Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1899-01-12
Silver Measures
In Congress.
Dodged by Mr.. New
lands.
NIX. NEWLANDS' TREACHERY.
Ills 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. /, 1895.
Hon. f. G.. NEWLANDS.

hon. +. G.. NEWLANDS,
Reno, Ne0ada.
SIR: You were elected as a silver man
to Congress for three terms, and Won are
now a candidate fer reelection on two
plattorms-one Silver, and the other
Demccratic-which make free coinage
at the ratloo rs to 1 by the independent
action OF the United States the para
1iiou1 issue. We're you while in Wash
lngton faithful to the cause of siI2erp
IN the second session of the Fifty
third Congress, during President Cleve-
land administration, Mr.. Bland. of
Missouri, introduced a bill to issue sill
yer certificates on the idle bullion !,
the treasury, then amounting to over
$50 coo, 900, and requiring that the silver
should be thereafter coined. The hill
passed both Houses of Congress bv 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! 4, 1894. The requisite two-thirds
to pass it over the veto could not be OBJ
tanned. h record shows that Won
tailed to vote for its passage e Cleve-
lands veto. Why was this?
On the 22d of July, 1897, another most
important question was pending before
'he house OF Representatives relating to
the question of silver. The Wolcott
Commission was receiving at that time
considerable attention in EuroDe. Presi-
dent Mckinley sent a MESSAGE 70 Com
gress advising the appointment of a
commission to carry into effect the In
dlanf polls plan, the cardinal principle of
which was the maintenance of the gold
Standard and the retirement of all DaDer
money III circulation and the substitu-
ton therefor of bank notes. The silver
men OF the House resisted the resolution
tor the appointment of the commission.
Mr.. Carmack, of Tennessee. moved az
an amendment to the gold mems scheme
the following:
line 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-
clally include the restoration of he
OF blmetallism by the free, in
and unlimited COINAGE of
Doth gold and silver at the ratio of I6
to l."
The House Journal shows that YOU
did not vote upon this vital proposition.
The resolution, however, was defeated
in the Senate. 1t might be possible for
you to make some EXCUSE for your failure
10 vote on these very important meas
ures II you had not subsequently, in A
letter to Mr.. Gage, the Secretary of the
Treasury, abandoned the cause of silver
and advocated a most drastic measure
tor the destruction of silver as a money
On the 10th of November, 1897, the
Washington Post, in an editorial, quoted
a letter written by you to Secretary of
Treasury Gage, suggesting the utter
~ olisSl dtIu lle JOldl
destruction of silver miuing. Without
the whole of the original
communication the P0stintroduces Ger
-a1n extracts by saying:
"Hon. Francis G. Newlands, of Ne
vada, has addressed a letter to the Sec
rotary OF he Treasury, in which he adj
Vocates the ~eXpedient of making silver
coinage a purely American question. He
shows that the western hemisphere pro-
luces nearly four-hfths of the silver of
the world, and he argues that, through
The medium of a Pan-American agree
nent, we can regulate the price of the
so as to restore its actual parity at
10 to I or any other ratio we NAV see fit
TO adopt.
AN important feature in Mr.. New