The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-27

the one you quote The one Mr.. Greer
handed me provides for silver; this is
the money of Mexico, Peru and Central
America, and you stop at Bolivia. This
is not the money of Mexico, Peru and
Bolivia.
Mr.. Harvey-This is Mexico, too.
isn't it?
Mr.. Horr-Ah, but it is not the same
laW-no use talking.
Mr.. Harvey-Mr. Horn, will bring
you the statute at the next session.
Mr.. Hort wish you would, I would
like to see it, and gold is in front of
the one you quote. Now, simply wish
to say he left OF, at Peru and Bolivia,
the following: ''Of not less than 1897
in ineness, and 400 grains in weight at
100 cents each; and the five-franc
pieces OF France, of not less than 900
in ineness and 3S4 grains in
weight, at SO cents each" Now, that did
not make all the silver coin of those
countries legal tender as he said they
were, and if he had printed the whole
law there would not be a chance to de-
ceive the people on that subject, and If
my point is not well taken don't know
when a point is made out. Now 1 call
! your attention next: On page ten, you
say on account of the scarcity of sill
yer both Jefferson and Jackson recon-
mended that dimes, quarters and halves
would serve the people better than dol
lars until more silver bullion could be
J obtained. This was the reason why
only about $8,000,0 900 of the $105, 100000
of silver was coined into dollars. You
gave it that it was on account of the
scarcity of the silver. When you got
over to the eighteenth page of your
book you must have forgotten what you
had said on page ten-I know folks do
| that sometimes, it cannot be helped
because, you there give the table from
| Mullhall, the London statistician, in
which you show silver was not scarce
at that time. You show it was with one
exception the most plentiful that it had
been at any one time during the ex-
perience of the government.
Coin Again in Evidence.
Mr.. Harvey am now ready to an
swer Mr.. Horn as to the statute he has
claimed is misquoted. Mr.. Horn, will
you please open now Coins Financial
School, at that disputed statute?
Mr.. Horr-Ready.
Mr.. Harvey Quoting from Coin)-
''And be it futher enacted, that
from and after the passage
of this act, the following foreign silver
coins shall pass current as money with
in the United States and be receivable
by tale for the payment of all debts and
demands at the rates following, that is
to say: The Spanish pillar dollars, and
the dollars of Mexico, Peru and
Bolivia" That is as far as the quota
ton goes.
Mr.. Horr-Read the rest.
Mr.. Harvey-T' at is as far as 1
quoted. You said misquoted it.
Mr.. Horr-I did not. never claimed
you quoted it wrong at all. Let me see
the book, please. daughter and ap-
plause.) Here (referring to the book,
that has gold in the first, just as I told
you, and that is the one I read from,
and that is what you said had no gold
connected with it.
Mr.. Harvey said I quoted it cor
rectly. Section 2 is as read it in the
book. What appears in another Sec
ton don't care about.
Mr.. Horr-I shall appeal to the notes
of the reporter that you said the one
y
with it, if I remember rightly.
Mr.. Harvey understood Mr.. Horr
to say that in making the quotation I
had omitted the word gold.
Mr.. Horr-Not at all. 1 never said
any such thing.
Mr.. Harvey-This is a great question
we are debating, affecting the welfare
of 65,000,00 of people, and the trifling
away of words and time by a quarrel
introduced here over trif1ing matters
that do not affect the principles we are
discussing, one way or the other, in
dicates upon the part of the other side
a lack of appreciation of the question
involved. (Applause)
Now, briefly to satisfy him about JEFF
ferson: I said that Jefferson ordered
the coins made into small coins to bet
ter serve the people, and on account Of
the scarcity of silver-both silver and
gold were scarce then. There was
abundant silver in the world as COM
pared with gold, 80 to 1, but it was not
in the United States. (Applause) Here
in the United States silver was scarce.
Jefferson was a patriot and a states
man. He understood these little wants
of the people as they are not under
stood now.
The Gold Standard Law.
Mr. Horr-We now come to the dis
cussion of the law which changed this
nation from a bimetallic nation to a
single standard nation. the law of 1873,
which brother Harvey kindly names a
Crime" It has been called that so
long that there is nothing novel in the
name 1 purpose to show you during
this discussion. that no law has ever
been passed by the American congress
which was freer from faint, which was
more carefully examined, which was
more completely and fully understood
| 41.o. Tho Iaru of 1879 The stafennant