The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-02-04

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vas shSc1Efeiy useless.
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row - c-x@--es @-1sA -ezsoE Try make
these eg-rrac-s s bscz1ss god 10 --e s-ss
snoz&y - the wo-s1 TIE reason r5Gt solt
- -. - contracts u beczEs% CT q fear
% porGs4zs s-gs& 1tto1 raNf might impair
consrscas- Tas two coins. sal3 art ST.
yer. srs ~ parity. made - by lav. Tas
zsszzs are ret - 9 party. sCt Tire r1rt>1
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c-axs BY Tsrn Watson. Ger. Bosss azs
ozh@x Popuilsta
''Df1 you ever k-o~ = mar - CT toxs
tar CT ard t5er I'll atm bsnssss ks -ss
uxsyZ" &zkei feaahsrt.
IT'S Aroused AaEA-
Dorr. contfnatnT sass tSxt as = fu11a-
-usntsl p-f1espsss = TIE iegAlzfure s5onld
pass q l4w making geld ard silver moray
fer paying 6ebts. & would n nothing but
rake the members ridiculous. for ira
rszson tAaf both god aa1 eav@r are a.
ready Legal tsnd4r II We % anything
csDso~s 20 par II q deprecated currency"
re accused tae PopG.lsts o. sayorsng IN
ilrk@t iss-ze % gresnbseks-
Cole said that during IRE last campaign
he dad heard scarcely anything but an
eternal cry OF Scent dollar. - believe"
re- szid. 4-rhat -hss BIZ sho1ls ~ passed
allowing rs 70 pay debts IN thsee Scent
6o1sr<
y dssy Senator Dor- 10 show when tss
Popxlisss ever favored the unlimited -
sue of greeEbscks." said Crow. Hs
charged TIRE Republican party with
-orshtppirg Ire golden calf Cold IL
not uzousy. z1vsr Is not money. but ths
fat o< the government Is money" He held
fhat when capitalists began 70 write con-
tracts 30 as 20 make them payable In god.
Il increased botn the demand and the
% silver. We want % make IL Illegal for
one mar to compel another 70 pay him IN
gold. sa6 Crow. When the public good
demands IL. we have q right TO pass such
Ia ~"
Dorr asked Il Watson was wrong when
he SAID that a handful OF silver men were
swinging the Populist party around Just
as they pleased.
Reinhart asked Z The government could
not make money. who could.
Why not make a law 10 make contracts
for anything but goidT'' asked Deckebach
Then you VIII get the law you want"
Hs believed II a man contracted 10 pay in
gold. he should pay IN gold. II he said ne
would pay in shoestrings. he should pay
in shosstrfngS. He believed in maintain
ing Tire integrity of contracts.
II WIS unnecessary 20 inject the entire
silver question into the discussion OF the
Bill" said Richards. The idea In this bIl
Il that a debtor can pay IN lawful money
OF the United States. Gentlemen learned
IN the law say that the constitution for
bids state legislation IN anything else but
gold and silver. There must be something
IN the law when the agents OF loan COM
panies and corporations are opposed 20 it"
Dorr retorted that he, for one. did not
represent loan company or corporal ton
but a constituency, the same as Richards
did
The bin was finally passed. yeas u. nay
e. TIE btu was amended 50 that instead
OF lawful money" IL reads gold and sill
YER" which makes the measure ineffect-
i've.
Wilson gave notice that he would move
for q reconsideration OF the vote by which
the bill was passed.
The senate adjourned till tomorrow at
10 - m