Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1895-07-23

Colorado at. illinois legislatures. This We
nality was s"rr;Eg tAc foundations of tho
government as i. lad <apprd the fouuda.
tions and destroyed every republic of the
past.
Mr.. Horr i::.:.n returned to the defense Of
the honest: "f The American people, He
said Mr. Fl -: merely picked out a few
corrupt l!isi'. Ini drew from them the
proposition '':;lt tic people of the nation
were corrui:'. Way, il Mr.. Harvey had
lived In Jo's time he would have looked
over that unfortunate mans sores and would
have given out and published throughout
the world that AL Chaicu was all immense
carbunclc.
Mr.. Horr then, amid laughter, said he
would return to the question under discus
sion, and proceeded with the history of the
Qem0netlzatlOn :ct. ';nting out how the
Dill had been read in fdii several times and
printed separately tlcv,n IL times and twice In
the reports of tho controller of the curren-
cy. The debates i'll the senate OH it occu-
pied sixty columns in the Congressional
Record. In the report of the committee it
was stated that it had been examined line
by line and word by word, and was finally
passed. He would show that IN so doing,
the senate knew what it was about.
Mr.. Harvey, III It ply, said that Mr.. Horr
would have to retreat from his position
when the proper time came. In point of
was not the bill finally passed. Judge Kel-
ley, in presenting the bill in the house,
said that 1t was L cr> ly a cod 'fcation of the
mint laws. In response to question,
Judge Kelly replied that the bill made no
change i'll the value Of the coins of the
nation. In 1872, when the bill came up
again, 1t was spoken of as a bill on a dry
subject, and members lost interest. 1t was
at that time, as appears from the Record.
that the first disclosure of the intention to
change the standard to gold was made in a
speech by Mr.. Hooper. But there was rea-
son to believe that the speech was not act
ually delivered, but was printed by leave
that Is, 1t was read from manuscript and
these words omitted. But no reference was
made to the dcmonc: liza ton of silver. On
the enrolment of the bill, clause was
omitted which had the effect Of limiting the
coinage of silver.
Mr.. Horr replying, charged Mr.. Harvey
with quoting, Il single sentence, and leaving
out the modifyin: context. The record
running debate, and w2s not under leave tq
PRINT In the very speech referred to by
Mr Harvey the speaker said that the bill
provided for standard ''in single metal"
instead of, as before, in two metals, and
that all coins, except subsidiary coins,
should be Of gold. Mr.. Horr then spoke Of
the demonetization Of silver in 1916, as the
standard. In 1871 Germany adopted the
gold standard, and threw on the market
$3OO,0OO,OOO in silver. 1t was this that set
the world to considering the silver question
not any god-bug conspiracy. The finan.
c1al policy of no great nation was ever
dominated by conspiracy.
Questioned by Spectators.
In replying to the large assortment OF
questions put to Messrs. Horr and Harvey
by spectators, the most Interesting collOQuy,
perhaps, was at the very end of the days
proceedings. This conundrum was nut by
Mr.. L. G. Powers of Minnesota:
"IOu said yesterday my answer is, first,
that l did not say that had forced them
to change it or to correct any mistake
In Coins financial school up to date page
152, you say: "Coin here explains how an
error had crept into the official report Of
tie treusurer, tnatzhe:rlas,- as,-si.aec~foreet=7+aae
treasury department to correct that error
Please explain the NANTES discrepancy"
Mr.. Harvey: 1.-THE answer Is, Coin, Il it,
tie boy in knee pants, represents the cause
of bimetalliSm; he does not represent me
applause and groans on each side of the
house respectively. I would not have tho
egotism to claim that l represent Coin in
the many arguments and sentiments and
kind things said about the little boy by the
author, and when Coins influence is exer-
cised ut Washington or San Francisco or
Memphis it means the influence of bimetal-
lism and humanity