The advocate., 1895-07-31

6he house simply by being marked agreed
20. Harvey then insisted that be Wsn
right regarding the procedure In con.
ference committees, and that such com.
mlttees could not change anything agreed
on by both houses. He charged that either
men on the conference committee or some
fraudulent clerk" had stricken out the
silver dollar. He asked "the voters Of the
republic to read the Congressional Record
of Jan. IL, 1873, and see for themselves
that it is there expressed that the silver
dollar was in the bill before it was emas-
culated by the conference committee, the
silver dollar that was with the trade dol.
lar to have free access to the mints. Thus
the conspiracy succeeded either by COR
rupt clerk or the two men who made the
report, or both"
Horr offered to give Mr.. Harvey his
time II he would show that the disputed
dollar was given free coinage by the bill
as 1t came from the house, and Harvey
said he had already shown il. Horr re.
piled: This new dollar that was pro.
Vidod for in the bill in the house as lt
went to the senate wal just twice the
size OF the half lfdollar Now the provision
existed that the silver for making suoh
half dollars should be bought by the gov.
ernment and that the seigniorage arising
from coming such money, which was
worth less than it was worth on its face
should go into the government treasury.
DO you believe they provided for coin
containing double the amount OF silver Ia
the half dollar and agreed TO take all the
silver that should come to the mint and
coin 1t into such dollars, and In the same
bill also provided that 1t it was coined in-
to half dollars the government should got
it 1.-THE seignoragelH Men wouldn't go
and sell their silver for the market price
when the very bill would permit them TO
have 1t coined and give them q larger
price for 1t"
Horr then, after review of the points
upon which he and Harvey agreed and
differed, proposed to go into the question
--the law being on the statute books
Should it be repealedP But Harvey said
he wasn't through with the demonetiza-
tion act, He quoted the Chicago Tribune
Of Jan. 49, 1873, which only briefly meH'
toned in its telegraphic report che pas.
sage OF the bill, Notwithstanding one Of
the money metals had been ''strnok
down" by that bill The reporters at
Washington did not know 1t. Horr de-
MED that the passage Of the law resulted
in Curtailing the silver money In olrcula-
tion in this country, he proposed then
to go into the question Of ratio, but HRT.
Vey said he had still something more TO
say about the demonetization aot.
U,k
declaring that he did not know the bill
demonetzed the silver dollar; Conkling
admitting his ignorance of the fact
March 30, 1875; and Allison declaring,
Feb. 10, 1873 that the bill had been doc
tored" and that 1t did not as passed rep
resent the intention of the house.
Holman was quoted, July Is, 1875, do.
olaring that the matter of the bllls pas
sage was "a colossal swindle" and as IL
passed was certainly not read TO the
house. Said Holman: II myself asked
the question Of Mr.. Hooper, who stood
near where am now standing, whether
1t chaged the law in regard to coinage,
and the answer Of Mr.. Hooper certainly
left the impression upon the whole house
that the subject Of the coinage was not
affected by the bill"
Horr said: II desire to say to the gem
tleman that just what one congressman
or another may have said about this bill
neither know nor care l know hhis,
that the men composing the congress Of
1873 personally and individually have
every one of them denied tho statements
Of corruption that you charge In the
passage OF this bill. l know that they
have nothing but inuendoes TO base the
charge upon. know that they cannoa
make case unless they hrst prove that
no decency was left in the American con-
gress in 1873"
Horr then took up the question OF
rates, saying that Harvey might con-
Ai..o. all,n In q, M khnh old hnlnn IL ha 20