Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1899-01-17
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
ing, Then Withdrawing
Mines From Sale.
RENO, NEv., No0. L, 1895.

RENO, New, NoV. L, 1905.
Hon. F. G.. NEwLANDs,
Reno, MeVada.
Dir: You were elected as a silver man
to Congress for three terms, and YOU are
now a candidate for reelection on two
platforms-one Silver, and the other
Democratic-which make free coinage
at the ratio o. 16 to I by the independent
action OF the United States the para
mount issue. Were you while In Wash
ington faithful to the cause Of silver?
In the second session of the Fifty
third Congress, during President Cleye-
lands administration, Mr.. R1and Of
Missouri, introduced a bill to issue sill
yer certificates on the idle bullion in
the treasury, then amounting o over
5000 600, 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
Apr. a, 1894. The requisite two-thirds
to pass 1t 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
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
and the retirement of all naner
money In circulation and the substitu-
ton therefor of bank notes. The silver
men of the House resisted the resolution
tor the appointment of the commission.
MIR. Carmack, of Tennessee, moved as
amendment to the gold mems scheme
following:
'Fhe commission in preparing a
scheme of currency reform shall proceed
along the lines laid down in the financial
plank OF the Democratic platform adopt
at Chicago in 1896, and it shall espe-
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 10
to l."
The House Journal shows that YOU
lid not vote upon this vital proposition.
he resolution, however, was defeated
n the Senate. 1t might be possible for
you to make some excuse for your failure
vote on these very i'm portant meas
ures If you had not subsequently, IN a
letter to Mr.. Gage, the Secretary of the
Treasury, abandoned the cause of silver
advocated a most drastic measure
tor the destruction of silver as a none
On the 10th of November, 1907, the
Washington Post, in an editorial, quoted
l letter written by you to Secretary of
he Treasury Gage, suggesting the utter
1emonet1zation of silver and the total
of silver mining. Without
the whole of the original
communication the Post introduces Ger
ain extracts by saying:
"Hon. Francis G. Newlands, of Ne
7ada, has addressed a letter to the Sec
,etary of the Treasury, in which he ad-
the ~expedient of making silver
coinage a purely American question. He
that the western hemisphere pro-
1uces nearly four-fifths of the silver of
he world, and he argues that, through
he medium of a Pan-American agree
nent, we can regulate the price OF he
so as to restore its actual parity at
70 to I or any other ratio we NAV see fit
20 adopt.
AN important feature in Mr.. New