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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-05-15

Mr.. Williams said that as the Traction
Company had put Itself wholly Ia the
hands Of the committee-had put its
tracks at the committees disposal-he
could not see that there was anything 10
arbitrate.
Major Randolph withdrew his PROPOSE
ton, and General Wise inquired whether
after a decision had been reached by the
committee there would be any fight made
by either company before the Council.
whatever decision the committee shall
reach will be absolutely binding upon my
company" said Captain Guigon.
zone representative has spoken" said
Colonel Cary. what does the Traction
Company say?'
1--WE put our whole line In the hands
of the committee" said Mr.. Williams.
but we cannot agree TO abide by the de-
cision Of the committee II II should pro-
pose to allow the old company the priy
lego of building a permanent line from
Main TO Broad street"
This remark OF Mr.. Williams put the
committee again at sea, as II seemed that
the Traction Company would only agree
10 Il decision OF the committee within GER
tain limits, and Captain Guigon at once
asserted that he would not feel bound by
the agreement reached by the committee
unless the other side would also pledge
itself. He had agreed TO leave the whole
matter 10 the committee. and he thought
the Traction Company should do like
wise.
This closed the discussion. and the COM
mittee, after short executive session.
found itself unable 20 agree. and ndjournd
to meet again to-day a Y o'clock in the
Virginia state Insurance Companys ONCE.
ANOTHER PROPOSAL.
a third proposition. which. while IL
was not formally submitted. is that which
Is made by the Lee District Railway Com
pany. which Is now applying 10 the City
Council fora franchise to run tracks over
the same route In which the City Rail-
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-08-06
THE SHERMAN MEMOIRS.

The Sherman Memoirs are rapidly
approaching the exciting war time.
Last and this weeks iustalments deal
with the much-disputed relations of Gen.
Sherman to the Louisiana Military
Seminary. The rebel leaders during
the war were vehement and acrimonious
in their charges against Sherman in
this matter, and his opinions as TO
slavery. Gen. Sherman clears all this
up-if it were at all necessary to clear
it up-by his statements and the CORE
spondence by which he supports them.
1t is evident that he honorably acquitted
himself of every duty and obligation,
and that he promptly severed his con-
nection with Louisiana and her institu-
tions the moment that loyalty to bis
country demanded it.
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MUSTERED OUT.

Veterans OF the Country's Grandsst Armv
Who Have Answered the Last Call.
JoHNsoN.-At Manhattan. Kan. July "a. @.
w. johnson, Co. G, 10th ILL., aged n. He was
q member OF Lew Cove Post, 100
SNow.-At West Stephentown. ~ Y, July 2.
of heart disease, George w. Snow, Co. e. I25th
N. Y. aged "a. Comrade Snow was an appli-
can't for . pension. and had sent in affidavits OF
two doctors stating that he was totally disabled
and unable to leave his bed most of the time.
No action had been taken in his case by the
Pension Bureau. He was charter member of
Coleman Post, 545, and the funeral services
were conducted by his comrades.
CRorsEY.-At Ogden, Utah. March IS, A.
Cropsey, 10th Eli. Comrade Cro?sey was born
at Loekpo n. Y, Dec. =, 1923. He removed
to Illinois before the war, and in 1860 was
elected to the State Legislature. He raised
a company OF over 200 men, and was appointed
Captain in the 10th Ill. Soon after the regi
ment took the field be promoted LieuteR
ant Colonel After little over year an6
half of service iFf-health compelled him to rs.
sign his commissions. mach to the regret of bin
superior officers and the men of the regiment
be had commanded. He was afterWasd Stsos
Senator in Nebraska.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-08-06

IT is an old, old fight. Two hundred
years ago England was deluged with all
manner of cheap money-coins which
had been clipped, y" sweated, y" filled,"
ETC., which was easy to do with the
rough-hammered coins of those days
They were worth all the way from 10
to 40 per cent. less than their face value,
and everybody who took one was
swindled more or less. 1t was particu-
larly hard upon poor people. An at
tempt at reform was made by calling in
and declaring uncurrent all these de-
based coins, and making only legal
tender new coins with milled" edges,
which could not be clipped without
showing it. There was the same clamor
as to-day about "destroying the peo-
pies money" for the benefit of the
bankers and capitalists There were
riots and seditions, but the cause of
honest money won, and entitled coins
became the rule.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-08-06

EVERYBODY knows that the price of
wheat is fixed by what it can be sold for
in Europe. How, then, are we going to
change its price by any juggling with
our own currency? Any man with an
atom Of sense can see the impossibility
of this. An Englishman wants to buy
100 bushels of wheat. He is offered it
by dealers in American, Argentinian,
Indian, Australian, and Russian wheat.
He buys from whomsoever will offer him
the best grain at the lowest price. Can
we make him pay any more for ours by
cutting our own dollar in two, and calling
our wheat worth ST bushel, where it is
now but 80 cents? Nothing could be
more absurd.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-08-06

THoUGH both are professed Gold men,
Senators German and Hill occupy very
different positions with regard to their
party. In Maryland, the Gold men
have been generally hostile to Germans
leadership of the party, and helped the
Republicans to defeat him in the State.
The Free Silver men are an important
part of the machine with which be pre-
viously held power, and by means of
which he hopes to regain it. Conse-
quently he must at least keep IN touch
with it. On the other hand, Senator
Hills friends are all for Gold. Party
exigencies have compelled Tammany to
declare formal support of the Chicago
platform and ticket, but everybody
knows that it is the merest formality.
Fully IS per cent of the Democrats
throug hout the City and State are earn
estly and unequivocally for Gold, and
Senator Hill knows this.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-08-06

WHAT silly talk this is about Mr..
Hanna trying to buy up the Populist
Convention? The Convention did pre-
cisely what Mr.. Hanna and every other
friend of Mckinley wanted it to do, and
it was evident from the first that it was
going to do it. Therefore there was not
the slightest thought in anybody's mind,
except those of Bryan's managers, of
buying it.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-08-06

As we have been saying for years, the
insincerity of the Silver advocates is
demonstrated by the fact that they will
not take the silver dollars out of the
Treasury and use them In their daily
business. The quantity of these in the
hands of the people constantly grows
smaller. June 80, 1896, the amount had
fallen to 52,175, 1913, the smallest since
the coinage of the silver dollar was re-
sumed in 1878. This is much less than
81 per capita for our population. The
Free Silver men want somebody else to
take silver, but none of it for them
selves
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BRAZEN RkPuDIATION.

Chairman Jones has called attention
to the fact that the Popocratic Conven-
ton at Chicago came out squarely for
reputation. He does this by publish
ing correction of the stenographer' s
record of the proceedings of the con-
vention. These would make it appear
that the convention was i'm favor OF re-
garding the sanctity of contracts and
agreements made previous to the adop-
ton of any legislation cutting down the
value of the dollar. Senator Jones says
that this is untrue, and that the conven-
ton distinctly declared in favor of max
ing no limit to the effect of such legisla-
ton. Undoubtedly Senator Jones is
right, and the convention was over
whelmingly in favor of repudiating one
half of the present obligations of the
Government, in the matter Of pensions,
salaries, bonds, interest, ETC., by making
them payable in debased silver dollars.
Senator Hill, as leader of a minority
of the Committee on Resolutions, acting
for himself, Senator Villas, of Wisconsin,
Senator Gray, of Delaware, ex-Gov.
Russell, of Massachusetts,, and II others,
offered substitute financial plank
which declared "that until international
cooperation among leading nations for
the coinage of silver can be secured we
favor the rigid maintenance of the ex-
listing gold standard as essential to the
preservation of our national credit"
Upon the amendment he demanded a
call of the roll, which resulted in its
defeat by vote of 800 to 626.
Senator Hill distinctly said that he
would only ask roll call on this amend
ment and upon his resolution indorsing
the Administration of President Cleve-
land. He offered two other financial
amendments, one of which exempted
existing contracts from the operation of
the financial plank. In regard to both
of these amendments Senator Hill said
openly that he did not ask roll call,
but would be satisfied to have each
passed upon by viva voce vote. This
was done. There was scarcely an
audible voice raised IN favor of either
and the Chairman Of the
Convention declared both motions lost,
without anyone questioning his decision
This shows most undoubtedly the
ruling temper of the Convention.
There was not voice raised anywhere
in protest against scaling pensions down
by paying them in halfprice silver
dollars.
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FREE COINAGE.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: Please state
in the columns of THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE
what is meant by free coinage of silver; the
argument of each party for and against it !;
that is to say, the good or bad results Of
either way.-W. A. HALL, Floral, Ark.
"Free Coinage" means that any man
having quantity of silver may take it
to a United States mint and, as a matter
of privilege and right, have it coined
into silver dollars, at the rate of one for
every 3714 grains of pure silver that
may be found in his metal. These dol
lars when so coined are to be full legal
tender for all debts, both public and
private.
The advocates of Free Coinage say
that this will greatly increase the amount
of money in the country, increase the
prices of all manner of agricultural
produce and goods, enable men who are
IN debt to pay out, etc.
The opponents of Free Coinage say
that such measure would be ruinous to
every interest in the country; that the
production of silver has become so enor-
nous that its price has fallen to less than
half what it was 81 years ago; that 371i
grains of silver are only worth about SO
cents; that to allow Free Coinage would
be simply to permit the silver mine own
ers and spectators to unload tons of
cheap silver bullion on the people at an
advanced price; that the value of the
silver dollar would Immediately fall to
tie market price of the metal, and thus
every man who works for wages, receives
a pension, has money in a savings bank.
fire or life insurance, would be defrauded
of at least half that is due him; that the
whole business fabric would be turned
topsy-turvy, to the infinite injury and
distress of the common. people, who al
ways suffer enormously at any disturb
ance Of the financial system.
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PERSONAL.

Capt. Jack Crawford, the poet scout. has been
engaged by the Citizens Committee to enter
tain at the Campfres at the St. Paul Encamp-
ment; Also appointed poet of the Association
of the Army of the Potomac, Burlington, W.,
Sept. Is and IL. No other living man gives :
more pleasing or more suitable entertainment
for Grand Army Post. and what cannot be
said by any other public entertainer can be said
of Capt. Jack. That is, that no Post or Corps
or S. of " ever lost cent on his entertain
ment, and thousands of dollars have been added
to the relief funds. Prof. W. N. Parker, Super
intendent of Schools at Reedsburg, Wis, is
booking the Captain for a third tour in Wis
cousin. His permanent address is care of Tall
liant, World Building, New York.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-08-06
FREE SILVER IN MEXICO.

The coinage Of silver has always been
free in Mexico. There never was any
"Crime of 1873" there, and Mexico
enjoys the unusual advantage among
the Nations of the earth that her silver
dollars will circulate outside her own
territory at slightly more than their
bullion value. This is due to the fact
that the Chinese, for some reason or
another, prefer the Mexican dollars to
any other silver coin, and consequently
other Nations are anxious to get them
to pay for teas, silk. and other Chinese
products. 1t will be remembered that q
bill was introduced into our Senate a
year or two ago to pay Mexico four
cents On every dollar for the privilege
of putting her stamp on dollars that We
should coin for the Chinese trade.
In spite of this her silver dollar,
which our Treasury valued at $1.0475,
on Jan. /, 1874, has steadily dete-
riorated, until it was only worth 1875
cents, Jan. 1, 1895. It has risen little
since then, and on July /, 1896, was
received for $3.50 cents at our custom
houses.
All wages, debts, insurance, interest,
ETC., in Mexico are paid in this dollar,
and consequently the Mexican working
men, ETC., are receiving almost exactly
half what they did % years ago,
though their wages are nominaIly the
same. ,5ano
In the meanwhile, nearly everything
they have to buy including -four, corn,
meal, meats, lard, coffee, etc, has gone
up. @at
This is shown by the report of the
British Consul at Matamoras, who says:
Labor is very cheap and abundant in
Mexico, the average farm laborer receiving
66 month, sometimes with rations of corn
Snly. This is equivalent, at present rate of
exchange, to about 10 cents in American
money per day. ,ia "
The British Consul at Mexico in his
report of Dec. 5, 1895, gives the rates
of wages at a number of principal
points. In the State of Sonora they
are, in Mexican currency, per day:
Common laborers, 81 to rs cents;
miners, so cents to So; factory hands
(men), IS cents to 81; artisans, $3.50
to S.. Substantially the same rates pre-
vail in ,the southern part of Lower
California. At Mazatlan, an important
port on the Pacific coast, with three
cotton factories, soap factory and .
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number of small sugar mills and dis
tilleries, the wages are: Common labor
ers, % to 62 cents; miners, 81 to Sc (;
factory hands, G2 cents to So; artisans,
81 to So. At Tonala, in Southern
Mexico, common laborers receive Is to
81 cents artisans, 25 to IS cents.
All these quotations should be nearly
cut in two, to equalize them to American
money. The British Consul at Mexico
City gives the following figures as to the
cost of the necessaries of life. 1t will
be seen that after cutting the prices in
two, they are still higher than in the
United States.
Acapulco, Pacific CoasD.-Indian
corn, So per 100 pounds; beans, So;
wheat -four, 50; lard s12; coffee, $50;
sugar, s14.
Ensenada de Todos Santos, Northern
Part of Lower California INDIAN
corn, SO per 100 pounds; beans, Sc;
wheat flour, So; lard, $50; coffee, s45;
sugar, s15.
Guaymas, (Northern Part of Mexico).
Indian corn, s1.66 per 100 pounds;
beans, 81: wheat flour, 1888; lard,
$2S; coffee, $40; sugar, SIS.
Matamoras, EAST Coast of Mexico.
Indian corn, SO per 100 pounds;
beans, So; wheat -four, So; lard, SIG;
coffee, $45; sugar, So.
Tonala, Extreme Southern Part of
Mexico).-Indian corn, s4.25 per 100
pounds; beans, $3.50; wheat -four, So;
lard, not quoted coffee, s25; sugar, s..
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-08-06
INDIA has had free coinage of siIve

INDIA has had free coinage of silver
from time immemorial until three wears
ago, when the continual fall in silver
brought the country to the verge of bank
ruptcy. The rupee had gradually fallen
from valuation of As cents to 26 cents.
The money of the country consists of
the enormous sum Of 2,000,000,000
rupees and rupee paper. If 300,000,000
Hindus could not hold up the price of
silver with Free Coinage, what hope
would there be of 10000, 600 Americans
doing it?
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-08-06
ALL ABOUT MAI. MCKINLEY.

Everybody wants to know all about
Maj. Mckinley. The very best COM
pendulum of this knowledge is The Ma
TIoNAL TRIBUNE LIBRARY's "Life of
Maj. Mckinley" by John McElroy. 1t
gives all the facts about the Republican
candidate in an authoritative form and
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THE first question for any sober, patri-

The first question for any sober, patri-
otic man to ask himself is, When did the
Harrises, Joneses, Vests, Blaekburns,
ETC., who head the Free Silver move
ment, ever propose, suggest, or advocate
anything that vas for the>reaI benefit Of
the country? When did they ever con-
meet themselves with anything that has
not been stamped upon as Incidentally
injurious and dangerous? This ought
to be sufficient.
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We we're producing 6O,oOO,oOO ounces

we were producing 100000 ounces
year.
1t may be that Nh. Mckenna has not
the education to do it, but if he will ask
some schoclboy to figure it out on his
slate, he will find that the 6O,OO0,O00
ounces produced in 1898 were just 1900
times the 10000 ounces produced annu-
ally prior to 1859.
Come again, Mr.. McKenna; you are
&" dead easy"
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COSTA RIGA has tried the Free Sill
yer experiment to her hearts content,
and has now come out for the Gold
Standard. Twelve years ago the Free
Silver fellows got the upper hand in
the little Republic, and since then
everything has been going from bad
to worse very rapidly. All the gold
and other sound money left the coun-
try at once, and foreigners who bought
coffee, bananas, and other products,
paid for them in cheap silver coins,
to the great loss Of the Costa Ricans.
The greatest trouble is that silver fuct-
yates SO necessarily that no one knows
from day to day what anything may
be worth, and merchants, to make
themselves safe, have to charge enor-
nous profits. An American dollar is
now worth $3.50 there, and merchant
who buys $4,000 worth of goods in
New York has to pay $4,000 in Costa
Rican silver for them. The situation
became intelerable, and July 3 a decree
was issued adopting the Gold Standard,
the coinage Of silver, and pro-
hibiting the introduction of foreign sill
yer.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-08-06

JAPAN is getting ready to abandon
the silver standard. The reasons given
are the great fluctuations in the value of
silver, and the bulk required for any
ordinary transaction.
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EVERY veteran and son of veteran
should have John McElroy's "Life of
Gen. George Fl. Thomas the best BIZ
ography of the great commander yet
written. Sent to any address On receipt
of five cents.
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ARTICLES FORTHCOMING

1HE VERMONT BRIGADE IN THE
W-LDEREESS By Breuet Mai.-Gen
L. Il. Grant, commander OF the brigade,
ard late 4sststdRt .SecTefgy Of War
THU Rattle OF FAIR OAKS OR
SEVEE PINES. By Maj.-Gen II. N
Ptassted, formerly Lieutenant Colonel Of tie
11h Ne, and afteracard Major-Gener,a of
Vo'usteeys.
FIRING ON FORT SUMTER. A thrilling
nory Of a young Ohio mechanic ,rAo scas
an Charleston at the Time, and ,ncs compelled
20 JON fhe rebels, but uhe afterrasds escaped
and scrued three years ias a Union regiment.
The BATTLE OF POISON SPRING. By
Huey Britton, late Of the Var Department,
ard dnfhor Of The CiUif War on the Bor-
DER" etc
IN AND OUT OF CHARLESTON. BIZ
T. o. b., a yoaHg Connecticut man, uhe
Uos caught in Charleston at the opening of
1esfilatits
TIE GREAT MORGAN RAID. A True
History of the Capture Of Gen. John H. Nor
gan, By the Captor Htmsetf-Mcj Geo. ".
Rue, 9Th Ky. Cac
PRESIDENT LINCOLEs VISIT TO
RICHMOND. By Lieut. Geo. Z, Dudley.
50h n. Y. Engineers
COL. FORSYTHS INDIAN FIGHT ON
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