Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-07-25

days since, interrogated the C.ner: Did
you know it was dropped when the bill
passed. No said Mr.. Blaine; did you?
No said Mr.. Voorhees,, I do nos think
there were three members in the House
THAI knew it. doubt whether Mr..
Hooper, who, in my absence from the
Committee on Coinage and attendance
on the Committee on Ways and Means,
managed the bill. knew Il. say this in
justice TO him. Congressional Rec
ord. vel. vii, par. .. For;y-fifJh Con-
gress, second session, page 1859
In the Forty-sixth Congress the same
judge Kelly threw additional light On
the mystery when he said; "All / can
say is .Aat C.. Committee on Coinage,
! weights and Measures, who reported
/ EAe original bill, were faithful and able,
and scanned is provisions closely; tina.
as their organ I reported it; THAT IT
CONTAINED PROVISIONS FOR BOTH
THE STANDARD SILVER DOLLAR
AND TIE TRADE DOLLAR. Never
having heard until long time after its
enactment into law Of the substitution
in the Senate Of the section which
dropped the standard silver dollar, I
profess 20 know nothing Of its history,
out I am prepared 10 say that in the leg
tslctca Of his country there is no mys-
terry equal to the characterization Of the
silver Of the United States. I have
never me. q man who could tell just
/ how it care atout, or Why. Congress
io-al Record, vol. g. ysr, l. ForJy-siXlh
/ Corgrass. frs, session, page 1221)
Again Judge Kelly said: Il, Cine DID
( was passed without any allusion in de-
bate to The question Of the retention, or
. the abandonment c. the silver dollar"
Here we have the chairman OF the
committee ths. procured the bin declar-
. ing positively tha. It made provision for
The Standard silver dollar Yet, after
/ Il PASSED the Standard silver dollar was
found 10 have been mys,eriously omit
led, Here is uninlysach55le evidence
-hat tae crime Of 70 was committed on
/ the commi.ee and before il was voted
On in tie house
Corgrsssran Bright. OF Tennessee,
/ thus tells how it passed: 1T passed by
/ fraud in the House, never having been
printed in advance, being substitute
! for the printed bill; never having been
/ read as the clerks desk. the reading
having been dispensed with by an i'm
preston that the bill made no altera-
ton IN the coinage laws; i; was passed
wi hout discussion. debate being cui off
By operation Of the previous question.
Ii was passed. 10 my certain informa-
lion. under such circums.an that the
fraud escaped the attention Of some OF
The most watchful. as wen as the ables;
statesmen in Congress at the time. Ay,
s.r. i. was fraud that smells 10 heaven.
Ii was q fraud hat viii stink in The
ros-iis ct po5-erity, and Tor which some
person must give account in the day Of
reri5ution." Congressional Record,
vol :. part 1. second session, Forly-ffth
/ Congress. page 554)
Sna-or Allison, late candidate for the
Republican nomination for president,
ourh. TO be good enough authority for
Capt Doverer and our Republican
friends ana contemporaries in general.
.la.e is what he said in reference 10 the
subject: When the secret history OF
his bill of 1878 comes to be told, i, viii
disclose the fact that the House Of Rep
resenta-yes intended 10 coin both gold
and silver. and intended to place both
meals upon the French relation in
stead OF orr own. which was the true
scientific posiicn with reference 70 this
su3jec. in 1873. on, that the bill after
wards was Goc,ored. il I mus, use the
term. and I use st in no offensive sense,
of course"-(Here Mr.. Sargent inter-
ruP.ed him srdaskei him what he meant
by the word "doc.ored.O Mr., Allison
continued: 81 said used the word in no
offensive sense. Il was changed after
discussion. ana The dollar Of 429 grains
was SUBS i-u.ed." Congressional Rec
crd. vol. Z. part >. second session Forty
fifth Congress. page 1851
Senator Beck IN 8 speech in the Sen
ate said: ID (the characterization 6ilD
never wss understood by either house
/ Of Congress. l say that with full knowl
edge OF the facts. No newspaper re
! porJcr-and they are the most vigilant
men I ever saw in Obtaining informa-
ion-discovered that il had been done"
. Congressional Record, vol. 7, part I,
second session Forty-fi.h Congress,
page 26C)
Sen@oor Allen G. Thurman said: y
cannot say what took place in the House,
bur I know. when the bill was pending
in the Senate, we thought i, was simply
/ q bill 10 reform the mint. regulate coin
age and fix up one thing and another;
ana there is not q single man in the
Senate. I think. unless Z member Of the
/ committee from which the bill came,