Great Falls weekly tribune., 1895-07-26
TO THE RECORDS
"COin" Harvey Refers His Opponent
in the Great Ten Days Talk.
ing Match.
THE DEMONETIzATION ACT
Its Provisions, the amendments OF
fered, the Principal Subjects
OF Debate.

CHICAGO, July 2O-The fourth day of
the Horr- Harvey debate opened at the
Illinois club at 1:l5 this afternoon.
Harvey opened the days talk with
statement Of the points go far establish
ed. They were, that prior to 1873 gold
and silver were the money of the consti-
tuition, the silver dollar was the unit of
value up to that time, the debtor was
permitted TO pay in the cheaper money.
and silver was not demonetlzed because
OF any over production at the time that
the law of 1873 was passed. Taking up
the debate proper Harvey denied he had
at any time tried to impeach the in
tegrity Of the American people. He did
not propose to allow corrupt Legislators
to throw the mantle of honesty around
them for their own protection. The
speaker recognized the integrity Of the
American people and it was too that that
he appealed. Harvey then resumed the
statement interrupted at the end of the
| talk on Thursday of the various steps
leading up to the passing of the act of 1873
iEorr, il. opening, declined to allow Har
vey to accept as admitted any statement
of IIarvey's that Horr failed to deny
Horr said Harvey had been reading a
series of carefully prepared essays and
he (llorr) could not be expected to re-
| member ell statements made in them
Harvey might take it for granted that
he (iiorr) denied every thing except what
he expressly assented to. Horr then
took up the international monetary con-
ference at Paris in 1867, aud said the
leading civilized nations of the world
were represented, and pointed out that
all nations present, including the United
| States, voted unanimously, with the ex
ception of the representative of Holland,
in favor Of the gold standard. Openly,
and as a legitimate outcome of the inter
national conference, the act Of 1873 was
passed. Horr argued at length, quoting
letters and documents to prove the
charge that the demonstration act was
passed under British bribes, was false
Harvey resumed the history of the act
of 1873, quoting from the debate in the
senate when the bill was put on its pass
age. IIorr said there was in the bill of
which Harvey had spoken provision
for a token dollar worth D francs. The
senate struck that cut and substituted
the trade dollar.
Harvey If you will show me any
where in ,he debate Of that day here
the senate struck out the provision we
will stop the debate right here. Great
applause from IIarvcys friends
!lorr Tho bill as passed. contained a
trade dollar, did it nor?
llarvey-Ies sir.
!iorr suggested that il covered the
pont and proceeded with his argument
He said nobody thought Of striking down
silver when the bill a7 passed. At that
time silver wae lot n circulation and
the bullion in dollar WAS wyfth more
than d dollar
Harvey, coming back to the attack
read from Senator Sherman's statement
on putting the bill On it's passage, show.
ing that the bill provided fer two Gol
lars :}Sl gram dollar, equal to the
French ) franc piece, and trade doll"r
He declared iEorr had said this smaller
dollar was not in The bill. Iiorr, inter
rupting, said that he never denied it
Harvey said he would refer the question
in dispute to the records Of tho day
Resuming Harvey said the conspiracy
was carried out in Il conference com
mittee. Sherman and Harper reported
to their respective houses, the differences
had been defined and the bill was passed
without debate. The bill as reported
omitted the 3Sl grain dollar. Horr sait
he did not deny the 3S4 grain dollar was il
, the bill, but at no time did the bill pro
:. vide for anything except gold as th
, standard. The matter Of small dola
= was agreed on in conference committee
= as ia the custom, but the committe
could not enact anything, it had to re
port to tho two houses and their actio
was necessary. The bill as passed, wit
= the addition Of tho trade dollar, W.
i nearly identical with tho bill as draw
3 by tho secretary Of the treasury. Th
=, attempt to smirch the characters of th
" members of congress who voted for thi
bill was Infamous. (AppIause).
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