Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1899-01-19
Silver Measures
In Congress.
Dodged by Mr.. New
lands.
Mr.. NEWLANDS' TREACHERY.
His Letter to Gage Showing How
Silver Coinage Can Be
Defeated.
He Advocates Seigniorage on
COINAGE and ROYALTY on Min
He Advocates Seigniorage on
Coinage and Royalty on Min
ing, Then Withdrawing
Mines From Sale.
RENO, NEv., N00. /, 1898.
Rene, NeVada.
Hon. +. G. NEWLANDS,

Hon. F. G.. NEWLANDS,
Reno, Ne0ada.
SIR. You were elected as a silver mar
to Congress for three terms, ami you are
now a candidate for reelection on two
platforns-one Silver, and the other
DemoCratic-which make free coinage
at the ratio of 10 to I by the independent
action OF the United States the para
mount issue. Were you while in Wash
iugton faithful to the cause of silver?
In the second session of the Fifty
third Congress, during President Cleve-
lands administration, Mr.. Bland, of
Missouri, introduced a bill to issue sill
yer certificates III the idle bullion in
the treasury, then amounting to over
$50, 600, 900, and requiring that the silver
should be thereafter coined. The bill
passed both Houses of Congress by an
Overwhelming majority. President
Cleveland vetoed it. An attempt was
made to PASS the bill over his veto.
The question came before the House on
-APil- Y, Ic94. AZ I1iuioltS t"o-lAlAiuS
to pass it over the veto could not be OBJ
tanned. The record shows that you
failed to vote for its passage over Cleve.
lands veto. Why was this?
On the 22d OF July, 1897, another most
important question was pending before
the House of Representatives relating to
the question of silver. The Wolcott
Commission was receiving at that time
considerable attention in Europe. Presi-
dent Mckinley sent a message to Con-
gress advising the appointment of a
commission to carry into effect the In
d1anapolis plan, the cardinal principle of
which was the maintenance of the gold
standard and the retirement of all paper
money in circulation and the substitu-
ton therefor of bank notes. The silver
men of the House resisted the resolution
for the appointment of the commission
Mr.. Carmack, of Tennessee, moved as
an amendment to the gold mems scheme
the following:
"The commission in preparing a
scheme of currency reform shall proceed
along the lines laid down in the financial
plank of the Democratic platform adopt.
ed at Chicago in 1896, and it shall espe-
cially include the restoration of the
system of bimetallism by the free, in.
dependent, and unlimited coinage OF
both gold and silver at the ratio of It
to l."
The House Journal shows that yor
did not vote upon this vital proposition
The resolution, however, was defeated
in the Senate. 1t might be possible fol
you to make some excuse for your failure
to vote on these very important meas
ures if you had not subsequently in
letter to Mr.. Gage, the Secretary of tn
Treasury, abandoned the cause of silve
and advocated a most drastic measur
metal.
On the 10th of November, 1897, tn
Washington Post, in an editorial, quote
a letter written by you to Secretary O
the treasury Gage, suggesting the ute
demonstration of silver and the tota
destruction of silver mining. Withou
reproducing the whole of the origins
communication the Post introduces ce1
tain extracts by saying:
"Hon. Francis G. Newlands, of N.
vada, has addressed a letter to the Sc,
rotary of the Treasury, in which he az
vocates the e~xpedient of making silvs
coinage a purely American question. H
shows that the western hemisphere pr,
duces nearly four-ffths of the silver
the world, and he argues that, throug
the medium of a Pan-American agre
ment, we can regulate the price of II
metal SO as to restore its actual parity
10 to I or any other ratio we may see
to adopt.
"An important feature in MIR. Ne'