The San Francisco call., 1895-07-21

about it. The Senate struck that pro-
vision out of it and substituted the trade
dollar for that SS4-grain dollar.
"If YOU show me from the record" in
terrupted Harvey, "of the proceedings of
the Senate on that day that the Senate
struck out that dollar we will stop this
debate right here"
81 have not the record. The law when
II nassed had the trade dollar in" said
Horr.
1.-THE other day when Mr.. Horr said that
the bill before the Senate, as shown by the
Congressional Record, only had trade
dollar in it." resumed Harvey, "I replied
that when got to the Senate proceedings
he would have to then retreat from that
position and now he retreats of his own
accord.
He spoke of the history of the bill in the
conference committee "where the dirty
work was done and the conspiracy culmin-
ated." The committee was not supposed
TO have reversed the action of the two
houses on any points, but they had. They
had taken out the 3S4-srain dollar, the size
of the French 5-franc piece, the dollar that
was to float around the world, F." the dol
lar that would have put our system on the
same basic ratio with France and the
Latin Union. The report of the Senate
Finance Committee turned up so altered
as TO show that the committee reported an
amendment to strike out the silver dollar
so as to furnish the foundation for the Con-
ference Committees fraudulent action, al
though the section in which this occurs
was passed without any amendment.
Mr.. Horr said he had never intimated
that the Ss4-grain dollar was not at one
time in the bill, but he denied that it was
in any draft of the bill made anything but
a subsidiary coin and defied his opponent
to prove that the clause making the gold
dollar the unit of value was ever erased
from the bill in any of the proceedings.
In support OF his contention that the trade
dollar was substituted for the dollar omit
ted from the bill, he read letter which he
recently received from Jasper Packard of
New Albany, Ind, who was 4 member Of
Congress in July, 1878.
Mr.. Horr declared that Mr.. Harvey was
mistaken when he stated that the money
of the people had been stricken down.
~ desire to say" continued Mr.. Horr,
"that he or anybody else who states that
the passage of the law of 1873 ever resulted
in curtailing the silver money in circula-
ton in the United States-[laughter on
thessilver side of the housel- states some
thing that is not true" Applause from
the gold side.
1--WE are a Republican Government"
said Harvey, "a Government for the peo-
pie, and it is part of the policy and spirit
of the Government that when it is pro-
posed to make change in our laws affect-
ing the welfare of the people or changing
a fundamental principle, it is to be dis
cussed before the people, and the people
are more or less to express themselves on
it, not only know in advance that it is pro-
posed to do such a thing, but know it
when it is done, neither of which occurred
in this instance.
when 1 reach the proper place we will
see that what Mr.. Horr has said about the
immense coinage of silver has nothing to
do with this question. You might as well
print your token money on leather as to
stamp it on demonetized metal. [Ap-
plause.
"When your demonetized metal becomes
token money, representative money re-
deemable in gold, you are wasting mate
rial to stamp it on valuable substance
[applause] because it is gold that it repre-
sents. 1t has ceased to represent itself.
[Applause.] 1 am going to satisfy the peo-
pie and Mr.. Horr that there was something
radically wrong about the passage of that
bill.
"Senator Thurman, on the 18th of Feb
ruary, 1878, in debate, said: I cannot say
what took place in the House, but know
when the bill was pending in the Senate
we thought it was simply bill to reform
the Mint, regulate coinage and fix up one
or another, and there is not a single man
in the Senate, I think, unless member of
the committee from which the bill came
who had the slightest idea that it was even
a squint toward denonetization' (Con
gressional Record, volume 7, part 2, Forty
fifth Congress, second session, on pag e
1864.
Senator Conkling in the Senate on
March 30, 1876, during the remarks OF Sen
ator Bogy on the bill to amend the laws re-
Iating to legal tender of silver coin, in sur
prise, inquired: viii the Senator allow
me to ask him or some other Senator a
question? Is it true that there is now by
law no American dollar, and if so, is it
true that the effect of this bill is to make
half dollars and quarter dollars the only
silver coins which can be used as legal
tenders?
Senator Allison; on February Is. 1878,
said: But when the secret history of this
bill Of 1878 com es to be told it will disclose
the fact that the House of Representatives
in tended to coin both gold and silver, and
intended to place both metals upon the
French relation instead of on our own,
which was the true scientific position in
reference to this subject in 1873, but that
bill afterward was doetored.' Applause. !
81 call Mr.. Horr's special attention to
what have just read. There is the testi-
mony of a man who was present and
among the men who were deceived-Mr.
Allison, at present Senator from Iowa.
Passed, did you say, in your opening,
without the least taint of suspicion of its
integrity? Long applause] and that the
records would demonstrate that you were
right?
"What did you do with Senator Allison ?
He says the bill was doctored. Have not l
proved to you that it was doctored by the
records of the Senate. He says that it was