The advocate., 1895-07-31

United States with her gold and silver
mines Is in an eminently favorable posi-.
tion to uphold the use Of both gold and
silver, and that the double valuation as
1t existed before would be OF great benefit
to the country. lam myself, as yon will
perceive from my writings, in favor OF
the full and complete adoption of the
double standard, and in that letter from
Mr.. Seyd from beginning to end, cover
pages and pages Of type-wrltten matter
he does nothing but oppose the very
measure that these men say he spent so
much money to pass through the Amer
ican con ~ress."
Harvey rejolned as follows: "The re-
port of the monetary conference at Paris
In 1867 will contradict the history that
Mr. Horr has read from. AS to Ernest
Seyd and letter found among Mr.. Hoop
sr's effects since he and Seyd both died,
suppose in the years to come some one
would say to the people then living that
John G. Carlisle was q bimetallist 'and
here is the proof Of it, and was to read
from Mr.. Carlisle's speech, The demone.
tization of silver is the greatest crime Of
the ages and It's consequences for evil are
greater than all the foods and fires and
pestilences of the past Would that
prove that Mr.. Carlisle is a bimetallist at
particular time when something might
be charged against him when he acted as
secretary Of the treasury under Mr.. Gleve-
land"
Harvey then proceeded with the record
OF congress when the house refused to
suspend the rules and pass the demoneti.
zation bill without reading. "Mr. Hol-
man asked this question: Before the
question is taken upon suspending the
rules and passing the bill hope the gen-
tleman from Massachusetts will explain
the leading changes made by this bill u
the existing law, especially in reference }
the coinage. 1t would seem as If all thu
small coinage Of the country is intended
to be recoined' To this Mr. Hooper rc~
piled: The bill makes no changes In tn,
existing laws in that regard" HarVe'
read other questions, none, however, t.
ferring to the demonetization OF silver,
show the character Of those questions,
indicating that the members did not know
the bill did demonetize the silver dollar.
The rules were then suspended and the
substitute passed
Thn bill went to the senate and Harvey
read from the record Shsrman's desire I'd
have it passed quickly, the senator say
ing that it would only take the time CON
sumed In reading the bill. Harvey
quoted Sherman as follows In answer to
a question by Casserly: "If the senator
will allow me, he will see that the pre-
ceding section provides for coin which II
exactly interchangeable with the English
shilling and the five franc piece Of France;
that is, the five franc piece Of France will
be the exact equivalent Of dollar Of the
United States in our silver coinage"
In reply Horr said: "That is right,
Mr.. Harvey. The bill that was reported
to the senate and that they were then dis
cussing had in 1t provision for the coin
ing Of silver dallars, the silver dollars
about which you talked at thel session
of this debate containing SS4 grains, and
they were made with all the other silver
coins, subsidiary coins The senate
struck that provision out and substituted
the trade dollar for that 3S4 grain dollar.
HarVey-If you will show me from the
record Of the proceedings In the senate on
that day that the senate struck out that
dollar we will stop this debate right here.
Horr replied: II have not the record,
but can get it. The law when it was
passed had the trade dollar in 1t. Do
you deny JhatP"
HarVey-No sir, do not.
Horr-And didn't that take the place
OF the other dollarG
HarVey-No sir.
Horr-I defy you to show word any
where that substantiates that position.
"The only men who opposed that
bill in the house were Clark
SON N Potter and Mr.. Brooks both
millionaires from Wall street, both rep.
resenting the very men that you say were