Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-08-07

noor OF the house on more than ono
occasion that he and Mr.. Beck OF Ken
LUCKY una Democratic representative
now recall. demanded Inc raadIng ~
me bill before Its final passage. that
nus demand was refused and that the
plll was not read. Mr.. Kelley OF Penn
sylNanla, for some years before his
death, called the Father Of the House
being It's Oldest member by continuous
service, said; 81 was ignorant OF the
iact that the bill demonetiged the silver
dollar, as were those dlstinriiished SOM.
tors, Messrs, Blaine and Voorhees,. who
We're then members OF the house, each
OF whom few days since interrogated
the other' Did you know It was drop
PED when the bill passedg' No. said
Mr. Blaine. did you? No. said MIR.
voorhees,. l do not think that there
We're three members In the house that
knew 1t. | doubt whether Mr.. Hooper.
VINO managed the bill. knew 1t. l say
ms In justice to him." The Hon Mr.
Burchard OF Illinois. who was a mem
per OF the house when that bill passed,
anu was afterwards director of the
United states mint, declared that he
uld NOT Know that It demonetized sill
yer. And President Grant who signed
the demonetizatlon act Of 1873. ala not
know that II demonetized silver, as
SHOWN by his letter to Mr., Coudray
dated the 9th OF October, 1875. eight
months after his approval OF Il, in
which he shows that he believed bill
yer was sim standard OF value the
world over. Here is his letter:
Il wonder that silver is not already
coming into the market TO supply the
deficiency in the currency medium. .
Experience has proved that IL takes
about NO,OO0,000 of fractional currency
to make the small change necessary for
the transaction of the business OF the
country. Silver will gradually take the
place OF this currency. and, further.
VIII become the standard OF values,
which VIII be boarded In a small way.
estimate that this will consume from
100000 900 to 5000, 600, 900 In time OF this
species OF our circulating medium. i.
l confess desire to see a limited
boarding of money. But | want to
see boarding of somthing that is a
standard of value the world over. Sill
yer Is this.
our mines are now producing almost
unlimited amounts OF silver, and II IL
becoming question what shall we do
with 1t? l suggest solution which
| VIII answer for some years to put IL
In circulation. keeping 1t there until 1t
Is iNed, and then We will find other
markets.
(see page 2OS Congressional Record,
NaAAANA AFAAAf AoiAHN
Now, while all these DISTINGUISHED
senators and representatives, who were
memoirs of one or the other house
when this bill was passed and the
president Of the United States who APP
proved the bill, testify that they did
not know that It demonetized silver,
Mr. Carlisle, twenty-five years after
its passage, undertakes by an elaborate
statement to prove that the bill was
thoroughly discussed and fully under
| stood, The people win form their own
| judgment as to these conflicting state
ments. with the facts before the peo-
Pile, they will readily understand that
| members may not have known that II
| demOnetized silver
a bill regulating the mint may have
| been before congress. and may have
| been discussed and reported on as Mr.
| Carlisle says, but: n 40. in view OF the
| statements made by senator's and repre-.
sentatives who We're in congress at the
| time, 1t could not have contained pro-
visions for the demonstration OF sill
yer. If It had II certainly would have
| attracted attention.
There Is reason to believe, as has
often been alleged, that the provision
| for the suspension OF the coinage OF sill
| Yer dollars and limiting their legal ten,
| der quality to sums not exceeding i've
d2llars, We're inserted in the bill by tn,
| conference cimmlttee of the two houses
| ana that neither the conference repor
nor tho bill us reported by that com
| m ttee were read in either house, bu
We're adopted without reading. Elthel
| this must be true or else the bill mus
| have been altered after its final passag,
The records Of congress show that
this conference report was adopted
| without division In either house.
There is no record OF a yea or nay
vote. Secretary Carlisle says Senators
| Thurman and Stewart voted for this
| bill and that Senator Sherman votet
| against II. How did he ascertain this
| There IS no recorded vote on the iina
passage Of this bill In either house
| The following Is the title OF the act:
IAN act revising and amending th'
Jaws relative to the mint, assay offices
and coinage OF the United States"
II is an act of siNty-seYen sectiOnl
and occupies twelve Of the large page
OF the session acts OF congress, Moth
ing is said In its caption, or In the bill
| Itself which would cause one to under
stand that it demonetized silver. II {
citizen should now turn to that act anJ
read It through, unless his attention
was especially called to II, he could no
point out the part of the act which DE
monetizcd silver. Hence we need no
be surprised that the members OF tn
senate and house and the president di'
not know that It stopped the coinag
of silver dollars, made silver commo
dlty to be valued by gold, like whea
or cotton, and placed the country Of
the single gold standard, and broush
upon the country all the financial ruiz
which has followed the enactment o
that cruel and wicked law.
But nm not done with the question
| of the publicity of the passage OF thi
Infamous law SO boldly and clrenm
stantially presented by the secretary
the treasury.
The passage OF that part OF this Law
which struck down silver was never Il
any form demanded by the people o
the United States There can l thin
he no doubt that 1t was passed In IN
interest OF and for the benefit OF tn
holders OF bonds and other securitie
nnd the owners of great sums OF none
nnd that its passage was the result o
n wicked. cruel and uncopg 'ionable con
sn,racy. Those who are defending thi
law and It's policy cannot produce
sinrle instance In which the America
neopie asked or demanded Its passag
Nv any resolution or declaration OF an
nl1bllc meeting or semblage. no
Fan they produce a speech or publ
declaration by any public speaker No
can +hey produce an editorial or othe
nublication from any newspaper, argu
Ing FOR or asking it's passage Ana
do not believe they can produce a slnEI
| newspaper which published the law a
the time or soon after It's passage.
The secretary declares that the dc
hate on the passage or TINS plli cover
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