Year: 1878




80 far as any compromise on TINS SILVER
question is concerned, at lesst any coul-
promise proposing TO change the numoer
of grains in the silver dollar to more
than 4l23, l have received no such prop
osition, nor have l made any proPosltion
on the subject whatever"


ut is needless for me to inquire II you
are gratified with the passage OF your re-
solution in the House." said the CORE
spondent. u .,o


81 am very much pleased with the
rspidlty with which vote was obtain
ed" replied Mr.. Matthews. IL think
tie adoption OF the resolution was very
comprehensive expression of opinion OF
Congress on the subject OF the payment
of the bonds in coin. l am unable TO
say, of course, whether any attempt Will
be made to pay either interest or princi-
nal of the bonds IN silver should the Sill
yer bill become a law. If any bond
holder who should be paid his interest IN
silver felt sggrieved, he could at once
bring suit in the Court of CLAIMS against
the Government for breach OF contract,
and the question could easily be settled
once for all whether the terms OF con-
tract between the Government and Its
bondholders calls for payment of interest
and principal of the bonds in gold or
silver coin,'


How voorhees, Will Talk TO HIS Peo-


pie from the stump.


A correspondent says: Let me tell you
how Senator VOORHEES, will discuss the
financial situation before his people next
summer, and 1 do but quote what he has
repeatedly said, without an attempt at
conceslment, since his speech was made:


"Fellow-citizens of Indiana, the fnsn-
cisl legislation of the last sixteen years
mas been in the interest alone OF the
boudholders, Of your creditors. The ef-
fort YOU made from 1873 10 1876 to secure
relief from their grinding demands, was
constantly and successfully thwsrted by
the use of the very money which they had
stolen from you. Not tsatisfed-and they
are never sstished-with compelling you
to psv their obligations in coin, although
contracted in green backs, they discover
ed that they had not frightened your
bonds so firmly thst you might not find
some way of escape. Gold, they knew,
would not change in value, silver might.
So by stealth and by fraud they smugg led
through Congress a bill demonitizing
silver, and thus you were compelled to
paw, besides the exorbitant difference
between the price for which they
bought your bonds IN greenbscks and
the sum they are to receive
for them in coin, even greater
premium still, because one kind of coin
happened to be in your favor. These
bondholders are your Shylocks; and your
so far as they truly rep
resented your interests, and were not the
purchased servants of these money
brokers, have fought them as such. De.
festing them IN this first battle, we have
them, and now you may
look to see another and a not less sue.
cessful attack at the next session OF
Congress, II you indorse the action
OF your representatives and en-
them to fight for
greater victory still. These bondholders
have grown rich as you have grown
poor. They have bitterly opposed an
expansion OF the currency, because they
have the money of the country in their
own hsnds-becsuse they are not salts.
fed with the just face value your obligs-
lions to them, but want you to pay them
a premium. Having lent you green
backs, they would have you pay them
in gold"


The country may as well understand
that the object of Mr.. Voorhees, and MS
is not simply the remone-
tizstion of silver; that step is to be the
first toward imitation.


Rough on Lamar.


JACKSON, Miss, January 3O.-The
Senate yesterday instructed oar Senators
and requested our Representatives to
vote for the reconciliation OF silver.
The House had previously given the
same instructions.