Evening star., 1895-07-18
H ORR AND HARV Ely
The Third Day Of the Silver Debate at
Chicago
The Two Disputants Charge Each
Other With Interpretations
and nlunders.

CHICAGO, July 1S.-The third day Of the
Horr-Harvey silver debate opened IN the
auditorium Of the Illinois Club at II am.
today. the lateness Of the starting hour
heretofore having been found more or less
inconvenient in some respects. The subject
under discussion was what Mr.. Harvey had
characterized in his book as the Crime of
1S13"-the demonetization of silver. After
some miscellaneous sparring Mr.. Harvey
charged corruption in the passage of the
decentralization of silver. Mr.. Horr, in re-
ply, repudiated the inference that the cit
liens of the United States were all corrupt
and none of their women virtuous.
He declared that it was not true that
every man had his price. Members
of Congress were as honest as the
average American citizen. He the
Speaker) knew whereof he spoke, for he had
been a member of that body himself. Mr..
monetiZation act, ard proceeded to show
the stages through which 1t had passed and
that it's final enactment was not till after
it had been before Congress for nearly
three years.
Mfr. Harvey then returned to the attack
upor. the honesty of legislators throughout
the country including Congress and the
Illinois and Colorado legislatures. This
venality was sapping the foundations OF
the government, as it had sapped the foun-
dations and destroyed every republic OF the
past.
Mr. Horr again returned to the defense of
the honesty Of the American people. He
said Mr.. Harvey merely picked out few
corrupt men and drew from them the prop
osition that the people of the nation were
all corrupt. Why, If Mr.. Harvey had lived
in Jobs time he would have looked over
that unfortunate mans sores and would
have gone out and published throughout
the world that all Chaldea was one i'm
mense carbuncle. Mr.. Horr. then, amid
I - AI~
tic n under discussion. and proceeded with
the history of the demonstration OF silver.
pointing out how the bill had been read in
full several times, and printed separately
eleven times and twice in the reports OF
the controller of the currency.
The debates in the Senate on 1t occupied
s.xty-six columns in the Congressional
Record In the report Of the committee II
was stated that it had been examined hne
by line and word by word and was finally
passed. He would show that in SO doing
the Senate knew what it was about.
Mistake as to the Bill.
Mr.. Harvey in reply said that Mr.. Horr
would have to retreat from his position
when the proper time came. In point of
fact the bill about which he had been talk
ing was not the bill finally passed. Judge
Kelly in presenting the bill in the House
said that it was merely codthcation OF
the mint laws. In response to question
Judge Kelly replied that the bill made no
change In the value Of The coins Of the ma
ton.
In 1872, when the bill came up again, 1t
was spoken of as q bill on a dry subject,
and members lost interest. 1t was at that
time, as appears from the records, that
the first disclosure of the intention to
change the standard to gold was made In
speech by Mr.. Hooper. But there was
reason to believe that the speech was not
actually delivered, but was printed by
xI,1$ IL frfNFS on n p n
and those words omitted. But no reference
was made to the characterization of silver.
On the enrolment of the bill clause was
omitted which had the effect Of limiting
the coinage of silver.
A Mfsquote Charged.
Mr. Horr, replying. charged Mr.. Harvey
with quoting single sentence and leav-
ing out the modifying context. '-
The record showed that this statement
was made in the morning debate. and was
not under leave to print. In the very
speech referred to by Mr.. Harvey, the
speaker said, this bill provided for stand
ard, Sin a single metal instead Of as be-
fore, in two metals, and that all coins. eX-
cept subsidiary coins, should be of gold.
Mr.. Horr then spoke on the demonstration
of silver in 1916 as the result Of experience
in the use of the double standard. In 1871
Germany adopted the gold standard ana
threw on the market s3O0.OOO,0OO in silver.
1t was this that set the worl1 to consider
ing the silver questoL-not any gold-bug
conspiracy. The financial policy Of no
great nation was ever dominated by con-
spiracy.
This closed the debate for the day, except
the answering Of questions by the disput-
ants propounded by members OF the audi
ence.
The attendance was not large. but was
apprecia tive and generous and Impartial in
its recognition of telling points.