The Dickinson press., 1895-07-27
chsresA WIN Bribery.

Chof9ea with Bribery.
Nj. Harvey: ..Among the many charges
Of corruption made at the period. 1873. there
was one Of Significance when We consider
that silver VA demonetixed by q single
sentence being omitted from the report Of
the conference committee and enrolment
Of the mint bill; and indicates the power.
In this instance. q corrupt clerk could have.
George A. Bassett. clerk Of the ways and
means committee. 1879. was charged with
the bas.kers and brokers Of New York to
assist them In repeating the tax on borrowed
capital. and 5000 when the act passed.
The Chicago Tribune Of Feb. n, 1873. the
very month in which silver was demone-
tixed. said: Turkish corruption under the
pashas and beys. or Russian ofhcial rot
tenness, could scarcely he worse than 1t 10
here lApplause).
stSnds Up for Americans.
MIR. Horn: sMr. Harvey still continues to
rest Ills case upon an attempt to prove that
the human family 10 made up Of ~scoundrels;
that there Is no such thing 40 honor among
the people of this or any other country.
Tho Infamous statement that every man
has his price ought to be branded upon the
brow Of every man who will quote 1t In
earnest. because 1t 10 q lie against human
ity Qong continued applause). It Is equalied
only by the other statement that there 10
no such thing as virtue among the women
of the United States or any other country"
MIR. Harvey: II don't make that state.
ment."
Mr.. Horr: 'That was q motto that no.
body but a villain like Aaron Burr ever
could have originated. and I am surprised
that In the nineteenth century a mar will
stand up before an American audience and
base his case upon the proposition that
the people of our grand republic are mostly
Villains; because I say to you In all camlor
the members Of congress are fully up In
honesty aud decency to the average Aineri-
can people. l know 1t because l have been
one myself, you 10 Naughter). But what
has all that to do with whether this bill
was properly presented and discussed: I
am familiar with what MIR. Kelley sail
afterwards. but l am now going to read
to you what he said when this bill was
up In the house on the report Of Mr..
Hooper. It is not a speech TINT was
printed by leave This took pace on the
floor of the house. 1T Is impossible to re-
tain the double standard. The value Of
gold and silver continually fluctuates; you
cannot determine this year what will be the
relative value Of gold and silver next year.
They were Is to 1 a short time ago; they
are 18 to 1 now. Hence all experience has
shown that you must have one II
coin which shall be q legal tender for al
others"
Mr.. Horr then took un the history OF the
RECONCILIATION act and proceeded To show
the stages through which 1t had passed.
and that its final enactment was not until
after It had been before congress for more
than three years.
MIR, Harvey then returned to the attack
upon the honesty of legislators throughout
the country. including congressman IN the
Colorado and Illinois legislatures. This We
nality was sapping the foundations of the
government as 1t had sapped the founda.
lions and destroyed every republic of the
past.
Mr.. Horr again returned to the defense Of
the honesty Of the American people. He
said Mr.. Harvey merely picked out a few
proposition that the people Of the nation
were corrupt. Why, II Mr.. Harvey had
lived in Jobs time he would have looked
over that unfortunate mans sores and would
have given out and published throughout
the world that all Challeu was an immense
carbuncle.
Mr.. Horr then, amid laughter, said he
would return to the question under discus
sion, and proceeded with the history of the
demonstration act, pointing out how the
bill had been read In full several times and
printed separately eleven times and twice In
the reports Of the controller of the curren-
cy. The debates in the senate on 1t occu.
pied sixty-six columns In the Congressional
Record. In the report Of the committee 1t
WI 0SokOA NA0k . a SSSM
by line and word by word. and wal finally
passed. He would show that. in 80 doing,
the senate knew what 1t was about.
Mr.. Harvey. in reply, said that Mr.. Horr
would rave to retreat from his position
when the proper time came. In point of
fact. the bill about which he was talking
was not the bill finally passed. Judge kel-
ley, in presenting the bill in the house.
said that it was merely a codlacation of the
mint laws. In response to q question.
Judge Kelly replied that the bill made no
change In the value Of the coins of the
nation. In 1872, when the bill came up
again, it was spoken Of as q bill on a dry
subject, and members lost interest. 1t was
Mt 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 reconciliation Of silver. On
the enrolment of the bill, a clause was
omitted which had the effect Of limiting the
coinage Of silver.
Mr.. Horr replying. charged Mr.. Harvey
with quoting a single sentence, and leaving
out the modifying context. The RECORD
running debate. and was not under leave II
print. In the very speech referred to BY
Mr.. Harvey the speaker said that the bill
provided for a standard Tin q single metal
instead Of, as before, In two metals. ant
that all coins. except subsidiary coins
should be of gold. Mr.. Horr then spoke o.
the demonetization of silver In 1916. as tn
result Of experience In the use of the double
standard. In 1871 Germany adopted tn
gold standard, and threw on the marks
$500, O00. 900 In silver. 1t was this that Sc
the world to considering the silver question
not any %gold-bug conspiracy. The hnan
cial policy of no great nation was eve
dominated by q conspiracy.
Questioned by Spectators.
In replying to the large assortment Q
questions put to Messrs. Horr. and Harve.
by spectators. the most interesting colloQuy
perhaps, was at the very end of the day
proceedings. This conundrum was put b.
Mr.. L.. G. Powers of Minnesota:
"You said yesterday my answer is. first
to change 1t or to correct any mistake
In Coins financial school up to date pag
1852, you say: "Coln here explains how a
error had crept into the official report 0
the treasurer, that he has since forced tn
treasury department to correct that error
Mr.. Harvey: 1.-THE answer Is, Coin, q IL,
tie boy In knee pants, represents the caus
of bimetallism; he does not represent m
applause and grOans on each Side OF IN
house respectively. I would not have IN
egotism TO claim that I represent Coin
the many arguments and sentiments an
kind things said about the little boy by tn
author, and when Coins influence is exc
cised at Washington or San Francisco 9
Memphis 1t means the influence OF blmeta
lism and humanity"
Fourth Day.
Chicago, July 2O.-The crucial point wa
reached In the big Horr-Harvey debate t
day. 1t was near the end Of the sessio
when Mr.. Horr. breaking away from tn
long-continued discussion Of the circun
stances surrounding the enactment OF tn
law Of 1873, stated compactly his yersio
Of the existing condition Of the debate an
then pumped the main question: cough
we again throw open the mints Of tn
United States to the free coinage OF silver!
Mr.. Harvey was evidently taken by SUI
prise. but stood by his guns and insiste
on proceeding with his attempt to prov
that the demonetization Of silver was a
complished with q surreptitiousness ths
was criminal Here is what Mr.. Horr sol
, preparatory to springing the chief issue:
''There are some things about which NJ
Harvey and myself differ and some abol
which we agree. He thinks that our for
fathers established a single measure (
value; that that measure was 371k grair
: of pure silver; hat gold was made q simp
! communion metal of oliver and that II