The herald., 1895-07-18

act of 1873. in tohay's debate. ana hiVinR
waited for him to begin, and ne not oe'
ginning, | now will start. (applnnse.
MIR. Horr-I beg pardon. you mlsluol.
me. | stated last night that l nn' 10.
got through with the unit OF value; tEa'
| had some other things to submit In 81
many words: and we did not agree u
take up any other subject at any partlc'
uar session. only that we would take
them in certain order AMI let them run
until we had finished them.
Mr.. Harvey-And in that order tht
crime of 1873 as we call it, came mex
after the discussion OF the unit.
Mr.. Horr-l am not through with thai
yet.
Mr.. Harvoy-well, am, ond l will &C
on. (Laughter) :,
Mr.. Harvey then discussed at length
the act of 1873.
Mr.. Horr followed on the same subject.
Mr.. Harvey-Mr. Horr says that have
no proof that the scheme was concocted
in London to demonetizc silver in the
United tSates. When | was u boy | went
into court house one day to hear q
criminal trial and ! heard lawyer say.
when q crimo is committed and you
want to detect the criminal look for the
man who is benefited by the crime
(Applause.)
variably locate the criminal than any hui
man testimony. Silver was demonetized
in England and in England only, prior
to the DAY it was demonetiZed in this
country. There was whore the move.
ment started-tnat is another evidence.
London bankers melted the Paris con-
ference in 1867, at which Mr.. John Sner-
man was present, therefore / have the
right to say the conspiracy originated in
London. AS Mr.. Horr says, the sci .
ence OF money is hard to understand.
Evar oi tonJoro nf kA
shackled the people Of the world and
taught the people that money was hard
to understand, (applause) it is one
of the difficult Thugs, as Mr.. Horr observ-
ed in his speech it gives me headache
to think of it. (Laughter.) And you
are not competent TO study it or under
stand it and as long as they make you
believe that they have you In their power.
In 1873, when this treacherous act was
passed. there was no specie currency in
this country. During all the years from
1892 to 1861. when it was actually in use
and being tested for its merits, no one
proposed to demonetize either of the
metals except some money lenders from
Europe who proposed it in 1854 Gap
plause.) But at that time, 1873, when it
was not in circulation ana was not need
ed, the movement was begun and con-
summated. And as one congressman said
when the bill was offered in congress
''We are not using gold and silver as m on
ey, have not vet considered an act for the
resumption of specie payment and the in
PRODUCTION of this bill at the present time
either means trick or is farce worthy
of being caricatured by Thomas Mast"
This closed the debate for the day and
questions were in order.
Mr.. Bliss Questioned Mr.. Harvey as to
figures in his book relative to the coinage
of silver previous to 1873. Mr.. Harvey ad-
M itted that he did erroneousIv state the
amount at $37, OOO 900 less than the am
cunt of silver actually coined before 1873.
However, it had been to the interest of
his argument to state the amount at all
it would stand.
o. B. Gum of Kansas City caused Mr..
Harvey to explain at length the amount
and denomination of the silver coina ge
previous to 1873. Questions by the sco:e
by many others were asked and answered,
but the discussion was Of rambling ma
ture. The debate will be reusmed at 10
o'clock tomorrow morning.