Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-07-25
The GREAT DEBATE.

An Acrimonious Exchange of Personalities
Marks the Opening of tho Days Talk
The Congress which Dem0nctized SiivAs
Denounced rs Corrupt by MIR. Harvey an4
Defended by Mr.. Horr-AdjournedU Until
Saturday.
CHICAGO. July 1s.--In the opening
exchange of personalities, among other
things Mr.. Harvey said:
'Mr Horr and numerous employees
OF newspaper concerns and other
corporations are IN part, many OF
them. representing their honest con-
victions. and 1 accord that to the hon
orable gentleman from New York.
Many of them never stop to analyze
the question, the great principle that
must make or unmake the republic in
which they live. 1t is only a ques-
ton of salary which they consider.
You say that a man should bet
ter himself, and if better
salary is offered him to take it. Not
for all the combined salaries in the
world would 1 accept a position where
would have to advocate principle
that 1 thought would destroy the lib
critics of my countrymen- There is
something in life greater than money.
When we again get the American peo-
pie to believe this-and not until then
can we again have liberty in this
land, and every man will have an OPP
portunity to make living without be-
ing deprived of it by the aggrega-
tion of selfish interests The value
of the debate yesterday was this:
A steady representation has gone
before the people of the United States
that there was only $4,000, GOO of silver
coined by the United States prior to
1873. But meeting face to face with
representative of the other side of the
question. this debate now carries to
the people of the United States the
admitted fact that there was Sl43. 000.-
600 of silver coined prior to 1873"
Mr. Horn took up the question of the
origin of the law of 1878. He said it
was drafted after consulting large
number of experts. who were apt to
know little more about the money
question than those who had never
studied it at all. He denied that the
bill had its origin in England or any
where except in the brains Of the peo-
pie who were looking after The coin
age interests of the United States
Every step taken in the incipiency
of this matter was open as the light
Thousands of copies of the bill were
sent broadcast to all parts of the
country. No one tried to cover up the
fact that the bill, as originally drafted
by Knox and Endorsed by Secretary
Boutwell, of the treasury, dropped the
silver dollar piece of the United States
and changed the unit of value. All
the letters of the experts and the re-
port of Mr.. Knox were printed by or
der of the senate"
Mr.. Knox openly and squarely pre-
sented this bill to congress? II was
debated in the senate for three
days 1t came to vote in
| the senate January 10. 1871,
and passed by a yea and nay vote.
The senator's from the Pacific slope
for it. and Senator Sherman voted
againstit. The ffty-first congress died
without action having been taken on
| the bill.
Mr.. Harvey continued his line of at
| tack on the honesty of the congress
| and its employees in 1873, referring par
| ticularly to the charges of corruption
| made by individuals and the press
| against George A. Bassett, clerk of the
ways and means committee. The sal
airy grab bill. which had TO be re-
| pealed by force of public sentiment,
| was passed by the congress which de-
monetized silver. The people could
understand a salary grab, but they
| could not understand scientific spoil
alton of their rights ITO make plain
| how the fraud was practiced." conrin-
| ued Mr.. Harvey. II will read the sec
| tions as they stand in the law. and in
| clude the words which were erased
from the bill sure ptitiously in its
| passage"
Mr.. Horn Gnterrupting)-By whom?
| What proof have you that any thing
| was erased?
Mr.. Harvey-I will get to the proof
of that a little later. AS the bill passed
both houses the unit was on gold and
the free and unlimited coinage of both
metals was provided for But as en-
rolled the minis were closed to free
and unlimited coinage of silver, ex-
| cept as to the trade dollar, afterwards
abolished. The standard silver dollar
was fraudulently omitted after the
| bill had passed both houses.
Mr.. Horr-Upon the face of his own
| bill there Is proof that, to any man
who has studied this question. is con-
elusive. 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 Il standard
dollar of 3Si grains. The old
dollar was not reinstated, but the
silver dollar was reduced in weight
from 412H grains to ;s4 grains and
made a subsidiary coin like all the
other silver coins of the United States.
On the request of Mr. Horr the de-
bate was adjourned to O'clock Satur-
day next
| Sentenced to Death by Recorder Con.
| New YORK, July 19.-Recorder Golf