The advocate., 1895-07-24


cept as to the trade dollar, afterward abO
ished. The standard silver dollar wa
fraudulently omitted after the bill ha
passed both houses"
Horr said the statement was prepOsteI
GUS. He quoted the words of Kelly, {
Pennsylvania, in 1872: 1--WE proceeded wit
great deliberation to go over the bill, nc
only by sections, but line by line and wor
by word" Hooper was also quoted, Apr
., 1872, that section 16 re-enacted eth
previous existing bylaws, except in rela
tion to the silver dollar, which is reduce
in weight from 4181s grains to 384 grains
thus making it subsidiary coin"
Replying Harvey quoted from Kelly
May 10, 1879: 'It Cthe demonetization bill
was passed without allusion in debate t.
the question Of the retention or abandon
ment of the standard silver dollar"
Horr then quoted what Kelly said in tn
running debate in the house (not "b,
leave'O, as follows: "All experience ha
shown that you must have one standarC
coin, which shall be a legal tender for al
others 1 again call the attention
Of the house to the fact that the gentlemen
who oppose this bill insist upon maintain
ing silver dollar worth S1s cents NOR,
than the gold dollar and cents more thai
two silver half-dOllars, and that so long a.
those provisions remain you cannot keel
silver.cOin in the country"
The above was said by Kelly prior to tn
passage of the bill. After another desser
tatiOn by Harvey on the wickedness Of hu
maRity, HOrr followed the demonetizatiol
bill back to the senate and to it's final pas
sage, after being before congress for thre,
years Harvey then quoted Kelly as say
ing during the debate on the bill that /
made no change in the existing value 0
coins. Harvey said: while the record dis
closed the intention to change the unit tt
gold, 1t nowhere revealed the intention tt
close the mints to silver" He furthe
said "The clause providing for the 49,
grain dollar, with the right to unlimited
free coinage, was surreptitiously erased
from the bill in 1873 before it was en-
rolled"
Horr then quoted Hooper as saying dur
ing the debate: This bill provides for tn
making Of changes in the legal tender coli
Of the country, and for substituting lega
tender Of only one metal, instead, as here
tofore, of two"
Horr proceeded: II submit to this audi
ence there is right there in that speeol
positive proof that that bill was well un
derstood by the people who were leglslatin,
upon It. Mr. Potter opposed the bill, bu
he was frank enough to state that one pro
vision in the bill met with his hearty an
proval, and that was the very provision W
are debating here today. No better proc
can possibly be given that that bill was
like all the bills passed in that congress
examined carefully, conscientiously."
This ended the debate for the day, an,
Judge Miller announced that question
from the audience would be now received
Charles Coffin, OF Arkansas, was the fra
questloner. He asked Horr why he or
posed the American people acting on tn
free silver question. Horr replied that h
had never on the face Of the earth oppose
such action.
J. G. Sibley, Of Pennsylvania, asked why
II the silver dollar was at per cent pre-
MUM In 1873 gold mOnometallsts elaine
that the silver dollar was demonetized be
cause silver was depreciating In value
Horr replied that the gold men neve
claimed anything Of the kind. No natio
that had demonetized silver gave that as
reason.
In reply to another question Horr sal
1t was true that Jefferson said to congres
when he discontinued the coinage Of tn
silver dollar report of the director of tn
mint, In which the reason assigned for dlU
continuing the coinage was the scarcity @
small change Another reason in the re
port was ITO prevent the expectation OF tn
specie Of the United States to foreign Gown
tries"
On the request of Mr.. Horr the furthe
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