Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-07-25

one 1iuie r. ms 80. u.ong-con-nrcu APP
~planse.) J do not object 10 Mr.. Horr giving
the evolution of his life. ! do think II was
a little unfair TO have omitted that in that
evolution he finally became a bank presi-
dent. | do not deny that Mr.. Horr and nu-
pierous selfish bank presidents have at one
time been tfllers OF the soil"
Came Out Of Congress Poor.
Mr.. Horn: 'In reference 10 my having
been a bank president. | omitted 1t. not be-
cause l was ashamed Of the fact. 1t Is true
that at one time l had saved what we In
some places-not In this city-would call a
competency, and | was president OF a ma
tional bank. In the crash of 1873 I went
down; what l had saved was swept from
under me. My position as president of the
bank I resigned; but l did not steal any
money Of the bank. not a dollar. i went
into the world again single-handed and
went to work, and while putting in logs In
the northern part OF Michigan, l was non.i-
mated for congress and sent there, served
six years OF my life. and did the hardest
work | ever did during those six years. 1
came out of congress just as poor as l went
In. | could not come out any poorer; 1t was
an impossibllity. UaughterD
"Mr. Harvey is facetitious because 1 have
stated that the money question has given
me the headache. U.aughter.) / did state
that. But, mark you, Ii was the study of
the question that made my headache, not
writing such stuff as in this book. That
would not give any man the headache.
Uaughter.)
'The act Of 1873 was prepared after sub
hitting the question TO a large number OF
experts all over the United States. We had
never had a revision OF the mint laws for a
number of years, and the men In charge OF
the mint thought that the time had come
when something should be done. Among
the men consulted upon the question were
Mr.. Boutwell,. the secretary OF the treasury;
Mr.. Knox, deputy controller of the cur
rency; Mr.. Linderman, the director of the
mint; Mr.. Parsons, superintendent OF the
mint at Philadelphia. My friend here init
mated that this law must have been
wicked. because 1t was hltched onto the re-
vision of the mint laws. Why, that Is
where Ii belonged. That was the place to
find Ii. The bill, with the correspondence,
was submitted to congress In the most com.
plete form, and with an elaborate report
from Mr.. Knox,
which Explained All It's Provisions.
Thousands of copies of the bill We're
sent broadcast to all parts of the country.
The Bankers Magazine In Its number OF
July, 1870, printed this report OF Mr.. Knox
and commented on the same. The bill pre-
pared by Mr.. Knox was endorsed by Secre-
tary Boutwell,, Of the treasury, and trans
mitted to the senate on April %, 1870. The
bill, as 1t 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 a letter from the secretary.
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. These letters were all printed by order
Of the senate IN connection with the care
fully prepared report of Mr.. Knox"
Mr.. Harvey: "Mr. Horr, permit me. Have
you that bill and those letters with youF'
Mr.. Horn: II have not them here to-day,
but l have them in the city, / Think"
Mr.. Harvey: "Will you produce them
| during the debateT'
Mr.. Horr: ~ will IL l have them; I don't
! know whether / / brought them with me, but
i think l did. Mr.. Patterson wrote to Mr.
Knox and his letter was printed in the
public documents. / will say to this house
that every single document l have referred
| to I copied from the books Of the govern
ment In the city Of Washington, myself.
| individually, so l know what | am talking
about. Mr.. Patterson said: The silver half
| dime and three-cent piece are dispensed
with by this amendment. Gold becomes the
standard money, OF which the gold dollar
Is the unit. Silver Is subsidiary, embracing
coins from the dime to the half dollar
Can anything be more plain than THAR
Was there any covering up of anything In
that ~letter?'
Charge. Corruption.
Mr.. Harvey: ''In the presentation of de-
monetization / have called attention to
the condition, morally, of congress at the
time OF the passage of the act; TO impeach-
ment charges against Vice President Col
fax, In 1873, for fraud in connection with
legislation, and to the resignation of Secre-
tary of War Belknap for bribery In 1873.
i now proceed, after first stating for Mr..
Horrs that Delmar, the Eng
lish historian, says that the act OF 1916
demonetiZing silver In England had a clause
In 1t that IL might be reinstated by the
king; that that clause giving a right to re-
instatement was repealed In 1871, and that
the act on which IL was repealed was with
In two weeks In the hands OF Mr.. Knox,
the controller of the United States treas
ury (applause), and was In part the basis
OF the act in this country. There was an
era or corruption In congress at that time.
clinton Colgate confessed before the ways
ana means committee of 1873 to the use
OF money TO influence the Incorporation Of
special features in the Internal revenue
Dlll, testlfying among other things that
Inarles sherman of Ohio, a brother OF
senator Sherman. had been paid 500 0 by
Qe New York stock exchange In connec-
ton with the revenue Jil. Tile officials OF
the stock exchange were subpoenacd. and
the facts developed that while the money
mad not been paid, Judge sherman had
rendered a bill to the exchange for his
SERVICES, ana, as he ella med, for securing
~ seiNiCeS OF MS brother, Senator Sher-
man 10 put the bill through (Applausel.
IL would readily exhaust the words of this
debate to go into all the Investigations Of
that notorious congress"
Horr Defends C~onEressmen.
MT HORT: THE attempt of Mr.. Harvey TO
smirch the congress of the United States
ana make the people Of this country be-
teVe that the people who acted as members
OF congress in this country, as a rule. are
corrupt, and have been subject to purchase
ana sale. can be characterized only as In
famous. (Applause) No nation on the face
OF the earth ever had a purer set OF legis-
lators than have been In the congress Of
THIS country during its existence. There sit
before me several members of congress who
served with me In several congresses, and l
appeal to each and every one OF them IL,
during their entire services, they ever saw
or mistrusted that money was being used to
purchase members OF congress. I served
SIX years without ever showing that an In
stance OF that kind had occurred during the
congresses In which / served. When men
start out with the proposition that. In or
der to prove their ase, they must also
prove that a majority of the best men Of
this country are thieves aud scoundrels,
they had better stop before they begin.