The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-31

might fully appreciate Mr.. Harvey's ar
gument, we reproduced from the Inter
Ocean four columns of that argument,
conhn1ng ourselves almost entirely to
Mr.. Harvey for the reason that he had
taken the affirmative and his testimony
was of the greatest Importance. It must
be remembered that the subject of debate
for the eight days, covers one of the
chapters of Coins Financial School" a
day, and longer if either disputant de-
sires to appropriate more time thereto.
Mr.. Horn has tried for two days to switch
Mr.. Harvey off this charge of crime"
deeming ten minutes stump speech all
te subject was worth. But Mr.. Harvey
has held right to his course, and on Sat-
urday wound up his argument by giving
the correct record of the proceedings in
Dotn houses OF congress, at the time the
Dill was passed, showing that the same
was accomplished inside an hour in each
house, and then quoting from the speech
es OF prominent congressman three years
later who declared that the demonetiza-
ton Of silver was obtained surreptitious-
ly, secretly and in fact without the knowI-
edge OF any one except the few men who
had it in charge.
After Mr.. Harvey had proven conclu-
s.yely that the original bill, introduced
in 1870 in no wise related to the change
of our coinage, and that it was more than
two years since any attempt was made
to NEEDLE with the silver dollar, he then
proceeded to show that when the bill was
brought up in the House by Mr. Hooper,
of Macco ohrcotfc viz o1 o1,o
thereof, that IN spite of the objection Of
Mr.. Brooks, of New York, Mr.. Holman.
of Indiana, Mr.. Kerr, of the same state.
Mr.. Randall, of Pennsylvania, and Gem
eral Garfield, of Ohio, Hooper succeeded
in getting the bill passed by the House,
under suspension of the rules without the
contents thereof having been read to the
house at all, and demonstrates that the
bill which actually demonetiZed silver
was before the house less than sixty min
utes before its final passage.
Mr.. Harvey then proceeds to show that
on January 18th, 1873 when Senator
Sherman brought up the bill before the
Senate, the bill was under consideration
less than an hour, and passed upon the
statement of Senator Sherman that the
law in no wise materially changed the
laws governing free coinage.
Mr.. Harvey, however, clinches his argu-
ment in the most delightful manner by
quoting from various senators and repre-
sentatives in Congress in 1876. From Sen
ator Thurman he quotes the declaration
that ''No one in the Senate outside the
Committee had the slightest idea that the
bill even squinted towards demonetiZa-
ton"
Senator Corkling at about the same
time asked his colleagues ''If it were true
that there is now by law no American
dollar?" AS this was only three years
after the passage of the bill 1t clearly
demonstrates that Mr.. Conkl.ng did not
know anything about it although he was
a member Of the Senate at that time.
Senator Allison, of Iowa, on February
18th, 1878, said: when the secret his
tory of this bill of 1873 comes to be told,
it will disclose the fact that the House Of
Representatives intended to coin both
gold and silver, using the French stand
ard instead of our own, but that bill was
afterwards doctored."
Mr.. Holman, of Indiana, July 18th,
1876, said: II have before me the records
of the proceedings of this House on the
passage Of that measure decentralization
of silver, a record that no man can read
without being convinced that the method
adopted in its passage was a colossal,
swindle."
Mr.. Bland, of Missouri, referring to the
bill at the same time stated positively
that he asked Mr.. Hooper, who had charge
Of the bill, particularly with reference
to coinage. Mr.. Bland was interested
in the free coinage of silver, as everybody
knows and has ben for a quarter of a CEN
fury. That gentleman says that Mr..
Hooper replied to the effect that Coin
age was not affected by the bill at ALL"
If all these things do not prove Mr..
Harvey's charge that the demonstration
of silver was conceived in secret, carried
through Congress by deception, and be-
came law without knowledge to the
country, and vast majority of Congress
as to it's real contents, then it is impos-
sible to demonstrate the truth of any
assertion by the most positive and over
whelming testimony.