The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-07-19

dropped the dollar silver coin Of the
! United States and changed the unit Of
value. That was in the original bill
as it was sent to the Senate with a
letter from the secretary. Now, no.
body tried to cover up that fact. In
this report of Mr.. Knox were found
/ all the letters of these different ex-
| perts to whom had been sent draft
of the bill and who had been asked
for their opinion on it. Those letters
were all printed by order of the Sen
ate IN connection with the carefully
/ prepared report of Mr.. Knox.
Closing in on Him.
! Have you the bill and those letters
with you?
Mr. Horr-I have not got them here
today, but I have them in the city, I
think
Mr.. Harvey-win you produce them
during the debate?
Mr.. HORT will if I have them; I
/ don't know whether ] brought them
with me, but I think I did Mr. Pat
terson wrote to Mr.. Know and his let
/ ter was printed in the public dccu-
ments. I viii say to this house that
every single document I have referred
to [ copied from the books OF the
/ government in the city Of washington
myself individually, so I know what
am talking about. Mr.. Patterson said:
1.-The silver dollars. half dimes and
three cent pieces are dispensed with by
the Senate amendment. Gold becomes
the standard money. of which the gold
dollar is the unit. Silver is subsidiary,
embracing coins from the dime TO the
half dollar"
/ Can anything be more palmer than
! that? Was there any covering up of
anything in that letter?
officials Scored.
Mr.. Harvey-In the presentation of
decentralization I have called attention
to the condition. morally, if Congress
at the time Of the passage of the act,
to the impeachment sharged against
/ Vice-PreSident COlfaX, in 1873, for fraud
/ in connection with legislation: to the
resignation of Secretary of War Pol
KNAPP for bribery, 1873. now proceed,
after first stating for Mr. Horr's in
formation, that Delmar. the English
historian, says that the act Of 1916 de-
monetizing silver in England had a
clause in it that it might be re-
instated by the king; that that clause
/ giving right to reinstatement was re-
pealed in 1871. and that the asst in
which it was repeated was within two
weeks in the hands of Mr. Knox. thu
comptroller of the United States treas
ury. applause. And was in CART the
/ basis of the act in this country.
Era of Corruption.
There was an era Of corruption in
Congress at that time. Clinton Colgsse
confessed before the ways AMI means
committee of 1873 to the use OF money
TO influence the incorporation Of spec
ial features in the internal revenue
bill, testifying, among other things
that Charles Sherman, IF Ohio a
/ brother Of Senator Sherman, had Eeen
/ paid $4,000 by the New York stock ex-
! change in connection with the revenue
bill The officials of the stock exchange
were subpoenaed and the facts devel-
/ oped that while the m0nay had not
been paid. Judge Sherman had rem
/ dered a bill to the exchange e.r his
/ services. and as he claimed Tor Sc
curing the services Of his brother, Sen
ator Sherman, to put the bill through.
/ (Applause.) 1t would readily exhaust
/ the words of this debate IL go into
all the Investigations o. that notorious
/ Congress.
HOrr Gets Angry.
/ Mr.. Horr-The attempt of Mr. Har-
/ Vey 10 Si1irch the Congress Of the
United States and make the people OF
! this country believe that he people
VINO acted as members of Congress in
-
! have been subject TO purchase and
/ sale, can be characterized only as in
! famous. (ApplauSe). No nation on
! the face of the earth ever had a rurer
! set Of legislators than have been in
/ the Congresses Of this country during
/ its existence. There sits before me
( several members of Congress who
served with me in several Congresses,
and I appeal to each and every one
/ of them if, during their entire service,
I they ever say or mistTusted that money
was being used to purchase the mem
! bers of Congress? 7 served six years
without ever knowing that an instance
of that kind had occurred during the
/ Congresses in which 1 served When
men start out with the proposition
that in order to move their case they
must also prove that the majority Of
I the best men OF this country are
/ thieves ana scoundrels, they had bet
+ ter stop before they begin. (Applause).
/ The people of this country-and the
congressman is no exception-as an
average are upright. honest business
men. Admit that Judge Sherman was
guilty of a crime, that was never in
any way connected with his brother,
John Sherman, and yon know it. They
exonerated him.
Drove Him From the Bench.
MI. HafNey-OlQ INey lnpSacn
Judge Sherman?
Mr.. Horr-Judge Sherman resigned
Immediately. They drove hin from
the bench. (Applause.) The public cpin-
ion of this country would not permit
a man to hold a public position who
would do a thing of that kind But
what has that to DO with the question
whether Mr.. Knox openly and squ2rely
presented this bill to Congress. Mr..
Knox said himself, '-Tha coinage of
the silver dollar piece, the history of
which is here given. is Discontinued
in the proposed bill. L is by law the
dollar unit The Tre5elt gold dollar
piece IS made the dUlls-' unit in the
proposed bill.
Mr.. Harvey-When was that writ
ten?
Mr. Horr-Just before it was sent to
Congress in 1870. Il was a part of the
report that Secretary Boutwell, sent to
the Senate IN the spring OF lS7d- 1t
accompanied the bill ana WAS printed
in the public documents as bcing an
explanation of the bill bT order of the
Senate. Is there anything LicCer in
those statements?
Charges OF Corruption.
Mr.. Harvey-Among the many
charges of corruption made at this
period QS73) there was one of signifi-
canoe. when we consider that silver
was demonetized by a single sentence
being omitted from the report Of the
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