The herald., 1895-07-19

dimes aud three cent pieces aresdispensej
with by the senate amendment. Gold
becomes the standard money. of which
the gold dollar is the unit. Silver is SUBJ
sidiary, embracing coins from the dime
to the half dollar. Can anything be more
plain than that? Was there any covering
up of anything in that letter? ~
Mr.. Harvey-In the presentation of de-
none tiZatiOn [ have called attention to
the condition morally. of congress, at the
time OF the passage OF The act to the i'm
peachment charges against Vice-President
Colfax in 1873 for fraud in connection
with legislation. to the resignation OF Sec
retary Of War Belknap for bribery, 1873.
| now proceed, after first stating for Mr..
Horr's information that Delmar the
English historian, says that the act of
1916 demonetizing silver IN Engl and had
a clause in it that it might be reinstated
by the king that that clause giving a
right to reinstatement was repealed in 1871
and that the act in which it was repealed
was within two weeks in the hands of Mr..
Knox, the comptroller of the United
States treasury, (Applause.) and was
in part the basis of the act IN this coun-
try;
gress at that time. Clinton Colgate con-
fessed before the ways and means com
mittee of 1873 to the use of money to IN
huence the incorporation of special fea-
lures in the internal revenue bill, testify
ing. among other things. that Charles
Sherman OF Ohio, a brother of Senator
Sherman. had been paid $40, 900 by the
New York Stock exchange in connection
with the revenue bill. The officials of
the Stock exchange were subpoened and
the facts developed that while the money
had not been paid Judge Sherman had
rendered a bill to the exchange for his
services and. as he claimed. for securing
{too nfk h .,
man, to put the bill through. (Applause. }
1t would readily exhaust the words OF
this debate to 60 into all Investigations of
that notorious congress.
Mr.. Horr-The attempt of Mr.. Harvey
to smirch the congress of the United
States and make the people of this coun-
try believe that the people who acted as
members of congress in this country as
rule have been corrupt and were subject
to purchase and sale can be characterized
only as infamous (Applause) No nation
on the face of the earth ever had purer
set of legislators than have been IN the
congresses OF this country during its exist
ence. There sit before me several mem
bers of congress who served with me in
several congresses, and l appeal to each
and every one of tn am if during their en-
tire service they ever saw or mistrusted
that money was being used to purchase
the mem bers of congress. | served six
years W1CnOuL ever knowing tnaJ any IN
stance of that kind had occurred during
the congresses in which served. When
men start out with the proposition that
in order to prove their csae they must
also prove that the majority of the best
men Of this country are thieves and
scoundrels they had better stop before
they began (Applause). The people Of this
county-and the congressman is no ex-
ceptiOn-as an average are upright, hon
est business men. Admit that Judge
Sherman was guilty OF crime; that he
was never in any way connected with his
brother, John Sherman, and you know it,
They exoneTaJed him.
Mr.. Harvey-Did they impeach Judge
Sherman2
Mr.. Horr-Judge Sherman resigned i'm.
m mediately. they drove him from the
bench (Applauso). The public opinion OF
this country would not permit a man tc
hold public position who would do a
thing of that kind. But what has that te
do with the question whether Mr.. Knos
openly and squarely presented this bill
to congress? Mr.. Knox said himself
THE coinage OF the silver dollar piece
the history of which is here given, is dis
continued in the proposed bill. 1t is by
law the dollar unit The present gold dol
lar piece is made the dollar unit in the
proposed bill.
Mr.. Harvey---When was that written?
Mr.. Horr--Just before 1t was sent tf
congress in 1870, it was part Of the re-.
port that Secretary Boutwell, sent to the
senate in the spring OF 1870. It accom-.