The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-09-05
HlsroRY. OF DEMoNErlzArIoN.
In an Open Letter TO Sherman, Stewart
Gives Some Facts About the Act of
1873

, says among other things:
SIN yonr speech of August Is, de
, livered at Columbus, o., you grossl
misrepresented me. You quoted gar
bled extracts from speech l made il
the senate on the 11th of June, 1874
when l was advocating return t,
specie.payment, and inadvertently uset
the term gold for Specie which wa
very common in those days. If yol
had printed the context it would hav,
refuted the inference you drew from
the extracts you did print. The speech
is quite lengthy. and your quotation i.
made by selecting at various place:
sentences or parts of sentences ant
stringing them together to make then
mean what you desire.
"My term in the senate expired
March i, 1875, and up to that time
there was never a word spoken in de-
bate with reference to the demonetiza
tion of silver. You cannot point to q
single line, syllable or word pointing
in that direction. Still you accuse OF
having advocated the demonstration
of silver.
son September 5, 1898, I delivered
an address which refuted the false
charge, but this was an unimportant
part of the address. You absented
| yourself during all the time of the
speech. Neither you nor any one else
has replied to that speech. The facts
it contains convict you of having i'm
posed upon the senate in securing the
| demonetization OF silver. You knew
what you were doing at the time. No
other senator has confessed that he did.
In proof will call your attention to
some of the matters contained in my
speech, which is entitled, THE True
History of the characterization of
Silver
SIN the spring of 1867 you went to
London. You visited Paris, and wrote
to Samuel B. Ruggles, the American
commissioner to the monetary confer
ence, then in session at Paris, advocat-
ing the single gold standard. Your
letter and extracts from the report of
Mr.. Ruggles show how valuable your
services were in connection with the
English delegation in securing the
adoption of resolution by the con-
ference recommending the gold stand
ard. The following winter you intro
duced in the senate an act in relation
to the coinage of gold and silver The
third section reads: An be it further
enacted that the gold coins to be is
sued under this act shall be legal
tender in all payments to any amount,
and the silver coin shall be legal
tender to an amount not exceeding
$40 in any one payment
"You made a favorable report on
this bill, saying that the single stand
ard of gold is an American idea, yield
ed reluctantly by France and other
countries where silver is the chief
standard of value
"Senator E. D. Morgan of New Y York
made minority report which exposed
your scheme and caused you to aban-
don the bill.
"After Mr.. Morgan left the senate,
committee was formed in the treasury
with John J. Knox at the
head, which frameda a bill of 10 sections,
codifying the mint laws. You
to secure the passage of this
codification bill through the senate !
without attracting the attention of the
senate to the fact that it ommitted the |
silver dollar from the list of coins. |
My speech of September 5, 1898, shows |
how skillfully.you manipulated that
Your charge against me |
and others that we ought to have |
known what was in that codif fcatiou
bill is answered by the fact that legis-
latipe bodies do not ordinarily exam
ire as accurately as they should, per-
haps, bills which emanate from the
and purport to be codi-
fications, particularly when they have
confidence in their committees.
'Since you made your assault on me
on August 80, 1893, you have left the
senate every time 1 have discussed the
silver question. You have done this
to avoid debate, in which you would be
called upan to explain many things
which appeared in that speech. In
stead of debating the question in
the senate you go thousand miles
away and reiterate your falsehoods.
invite you, when the question of
coinage comes up again in the senate,
TO make specific reply to the charges 1
made against you in my speech on
September 5, 1898, aud allow me to re-
ply to you. You can reply to me as
often as you please and can interrupt
me- at any time to make your explana-
lions.
81 have examined with care your
various attempts to defend yourself
against the charge that you demone-
lied silver. The only defense which
you make is that you were not caught
1t it while the bill was pending, and
you lay all the blame upon me and
,ther senators for that wicked legis-
ion because we did not suspect that
you were doing anything different
rom what you were pretending to do.
# you have any other defense for de-
silver, when the silver in
,he silver dollar was worth per cent
more than the gold in the gold dollar
he public undoubtedly will be glad to
lear from you, So far as I am con-
,erned, know you have none"
.G1n. =, n. > l
Nevada Sheepmen Fined.
Stock Inspector Fairman, of NAL
leur, lodged complaint with Justice
Murray recently that Nevada sheep
nen had brought their sheep across
he.line into Malheur county, Or. with
nut complying with the laws of this
tate. Warrants were issued, and Con-
table TOney dispatched to the extreme
outhern part of the county to serve
he papers. He arrested Sylvester
.eorar, manager of the Reczope &
Forgnone sheep. and Emanuel Hosea