The advocate., 1895-07-31

Morrill, said: "There has been "a loud
and delusive cry about the act Of congress
in 1873, which after three years of oonsid-
Grafton by the treasury department. and
congress purposely omitted to provide
for the further coinage OF the silver dol
lar, none having been coined for nearly
forty years and only &S,OOO,0O0 having
ever been coined"
To meet HOrr's argument Harvey quot
cd Sherman, in the Forty-second congress,
speaking of the silver dollar: 1--WE are
providing that ID shall hoat all over the
world" Again: ''This bill proposes a
silver coinage exactly the same as the
French, and what are called the associated
nations Of Europe meaning the Latin
union who have adopted the interna-
tional standard Of silver coinage; that is,
the dollar provided for by this bill Is the
precise equivalent Of the 6-franO piece"
Here Harvey reached the passage Of the
bill by the senate with slight changes in
few minor points, when 1t was referred
to conference committee which could
settle only disputed points and could NOT
change what had been agreed upon by
both houses, he said, and the silver.
dollar clause meaning a full legal tender
dOllarl was not a disputed point. The
committee was composed OF Senators
SCOTT (Pa) Bayard and Sherman, and
Representatives. Hooper Mass, Slough
ton Mich and McNealy (Ills.)
And here was Harvey's point: He said
that in that committee the 8S4 grain dol.
lar was stricken out (the dollar that had
been agreed upon, under principles Of
free coinage, by both houses( Itpresented
its report and the congressional rec.
ord says Of the matter; "The report
was ooncurred in"-"those i've words,
and no more" Both houses trusted their
committees; the points Of disagreement
were understood and tho committee was
supposed to have performed It's duty.
Neither house asked any questions, nor
was there any debate. He added: "Ii
that dollar was only subsidiary dollar,
limited to the purchase OF silver by the
secretary of the treasury only and that
was its only virtue in that bill, why did
1t disappear from the billg'
Years afterWard, he said, the report OF
the senate committee turned up so altered
the silver dollar.
Horr defed Harvey to prove that the
clause making the gold dollar the unit
OF value was ever erased from the bill,
or that in any draft Of the bill was the
silver dollar made anything but q sub
sidiary coin. He then said Harvey was
wrong as to the procedure In conference
1t not infrequently happened In changing
disputed clauses that IL was necessary to
change clauses not disputed. But in any
event the report had to DO made and
every change stated.
He said: mo unusual thing was done
with this bill. 1t passed almost precise
ly as the secretary of the treas.
ury had recommended it when he
first sent tho draft to the American
congress. The only other feature Of
any Importance in 1t was the !, new
feature Of the trade dollar; otherwise it
was nearly identical with the bill that
had first been drafted" Horr read a let
ter from Jasper Packard, Of New AL.
bany, Ind, in which he, who was mem.
Der Of congress during the consideration
Of that bill, says: II heard 1t all, Hoop.
er's speech, and Kelleys and all the
rest. The gold dollar WAS made the unit
of value in tho bill from it's first
printing, and dollar Of SS4 grains was
provided for and put in the list Of the sub.
sidiary coins, legal tender to only s.. After
ward that dollar was dropped entirely
and the trade dollar with more silver in
1t was substituted There was never any
secrecy about it."
In reply Harvey said: when he says
in that letter that the trade dollar was
substituted for the dollar that was omit.
ted he Is oontradiUted by the record Of
that day, from which am now reading
and which Is on this table before Mr..