The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1895-07-30

The plan was submitted to these gentlemen
and large number Of others for the estab-
! lishment OF a new system Of mintage. and
! yet the free silver papers Of this country
| intimate that this law must have been
wicked because II was tackled on 10 the re-
vision Of the mint laws. Why that Is
where 1t belonged That was the place to
find 1t.
Nov, was there anything secret about
| it7 ! deny that 1t had its origination in
England, or London CT anywhere except
| In the brains of the people who we're look
ing after the coinage interests OF the
| United States. And ! defy Mr. Harvey
| not by assertion--to prove one single item
| that had any reference to the British peo-
| pie controlling or directing this matter.
| After correspondence with large NUM-
| Der Of these experts upon minis and coin
age, the bill was framed, and with the
correspondence was submitted to congress
| in the most complete form and with an
elaborate report from Mr.. Knox. which ex
planned all its provisions. Every step taken
in the incipiency of this measure was as
| open as the light.
II am now reading from my own articles
and consequently use them without quo
tations. Thousands Of copies of the Dill
were 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 prepared by Mr.. Knox was en-
iorsed by Secretary Boutwell,, of the treas
ury, and transmitted to the senate on
April 20, 1870. The bill as it was at that
lime drafted dropped the dollar silver coin
Of the United States ard changed the unit
Of value. That was in the original bill as
It was sent to the senate With letter from
the secretary. Now, nobody tried to cover
up that fact In this report of Mr.. Knox
we're 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 il. Those letters were all
printed by order Of the senate in connec-
tion with the carefully prepared report of
Mr. Knox"
Harvey here asked II Horr had the bill
and letters with him. Horr thought he had
them in the city and would produce them
II he did have them, and continued as fol.
lows: "Mr. Patterson wrote to Mr. Knox
and was printed in the public documents
for l will say to this house that every
single document lave referred to | copied
from the hnuks of the government in the
city of Washington myself, individually, so
l know what am talking about Mr.. Pat
terson said The silver dollar, half, dime,
and three-cent piece are dispensed with 10y
this amendment. Gold becomes the stand
ard of 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 that? Was
there any covering up of anything in that
letter."
In reply Harvey proceeded: In the in
terrupted presentation of characterization l
had called the attention of the people to
the condition, morally. of congress at the
time Of the passage Of the act l had re-
ferred TO impeachment charges against
Vice President Colfax in 1873 for fraud in
connection with legislation; to the resigna-
ton of Secretary Of War Belknap for
bribery. / now proceed. after first stating
for Mr.. Horr's information that Del Mar,
the English historian says that the act of
1916. demonetizing silver in England, had
a clause In 1t that 1t might be retnstated by
the king; that that clause giving a right to
reinstatement was repealed in 1871, and
that the act In which 1t was repealed was
within two weeks in the hands of Mr..
Knox, the comptroller of the United States
treasury. and was in part the basis Of the
act In this country"
Harvey repeated that there was an era
of corruption In congress at that time.
Clinton Colgate confessed before the ways
and means committee of 1873 to the use of
money to influence the Incorporation of
special features in the internal revenue bill,
hot
Charles Sherman, of Ohio, a brother of
Senator Sherman, had been paid $40, 900 by
the New York Stock Exchange in conneo-
ton with the revenue bill. The officials of
the stock exchange were subpoenaed, and
the facts developed that while the money
had not been paid, Judge Sherman had rem
dered a bill to the exchange for his seTv-
ices. and, as he claimed, for securing the
services of his brother, Senator Sherman
to put the bill through. Colgate, when he
testified, knew, of the transaction and sup
posed the bill had been paid. AS Judge
Sherman was then United States district
Judge the ways and means committee
turned the whole matter over to the judi
ciary committee, directing 1t to take action
looking to his Impeachment"
He here read letter from Judge Sher-
man 10 MEMBER OF the STOCK exchange
In which the Judge claims to have been
largely instrumental In securing the re-
peal of certain taxes on bankers and brok-
ers, including the stamp tax. The Judge
incloses a letter received from the father
of the man he was writing to (said father
having died just before the judges letter
was written), in which the Judge was asked
to work for the Legislation desired and
consideration promised. The Judge tells
his correspondent that he went to work
In consideration of what was said In his
correspondents fathers letter, and had
interviews with Mr.. Boutwell, with John
Sherman, chairman of the senate finance
committee, with General Garfield, and
other prominent members of congress, and
the result was that it became the policy of
the administration to repeal not only the
tax In question. but the stamp and other
obnoxious taxes"
Harvey concluded with the words: ut
would readily exhaust the words of this
debate to go into all the Investigations of
that notorious congress-"
Horr reioined as follows: 1.-THE attempt
OF Mr.. Harvey to smirch the congress of
the United States and make the people OF
this country believe that the people who