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Show muni. Arguments on Itelialf of the. Senate Sen-ate I Bill He fore the House Coinage Committee. I Predictions of Dire Disasters That Have Contim a'lv Lacked Fulfillment in Our Piuaucial History- THE DAY IN SENATE AND H0U3E The Course of .Minister Miner In Cent ral America at Last Finds a Champion. And Dalzell Thinks That Commander Eoiter Should Not Hsive Been Fublioly Rebuked. DOINCS IN ALL THE DEPARTMENTS. And Other Niwi of tleneral Importance From th. National Capital Tun undrj Clill LUt. Washington, Jan. 4. When the house coinage committee met this morning Representative McCarty read a communication from William E. St. John of New York, a banker, arguing in favor of the senate bill, and ridiculing ridicul-ing the prediction of dire disaster made by the opponents of the bill if it should be enacted. Francis G. Nowlands declared that Germany would never have succeeded in demonetizing silver without the cooperation co-operation of one of the strongest nations na-tions on the earth, the United Slates, llismarck himself had since pronounced the movement a mistake. Hut in that movement (iermany had found as an assistant not the Kuropean nations, but the United States, a nation struggling When the Hland act hail passed, the bankers predicted that all our gold would leave tho country. Yet in 1HS0, after the passage of that act the gold circulation was, flW.OOO.OOO as against $10,000,000 in 170. The predictions of disaster had thickened during the ten years following, yet in 1!10, after tho j passage of the present act, the gold circulation cir-culation had increased to $3 1,000,000. As it was nearingthe hour of adjournment, adjourn-ment, Marlins moved that when the committee adjourn today, it be to meet tomorrow at 10:80 o'clock. |