Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-10-02
gressional Record. volume 7, part !, Forty-fifth
i Congress, second session, page 40.
Senator Hereford, in the Senate, on
February ID, 1878, in discussing the
demonstration of silver said.

when inquired of. that it did not affect the
coinage i'll any way whatever. Ibid, page
9S9
Senator Howe, in a speech delivered
in the Senate on February 5, 1878,
said:
Mr.. President, I do not regard the de-
mOnetizatiOn of silver rs an attempt to wrench
from the people more than they agree to pay.
That is not the crime of which 1 accuse the
act of 1873. 1 charge it with guilt compared
with which the robbery OF two hundred
millions is venial. Record.
volume :. part !. Forty-fifth Congress. second
session, page 764
General Garfield, in a speech made
at Springfield, Ohio, during the fall OF
1877, said:
but it is the truth to say that, l at that time be-
ing Chairman of the Committee on Appropria-
tons and having my hands over-full during
all that time with work. never read the bill
took it upon the faith of a prominent Demo-
crat and prominent Republican, and do not
know that voted at all. There was no call of
the years and nays, and nobody opposed that
hill that ! know of. 1t was put through as
dozens of bill are, as my friend and know, in
Congress. on the faith of the report OF the
you. bees it is the truth, that have no
knowledge about" - Congressional Record.
yolumn z, part |, Forty-fifth Congress, second,
session, page $50.
Mr.. Bright, of Tennessee, said OF the
law:
1t passed by fraud in the House, never
having been printed in advance, being a sub.
stitute for the printed bills: never having been
read at the Clerks desk, the reading having
been dispensed with by impression that
the bill made no material alienation in the
coinage laws: 1t was passed without discussion,
debate being cut off by operation of the pre-.
IN rfai,
information, under such circumstances that
the fraud escaped the attention of the most
watchfnl as well as the ablest statesmen in
Congress at that time: Aye. sir, it
was a fraud that smells to heaven 1t was a
fraud that will stink in the nose of posterity.
and which some persons must give account in
the day of Northumberland Rec
ord, volume 7, part l. second session, Forty.
fifth Congress, page 5S4.
Mr.. Holman, in q speech delivered
in the House OF Representatives July
Is, 1876, eaid:
II have before ME the record of proceed.
ings OF this House on the passage Of that
without being convinced that the measure and
the method OF its passage through this House
was colossal swindle.' / assert that the
measure never had the sanction OF this House
and II does not possess the moral force of law"
Congressional Record, volume T. part 6.
Forty.fourth Congress, first session, appendix
page 1873.
Again, on August 5, 1876, he said:
ganEe a bureau Of mines and Coinage. The
bill which finally passed the House. and which
ultimately because law, was certainly not
read in this House.
at was never considered before the House
as II was passed. Up TO the time the bill came
had simply been one to establish bureau Of
mines; believe use the term correctly now.
IL came from the the Committee on Coinage,
Weights and Measures. The substitute which
finally became law was never read and is sub
ject TO the charge made against ii by the gentle
man from Missouri tMr; Bland,, that it was is-
provisions. especially upon that of coinage
my self asked the question of Mr.. Hooper,
VINO stood near where l am now standing.
whether 1t changed the law in regard to coinage.
And the answer Of Mr.. Hoop r cert ainly left the
Impression upon the whole House that the sub
Ject OF the coinage was not affected by that bill"
fourth Congress, first session, page 5,.2sS7.
Mr.. Canton, of Illinois, in a speech
made in the House on July ID, 1876,
said
This legislation was had In the Forty sec.
ond Congress, February IL, 1873, by a bill to
regulate the mints Of the United States, and
practically abolished silver as money by failing
70 provide for the coinage of the silver dola-
II was not discussed, as shown by the Record
and neither members of Congress nor the peo
pie understood the scope of the iep slat ion %
Ibid, appendix, page l97.
Mr. Burchard, of Illinois, in a speech
made in the House OF Representatives
on July -, said:
THE coinage act Of 1873. unaccompauied bv
any written report upon the subject from any
committee, and unknown to the members Of
Congress, who without opposition allowed it to
made no alteration in the value from silver TO
gold. page 1850.
Mr.. Kelly, of Pennsylvania, who had
charge of the bill, in a speech made
in the House of Representatives on
March 9, 1878, said:
"In connection with the charge that 7 nd
vocated the bill which demonetized the standard
silver dollar. say that, tn ough the Chairman
OF inc committee OF Coinage. was ignorant of
the fact that it would demonetize the silver
dollar from our system OF coins, q were those
distinguished Senators. Messrs. Bland and
voorhees,. who were then members Of the House,
the other: Did you know Il was dropped when
the bill passed" Mo- said MIR. BIaire. did
you ;S., No. said Mr.. Voorhees,. do not think
that knew it. j doubt whether Mr. Hooper
who, In my absence from the Committee on
ways ana Means, managed the bill. knew it. /
Rec
ord. volume :, part 2, Forty fifth Congress-
second session, page l,6O5.
PRESIDENT Grant was also ignorant
OF the demonstration OF silver. Eight
months after the passage of the bill he
wrote letter to Mr.. Cowdrey, from
which the following extract is taken.
But want to see the hoar.lino of
something that has standard of value the
world over Silver has this, and IL We once get
probation OF our currency will be rapid Our
mines are now producing almost unlimited
amounts OF silver, aud it 10 becoming q question
what shall we do with it, ! suggest here q
resolution that will answer for some years and
sug gest to your bankers whether you may not
Initiate IT. To put 1t in circulation now; keep it
other markets" - McPherson's Handbook of
foiitlcs for 1874, pages l34 and 1876.
In view of this testimony, what be.
comes of the presumptious falsehood
uttered by the Republican walking
delegate" Harry Wilson, at the thea
ter, that the demonstration of silver
was discussed and understood when
the coinage act of 1873 was passed ?
OREGON will vote for Mckinley. Ma
joritys acknowledgement.
The prediction must make the
Foolkiller's fingers itch for the
fray. Oregon cast but $4,000 votes,
all told, in the last Presidential con-
test. The Populist and Democratic
votes added of 1892, as they will be in
1896, would have carried the State by
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