Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1895-07-21
r-A.cA,e..o Debate.

July lo.-Iho third day
OF the Horr Harry silver debate open.
ed at IL o'clock this morning. the
lnteness OF the starting hour hereto
fore. having been found inconven
lent insome respects. Tho subject
under discussion was what Harvey
characterized in his book Us the
.Crima OF T3--the demonstration OF
silver. After some miscellaneous
sparring. Harvey charged corruption
in the passage OF the act demonetizing
silver.
Horr, In reply, repudiated in his
defense that the citizens of the Unit.
ed States were all corrupt and that
none OF their women virtnous. Horr
declared it was not true that every
man had his price. The members
OF Congress were as honest
as the average American citi.
zens. He knew whereof he spoke,
for he had been a member OF that
body himself. Horr then took upthe
history OF the decentralization act and
proceeded to show the stages through
which it passed, and that its final en-
actment was nottill after 1t had been
before Congress nearly three years.
Harvey then returned TO his attack
upon the honesty OF legislatures
throughout the country, including
Congress. and the Illinois and Colo
RADIO legislatures. This venality was
supping the foundations OF the Gov
erument as it bad sapped the founda
tons and destroyed every Republic OF
the past.
Horr again returned to the defense
OF the honesty Of the American PEG
pie. He said Harvey merely picked
out a few corrupt men and drew from
them the proposition that the people
Of the nation were all corrupt. II
Harvey hau lived in Jobs time he
would have looked over that unfor.
tunate mans sores and gone out and
published throughout the world that
all Chaldea was n immense carbun-
Gle. Horr then amid laughter said
he would return to the question under
discussion and proceeded with the
history OF the decentralization act,
pointing out how the bill had been
read In full several times, printed
separately eleven times and twice in
the reports Of the Comptroller OF Cur
rency. The debates in the Senate
occupied sixty-six columns OF the
Congressional Record, In the report
OF the Committee, it was stated it had
been examined line by line, word by
word. and was finally passed. He
would show that in so doing, the Sen
ate knew what it was about.
Harvey. in reply, said Horn would
to divert from his position when
proper time came. In point OF
TACT, the bill about which he had been
talking was not the bill finally passed.
Judge Kelly, in presenting the bill in
the House, said it was merely a codi-
hcation OF the laws. and, in response
to a question, Judge Kelly replied
that the bill made no change in the
value OF the coins OF the nation. In
1873, when the bill came up, it was
OF as the bill on a dry subject
members lost interest. 1t was at
hat time, az appears from the record,
hat the first disclosure OF the inten.
ioD to change the standard to gold
vas made in a speech by Hooper; but
here was reason to believe the speech
vas not actually delivered. but print
ID by leave, or it was printed from
manuscript and these words omitted,
out no reference was made to the de.
nonetization Of silver. On the en-
'ollment OF the bill the clause was
omitted which had the effect OF limit
ing the coinage OF silver.
Horr replying, charged Harvey
quoting a single sentence and
leaving out the modifying context.
The record showed the statement WA
made in a running debate and not
under leave to print. In the very |
speech referred to by Harvey. the
speaker said this bill provided for a
standard sin u single metal" instead
OF. as before, two metals and that all
coins except subsidiary coins should
be gold. Horr then spoke of the de.
monetization Of silver in 1916 as the
result Of experience in the use Of n
double standard. In 1871 Germany
adopted the gold standard and threw
on the market s3Oo, OOO,0 600 in silver.
1t was this that set the world con.
sidering the silver question-not any
sgoldbug conspiracy The financial
policy OF no great nation was ever
dominated by a conspiracy.
This closed the debate for the day
except answering questions by the
d%isputants propounded by members
OF the audience. The attendance was
not large. but was appreciatiye and
generous and impartial in the recog.
milton Of telling points.
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