Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-01-20


President Warner and Ex-Rep-
| resentative Towne to Define Posi-
ton Of the Union Before the
Committee on Banking and Cur
rency--Planning for the Cam
paign of 19OO-Mr. Warner Ask
ed to Reconsider His Determine
ton to Resign.
Washington, January ia strong
movement will be set On foot at the
present meeting of the American BIZ
metallic Union, which was called to
order at lila f street, northwest, to
have the campaign OF 1860 fought out
on the same lines as that of 1896. Plans
will be mapped out at the meeting OF
the executive committee looking to
| that end President A. J. Warner Of
the union, stated that it was his IN
| tent:on to resign his Office owing to IL
health, in order that he might obtain
a rest. The propcsitlCn made by him
| that some one be elected in his stead
did not meet with favor and the COM
mittee unanimously agreed that, ow-
ing to the crisis which is now ap-
preaching, it would be impolitic for
Gen. Warner to withdraw at this time,
and he was told to take as much Test
as he needed, and that the other MEM
bers of the union would assist in do
| ing the work until he mad completely
| recovered. Gen. Warner will leave
the city within the next few days for
| Florida and the South.
THE MEMBERS
| of the executive committee present
yesterday were A. J. Warner ex-Rep-
resentative Towne, of Minnesota; Jos.
Sheldon, of Connecticut; H. e Bartine,
of Illinois; o. w. Underwood, Repre-
| sentative from Alabama; and Senator
! Allen, of Nebraska. Gen. Warner, in
stating the object of the meeting. said
! that it had been called for the pur
pose of disposing of an accumulation
of routine business and for concEita-
ton regarding the future work TO be
| done. lie stated that the currency
r~f;,' n question had boen brought so
prominently before the country the
committee felt it was necessary that
some argument be prepared to refute
the allegations made by the Repubii-
I cans.
WARNER TALKS OF CAGES PLAN.
Speaking of the plan suggested by
/ Secretary Gage and the report Of the
monetary commission, which, he
stated, the Republican party was re
sponsible for, as they had fathered
and fostered it, he said.
eff they succeed in carrying through
their scheme of currency reform, that
is, of giving the banks the power To
issue money, they will create a condi
tion which it will be very hard to
overcome, and with another four years
will SO entrench themselves that it will
be almost an impossibility to get them
out
HE SLATER THAT
| he very much feared that the bill en-
| bodying Mr. Cages plan, if it was ever
| reported to the House, would pass Rep
resentative Underwood, of Alabama,
vouched for Genral Warmers assertion,
as he said that whenever a bill was re-
ported Speaker Reed was in favor of it.
and that if he was, it would most Ger
| tanly pass the House. Other members of
! the committee dissented saying that the
Republican party would never want to
| go on record on such measure, and that
| it if was contemplated passing the bill at
ALI it would be held off until after the
] Congressional elections next fall.
| General Warner stated that few, if any,
silver men were appearing before the
| Committee on Banking and Currency in
! the House, and in his opinion they
| should do so at once. He also suggested
| that some data to refute the claims made
! by the advocates of the Gage and none
tary commissions plans be prepared and
| published.
| COMMITTED TO SECURE A HEARING
| On the suggestion of Mr.. Towne who
stated that he would leave for California
/ in a few days. the executive committee
| were instructed to collect data on the
| subject and send it to Gen. Warner, who
| will meet the committee in this city in
| March to put the matter in shape. Gen.
| Warner and Mr.. Towne were appointed a
| committee to appear before the House
| Committee on Banking and Currency, and
| read a paper defining their position on
| the question of currency reform. MIR.
| Towne stated that the literature which
! was being used on the coinage question
was inapplicable to the currency reform
| scheme. He had found many people. he
said, who could talk silver, but knew abb
| solutely nothing about currency reform.
GENERAL WARNER
stated that it was almost an impossible
ity for member Of the Bimetallic Union
to secure a fair hearing before the COM
mittee as he had found that whenever
they were making irrefutable arguments,
some member of the committee either OBJ
jected or moved to adjourn.
| The meeting of the committee was clos
ed with an eloquent appeal from Gen.
Warner to the members to get to work at
once, and do all the work possible He
stated that the greatest foe bim.tallism
would have in the Democratic party
would be the Van Wyck- Whitney-Flower-
Belmont crowd, of New York. and that in
convention they must not be allowed to
dictate the platform.
FIFTY BODIES RECOVERED.