The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-03-25
SILVER AND PROTECTION.

Eastern Manufacturers and Western Sem
ators Hold Important Conference
Washington, March 20.-at the Hotel
Page an important conference was held
Thursday night between the silver re-
publican senator's wl.o voted against
the consideration of the tariff bill in
the senate and large number of rep
resentative manufacturers of Philadel-
phia who favor the linking together
of protection and bimetallism. The
authoritative statement issued by the
conference after its secret session is
looked upon by politicians as the first
note of warning on the part of the
republican senator's from western states
against the adoption of single gold
standard plank in the st. Louis plat
form. The conference was the result
of correspondence between Mr.. Will
liam Wilhelm. prominent attorney of
Pottsville, Pa, and the sextette of sill
yer senator's (Messrs. Teller, Dubois,
Mantle, Carter. Cannon and JoEes). Mr..
Wilhelm, on behalf of Messrs. James
Dobson. Charles Herbert Clarke and H.
Z. Defenderfer, and others, asked for
conference with the senator's relative
to the present depression and the rem
edy for existing financial and industrial
| troubles. The request was granted in
a letter signed by all of the senators
named.
All of the above senators Were pres
ent at the conference held Thursday
night, as were also Congressman Hart
man, of Montana; Allen, of Utah, and
Wilson, of Idaho, and also the follow
ing-named representatives of manufac-
turing interests:
James Dobson, manufacturer Of carpets,
George Campbell woolens; James Pollock.
carpets; S. 2. Vreeman, lumber; Frank
Cayen, silk; c. II. Hardy. yarns; George
W. Elkins. street railways; Alex Crow.
carpets; Henry A. Frye, groceries; Henry
Holmes carpets: R. W. Scott, knit goods.
James Brown, woolens; Rowland Croft,
worsteds; Charles N. Mcleod. yarns;
James Defenderfer, yarns; John Fisher,
wire; Robert Dawman, carpets: Robert
| w. Scott, knit goods; Charles H. Clarke,
surgical appliances; Theodore r Miller.
upholstery; Richard Campion, yarns;
Joseph Bromley, rugs; Joseph R. James.
! woolens; Joseph Foster, dyes; James Phil
| lips, worsteds; c. L. Firestone buggies.
| and r. E. Defenderfer. electrical appli-
ances.
The conference organized by choos-
| ing Senator Dubois as chairman and
Mr.. Wilhelm, of Pennsylvania, secre-
tary. For three hours and half, be-
| hind closed doors, the conference pro-
eeeded, involving the uniting of bimetal-
| lism and protection as national issue.
Relnarks were made by Senator's Teller,
| Jones, of Nevada; Carter, Mantle, and
| Cannon. President DoTnan, of the
Manufacturers Club of Philadelphia,
expressed the opinion that tariff duties
could not be made high enough to pro-
tect our manufacturers, if our country
remained on gold basis.
Mr.. James Dobson, the great carpet
manufacturer, came out unqualifiedly
for free coinage by International agree
nent if possible, otherwise by indie
| pendent action. He believed that in
dependent action would induce interna-
tional action. Free coinage might create
temporary disturbances, but it was the
quickest way to perform relief to mills
all over the country which were suf-
fering. Henry A. Frye, of Philadel-
| Fhia, said that the sooner that we took
| independent action for bimetallism the
| better it would be. He declared for
| protection and bimetallism.
| The senators present defined their
| position in such manner as to make it
| plain 20 the manufacturers that there
could be no protective tariff legislation
| either at this session of congress or
| the next without the rehabilitation of
silver or bimetallism, and protection
constituted an indivisible issue before
| the country. Some of the manufacture
ers themselves Endorsed the position as
being the logic of the country's neces-
sites and political conditions.
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