been sent a draft OF
the bill and who had been asked for their
opinion upon it, Those letters were all
printed by order of the senate In connec-
tion with the carefully prepared report Of
Mr. Knox"
Harvey here asked If Horr had the bill
and letters with him. Horr thought he had
them in the city and would produce them
IL he did have them, and continued as fol
lows: "Mr. Patterson wrote to Mr.. Knox
and was printed In the public documents
for l will say to this house that every
single document have referred to copied
from the books Of the government in the
city Of Washington myself, individually, 80
know what am talking about, Mr. Pat
tsrson said: The silver dollar, half, dime,
and three-cent piece are dispensed with by
this amendment. Cold becomes the stand
ard OF money, of which the gold dollar ls
the unit. Silver is subsidiary, embracing
coins from the dime to the half-dollar.' Can
anything be more plain than thatH Was
there any covering up Of anything In that
letter."
In reply Harvey proceeded: I'm the In
terrupted presentation of demonetizatlon I
had called the attention OF the people to
the condition, morally, Of congress at the
time of the passage Of the act. had re-
ferred to impeachment charges against
Vice President COlfax In 1873 for fraud In
connection with legislation; to the reslgna-
tion of Secretary Of War Belknap for
bribery. l now proceed, after first stating
for Mr. Horr's information that Del Mar,
the English historian, says that the act OF
1876 demonetizing silver in England, had
a clause in 1t that 1t might be reinstated by
the king that that clause giving right to
reinstatement was repealed in 1871, and
that the act In which 1t was repealed was
within two weeks In the hands OK Mr..
Knox, the comptroller Of the United States
treasury, and was in part the basis OF the
act in this country"
Harvey repeated that there was an era
Of corruption in congress at that time.
"Clinton Colgate confessed before the ways
and means committee Of 1873 to the use Of
money to influence the incorporation Of
special features in the internal revenue bill,
testifying, among other things, that
Charles Sherman, of Ohio, a brother Of
Senator Sherman, had been paid $4,000 By
the New York Stock Exchange in connec-
tion with the revenue bill. The officials Of
the stock exchange were subpoenaed, and
the facts developed that while the money
had not been paid, Judge Sherman had rem
dered a bill to the exchange for his serv-
ices, and, as he claimed, for securing the
services Of his brother, Senator Sherman,
to put the bill through Colgate, when he
testified, knew Of the transaction and sup
posed the bill had been paid. AS Judge
Sherman was then United States district
Judge the ways and means committee
turned the whole matter over to the judi
ciary committee, directing 1t to take action