The herald., 1895-07-19

Mr.. Horr personally. That he was an
advocateof pernicious principle does not
mean that Mr.. Horr himself vas bad
man. This great question is not going
to ba decided by the American people by
any advocate, parading himself before
them as being horny listed workingmAn
at any time in his life. (Long and con-
tlnued applause.) l do not object to Mr..
Horr giving the evolution. OF his life.
do think it was a little unfair to have
omitted IN that evolution that he finally
became bank president. l do not deny
that Mr.. Horr has been, as numerous sell
fish bank presidents have at one time
been, tiller of the soil.
Mr.. Horr-In reference to my having
been bank president. I omitted it be-
cause was ashamed of the fact. 1t is
true that at one time l had saved what
competency, and l was the president
Of a national bank. In the crash of 1873
went down. What I had saved was
swept from under me. My position as
president of the bank I resigned; but l
did not steal any Of the money, Of the
bank-not a dollar. went into the world
again single handed and went to work,
and while putting in logs in the northern
part of Michigan I was nominated for
congress and sent there, served six years
OF my life, and did the hardest work l
ever did in those six years. l came out
VI SoH6leSS JUST aS poor DIS went III, L
could not come out any poorer, it was an
impossibility. Uaughter.) Mr.. Harvey
is facetious because have stated that the
money question has given me the head.
ache. did state that; but, mark you,
it was the study of the question that
made my head ache, not writing such
stuff as III this book. That would not
give any man the headache.
Mr.. Horr continued to argue the act of
1873 was prepared after submitting the
question to a large number of experts all
over the country. We had never had
revision of the mint laws for number of
years, and the men in charge OF the mint
thing should be done. Among the men
consulted on the question were Mr..
boutwell,, the secretary of the treasury; ;
Mr.. knox, deputy comptroller OF the cur
rency; Mr.. Lindermann, director of the
mint; Mr.. Parsons, Superintendent of the
mint at Philadelphia. My friend here in
inmates that this law must have been
wicked because 1t was hitched on to the
revision of the mint laws. Why that is
where it belonged. That was the place to
find it. The bill, with the correspond
ence, was submitted to congress in the
most complete form and with an elaborate
report from Mr.. Knox, which explained
all its provisions. Thousands of the bills
were sent broadcast to all parts of the
country. The Bankers Magazine, in it's
number of July, 1870, printed this report
OF Mr.. Knox and commented on the same.
The bill prepared by Mr.. Knox was en-
dorsed by Secretary Boutwell, Of the treas
ury and transmitted to the senate on
April 25, 1870. The bill as it was at that
time drafted dropped the dollar silver
coin of the United States and changed the
unit of value. That was in the original
bill as it was sent to the senate with a
letter from the secretary. Now, nobody
tiled to cover up that fact. In this report
of Mr.. Knox were found all the letters of
these different experts to whom had been
sent draft of the bill and who had been
asked for their opinions on ic. These let
ters were all printed by order of the sen.
ate in connection with the carefully pre-
pared report of MIR. Knox.
Mr.. Harvey--Mr. Horr, permit me.
Have you the bill and those letters with
you?
Mr.. Horr-I have not got them here to-
day, but L have them in the city I think.
Mr.. Harvey-Will you produce them
during the debate?
Mr.. Horr-I will if I have them: do
not know whether brought them with
me. but think l did. Mr.. Patterson
wrote to Mr.. Knox. and his letter was
printed in the public documents. l will
say to this house that every single docu-
ment have referred to copied from the
books OF the government in the CITY OF
Warrington myself, individually, 50
know what am talking about. Mr.. Pat
I terson said: "The silver dollars bait