Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-08-25

monetize silver. We will intro
duce q little testim ony from the.
"rec cords Of the nation" to settle
who has been doing the lying
Judge Kelly Of Pennsy lvania,
said on the floor of the House,
March9 1878: In connection
with this charge that Z advocated
the bill which demonetized the
standard silver dollar, I say that,
though the Chairman of the Com
mittee on Coinage, I was as ignor-
ant of the fact that it would de-
monetize the silver dollar. or of
it's dropping the silver dollar
from our system of coins, as were
those distinguished Senators,
Messrs. Blaine and Voorhees,,
who were then mem bers of the
House, and each of whom inter-
rogated the other:tDid you know
it was dropped when the bill was
passed. No. said Mr.. Blaine,
did your No. said Mr.. Voor-
hees. 4 do not think that there
were three members in the
House that knew it. ," ("Cong.
Rec.," Vol. VII, part 2, 45th
Congress, I'd Session, App, p.
1605.)
Mr.. Holman, in a speech de-
livered in the House July 13,
1876, says: Il have before me
the record of the proceedings of
this House on the passage Of that
measure, a record which no man
can read without being convin-
ced that the measure and the
method of it's passage through
this House were a colossal swim.
die. The bill which finally
passed the House and ultimately
became law, was certainly not
read in this House. The substi-
tute, which finally became a law,
was never read" ("Congress
ional Record, Vol. w., Appen-
dix, p. 1887
Senator Jesse D. Bright, OF
Tennessee, said: 1.-The bill pas.
sed by fraud in the House, never
having been printed in advance,
being a substitute for the printed
bill, never having been. read at
the Clerks desk, the reading
having been dispensed with by
an impression that the bill made
no material alteration in the
coinage laws. 1t was passed
without discussion, debate have
ing been cut off by operation OF
the previous question. Aye,
sir, it was a fraud that smells to
heaven. ("Cong. Record" Vol.
VII, part l., 18th Congress, p.
584.)
Senator Allison, February 5,
1873 said: "When the secret his
tory of this bill of 1873 comes to
be told, it will disclose the fact
that the House of Representatives
intended to coin both gold and
silver and intended to place both
metals upon the French relation,
instead of on our own, but that
the bill was doctored." In reply
to question, what he meant by
the word ''doctored," he replied
1T was changed after discussion,
and the dollar of 420 grains was
substituted for it, ("Cong: Re-
cord Vol. VII, part 2, p. 1058.)
Senator Beck, January 10, 1878,
said: 1.-THE bill was never under
stood by either House Of Con
gress. No newspaper reporter
and they are the most vigilant
men I ever saw in obtaining in
formation-discovered that it had
been done" ("Cong: Record, %
Vol. VII, p. 1907
Even the watchful Mr.. Thur
man said: eve thought it was
simply a bill to reform the Mint,
and had not the slightest idea
that it was even a squirt toward
characterization. 49,
Mr.. Cannon; July 10, 1876,
said: ''It was not discussed, as
shown by the Record, and Meth,
er members Of Congress nor the
people understood the scope of
the legislation. ("Record APP.
pendix, p. 1917 Even Senator
Conkling, in the Senate, March