Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-08-22

Ibhu bnO buulhAuAy Va 'NN 1870 ~
Horr debate in connection with the
newspaper and magazine articles on
the all important subject OF silver, the
conviction comes with great force that
there is, and was in 1878, something
rotten in Denmark" For instance
Mr.. Horr contends that everything
was as open as daylight in the action
Of those who had charge Of the bill
which dropped the silver dollar,
and in proof Of his statement says
that thousands Of copies OF the bill
we're sent broadcast to all parts Of the
country. The Bankers Magazine in
its number Of July, 1870, printed this
report Of Mr.. Knox and commented
on the same" mr. Horn does not
say that those copies OF the bill were
sent to the people at large, nor, that
Mr.. Knox's report was printed in the
newspapers read by the people,.
Opposed to this, Mr.. Harvey shows
from the record that Mr.. Hooper IN
the House and Mr.. Sherman IN the
Senate both declared that the act Of
1873 made no changes in the coinage
laws, that the bill az it passed both
House and Senate contained a pro
vision for the coinage OF the Legal
tender dollar that the Senate made
some slight changes, (not in relation
to coinsge); that the bill WAS referred
to a conference committee OF which
both Hooper and Sherman were mem
bers; that the report Of the committee
was concurred in and the bill finally
passed as recommended by it,and thaI
it was while the bill was in the hands
of the conference committee that the
dollar was surreptitiously dropped
from the bill.
Mr.. VaDHorn Of the Kansas Git!
Journal, who attended the debate bsI
the following to say on this line:
/ must confess that this record
when all collected and grouped to
gether, is most startling. The silve
dollar, as a legal tender, was in thu
bill as it passed both houses, and al
it went to the committee on confer
ence, and Mr.. Harvey states the par
liamentary rule correctly when be
says that conference committee hal
only jurisdiction Of disagreements thu
two houses-and there we're were nont
on this. 1t IS startling record, anC
explains why Judge Kelley, Presiden
Grant, DIr. Blame and others coulC
say they did not know the silver dol
lar had been stricken down, and tn
metal demonetized. 1t is no answe
to say that those in charge OF the bill
are honest men-particularly whel
they are not assailed-for, as Mr.
Harvey shows, it is possible for it tt
have been done by some person hav
ing access to the engrossed or enroll
ed bill, Vital changes and omission
have often been detected in bills fror
this source. The record shows tina
the silver dollar was in the bill wheI
it went to the conference F."
The June RevietU of RevieaUS give
an extract from an article in the Soc
iaI Economist by its editor, in whic
the writer admits that the passage O
the bill Of Feb, 1873, was secret, urg
ing, however, as reason for 1t tn
following language; "But that it wa
secret through the worthlessness o
the privilege Of coinage it purpofteC
to give admits Of no denial" (who cal
tell what is meant by this language,
The editor of the Social EconomiS
continues; Gen. Francis A. Walker
the representative ofthe United State
at the Paris conference in 1878, toll
that conference that it was so quiet
passed that he did not know of il
Mr.. Hooper Of Massachusetts, who re
ported to the House the very act o
1773, which was afterwsrd discovered
to have destroyed the legal tende
power of silver for more than SIS, vot
ed IN 1864, along with ten other Mass
achusetts' representatives, for a join
resolution Of Congress declaring tina
nothing but gold and siluer coin o
the United States should be legal ten
der in payment Of public debts, Thi
shows that Hooper did not know il
1874 that he had aided to disestablis
the silver dollar as legal tender b
bis own act President Grant wrot