The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-31

the most shocking disclosures are hourly
| threatened. We are told that the ser
| pents trail can be traced in the higher
seats of power, and that his odious slime
| has trickled down over the whole fabric
| to its very bottom, everywhere debasing
| manhood and poisoning civic honor.
| There is more truth than metaphor in
| this, and the most deplorable feature Of
| the situation is the tone of flippant, pessi-
| mistic comment with which such sorry
| condition of things is treated by many
| whose duty as citizens it is to put an
end to it,. (Applause.)
"Mr. Horn reads, without giving page
but that makes no difference-of where
| members of congress spoke Of subsidiary
coinage. Now he has confused you with
| subsidiary coinage which means the
| fractional silver, not ;the dollar, and
| where a congressman spoke of subsidiary
| coins he did not mean the silver dollar
| that had free access to the minis. Now
| so much for that. He quotes from Mr..
| Stoughton's speech by reading language
| that would look as if it included the dol
lar piece, but Stoughton's speech is one
| of those leave to print speeches that you
| hear about that never was spoken in
| congress, and is a part Of this plan that
| was pursued during the period of demon
| citation.
FREQUENT PRACTICE OF BRIBERY.
| Now l proceed. Both modern and an
| oiCHl LSIOIy give plenty Oh eNlQonco OF
the frequent practice of bribery, and
| yet few are exposed of the thousands who
| are contaminated by it.
| The prophet Samuel, priding himself
| upon his virtues, said: Whom have /
decentralization have 1 oppressed? Or
| OF whose hands have received any bride
| to blind my eyes herewith Amos de-
| nouncing the condition of Israel under
| Jereboam, says: They aff1ict the just
they take bride and they turn aside
the poor in the gate from their rights
| Nearly 25 centuries ago Sophocles, the
Greek poet, said:
Nothing in use by man, for power
| of ill,
Can equal money. This lays cities low,
| This drives men forth from quiet dwell
| ing place,
| This warps and changes minds of WORTH
| est stamp,
To turn to deeds of baseness, teaching
| men
All shifts of cunning, and to know the
| guilt
| Of every impious Decd
| In the Illinois legislature of 1857 the
city street railway company of Chicago
| was asking for renewal of it's charter
for SO years. Nearly all the citizens of
| Chicago were opposed to it and petition
| ed the legislature against it. No one ex-
pected it would pass in the form it was in
| troduced, as 1t was virtually present of
millions Of dollars to the company. To
| the surprise of everyone it went through.
| The governor who was unpurchasable,
| vetoed 1T. An effort was at once exerted
| to pass it over the governors veto, and
| the people of Chicago became aroused to
the danger Of the methods that were be-
| ing used. Large committees of the most
| prominent citizens of Chicago went to
| Springfield to work with the members of
| the legislature against the bill. The ex-
| perience of one of the committeeman will
| illustrate that of the others. The first
| member of the legislature he spoke to
| said to him: How much money is there
| in it for me if vote on your side? The
| member of the committee referred to is
| now in this room.
The committee representing the peo-
| pie OF Chicago were not prepared to bribe
| and the bill was passed over the COVER
| nor's veto and is the charter under which
| the street railway Of Chicago today, with
| her nearly 100000 of people, is operated
| The Denver Republican, of Jan. 49,
| 1894, says editorially: 1t is silly for men,
| bers of the state senate to affect surprise
| or indignation over the fact that many
| laws enacted during the regular session
! of the IXth general assembly were will
| fully changed in the process of enroll
ment. That form Of knaVery has been
| practiced for years in the Colorado legis-
| 1ature, and senators and representatives
! have always winked at it if they have
| not actually prompted it. Senators who
denounced it on Saturday must have
known what was going on last winter or
| else they must have been blind as
bats. So long as our legislatures con-
| tinue to make the committeeships at
| their disposal the plumber Of men and
| women of known bad character, for per-
| sonal or political reasons, they must ex-
| pect that the laws they pass will be tam
pered with if any rogue has sufficient
| financial interest in the matter to pay
| for the dirty work
And this is what happened in congress
in 1878.
"The more recent history of our con-
| gress in connection with the open and
fragrant venality Of members of the su-
| gar trust, by which these men made s25,-
| 100000 in 60 days, is fresh in the minds Of
| all here present, and, with other things
| has served to deaden and shock the pub
lie conscience" (Applause.)
| SHERMAN AND THE TRADE DOL
LAR
| Mr. Harvey-"As to Senator Sherman
| and the trade dollar, the latter beine
| alone in the bill while it was passing
| the senate, Mr.. Horn will have to retreat
| from his position when 1 reach it,
Il want the reader to remember what
l now saw for a few minutes. AS to the
| reading the bill line by line, he is talking
| about another BILL and not the bill that
is on the statute books, as reading of
the record will show. (Applause)
| Now, take up the bill in the house.
1
|, section 2, XLIId congress, page 322, we
| find Mr. Kelley, chairman of the com
| mittee on weights and measures pre-
| senting the bill. He said: The house
will find the body of the bill to be we'll
| devised and careful codification of the
mint laws making very few, if any. es-
sential changes except in this:
| Now, what was the change? He pro-
ceeds: There is now a director Of the
| mint at Philadelphia, and there is no
| more reason why he should supervise
| the other minis than that the chief Of
| ficers of the other minis should super
| wise him.
| HE then proceeds to explain at length
why there should be one superintendent
| over all the minis to insure uniformity
| in the coiAs struck from them. This was
the only change in the old law and in the
i careful codification Of the laws then in
| existence.
| THE gold unit clause does not appear
| to have been sprung up to this time !
| do not mean to say that Judge Kelley
| cannot be proven false in his statement
| by copies of the bills afterward fraudu-
lently altered and substituted for the orig
| inal, and by speeches that were never
| spoken in the house, but printed in the
| Record, under leave to print But in
| this open statement made by Judge KEEL
| ley, chairman of the committee having
| we find that it is declared to be merely
a careful codification of existing laws
| Judge Kelley, near the close of his
| speech presenting the bill have given
| you the page in the MISUNDERSTANDING to
| the change in the SUPPLEMENTARY of the
| mints, says: 1t is of the highest i'm
! portance, therefore, that the one single
| cardinal change that the bill proposes
| should be made There was and could be
| no suspicion thus far that an English