The advocate., 1895-07-31
HARVEY and HORR.
CONTINUATION OF THE GREAT DIS
OUssI0N ON MONEY.
Harvey Is Kept Busy Trying to Prevent
His Antagonist From Flying
the Track.
Copyright 1895, by A7ol F. Hatch. ]

NAEs hhEV6y nau (n0 uOOF az Gn6 D0Qlns
ming OF the fourth days silver debate and
he proceeded to sum up his view of what
the debate had so far shown as follows:
"The debate so far Is of value in this: 1t
shows first that gold and silver Is the
money OF the constitution; (2) that the
silver dollar Of S7l14 grains Of pure silver
was the unit of value in our monetary
system and regulated the other coins in
our coinage system from 1893 to 1873; (5l
that silver and gold in concurrent coin.
age was until 1873 the standard and meas
ure of values Of all other property, and
the basic principle of our monetary sys.
tenn; "a that prior to 1873, when one
metal increased in exchange value over
the other, the debtor had the right to pay
In the cheaper metal; 90 that silver was
not demonetized by the act of 1873 on ao'
count of the oVer-produCtion of silver;
(6) that $l43, 600, 900 of silver were coined
by our mints prior to 1875" +"
Harvey then entered denial that ho
had charged general lack of integrity on
the American people, or that every man
has his price. He simply did not intend
that those corrupt in official life should
throw around themselves the cloak OF
the integrity of the AmericanIpeople. she
then proCeededWith an explanation of Pot
ter's position on the demonstration bill
in the house. Potter had expressed sus.
piCion of the bill because he thought it
was to assist a speculation in nickel, the
bill providing for coinage of Scent pieces
largely Of nickel Brooks was also suspi-
OiOus Of the bill, On May n the bill came
up in the house in the form of q substl.
tute, and Hooper moved suspension OF
the rules and the passage Of the bill.
Brooks wanted delay until Potter was
present, but Hooper declined to wait, nor
did he want the bill read. The motion
was lost. Harvey read The Record to the
above effect.
Horr took up the argument next. He
said; ~ have shown yon that this bill
had its inoipienCy among the experts on
coinage in the United States quote
here from W. A. Shaw's History of Cur.
renoy, page 275. The first widely EN-.
bracing international conference proper,
however, was the outcome Of an expires.
sion Of opinion in the oonolaye of the
Latin Union. 1t was called at the invita-.
tiOn of France and met at Paris on the
18th Of June, 1877. The states represented
Were'-now listen-'Austria, Baden, Ba-
don, Bavaria, Belgium, Denmark, Spain,
the United States France, Great Britain,
Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal,
Prussia, Russia, Sweden and Norway,
Switzerland, Turkey and Wurtemburg.
All the states except Holland declared in
favor Of the gold standard"
81, t. a., - Al.
enCe showing that the subject was being
agitated by the civilized nations of the
world. 1t was after that action that our
experts commenced to examine the ques-
tion and see what legislation should be
enacted. 1 stated that they honestly en-.
gagged in that work Has he proven a
syllable to the contrary Of thatl The bill
OF 1873 simply carried out a resolution OF
all these civilized nations of the world. I
showed you how openly, how completely
that bill was drawn in all fairness and sub.
mitted in every detail to the American
people. The silver men have attempted
from the start to smirch that bill by
claiming that those men were false to
their duties.
THE first yarn that they told and pub
hshed in a thousand papers broadcast all
over the United States was that man
by the name Of Ernest Seyd visited the
United States and brought with him
100000 in gold and that he paid that
gold to secure the passage Of that bill.
Only little while ago somebody hap
pened to think that maybe Ernest Seyd
had written something on the question.
1t occurred to some one to write to Mr..
Hooper's widow and children and see IL
there wasn't something that could be
found on that subject, They found a
letter from Ernest Seyd in reply to Mr.
Hooper, who had sent him this Identical
bill and asked his opinion on it. In the
course Of Mr.. Seyd's letter he said: