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Show THE SILVER BILL. The press dispatches give hopes of the passage of the legal tender silver bill by the house of representatives, though its enemies are working des-, perately to prevent its success. They are now reporting that the hill is in the interest of the gold speculators. If it should pa3 the house its fate in the senate would be doubtful, as in the event of an early adjournment the bill would be talked to death. It opponents Bay it would drivo all th surplus silver here frem foreign coun-triei coun-triei to be coined. The bsst available information, they say, places the surplus itock of silver now in the world Becking a market at from 3oo0.00U,000 to $700,000,0" X), and that n. demand eiiila in the United .itiita f .1 any such enormous amount of coin or certiGcatti. Ono hundred and thirty millions of gold coin is all that ii nrtv oeoded in tin United MaUa, and after that has been driven out b" tbo opera tiou t the bill, $170,000,000 of mIvoj wuld fill its place, dh by tho theory .j the bill purchases to be made by gove n-rnnut n-rnnut aro to be limit'."!, n,t by the demand, de-mand, but by the neces-tHie of h'jldo of coin or bullion. Whatever cll'.i inch measures might have upon lb. value of silvor In Bnmpe, it is cvidon that such a fl tod of it as hag been du scribed poured into this country wilhou craation of any corroip ending d'jman would urovent restoration of yaluo ofsi.- vor to what it formerly was. But this is an extreme view of thi case which is worth liltlo attention, since it is evident that the passage ol tho silvor lcal tender bill would tent' to create a rise in silver and at Ufa j. the world's market for thi? metal. I is already understood by practica financiers that the attempt to de monetize silver is in some mcasun raapon9iblo lor its great decline one tho commercial disasters which an fc'most world wide. There ar s'ronger arguments on the other aid t of the question, as Senator Jorna' great speeches clcnrly show. Tin action o( congress upon the bill will I' j awaited with interest, and cam ot fftiltoUfcve an Influence upon tiii Hiding election. ' |