The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-04-16

II MONETARY
lsTEWART ADDRESSES THE
SENATE ON IT.
The Republican Party Not In Favor of
Restoring Silver by an international
Conference or Otherwise-The Presi-
dent Is strongly Against 1t.
From Silver ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: The
senate having under consideration the
bill to provide for the representation
OF the United States by commissioners
at any international monetary confer
ence hereafter to be called.
Mr.. Stewart said: Mr.. President, l
do not wish to call names or express
the suspicious which l entertain of bad
faith on the part of the Republican par
ty in pretending that they are in favor
of restoring silver by an International
conference, or otherwise. There are
exceptions, and I make the author Of
the bill, the senator from New Hamp-
shire Mr. Chandler), one of the hon
orable exceptions.
But what is the situation of the ad-
ministration? When the senator from
Colorado (Mr. Wolcott) first went to
Europe, the tone OF the European press
was kindly, at least, but events hap
pened here which led them to ridicule
his mission and say that he represented
nothing and nobody, end was entitled
to no consideration.
That was the substance Of the Ian
guage Of the leading journals of Lon
don a short time ago. But that Ian
guage was not used until events oc-
Cured here showing the position Of
the administration when it was ru-
mored that Mr.. Gage, a banker of Chi
cago, might be appointed secretary OF
the treasury. Following that rumor,
MI. Gage went to Canton and had an
Interview with the president-elect. He
went home and announced his views.
There was some question at first as to
whether they We're really his views, but
1t turned out that they We're views
which he had expressed in a deliberate
address and which he Endorsed.
IN that address, as reported by the
papers, he declared that he is in favor
of retiring the greenbacks, of retiring
the silver certificates, of selling the sill
yer which the government has in it's
vaults, and of having no money in this
country except gold and national bank
ISSUES. That was the position which
the person who is to be secretary of
the treasury declared. 1t was publish
ed IN Europe, and Immediately upon
that publication Mr.. Wolcott's mission
was ridiculed. That was as clear a
declaration as could have possibly
been made that the United States did
not intend under any circumstances.
or that the administration that is TO
come III did not intend under any cir
cumstances, to change the situation.
BY their acts you shall know them.
This act of the President-elect in Sc
Letting Mr.. Gage, who is the most radi-
cal gold man on either side of the
"oS IohCl az DOSlllf6 .DIOOI
OF the incoming administration,
If we wanted further evidence of
that, it is found in this proposition.
which intrusts this matter to the sec
rotary OF the state. We all know who
is to be secretary Of state. We all
know his record upon this question.
We all know that he was the author
OF the bill to demonetize silver: that
he has done more thar any other man
who ever lived to fasten the gold stand
ard upon the world. This matter is to
Entrusted to him by our government.
When this is reported to Europe, and
they find that the subject has been del
egated to the secretary Of state to send
agents to negotiate they will be fur
Their assured that the new administra-
ton will do nothing; and that the New
YORK Evening Post and other papers
which declared that the provision in
the platform was merely for political
purposes were right, and that Mr..
Smalley was right when he wrote his
letter to the cabinet minister, which is
reported by Moreton Frewen, in the
letter to the senator from Idaho Mr
Dubois, which he has just read. that
there was no movement in this coun-
try among the powers that be for sill
YER; that they have regarded the YER
dict of last fall as a verdict for the
single gold standard, and intended to