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= impose any tax upon the circulation o
i State Banks or State banking association
be, and the same are hereby repealed.
1 voted for that amendment to the Anan
q cial bill.
! which you say you have made publicly
= that L have not, during my Congressional
: service, attempted to secure the enactmen
2 of any law on this subject?
q You were once prominently connected witt
] bank yourself, L understand, and sure
4 ly you do not mean to say that a con
: nection of this kind would disqualify pub
1lic officer from the faithful discharge o.
his official duties?
q l quote from your letter the following
y Finally l have called to the attention
= of those Of the people whom I have beer
{ able to address the facts that as Sena
4 COR you voted against an amendment to the
elmoney bill TO strike the word gold and in.
, sert the words in coin of standard value
In the interests payments Congressional
, Record, Vol %, page 1S29)-a direct and
fragrant violation of the platform"
I Never So Voted.
p. / say that you have absolutely misrep-
Resented me, unwittingly / hope before
/ the people whom you have addressed.
assert that l never so voted and that Con-
gressiOnal Record, Vol 80, page 1879, the
I.Bame you cite shows that your statement
s.has no foundation in fact. This page shows
-Ialso that l voted strictly with my party
eias 1 have always done on every question
at issue. The facts in the case are these:
= Senator Stewart of Nevada offered the
following amendment:
p In section 6, on page 10, line ), after the
I word interest it is proposed to strike out
Tin gold coin of the present standard
value and insert in coin of the standard
,Ivalue of the act of July 4, 1S70''
q Senator Aldrich moved to lay this amend
ment on the table and the nay votes on
the proposition to table were as follows
l(See Congressional Record Vol IS, page
1923 the same you cite):
! "Nays-Bate, Berry, Butler, Chiffon,
CLARK Mont), Clay, Cockrell. Culberson.
Daniel, Harris Jones CArk), Jones CNev),
Kenny, McEnery, McLaurin. Martin.
Money, Morgan, Pettus, RawIins, Stewart,
Sullivan TaliaferrO, Teller. Tilman. Tur-
ley. Senator Mallory, being i'll and absent
was paired to vote nay on the PROPOSE
ton"
7 You understand. or ought to. that this
vote against tabling the amendment was
equivalent to a vote for the amendment.
Would YOU have voted differently?
With the Democrats Always.
I cite the Congressional Record in fur
Their proof of my position on the financial
or gold standard hill:
Volume 33. page 1922. Senator Teller OF
Colorado offered the following amendment
to the pending bill:
The people of the United States are IT.
favor OF bimetallism, and DESTROYS of any
international agreement with the great
commercial nations of the world that viii
admit of the use of both gold and silver
AZ such an established alto as will main.
tain the parity between gold and silver
com, and the efforts of the Government
are hereby pledged to endeavOr to secure
such international agreement as speedily
as possible"
The vote on this was Congressional Rec
ord. volume 49, page 1926. yeas. as fol |
lows: Bate. Berry, Butler, Chandler Chill |
ton. Clark MONTY, Clay CulbersOn, Dan |
iel Harris Heitfeld, Jones CArk.). Jones |
New, Kenny. McEnery. McLaurin. Mar !
Tin. Money. Morgan. Pettus Rawlins. =
Stewart. TaliaferrO. Teller Turley, Till
man. Vest Senator Mallory was absent
IN account of illness. but paired to vote
yea.
Following this Senator Pettus Of Alabama /
offered this amendment Congressional
Record volume 30. page 1920:
Gold coins and silver dollars coined by .
the United States shall be a legal tenderi
i'm all payments at their nominal values /
when not below the weight and limit of |
tolerance provided by law for the single 4
coin. and when reduced i'm weight below [
I
legal tender at valuation I'm 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, 1880. and my vote. with Z
that of the other Democrats, was yea CFol-
lowing is the vote in detail: Yeas-Rate, /
Berry, Butler. Chiffon. Clark CMont). Clay.
COckrell, CubersOn, Daniel. Harris, Jones
(Ark), Jones New, Kenny, McEnery,
McLaurin. Martin. Money. Morgan. Pettus, ID
Rawlins. Stewart Sullivan. Taliaferro, Tel (
Ter Tillman, Turley. Vest Senator NAL |,
Tory was absent and i'll. but paired to vote /
yea"
A 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
Dy the United States"
The yea votes on this test proposition
we're as follows Congressional Record
volume 90. page 1890: Yeas-Bate. Berry, /
Butler, Chiffon. Clark (NIont). Clay. Cock 10
Ell. Culberson, Daniel. Harris. Jones j
New. Kenny. McEnery. McLaurin, Mar IC
in. Money. Morgan. PettuS. Rawlins. I
Stewart, Sullivan. Taliaferro. Teller. Till IS
nan. Turley Vest Senator Mallory was a
o vote yea on the proposition. C
Senator McLaurin offered the following I;
amendment to the same bill Congressional h
Record. volume 80. page 1922: "
Section g. That sections 3412 and S413 Il
md all other acts and parts of acts which q
impose any tax unOn the circulation Of L,
State banks or State banking assOciat tons 10
)e and the same are hereby repealed" In
The vote thereon is recorded on page
$50 volume SO, Congressional Record. and
hose voting yea were the following: Berry, q
hilton, Clark (Mont), Clay Culberson, liz
Daniel, Heitfeld, Jones (Ark), Lindsay, o
IcEnery. McLaurin. Martin. Money Nor q
an, Pettus, Rawlins. Taliaferro, TiIlman. o
'urley. Vest. Senator Mallory was absent
n account of illness, but was paired to m
ote yea. In;
Senator Jones of Arkansas chairman OF n
he national Democratic executive commit eS
ee) offered the following amendment to OF
he same bill. viz, the gold standard bill n;
Congressional Record vOIUTnn % or