The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-27

plause)
The report of the monetary confer
ence at Paris in 1867 viii contradict the
history that Mr.. Horn has read from.
leave him with that.
I continue with the presentation OF
the substitute by Mr.. Hooper, that he
was so soliatous should not be read.
The record shows that the clerk be-
gan to read the bill, when he was in
terrupted and the reading stopped with
the interruption. Members then salts
fed themselves with asking him ques-
lions and the reading of the bill was
| never continued. Mr.. Holman asked
| this question;
Before the question is taken upon
suspending the rules and passing the
bill, 1 hope the gentleman from Mas
sachusetts will explain the leading
changes made by this bill in the exist
ing law, especially in reference to the
coinage. 1t would seem as if all the
small coinage of the country is intended
to be recoined."
To this Mr.. Hooper replied:
F'The bill makes no change in the ex-
listing laws in that regard
The rules were then suspended and
| the substitute passed about an hour
after it was offered, and passed without
! being read. The second session of the
| Forty-second Congress adjourned soon
after, and the same Congress met again
| in December.
In the Senate.
The bill was called up in the Senate
! by Senator Sherman on Jan. II, 1873.
He began by saying Congressional
| Globe, part 1, third session Forty-sec-
ond Congress, page 68):
"I move that the Senate now proceed
to the consideration of the mint bill, as
| it is commonly called, revising and
amending the laws relative to the
minis and assay offices and coinage of
the United States. I do not think it
will take more than the time consumed
1 in the reading of it,
In answer to a question from Senator
| Casselry he said Congressional Globe,
part 1, third session, Forty-second Con-
gress, page 672): eff the Senator will
allow me, he will see that the preceding
section provides for coin which is exact
ly interchangeable with the English
shilling and the five-franc piece of
| France; that is, the five-franc piece of
France will be the exact equivalent of
a dollar of the United States in our.
silver coinage"
Mr.. Horr- That is right, Mr.. Harvey.
The bill that was reported to the Senate
and that they were then discussing had
in it provision for the coming of sill
yer dollars, the silver dollars about
which you talked at the last session of
this debate, containing 384 grains, ana
they were made with all the other sill
yer coins subsidiary coins. There was
no provision in the bill at that time,
and I do not believe you dare claim
there was, for the free coinage of a dol
lar of 1884 grains.
Now, have you ever noticed that the
opposition to that bill in the House
came from Clarkson N. Potter, from
Mr.. Brooks
Mr.. Harvey-May interrupt you?
Mr.. Horr-Certainly.
AT Short Range Again.
Mr.. Harvey-If you will show me
from the record of the proceedings in
the Senate on that day that the Senate
struck out that dollar we will stop this
debate right here. Oong and enthusi-
astic applause)
Mr.. Horr-I have not the record, but
I can get it. The law when it was
passed had the trade dollar in it. Do
you deny that?
Mr.. Harvey-No, sir; do not.
Mr.. Horr-And don't that take the
place of the other dollar?
Mr.. Harvey-No, sir. Oaughter)
Mr.. Horr-I defy you to show word
anywhere that substantiates that posi-
ton. It was simple piece of legisla-
ton, and bears that impression on its
face. That bill, after it left the House,
was amended, and the trade dollar was
put in there at the instance of men
who thought it could be coined and
used in our trade with China. 1t was
put in at the instance of the silver pro-
ducers of the country.
But you stopped me just as I was
calling your attention to fact. The
only men who opposed that bill in the
House were Clarkson N. Potter and Mr.
Brooks, both millionaires from Wall
street, both representing the very men
that you say were trying to impose that
bill upon this country for the purpose
of aiding men who are rich. Was any
thing ever more contemplate than z
proposition of that kind?
The Substitute Bill.
But must proceed. That bill became
a law by the substitution of the trade
dollar; the law in reference to making
the gold dollar the unit of value was
never changed at any stage in the pro
cess of the bill. They haven't ever
had ingenuity enough to put such {
. provision in brackets, and will now
: say for the benefit of the country thai
there is not one word of truth in thai
whole bracket business. No such
thing ever occurred in the United
States, and there is no proof of i