The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-31

pose that the total adjustment Of the
silver dollar is contemplated. / think
that the United States, with her gold and
silver mines, is in an eminently favora-
BILE position to uphold the full use of both
| gold and silver and that the double valu-
| alton as it existed before would be OF
| great benefit to the country" Gap
plause) My free-silver friends clapped
| their hands. This is the man that you
vilified al over the United States.
Il am myself, as you will perceive from
| my writings and others with me, in IA
| vor of the full and complete adoption of
| the double standard" and in that letter
from Mr.. Seyd from beginning to end
covering pages and pages of type writ
ten matter, he does nothing but oppose
the very measure that these men say he
spent so much money to pass through the
American congress.
MIR. HORR CONTRADICTED.
Mr.. Harvey am going to hold this
argument on the track if l can. (Ap-
| plause)
The report of the monetary conference
at Paris in 1867 will contradict the his
| tory that Mr.. Horn has read from. I
leave him with that. AS to Ernest Seyd
| and letter found among Mr.. Hooper,
effects since he and Seyd both died, it re-
| minds me of this-suppose in the years
to come that some one would say to the
people then living that John G. Carlisle
was a bimetallist "and here is the proof
| of it," and was to read from Mr.. Car
isles speech: '"The demonstration of
silver is the greatest crime Of the ages
and its consequences for evil are greater
than all the floods and fires and pesti-
lnceS of the past" Would that prove
that MIR. Carlisle is a bimetallist at a
particular time when something might
be charged against him when he acted
as secretary Of the treasury under Mr..
Cleveland? If that Seyd letter, olsen
tOmbed by the zeaous friends and family
of Mr.. Hooper, was to prove anything, it
would prove that Mr.. Hooper falsified
when he said that he had submitted that
bill to distinguished experts and they had
all agreed that it was the proper thing
to do.
/ continue with the presentation of the
substitute by Mr.. Hooper, that he was so
solicitous should not be read.
Next in the record is this:
"The Speaker-The gentleman from
Massachusetts moves that the rules be
suspended and that the bill pass, the
| reading thereof being dispensed with
"Mr. Randall-Cannot we have a divi-
sion of that motion?
1.-THE Speaker-A motion to suspend
the rules cannot be divided.
"Mr. Randall should like to have the
bill read, although I am willing that the
| rules shall be suspended as to the pass
| age of the bill.
1.-The question was put on suspending
the rules and passing the bill without
reading; and (two-thirds not voting in
favor thereof the rules were not sus-
pended"
WHAT THE RECORD SHOWS.
The record shows that the clerk began
to read the bill, when he was interrupted
and the reading stopped with the inter-
| ruption. Members then satisfied them
selves with asking him questions and the
reading of the bill was never continued.
Mr.. Holman asked this question:
Before the question is taken upon sus-
| pending the rules and passing the bill, l
hope the gentleman from Massachusetts,
will explain the leading changes made
by this bill in the existing law, especially
in reference to the coinage. 1t would
seem as if all the small coinage of the
country is intended to be recoined."
To this Mr.. Hooper replied:
'The bill makes no change in the ex-
listing laws in that regard"
This question was then asked:
''Is not the salary of the Subtreasury
| at New York increased?"
Mr.. Garfield asked this question:
''Does the gentleman say that no salary
| is increased by this bill?"
Then came this question from another
member: Are there any additional Of
| fees created?"
Then this question: "How many minis
are provided for by the bill?"
This is a sample of the fusillade If
questions put by the members, the ques-
lions themselves indicating the charac-
ter of the Importance they attached to
the bill, and showing their ignorance of
| the critical provision. They were more
concerned over whether a salary was
raised by the bill than anything else
or some minor point, showing that none
of them comprehended that a fundamen-
tai question might be involved in the
bill. And how could they? The bill
| (the substituted had been offered within
| the hour and was passed within the
| hour without having been read.
This question was put and answered:
Mr. Brooks-Mr colleague from the
| WeStchester District (Mr. Potter-this
was this suspicious Potter who was now
! absenO stated the other day that this
| bill provided for the recoinage of more
| or less of the small currency of the coun-
| try and the creation of new currency.
Mr.. Hooper, of MISUNDERSTANDING
| is not the case with the bill as it now
stands.
| The rules were then suspended and
| the substitute passed about an hour aft
er it was offered, and passed without
being read. The second session Of the
Forty-second congress adjourned soon
| after, and the same congress met again
| in December
IN THE SENATE.
The bill was called up in the senate
| by Senator Sherman on Jan. II, 1873.
He began by saying Congressional
| Globe, part 1, third session Forty-second
| Congress, page 68):
II move that the senate now proceed
| to the consideration of the mint bill, as
it is commonly called, revising and
| amending the laws relative to the minis
and assay Offices and coinage of the
| United States. 1 do not think it will
| take more than the time consumed in
the reading Of it."
On being interrupted by an attempt to
| bring up another bill he said: II think
| it will only take the time required in
reading it, He was. however, again
interrupted, and again he commenced
by saying: Il will state that this bill
will not probably consume any more
time than the time consumed in reading
| it,"
Again, when answering Senator Cas-
selry, of California, on the subject of
abrasion of coins, he said: 81 believe
this is the only controverted point in the
BILL
| Again, after an attempt by his bill to