The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1895-07-26


pers Of the 18th would contain any
news showing that the fundamental
laws OF the Government had been
changed. The only reference that APP
pears in that paper is press telegram
from Washington, which is this.
"l read: MIR. Sherman called up the
bill TO revise and amend the laws re-
lating to minis assay offices and coin
age OF the United States, which was
amended and passed
THAT is all one of the money met
ais of the United States, as 1t Is now
conceded. was struck down by that bill;
one of the moneys of the Constitution
had been overthrown; the dollar that
had regulated all other coins had been
abolished. a great war debt to be
paid off, and one of our money re-
sources for paying 1t had been de-
stroyed. tLong, continued applause.l
mo information of the fact was con-
veyed to the people but through the
newspapers of the country. [Applause.l
The reporters at Washington did not
know it. The congressman, as a whole
did not know II. The money of the
people that had served them well was
destroyed, and l now challenge Mr..
Horn to show me anywhere in the
newspapers of the United States dur
ing the passage OF the bill. which he
says has no faint of fraud attached to
1t. where the people knew that any bill
was being considered by Congress that
was to destroy as money one-half the
money metal of the country, or that
they had passed such bill.
81 have charged that 1t was passed
secretly. The fact that the fundament-
al law of the Government had been re-
versed. and that no information of 1t
had gone to the people whose Govern
ment it was. either before or after the
passage of the bill, until it was dis
covered several years afterwards, Is
one of the best evidences of its secret
passage"
THE MEREST ROT"
Mr.. IIorr in replying said: "All this
talk about striking down the money of
the people is the merest rot-its the
only word that exactly covers that
kind of bosh The money of the peo-
pie should be just as good as the
money of the nabob, and before I get
through. 1 will show the people of the
United States that 1 have come here
to defend the rights of the millions
who live by toll. who live by work,
whose wages would be cut in two by
the passage of this law which my
friend advocates. [Long-continued APP
plause.l
"If Mr.. Harvey-now listen-shall
succeed in proving that the people of
the United States in 1873 were mostly
set of corrupt scoundrels. and that
he is really the only pure and upright
man ltlI III the tlllHt CITY VI ShlSd6Ot
it won't avail him anything in this de-
bate. These questions are not peril
nent to the question in dispute
The contestants being clearly at log
gerheads as to the point of discussion,
little further progress was made and an
adjournment was taken till Monday.
THE DAYS DEBATE.
The debate, prior to running against
the big snag, had been full of interest.
Harvey opened the days talk with
statement of points so far established.
They were that prior to 1873 gold and
silver were the money Of the Constitu-
ton; silver was the unit value; up to
that time n debtor was permitted to
pay in the cheaper money, and silver
was not demonetized because of any
oVerproduction at the time the act or
1873 was passed.
Taking up the debate proper, Harvey
denied he had any time tried to i'm
peach the integrity of the American
people, but that he did not propose to
allow corrupt Legislators to throw the
mantle of National honesty around
them for their own protection. The
speaker recognized the integrity of the
American people, and it was to that he
appealed
The speaker then resumed the state
ment, Interrupted at the close of the
talk on Thursday, of the various steps
leading up to the passing of the act of
1873.
HORR DENIES EVERYTHING.
Horn, in opening, declined to allow
Harvey to accept as admitted any
statements of Harvey's which Horr
failed to deny. Horn said Harvey had
been reading series of carefully pre-
pared essays, and he Q1orr) could not
be expected to remember all the state
ments made in them. Harvey might
take 1t for granted that he QIorr) de-
MED everything except what he eX-
pressly aSsented to.
Horr then took up the International
Monetary Conference at Paris In 1867,
at which the leading civilized nations
of the world were represented, and
pointed out that after days of consider
alton, the representatives of all nations
present, including the United States,
voted unanimously, with the exception
of the representative of Holland, in
favor of the gold standard. Openly,
and as a legitimate outcome of this in
ternational conference, the act of 1873
was passed. Horn argued at length,
quoting from letters and documents, to
disprove the charge that the demoneti-
cation act was passed through the influ-
ence of British brides was false.
THE TOKEN DOLLAR.
Harvey reviewed the history of the
act of 1873, quoting from the debate in
it's passage. Horn said there was in the
bill, of which Harvey had spoken, a
provision for a token dollar worth five
francs. The Senate struck that out and
substituted the trade dollar.
Harvey-If you will show me any
where in the debate of that day where
the Senate struck out that provision,
we will stop the debate right here.
[Great applause from Mr.. Harvey's
friendsl
Horr-The bill as passed contained
trade dollar. did it not?
HarVey-Yes, sir,
Horn suggested that It covered the
point, and proceeded with his argu-
ment He said nobody thought of strik-
ing down silver when the bill was
passed. At that time silver was not in
circulation, and the bullion of a dollar
was worth more than the dollar.
Harvey read from Senator Sherman's
statement, on putting the bill on its
passage, showing that the bill provid-
ed for two dollars, one a SS4-grain dol
lar, equal to the French five-frano
piece, and the trade dollar, He de-
clared Horn had said this dollar was
not in the bill
Horr GnterFuptinO said he never