Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-07-18
HORR.HARVEY BOOM.
Third Day oil The Debate on Coins
Financial School.
THE DECENTRALIZATION CRImE.Y
Honor Of Legislators Aitackcd-neien,e
Conducted BY One Who Knows
whereof lie speaks.

CHICAGO, July lS.-The third day
the HOrr Harvey silver debate opened
Al ii q. m. To-Day, the la,rnoss In tho
starting hour heretofore having been
found inconvenlent in some respects.
The subject under discussion was what
Harvey hsd characterized In his book
o. the "Crime VI 73n-demonetizatlOn
Of silver.
After some miscellaneous spnrfiug,
Harvey charged corruption In the
passage OF the act demonet zing silver
HOrr IN reply repudlsted the infer.
rncu that the citizens OF the Uni o1
States were all corrupt aud none OF
ihoif women viftu0us. Horr declared
II was not true that every mAu haI
price. Tho mem ore OF Congress were
~ honest o. the average American
citizen. He knew whereof he spoke,
iSf h" hRi been member OF that uOIy
himself. HOfr then took up the ulE.
tory Of the demonstration act and pgu.
ceeded TO show the stages througi
which II Passed and that its nnal en-.
nc,meut was not TN after Il bad been
before Congress nearly three yuafr.
Harvey then returned 10 his attack
upon tho honesty Of legislatures
throughOut the country, Including
Cong Itrs and the Illinois and CulotAlD
Legislatures. This venality wau sap.
pi'g thu foundations Of the govern
nIont, na 1t had capped the foundations
aud destroyed every republic OF lhe
pact.
Hotr again returned to IA deiouse
OF the honesty Of the American people.
lie said Harvey merely picked out
lew corrupt men, and drew IL m them
the prop sitiJu that the people Of ,ha
nation were all corrupt II Harvey
mad lived ~ JUb'a time no would have
looked over that unfortunate mhu's
sores and zone out anu puh!ishcu
throughout the world that ali Chaldea
was one imunouss cstbuuclr. Hoff
thuu, amid laughter, said he would re-
turn 20 the question under discussion,
AMI proceeded with tha history Of the
standardization act, pointing out how
the blil hau been read Ia full several
times, pri ted separately eleven times
and twice ~ The reports OF tao comp.
tfOlIer Of the currency. The debates
In the Senate occupied siXty.siK col.
ums Of the Congregational record In
the report Of the COMMITTEES Il was
stated that IL had been examined luu
by line, word by word, ami WAS finally
passed.. He would show that In 20
doing the Senate know what 1t wLs
hb iu'.
Harvey, In reply, said Horr would
have TO divert from his position when
the proper time came. In point Of
fact, the bill about which he had been
taking, was not the bill finally Ia.sed.
Judge Kelly, IN presenting the bill in
the House, saiu II was mUiely c0dih.
cation " laws. In Response to quri-
ton Judge Kelly replied that the bill
made no oha1ge h. tie value u the
coins Of the nation. IN l772 when toe
bill Csme up u was spoken OF asa bill
on q ufy bubItet ami the members lost
their interest. II was Mt that time, NJ
appears from the Record, that the FIRST
disclosure Of the Ia er;iJn TO chauEe
tho stsndAfd 70 GOLD was made Ia a
stycOh by HGopGr. But there vas
rc5sgn to believe the speech was not
bcluElij delivered but pilpted by ieave,
or 10 was TGGd from manuscript hnu
these words omitted. But no ro'rTcucu
was made TO the decentralization Of
silver. On the enrolment bill, the
clause was omitted which hal the
effect OF limiting the coinage OF HilveT.
Horrreplylng, charged Harvey with
quoting = single sentence ana leaving
out the modifying context The hso'
ord showed the statement was made in
tue running debate, not undtr leave Of
print. In the very speech referred to
by Harvey, the speaker said this bill
provided for the stHndstd sin single
metal" instead Of, ~ before, two
metals, anu that all coins except sub
sidary coins should be gold. Horr
then spoke OF tho demonstration Of
silver In lsl6 as u Tesuit OF experience
In the use Of double standard, In
1871 Germany adopted the gold stand.
ard aud threw ON tho market $780,
100000 silver. II WA this that set the
world TO considering the silver ques.
tiun-not any "gold bug conspiracy"
The financial policy OF no grea, nation
was ever dominated by conspiracy.
THIS closed the debate for the day,
except the answering Of questions by
the dispuIanis, prOpounued by mem
beers Of the audience. The attendance
was not large but was Rppreciatiys and
generous ana impartial In recognition
Of the telling points.