Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1896-02-21

driven the final nail In the comm Of sill
yer by closing her mints. There were
81. 000. 000. 900 of silver In the world. ac-
cording to the report OF the director of
the mint. over $2.700, 0oo.o 900 had been
coined by the countries of the world
II liberal use of silver or legal enact
ment could sustain its value. why had
the commercial price, in view of these
facts. gone down steadily?
Mr.. Turner was enumerating some of
the great names abroad that stood for
the gold standard when Mr.. Terry of
Arkansas interrupted him.
THE German reichstag has declared
for bimetallism," he said, land the COM
mon people of England favored bimet-
allism. or course the Rothschilds are
for the gold standard. They hold a
mortgage on everything in Europe as
they hold a receivership of the United
States treasury" Applause)
"Balfour, the most conspicuous BIZ
metallist in England" replied Mr.. Tur-
ner. has declared that Great Britain
alone could not enter on bimetallism.
and the gentleman should have been
candid enough to state that the German
reichstag declared for bimetallism, with
the aid of other commercial nations.
Thus, one by one, their arguments
evaporate."
Proceeding, he announced that a debt
or nation should pay it's debts in the
best money of the world in order to
maintain high standard of credit. In
the ethics of nations we could not af-
ford to take advantage of a technical
error and pay our creditors in cheap
money. In the present distressing sit
uation of the treasury, while the secre-
tary was being criticized, maligned and
denounced for exercising an option
which the law allowed, why did not
some one propose relief? Why was the
secretary forced by mandatory pro-
vision to pay treasury notes in silver?
Mr.. Turner spoke two hours. He re-
ceived demonstration when he closed.
DALZELL'S ARGUMENT.
Mr.. Dai1sll or Pennsylvania brought
the house back to the question whether
| it should subjugate it's duty and judg-
| ment to the senate; whether the house
should abandon it's bill and accept that
of the senate.
Mr.. Dalzell analysed the contentious
| of the silver men. 1t was agreed that
| the commercial relations between gold
and silver is 80 to /. Silver men con-
tended that the opening of minis to sill
Yer would make the metal appreciate in
value, until the commercial value would
be brought to the legal value. But this
was mere assertion and dogmatism.
Mr.. Dalzell said there was conclusive
proof in the past experience of Europe
that silver would not appreciate as a
result of opening the minis to silver
coinage. He devoted some time 10
replying to the argument of the silver
men that the fall of prices since 1873
had been coincident with the fall of sill
Yer, which latter fall was due to the de-
monetization in 1878. What the country
wanted was not free silver, but more
revenue through the custom houses
more blazing furnaces, more factories
and mills, more and cheaper transpor-
tation, wider fields for labor and an en-
larged home market, more consumption
to stimulate production, increased wag-
es to decrease the hours of labor, these
are the things we want and will have"
AT the conclusion of Mr.. Dalzells re-
marks Mr.. Dingley demanded the pre-
vious question, which was ordered,
whereupon the vote was taken upon
Mr.. Crisp's motion to concur in the
senate free coinage amendment.
The vote resulted 80 to 215. The an
nouncement of 125 majority against free
silver was cheered by the anti-silver
forces. The detailed vote was as fol-
lows:
Yeas-Abbot, Atkin, Allen of Missls-
sippi, Allen of Utah, Bailey, Baker of
Kansas. Bankhead, Barham, Bartlett
of Georgia, Bell of Colorado, Bell of
Texas, Black of Georgia, Bowers, Brod-
erick, Clark, Cockrell, Cooper, Cox,
Crisp, Culberson, Curtiss of Kansas,
Dearmond. Dinsmore, Dockery. Doc
little, Downing, Ellis, Gamble, Hart
man, Hermann, Hilborn, Hutchinson,
Hyde, Johnson Of California, Jones,
KEN, Kendall, Latimer, Layton, Les
ter, Linney. Little, Livingston, Lock-
hart, Loud, Maddox. Mcguire, Marsh,
Mcclure, McCulloch, McKenney, Me-
Laughlin, McLaurin, Mcmillan, Nc
Rae, Meredith, Mondell, Money, Neill,
Newlands, Ogden, Otey. Pearson, Rich
ardson, Robbins, Robertson of Louisi-
ana, Savers, Shafroth, Shaw, Shutters.
Skinner Spencer, Stokes, Strait, Strowd,
Swanson, Talbert, Tate, Terry, Towne,
| Tyler, Underwood, Walker of Virginia,
| Wheeler, Williams, Wilson of Idaho,
Wilson of South Carolina, Woodward,
Yoakum-90.
Among those voting nay were Boat
ner, Boutele, Brosius, Cannon, Dalzell,
Dingley, Dolliver. Grosvenor Grow,
Hepburn, Hit, Lefevre. McCreary,
| Tarsney, Turner and Walker.
A very exciting row was only pre-
vented at the night session of the house
| by the good temper shown by Mr.. Tai
| bert of South Carolina.
Mr.. Talbert was opposing a bill to
pension a soldiers widow who had sub
sequently remarked and had been di-
vorced from her second husband, when
| Mr.. Hardy of Indiana arose and made
a savage personal attack upon Mr..
Talbert.
South Carolina, he said, had always
been raising her voice III opposition to
| the Union.
I'VE have heard from South Carroll
na," he said, year In and year out, ex-
cept the four years when she was out
| of the Union. She has caused more
| trouble than any state in the Union
| from the time when John C. Calhoun
| tried to nullify the statutes of the
| United States in 1882 and Jackson
| threatened to hang him for his pains
up to the present time, when the gen.
| tleman from South Carolina appears
| in this body, and a gentleman with sim
| liar propensities appears at the other
end of the capitol. Her record hers. Is