The advocate., 1895-07-24
DEBATE ON SILVER.
Continued from page IS.


correspondence 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: 1T
would readily exhaust the words of this
debate to go into all the Investigations of
that notorious congress-"
Horr rejoined as follows: "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
acted as members of congress in this coun-
try as a rule are corrupt and have been
subject to purchase and sale, can be char
Roterlzed only as Infamous There sit be-
fore me several members of congress who
served with me in several congresses, and
appeal to each and every one Of them II
during their entire service they ever saw
or mistrusted that money was being used
TO purchase members Of congress. When
men start out with the proposition that in
order to prove their case they must also
prove that the majority Of the best men Of
this country are thieves and scoundrels,
they had better stop before they begin.
~ admit that Judge Sherman was guilty
OF a crime, That was never In any way
connected with his brother, John Sherman,
and you know It. They exonerated him. ."
Harvey asked: Ibid they impeach Judge
Sherman
Horr replied: Judge Sherman resigned
Immediately; they drove him from the
bench"
"But what has that to do with the QueBa
EiOn whether Mr.. Knox openly and square.
ly presented this bill to congress? Mr..
Knox said himself: The coinage Of the
silver dollar dece, the history of which IL
here given, is discontinued in the proposed
hill. Il Is by law the dollar unit'-yeu
read that yesterday--'and assuming the
value Of gold to be 151h times that Of silver,
being about the mean ratio for the last
Blk years, It Is worth in gold a premium Of
about per cent, its value being S1.OS12
mium in our other silver coin, its value
thus being $1.0743. The present laws con-
sequently authorize a gold dollar unit and
a silver dollar unit, differing from each
other In intrinsic value. The present gold
dollar piece is made the dollar unit in the
proposed bill and the silver dollar piece ii
discontinued.
A vnica In tbo o,,dioDon. SGVKylay, xvoa Rhai
written2'
Horr: "Just before it was sent to con
Sress in 1870. It was a part of the report
that Secretary Boutwell, sent to the senate
In the spring Of 1870; 1t accompanied the
bill and was printed in the public doCu
ments as being an explanation OF the bill
by order OF the senate Is there anything
hidden In those sentences?"
Horr then gave Sherman's statement II
the senate in August 1893, showing thu
course Of the bill in that body, the reports
thereon, the fact that six senator's from tn
Pacific coast made no objections to tn
bill, the frequency with which It was print
ca, etc. Horr then followed the bill int
the house, after being passed by the senat
by yea and nay vote, Senator Stewart, o
Nevada, voting for 1t. 1t reached the hous
Jan. 13, 1871, and was printed on motion
Of William d. Kelly, chairman Of tn
house coinage committee; a report in tn
meantime of a substitute was made, bu
that congress expired before final action oI
the bill. At the extra session in 1871
was introduced again, and again no actiol
was taken. Kelly introduced It.
Harvey then took the floor again and re
ferred to the charge against George A. Bas
Sett, clerk of the ways and means com
mittee In 1873, Of having demanded $25
per month from New York bankers an,
brokers to assist them in repeating the Ia:
on borrowed capital and quoted Chicag
Tribune Washington correspondent as fol
lows. siTnrkiah nnrrnnfInn nnhar the M