The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-17


). 1t as very evident that Chairman
Kelley and Mr.. stoughton knew what
was proposed by this bill,
ID. May 81. 1872, the bill was again
called up by Mr.. Hooper for the pur-
pose of offering an amendment in the
nature OF a substitute, and the bill.
as amended. passed that day-11O ayes.
10 nays.
S. AS amended did this bill change
the original SO far as it referred to
silver coinage?
D. NO. So far as it referred to sill
yer coinage. it was identical with the
bill previously reported from the
Coinage committee by him.
S. Was the bill again printed?
D. 1t was printed in the Senate on
May 80, 1872. and referred to the
Finance committee. December 16, 1872,
Senator Sherman in reporting it back,
said: "This bill has, in substance.
passed both houses, except that the
Senate bill enlarged and increased the
salaries of the officers Of the mint
but as this is not the same
Congress that passed the bill in the
| Senate, l suppose it will have to go
through the form of a full reading,
unless the Senate are willing to stake
1t on the statement of the committee,
the Senate already having debated it
and passed it." You will find Senator
| Shermans remarks in the Congress
sional Globe, Vol 1O6, p. 2O3.
he -,
D. Yes There was some further
debate, and on motion of Senator
Cole, Of California, it. was order
ed printed in full with amendments.
January Z, 1873, it was again report
ed with amendments and again printed
for the information of the Senate.
S. Doctor, we must be getting near
purg, as the boys say.
The Doctor took no heed of his COM
ment, which led him to wonder if he
ever played purg, in fact if he ever
were a boy.
D. January II, 1878, the bill was
passed by the Senate after a discus
sion occupying nineteen columns Of
the Congressional Globe
-. w nat became OF 1t then!
ID. 1t was sent to the House, and
on January q, 1873, on motion of Mr.
Hooper, it was again printed with
amendments.
S. What did the House do with it?
D. AS passed by the House it diff
fered slightly from the bill as
passed by the Senate, so con-
ference committee was appointed.
On the part of the Senate they
were NTessrs. Sherman of Ohio, Scott
Of Pennsylvania and Bayard of Della
ware; while the House appointed
Messsrs. Hooper of Massachusetts,,
Stoughton of Michigan and McNeely
S. The conference, committee made
a report no doubt; what was done
with it?
D. The report of the conference
committee, which was made February
s, 1873 you can find it in the Con-
gressional Globe, pit. 2, 3rd session And
Congress, p. 1862 was agreed to and
the bill became a law February u,
1878, as you know.
S. Was there a yea and nay vote
taken on these reports?
D. No.
S. Doctor, it is often asserted that
this bill demonetizing silver was pass
ed surreptitiously. What is your
opinion of this assertion?
D. have given you the facts. But
I will say further that ex-Secretary
Boutwell, had heard the same thing,
and in reply to it he made a state
ment in the Boston Herald of July 9,
1893, in which he says:
THE act known as the act for the
decentralization of silver was passed
in 1873, and upon a distinct recon-
mendation made in my annual report
to Congress in December, 1872. The
statement so often made and so gen.
orally believed, that the provision
was introduced and passed surrepti- !
tiously, was without any foundation.
as will appear from my report, which |
shall incorporate in this article"
On this very subject Senator
Sherman said, in the Senate,
August 81, 1898: There. never
was a DILL proposed in the Con-
gross of the United States which was
SO publicly and openly presented and
agitated. 1 know of no bill, in my ex.
perience, which was printed, as this
was, sixteen times, in order to invite !
attention to it,
S. Doctor, from all this do you not
infer that the Republican party was
responsible for the characterization of
silver?
D. 1t is not the province of a
teacher to infer; he should state all |
the facts without bias, favoring
neither side. and leave to the student
the inference.
S. Then, Doctor, to what conclu-
sion can I come in view of these facts:
The bill to demonetize silver was
drawn by Mr.. J. j. Knox. a Republic |
can deputy comptroller under Secre- /
tary Boutwell, (who sent it to Congress
with a report recommending it's pas |
sage, himself Republican, holding |
his place at the head of the Treasury |
under President Grant, also a Repub-
lican, and it was finally passed by a |
Republican Congress, the Forty-second
Congress standing, Senate: 81 Repub-
leans and 20 Democrats and Liberals.
who were really Republicans; House.
1873 RepubIicans and I'm nerooo,a..