Show r i T SILYER MEN I > > i r The r I Deliberations on the krgentiferous Question DELEGATES TO GO TO DENVER i > The Meeting Commends the MoPher son Bill to the Consideration of the App oa hIng Convention At a meeting held in the office of the Crescent Mining Company beginning at 8 oclock last evening GoV Murray Messrs W S McCornick E P Ferry J L E Holden Professor J E Clayton W P James J Q Packard L C Carried Car-ried F W Billings A Hanauer and apumber of other representative gentlemen gen-tlemen of the city and Territory were were present Silver and silver bullion were the subjects which drew them together to-gether and a discussion of measures to form a company Upon the basisof one formed this city some twt > years agostyledtheUtahMme and Protective Association appeared to be the motive which actuated the callers of the meeting meet-ing The books and papers of the organization organi-zation named were sent for from Mr Junck the secretary to aid the gentlemen gentle-men in the prosecution of their plan to reorganize Governor Murray as chairmancalled the meeting to order and in doing so Stated that the mining men of Colorado had had a convention at which it was resolved to request Utah to join with them for the purpose of organizing a national convention The question was would it be better to form under the existing rules and taws governing the Mine and Protective Association or begin a new organization Mr McCornick remarked that as this was the first meeting of the executive committee of the Mine and Protective Association held since Mr Holden was appointed two years ago to go to Washington Wash-ington to represent the mining industries indus-tries of Utah and prevent the proposed reduction of the tariff on lead and lead ores it would be in order to call on that gentleman for a report of his doings while at the national capital Mr Holden responded and rehearsed a portion of his labors with the House and Senate committees in his endeavor to accomplish the mission on which he was sent and showed how industriously he had worked with those who had the proposed tariff reduction in hand and how her had succeeded first with the House committee and then with the committee on < ways and means of the Sonata in ee ytrriny > tho Qstjluttvrveoof those leaders in his aim to prevent the reduction and finally his success in having the tariff reinstated The report of Mr Holden had been torvarded here at the time the Governor Gov-ernor said and was then puolished i It was then suggested to take up the organization for the protection of the silver and lead interests of Utah Mr Hanauerinquired what the Colorado Col-orado convention proposed and the Governor replied that lie regretted he hadnt the letter which induced him to call the present meeting Mr Hanauer asked what the state of th finances of the old association was To which Mr Holden made answer that the sum of 161 was in the treasury when he went to Washington and it was paid to him That amount and a great deal more had been expended in securing the needed legislation and consequently there was no balance on hand i Mr Hanauer moved that Utah acct ac-ct the invitation of Colorado to join wther inpEotecting the silver and lead interests of both and that the meeting appoint one or more delegates to attend at-tend the convention to be held in Denver Den-ver on the 28thi of January The same gentleman moved that an assessment of 5 be levied on the memo mem-o bers of the association to assist in defraying de-fraying the erpences of the delegation McCornick thought that 5 could not be collected from a hundred of the four or five hundred members of the association Onehalf the old members werei dtead and the other half were dying and he therefore asked the moverto make it 1 that gentleman amended his motion accordingly J and as amended it was carried A motion by Mr McCornick for the chair to appoint a committee of three to represent the association in Colorado was carried and Messrs Holden Packard Pack-ard and Ferry were named but on Mr PAckard saying he would be unable togo to-go Mr Billings name was put in as the third Mr Hanauer who appeared to have a corner on motionmaking was again heard to move that a committee be appointed ap-pointed to collect subscriptions in the various mining districts to defray the delegat expenses This besides being be-ing carried was voted a good idea and the following gentlemen were named as the choice of the meeting to do the dollar dol-lar i I Mr James Mr James GlendennSng and Mr traligher for Salt Lake 5jT j J OT ole Bingham r C E Mitchener Stockton J Q Packard Tintic J E Galigher and E P Ferry Park City H C Wallace Altar Alta-r James Big Cottonwood x Major Hill Frisco Mr Murray Francklyn AM Bigelow Milford Richard J Gillespie and Col I AlIen Al-Ien Silver Reef Fred J Kiesel Ogden The resignation of the former secretary secre-tary Mr Jungck was accepted a vote of thanks tendered him and W S James was elected to fill his position with W A Cook as assistant secretary A vote of thanks was next moved by Mr McCornick Prof Holdenfor his untiring efforts to prevent the reduction reduc-tion of the lead tariff two years ago The motion was put with a great deal of pleasure by the chairman and a una mious Haye was the result I The Professor modestly accepted the thanks but took only a part of the honor to himself saying that a deal of it belonged to the gentlemen of thee the-e ccutivc committee who sent him and I who did the preparatory work of gathering gather-ing facts and figures to aid him in his labors with the Congressional committee com-mittee Mr Ferry said that was the basis of the work done by Mr Holden who worked early and late combining faith and works in dealing with the Congressional Congress-ional committeemen He further suggested that Mr HoMen considered a standing representative and go to Washington in the interests of silver and silver men whenever it was deemed requisite that he should go Mr Holden thought it best for someone some-one to be empowered todetermine when it would be requisite for him to go as he would not like to take the responsi bility of going when he thought fit He also thought that facts figures and i data should be gathered By the association i I associa-tion to aid him in prosecuting any measures at the national capital for the benefit of the silver menThe men-The motion for a standingrepresenta tive was according amended to read that he should go Vat the request of the executive committee or a majority of that committee who may be present Mr McCornick moved that it be the sense of the meeting that the McPherson McPher-son bill should receive the support of the delegates to Denver 1 The bill which is as follows wasthen read and several gentlemen werecalled upon to state their views in regarditoit Be it enacted d > c That on and after thepassage of this act the coinase of the silver dollar shall be suspended SEC 2 That the Secretary of the Treasury be and hereby is authortned andt directed on and after the passage of this act not to reissue any united States notes of the denominations less tharsifo then in the Treasury or which may thereafter be received and to cam eel destroy and not reissue all United Statesnotes of a less denomination than 5 in the Treasury or thereafter rs ceivedv and to cease engraving or printing print-ing alLsucb notes e SEC 3 That the Secretary of the Treasuay is hereby authorized upon the < deposit of silvery bullion in such sub treasury as he shall designate to issue to the depositor thereof silver certificates certifi-cates having upon their face the weight and market value of the metal so deposited de-posited calculated in United States gold dollars ai the rate of 258 standard grains tothe dollar SEC 4j That the Secretary of the Treasury ishereby authorized and required re-quired on the presentation of any silver sil-ver certificates issued under the provisions provi-sions of this act by the legal holders thereof 4 redeem the same by delivering deliver-ing to depositor silver bullion of the weight and fineness certified upon the certificate and to immediately cancel and destroy said certificate Mr Ferny would subscribe to it with an addition OE twor and Professor Hol den said that while he would favor support sup-port of it he would like a larger issue of subsidiary coin If the silver men were unitedlha silxer coinage bill could iioc De repealed He stronglyurgetl united effort on thepart of silver men in perfecting the national organization which he thought would be a power and when all were united there would be no such word as fail Mr McCbrafck moved that the delegates dele-gates be instructed to advocate the passageof the McPherson bill but his motion was changed and put in the form of resolution which was adopted as follows Resolved That the Senate bill No 2392 kn < Hyn as the McPherson bill introduced in-troduced in the Senate December 3d 1884 is coiamended to the delegates from UtaH as embodying substantially our viewsini referenceto the coinage of silver currency It was moved that the Secretary report the proceedings of the meeting to the Governor and that he report them to those m Denver after which the meeting was adjourned subject to the call of the chairman The proceedings of the meeting were character m1 by freeandeasy mode of behaviour which belongs to men of means and infttteoce and the intent with the majority to do their level best in the interests of silver and the prosperity of the mining industries of Utah was manifest in all that was done The gentlemen evidently understand under-stand that where theres a will theresa theres-a way and that they are going > prove its truth in their application of it to the present move to proteetfthe silvesr interestsof the country |