| Show CAIirORXIA FOR WHITE METAL Both Senators and Two Members of the Homo Express Themselves OGDEN U T Aug 3Special Four of Californias members of Congress Con-gress were in Ogden this morning on their way to Washington and in order to connect with the east bound Union Pacific train it was necessary for them t remain over some two hours which S was tine enough for your correspondent topoll the crowd with aview of ascertain Jng how the statesmen fetood on the silver v 5 L j J S S question The party included Senators Perkins and White and Congressmen Maguire and Berry and John P Irish With the exception of Irish the members of the unanimous in their party are preference pre-ference for white metal and as Irish does not count silver will lose no votes on account of his opinions Senator Perkins said he was a believer in the double standard and had no fear of there ever being too much silver put in circulation on the contrary he would like to see four or five millions of silver dollars dol-lars in tho national vaults put out and used a subsidary coin Senator White is personally a strong friend of silver but is of the opinion that the Sherman act is neither wise nor politic He thinks the act will be repealed re-pealed and compromise legislation bethe result Congressman McGuire came out flatfooted flat-footed for the free coinage of both silver and gold The mints should be opened he said to the free coinage of both money metals leaving the laws of trade and contracts con-tracts of the people to determine how values shall compare As everColonel Irish is a disciple of and leans toward goldbugism |
