Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1895-07-25

and passed by q yea and nay vote The sens.
tors from the Pacific slope voted for 1t and
Senator Sherman voted against It. The Fifty
first congress died without action having been
taken on the bill
MT. Horr-sUpon the face of his own bill
there Is proof that to any man who has
studied this question Is conclusive. The
Whole attempt to prove that any such bill
ever went from the house and senate is false.
Does any man In his senses believe
that they ever undertook to give free
coinage OF silver to standard dollar Of 384
grains The old dollar was not reinstated. but
the silver dollar was reduced In weight from
412M grains to 1874 grains and made subsid-
larry coin like all the other silver coins Of the
United States.
The discussion OF the act Of 1873 was con-
t1nued until ! o'clock, when at the request of
Mr.. Horr adjournment was taken until 10 a. m.
Saturday
Saturday.
CHICAGO July 23-After days rest for the
participants. the Horr-Harrey debute was
resumed at o'clock Saturday after
noon.
The discussion Of the act Of 1873 by which
silver was demonet1zed was then taken up. Mr..
Potter's part in the transaction being the SUB
ject The author of "Coin" quoted freely from
the Congressional Record to show that Mr..
Hooper, OF Massachusetts,, moved to dispense
with the reading OF the substitute bill de-
mon citing silver Here was an attempt
said Mr.. Harvey, ito legislate on the life
blood OF q nation without reading the bill. "
Resuming the discussion of the law OF 1873,
Mr.. Horr quoted from w. A. Shaw's ''History
Of Currency in reference to the first interna-
tional monetary conference, held in Paris in
1867. to show that the subject was being agi-
tated by the civilized nations OF the world.
All the nations except Holland declared
| in favor Of tho standard after eight daily ses-
sions It was after this action, in which the
United States participated that the American
| experts commenced to examine the question
and see what legislation should be enacted
Tho bill OF 1873 simply carried out resolution
of all those civilized nations OF the world.
Mr.. Horr-A provision had been introduced
| in the house, and was part OF the bill, for
looming dollar precisely like the fve-franc
piece In use in France-no doubt about it The
senate struck that provision out of it and sub
ssttuted the trade dollar for that 384-grain dol
lar. s
Mr. Harvey-If you will show me from tho
| record Of the proceedings in the senate on
that day that the senate struck out that dol
lar, we will stop this debate right here.
Mr.. Horr-I have not the record The law,
when II was passed, had the trade dollar in it.
Do you deny that? And did not that take the
( place of the other dollar?
! Mr.. Harvey-No, sir (Laughter)
| Mr.. HOrr-I defy you to show anywhere q
! word that substantiates that position 1t was
4 q simple piece of legislation and bears that
| impression on its face The only men who OPP
posed that bill in the house were Clarkson N.
Potter and Mr.. Brooks, both millionaires from
| Wall street. both representing the very
linen that you say were trying to impose that
lbill tupon this country for the purpose
OF aiding men who are rich. Was anything
| more contemplate than q proposition OF that
kind" He branded as pure invention the
Ii''whole bracket business" OF provisions which
were purposely omitted from the bill which
passed. He declared that the bill met with
| little opposition solely because no one cared
| at that time very much about the silver dol
| lar
Mr. Harvey-The other day, when MI. Horr
| said that the bill before the senate, as shown
| by the Congressional Record, only had trade
dollar in it. replied that when got to the
senate proceedings he would have to retreat
from that position. and now he retreats Of his
own accord
He spoke of the history Of the bill in confer.
I ence COMMITTEES. where the dirty work was
done and the conspiracy eliminated" The
committee was not supposed to have reversed
the action Of the two houses on any points
| "Butthey had. They had tlken out the 384-grair
dollar the size of the French ve-franc piece. the
dollar that was to float around the world the
dollar that would have put our system on the
| same basis ratio with France and the Latin
\ union" The report of the senate finance com.
snow that the committee reported an amend.
1 mont to strike out The silver dollar. so as Il
furnish the foundation for the conference com.
mittee's fraudulent action, although the sec.
tion in which this occurs was passed as agreed
on without any amendment at the time beins
considered to it.
Mr.. Horr said he had never minated tina,
tho 384-grain dollar was not at one time in the
bill, but he denied that it was in any draft o.
1.-The bill made anything but subsidiary coin
and defied his opponent to prove that thu
clause making the gold dollar the unit Of valu,
was ever erased from the bill in any of tn,
proceedings.
1t was now Mr.. Harvey's turn again and b,
continued reading from the Congressional Rec
ord on the passage Of the substitute advo
Gated by Mr.. Hooper In reply to
question, Mr. Hooper had sud tn,
bill made no changes in the exist
ing coinage laws. shortly afterward :
within the hour-the bill was passed withou
being read. Mr.. Harvey now went into tn,
senate history OF the bill. Senator Sherman
he alleged and made frequent citations from
the records in proof Of his assertions
made repeated attempts to accelerate action
on the bill when the matter was frs
brought up in the senate, and to convince tn
other senators that the bill was one of no i'm
portance whatever, and they need not Civ
over an hour altogether to its consideration
"and in these things" continued the speaker
..he succeeded"