Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1898-01-01

ing:
MINT at Carson, Nevada: For Su
p~erlntendeut $1,000, aSsayer, and
meter and refner at s., 500 each;
Chief clerk 81 500, bookkeeper, cash
Ter, assistant assayer. assistant mel
ter and rehneI and weigh clerk. $500
each; in all SIz.3oo.
For wages of workmen $40. 900 for
incidental and contingent expenses,
including wastage Of operative OIL
GERS, and loss on sale of sweeps,
S,
M. NcWlands Nj. Chairman.
the customary five minutes will not
permit ME to present ali | wish to sub
mnt on the subject and l viii ask the
indulgence of the house for at least
ten minutes.
The Chairman. The gentleman
nom Nevada asks permission to
speak continuously ten minutes. Is
there objection? CATER a pause).
The Chair has none.
Mr.. Newlands. Mr.. Chairman.
There are, or were, FIVE mints in the
United States; one at Philadelphia,
II at New Orleans. one at San Fran
CISCO, n III process of construction
at Denver, and one at Carson. The
mint at Carson is abolished bv this
act. The question has arisen in the
discussion of the last amendment as
to where the coinage should properly
be done, whether in the east, in the
great commercial and banking CELL
tiers OF the country, or in the west
where the bullion is produced-and
and my learned friend from Illinois,
Mr.. Cannon, labored under the mis-
apprehension that these assay offices
and mlnts were organized in the
western states with a view of enabling
the miners there to get a higher price
Tor their product, unmindful of the
tact that so far as gold is concerned
and coinage is now confined to gold,
except as to the accumulated stock
1t is the privilege of the miner now to
take his bullion to the mint and have
it turned into coin, the government
making no purchase of bullion what
ever. The question is whether that
convenience should be afforded to him
nearer the source of his production,
or 5000 miles away in the eastern
states.
And here let me make the sugges-
ton that had the mining regions of
this country been opened when our
government vas formed, undoubtedly
the mints would have been placed
nearer the mines, just as every indus
try is placed near the product with
which it deals. There is no doubt
that mad all the bullion of this coun-
try, the gold and the silver. pro-
duced during the past thirty wears
been minted IN the west, our financial
condition would have been much bet
ter, for in that case, with both the
gold and the silver, the miner would
simply have received gold and silver
coin. Now, imagine how that would
have slmplitied the silver question.
These people of the west are accus-
toned to the use Of metallic money.
The people Of the east were unaccus-
toned to the use of metallic
Why, metallic money hardly exis-
ted for years before the war. 1t did
not exist during the war. The people
of the east had become accustomed to
the use OF paper money and unaccus-
toned to either silver or gold, and re-
Jected the use of both. So that we
had paper in the east in the broadcast
use, whereas on the Pacific coast and
in the mountain states the feeling
was quite the contrary. There they
are used to the coin and do not like
the paper money. find that | have
to revolutionize my own habits twice
every year in the way of becoming &C
customed to paper and metallic mon
ey. go west and recur to the use of
the metallic money and I find that l
do not like to have twenty dollor gold
pieces and silver in my pocket, and
after become accustomed to them |
find that l prefer them to paper; and
then after awhile on my return east,
l strike paper money again and have
no metallic money, and paper money