The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1904-02-05

y How does thar comp0rt with your charge
(which you say you nave made publicly
..haJ L have not. during my CJHgr-ss.Oaa
service. attempted 10 secure the eldctG-el
II any law on this subject?
p. You were once prominently connected VIII
- bank yourself. / understand and sure
gy you do not mean TO SAY Jhat % con
Z. nectiUu Jf This kind would disqualIfy "a pu-
s.uc officer from the faithful dischars= o.
..lis official duties?
B. I quote from your letter the following
. Finally 1 have called 10 the attention
of those OF the people whom I have beer
able 10 address the facts that Sena-
tor you voted against an amendment 10 the
money bill 10 strike the word gold and in
|sert the words in coin Of standard value
IN the interests payments Congressional
Record. Vol. -, page IS29J-a direct and
fragrant violation Of the platform"
I Never SO Voted.
i I say that you have absolutely misTep-
resented me. unwittingly I hope before
the people whom you have addressed.
assert that I never so voted and that Con
gresSiOnal Record Vol. 81. page 1s-s. the
same you cite, shows that your statement
has no foundation in fact. This page shows
slso that / voted strictly with my party
a. I have always done on every question
at issue. The facts in the case are these:
! Senator Stewart Of Nevada offered the
following amendment:
4 In section s, on page =. line >. after the
word interest it is proposed to strike out
/ in gold coin OF the present standard
value and insert in coin Of the standard
value Of the act Of July 1. 1870 %
/ Senator Aldrich moved 10 lay this amend
Iment on the table and the nay votes on
the proposition TO table were as follows
/ fSee Congressional Record, Vol b. page
$50. the same you citeJ:
"Nays-Bate, Berry. Butler. Chiffon
Clark (MOntJ. Clay, COckreII. CulbersOn
Daniel. Harris. Jones CArk.). Jones New.
Kenny. McEnery, McLaurin. Martin
Money Morgan. Pcttus. PgwIius Stewart.
Sullivan. Taliaferro, Teller. Tillman. Tur-
ley. Senator Mallory. being III and absent.
was paired 10 vote nay on the PROPOSE
ton"
You understand or ought 70. that this
vote against tabling the amendment was
equivalent to q vote for the amendment.
Would You have voted differently?
with the Democrats Always.
cite the Congressional Record in fur
Ither proof Of my position on the financial
Tor gold standard bill.
Volume 30. page 1S22. Senator Teller Of
colorado offered the following amendment
Ito the pending bill:
The people of the United States are iG
Favor Of bimetalliSm, and DESTROYS Of any
international agreement with the great
commercial nations of the world that Will
admit Of the use Of both gold and silver
n such an established ratio as will main
tain the parity between gold and silver
coin. and the efforts Of the Government
are hereby pledged to endeavor TO secure
such International agreement "A speedily
Is possible"
The vote on this was Congressional Rec
ord volume 33, page 1920. yeas. as fol.
lows: Bate. Berry. Butler. Chandler Chill
D n
lei. Harris. Heitfeld, Jones CArII). Jones.
New. Kenny. McEnery. MCIaUrin. Mar
I'm. Money. Morgan. Pettus. Rawlins.
Stewart. TaliaferrO, Teller. Turley, Till
man. Vest Senator Mallory was absent
on account of illness. but paired to vote
yea.
Following this Senator Pettus Of Alabama
offered this amendment Congressional
Record. volume %. page 1921:
Gold coins and silver dollars coined by
the United States shall be a legal tender
I'm all payments at their nominal values
when not below the weight and limit OF
tolerance provided by law for the single
coin. and when reduced in weight below
such standard and tolerance shall he I
legal tender at "aluatiOn In proportion to
their actual weight"
Senator Aldrich moved to lay this amend
ment on the table. but withdrew the mo-
ton. so that there was no direct vote
This was recorded on the following page
OF the Record viz. 1890. and my vote. with
that of the other Democrats. was yea. (F'0l-
lowing is the vote in detail: Yeas-Bate
Berry. Butler, Chiffon. Clark (dOntD. Clay
Cockrel. CulbersOn. Daniel Harris. Jones
(Ark), Jones New. Kenny. MCEnery.
McLaurin. Martin. Money. Morgan. Pettus
Rawlins. Stewart, Sullivan. TaliaferrO. Tel
Ter. Tillman, Turley. Vest. Senator NAL
Tory was absent and ill., but paired to vote
yea"
Test Proposition.
Senator Pettus Immediately offered an
other amendment as follows:
THAT nothing contained in this act shall
be held or construed to affect the present
legal tender quality of silver dollars coined
by the United States
The yea votes on this test proposition
were as follows Congressional Record.
volume So page 1890: Yeas-Bate. Berry.
Butler. Chiffon. Clark (MontD Clay. Cock
-ell, Culberson, Daniel. Harris. Jones
New. Kenny, McEnery, McLaurin. Mar
tin. Money, Morgan. Pettus. Rawlins.
Stewart, Sullivan. TaliaferrO. Teller. Till
man, Turley. Vest. Senator Mallory was
absent on account of illness. but paired
to vote yea on the proposition.
Senator McLaurin offered the following
amendment to the same bill Congressional
Record volume g. page 1922:
Section 9. That sections 3412 and 3l13
and all other acts and parts Of acts which
impose any tax uDOn the circulation Of
State banks or State banking associations
De and the same are hereby repealed"
The vote thereon is recorded on page
1893. volume 80. Congressional Record. and
hose voting yea were the following: Berry.
'hiltOn, Clark (MOnt). Clay, CulbersOn.
Daniel Heitfeld, Jones (Arl). Lindsay.
McEnery. McLaurin. Martin. Money. Nor
gan. Pettus. Rawlins. Taliarerro. Tillman
Turley, Vest Senator Mallory was absent
IN account of illness, but was paired TO
rOte yea.
Senator Jones Of Arkansas chairman OF
he national Democratic executive commit
ee) offered the following amendment to
he same bill, viz. the gold standard bill
Congressional Record, volume %, page
$3.50:
That from and after the passage Of this
ct the minis of the United States shall be
pen to the coinage of silver and there
hall be coined dollars OF the weight OF
u ID grains troy OF standard silver. nine
enths fine, as provided by the act OF jan.
lary IS. 1897, and upon the same terms and
subject to the limitations and provisions
# law regulating the coinage and legal
ender quality Of gold; and wherever the