The herald., 1896-11-12
Considers Cues tons Interesting
to Agriculturists
SILVER'S REHABILITATION
Seems 10 Be the Aim Of Many
Delegates
The Next Congress Will be Asked to
Take Prompt Steps Looking to
International Bimetallism.
Associated Press Special Wire

ers' National congress today, by reso-
luton, requested ex-president Harrison
to address the body. The president OF
the congress, referring to the bill pend
ing in the United States senate provid-
ing for an industrial commission, said
action should be taken by the farmers
convention looking to the appointment
of one or perhaps two of the five men,
bers of the commission from the men,
bership of this congress.
Resolutions were referred to the COM
mittee on resolutions as follows: A sug-
gestion by w. s. Allerton of Illinois for
| the secretary of agriculture, requesting
| the congress of the United States to
! appoint a corps of civil engineers to ex-
anime and report as to the practicability
of constructing ship canal connecting
| the Atlantic and great lakes by way
! of the rivers and the Gulf of Mexico;
declaring as the sense of this congress
! the women should be given the right
! of suffrage; that the congress of the
United States should take active meas
ures to restrict undesirable immigration.
| discountenance class legislation and
discourage sectionalism.
w. H. Hoffman of Illinois introduced a
resolution to the effect that inasmuch
| as the supreme court of theUnitedStates
had decided the tax on incomes uncon-
stitutional, all farm products should be
| exempt from assessment for taxation.
| Stahl of Illinois introduced the fol-
! lowing:
| Whereas, trusts are annually robbing
the people of millions, be it
Resolved that this congress demands
that the laws against trusts be enforced
and laws that are now inadequate be
| strengthened
| The committee on the next meeting
! of the convention reported in favor
| of st. Paul, MINI, and suggested that it
| be held two months earlier in the year
than the present congress.
! A resolution was also offered and
referred, favoring the initiative and ref
| erendum; also a graded land tax.
| J. Adam Bede of st. Paul said he was
| a Democrat, but he knew that silver
could only be mined by the wealthy by
! great corporations, and they alone
| could get any profit out of it. A resolu-
| ton with decided silver ring, intro
duced by Mr.. Offutt of Indiana, was
substituted by the following resolution
| by the committee on resolutions and
| adopted against Mr.. Offutt's protest:
Whereas, the general consensus of
| opinion of the people of the United
States is that gold and silver coin on a
i just parity of value should be equally
money of ultimate redemption without
! limit in which this farmers national
| congress concurs, but differences of opin-
ion exist as to the best method by which
this policy can be secured, and,
| Whereas, the recent election resulted
| in favor of bimetallism by international
agreement of the commercial nations
therefore,
Resolved, that the farmers national
congress urgently requests the incoming
administration of the national govern
ment to speedily adopt all practicable
methods to obtain the concurrence of a
sufficient number of nations to secure
international bimetallism with the I'M
limited coinage of gold and silver as
equal money of redemption and thereby
to restore bimetalic prices for the
worlds commerce.
Mr. Lawrence, chairman of the COM
mittee, said the committee, except one
member, was of the opinion that the res
olutions expressed the opinion of a vast
majority of the people of the United
States,a and that the substitute was a
! proper one.
General Roy Stone of the department
of agriculture, Washington, read a pa
per ,entitled 1.-THE Battle Is Over; Shall
the War Go On?"
This paper dealt with the issues of
the recent election. Speaking of the free
silver forces he said it was not in human
nature that a party which had made
such Roadway in it's frat fight should be
willing to accept one defeat as final.
General Stone maintained, therefore,
that to avoid even more bitter con-
tests in the future, some International
plan should be taken up to provide a
new. natural and growing use for sill
| yer.
General Stone submitted the following
propect for international silver money
Tristan international mint be open
ed under the auspices and management
of the chief commercial countries of the
world.
Second-Silver international coins,
which may be known as "globe dollars"
and fractions thereof bearing their de-
nominations in shillings, francs, ETC.,
on the one side and an international SYM
boil with the names of the nations on
thes other, to be freely coined and issued
in exchange for gold coin or it's equiva-
lent, or for silver bullion at the mar
ket price.
Third-Heavy bars or blocks of silver
to be numbered and stamped with their
full international coinage value for use
in bank reserves or for export or do
nestle transfer
Fifth-The international coins, bars.
blocks and certificates to be receivable
for public dues and to be exchangeable
for gold at the central mint and at its
agencies in all countries of the union.
Sixth-All profit of coinage, stamp
age and issue of certificates for bullion
to be placed in a reserve fund invested
in stable government securities to Sc
cure the parity of this currency with
gold, the interest arising from such Sc
curities to be added to the fund
Seventh-The coinage, stampage and
issue Of certificates to be curtailed
whenever the demand for exchange into