The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1902-10-24
Ridiculous Measurements.

| Among the multitude Of mistaken
statements made by Mr.. Harrington at
the Republican meeting Monday even
ing in Reno, says the journal, was that
| the Fowler bill was dead as a door
nail, and that itwas killed in the Re
publican caucus. That is not the fact.
1t was favored by majority of the Re-
publican caucus but that body con-
cluded to postpone action upon it until
the next session. 1t is now pending
in the House, and is as certain to pop
up again next winter as that Congress
| will be in session at that time. How.
ever, the Hill bill, which was at first q
part of the Fowler bill, did pass the
| House by nearly an exclusive Republi-
can vote and is now pending in the
Senate. This bill provides for the
melting of all of the silver dollars and
converting them into small coin with a
legal tender to the amount of five dol
lars. The intention of this bill, as adj
mitted by the leading Republican
goldites, is to create such super
abundance of small silver coin as to
render it nuisance, and then by Con-
gressional enactment withdraw it from
circulation, melting it into bullion and
selling it at it's commercial value, leav-
ing the country absolutely upon gold
basis, by the destruction of what rem
nant of bimetallism remains in the cur
rency system of the nation. This was
originally a part of the Fowler bill
which in addition to the silver destroy
ing clauses, provided for the issuance
of notes by the National banks, the
amount being based upon the bankS
assets, that being the security instead
of United States bonds, as under the.
existing law. That part of the bill is
now pending in the House and if not
passed or otherwise disposed of at the
next session, Mr.. Van Duzer will in all
likelihood, have the pleasure of record
ing his vote against it in the new Con-
gress.
Another mistaken assertion made by
Mr.. Harrington and likewise Mr.. Cleve-
land, was that President Roosevelt was
entitled to the exclusive credit for the
passage of the Irrigation bill, Mr.. New
lands having little or nothing to do
with it. If such statement was not in
spired by ignorance, as it is only char
liable to believe, it was certainly an
insult to the intelligence of every per-
son in the audience who has watched
the progress of the irrigation senti-
ment in this country for the last ten
years, during which time Mr.. New
lands was the recognized leader, not
only in the educational part of the
work, but for its practical exploitation
in it's transition from theory into q
National law. That President Roose-
velt recommended the measure in his
message is true, and no friend of irri-
cation is disposed to withhold from
him particle of the credit due him
for his friendliness to the great National
work. But no intelligent person, in
formed in the history of the subject, be-
lieves for an instant that President
Roosevelt would have had an oppor-
tunity to approve the bill at the last
session of Congress but for the work
performed in and out of Congress by
Mr.. Newlands during the last decade
of years. To this writer's personal
knowledge the measure was spoken of
at Washington by Senators and Rep
resentatives almost invariably as the
"Newlands bill' and his name was as
closely identified with it as was that of
the Missouri Congressman who intro
duced and advocated the silver bill
which was designated at that time and
until the present day as the "Bland
| Act.n
These are only couple of wild state
ments made by Messrs. harrington and
Cleveland. To notice them all would
fill more space than is given in Christ
mas edition of the san Francisco En-
| anainer.