The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1895-07-30

| ference committees, ant THAT such Com.
n,ttees could not change anything agreed
| on by both houses He charged that AiAer i
men on the conference committee I'M
fraudulent clerk had stricken
silver dollar. He asked the voter t \
republic TO read the Congressiont &. ! 81
OF Jan. H. 1873 and SEQ for tb e,3
that it is there expressed that tn
dollar was Ia the bill before It was emaM
culated bv the conference commiDtee thu
J silver dollar that was with the trade dol-
] lar to have free access TO che mints. Thus
the conspiracy succeeded either by o COR
rupt clerk or the two men who made the
report, or both"
Horr offered to give Mr.. Harvey his
| time IL he would show that the disputaX
dollar was given free coinage by the bilf
| as it came. from the house, and Harvey
said he had already shown 10. Horn re-
piled: This new dollar that was pro-
vidad for In the bill In the house a. 10
went to the senate was just twice the
| size OF the half dollar. Now the provision
| existed that the silver for making such
half dollars should be bought by the gov
eminent and that the seigniorage Arising
| from coining such money, which wos<,
worth less than IL was worth on It's face, U
should go Into the government treasury.
Do you believe they provided for O coin
containing double the amount OF silver In
! the half dollar and agreed TO take all the
silver that should come TO the mint and
coin IL into such dollars, and Ia the same
bill also provided that II 10 was coined in
TO half dollars the government should got
| it 1.-THE seignoragel? Men wouldn't go
and sell their silver for the market price
when the very bill would permit them TO
4 \ .-fsw ea n loRf
price for IL"
Horr then, after review OF the points
upon which he and Harvey agreed AMI
differed, proposed to go into the question
the law being on the statute books
Should it be repealed But Harvey said
he wasn't through with tho demopetiza-
ton act, He quoted the Chicago Tribune
of jan Is, 1879 which only briefly men
toned in It's Geographic report the p,
sage OF the bill, Notwithstanding one of
the money metals had been struck J
down by that bill The reporters at
Washington did not know 1t. Horr de- :
MED that the passage OF the law resulted (
in curtailing the silver money in circula-
ton in this country, He proposed thsn !
to go into the question of ratio, but Har-
vey said he had still something more -t2&
say about the demonetization act. NJ
Harvey quoted Thurman, Feb J5, 1873.
declaring that he did not know the bill
demonetized the silver dollar; Conkling
admitting his ignorance of the 0act
March 80, 1876; and Allison declaring,d
Feb. rs, 1878, that the bill had been doc
tored" and that it did not as passed rep
resent the intention Of the house.
Holman was quoted. July IS, 1874, de- 1
claring that the matter OF the bills pas |,
sage was "a colossal swindlo" and as it !
passed was certainly not read to the 1
house. Said Holman; II myself asked
the question OF Mr.. Hooper, who stood
near where / am now standing, whether
it cbaged the law In regard to coinage.
and the answer of Mr., Hooper certainly
left the impression upon the whole house
that the subject of the coinage was not
affected by the BILL
Horr said: II desire to say to the gem
tleman that just what one congressman
or another may have said about this bill
neither know nor care / know this,
that the men composing the congress OF
1873 personally and individually have
every one of them denied the statements
of corruption that you charge in the
passage OF this bill. l know that they
have nothing but inuendoes 80 base the
charge upon. / know that they cannot
make case unless they first prove that
no decency was left in the American con-
gress in 1875"
Horr then took up the question Of
rates saying that Harvey might con-
tinue banging at that old hole" II be so
desired. He referred TO Del Mar Of Lon
don, to show the variation of the ratio
between silver and gold from the
beginning, showing that in the Archaic
epoch, the earlis5 record, the ratio was :.
TO /. Inthe Vedic period it was / TO 4
In the Buduhic epoch it was to 81 and
SO on down to 1869 when 1t had changed
to IA to /. He wanted Harvey to explain
this, and why 1t was the highly civilized
nations that he'd adopted gold as the
standard
Harvey. however, insisted on continu-
ing the debate on the characterization acc,
and said he had intended to quote many
more proofs of the alleged fraud, but that
Horr's retreat made it unnecessary. He
then quoted the Chicago Tribune, Febru-
airy 20. 1873: This act, done secretly
and stealthily, to the profound ignornce
of those who voted for 1t, and OF the pres
ident who approved 1t, had, without the
knowledge of the country, removed ono OF
the landmarks of the governments; had,
under cover of darkness, abolished the
constitutional dollar, and had arbitrarily
and to the immense injury Of the people,
added heavily to every form of indebted
ness, public and private"
Harvey concluded as follows: 1.-THE firsti
question that strikes the innocent mind
of today is. why has not this wrong been \
sooner rightedS 1t is because, sirs, men
stand bare-headed beneath sun whose
enervating rays blind the eyes and de-
stroy human character The Same decep-
ton which originated and completed this
crime is still practiced upon tha people,
and the same power that directed 1t then
is directing it now The child OF nature,
standing In the laboratory OF the alche-
mist, can see the most deadly poison
made, but It's appearance furnishes no
evidence OF its deadly power.
$50 1t is with the man who reads the
act Of 1878. Such has been the effect of
the act Of 1878 that debassd one-half the
money Of the government Its debase-
ment consisted In destroying the attri- Z
butes that gave to silver It's value and
power as money metal Its use sinof sd
In debaeed token money has served tn ait