The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-07-25
N wEEKGY STATESMAN, THURSDAY, July q 1885,

going to reduce the size of the silver dol
lar ito put us on the French ratio. But,
talking DO men who knew nothing about
bimetallism or the previous history of
coinage, the act of 1873 served the pur-
pose to get the language in the bin con-
tirmlng the fractional coin and the pre-
ceding clause that had the dollar unit in
the Language of the of 1858. SO that all
they had TO do was to strike out the line
that had the dollar in it, in the words of
the act of 1888, which was a free coinage
dollar, and then had an act without amy
free coinage of silver in it.
Il have before me the files of the
Chicago Tribune for 1878. This bill
was passed in the senate on january II,
so that the moring papers of the 18th
would not contain any news if there was
any showing that the fundamental laws
of the government had been changed
The only reference that appears in this
paper is an Associated Press telegram
from Washington, which is this:
Mr.. Sherman called up the bill to
revise and amend the laws relating to
the mints, assay offices and coinage of the
United States which was amended and
passed
THAT is all-not another word. One
of the money metals of the United States,
/
that BILL one of the moneys of the con-
Stitution had been overthrown; the dollar
that had regulated all other coins had
been abolished. A great war debt was
to be paid off and one of our money re-
sources for paying it had been destroyed.
Uong continued applause)
No information of that fact was con-
veyed to the people through the news
papers of the country. (Applause.) The
reporters at Washington did not know
it; the congressman as a whole did not
know it. The money of the people that
had served them we'll was destroyed and
l now challenge Mr.. Horn to show me
anywhere in the newspapers of the
United States during the passage of the
bill, which he says has no faint of fraud
ATTACHED to it, where the people knew
a bill was being considered by congress
a bill which was to destroy one4half of
the money metal, or that they had passed
such IA bill. | have charged that it was
secretly passed. The fact that a fun
damental law of the government had
been reversed and that no information
had gone to the people, whose government
it was before and after the passage of
the bill, until it was discovered several
years afterward, is one of the best evil
dences of dts secret PASSAGE"
Mr. Horr: GAN this talk of striking
down the money of the people is the
merest rot that is the only word that
exactly covers that kind of bosh. The
money of the people should be just as
good as the money of the nabob, and
before l get through, l will show the
people of the United States that | have
come here to defend the millions who live
By toll, who live by work, whose wages
would be cut i'm two by the passage OF
the, law which our friend advocates.
(Applause.)
eff Mr.. Harvey shall succeed in proving
that the people of the United States in
1873 We're mostly set of corrupt scoun
drels and that Inc is really the only pure
and upright man left in the entire city
of Chicago, it won't avail him anything
in this debate. These questions are not
pertinent to the question in dispute"
The contestants being clearly at log,
gerheads as to the point of discussion
little further progress was made unit
adjournment was taken till Monday.
The debate prior to the running against
the big snag, had been full of interest.
Chicago July 20.-The fifth day OF
the Harvey-Horr debate opened in thu
auditorium of the Illinois club at 1.
o'clock this afternoon. The attendance