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Show of tliu owner. This proposed measure gave preference To Silver over tioldi not only this, but it was uot open to further amendment. Today the value of silver in tho market of the world was something about 81. 0." an ounce. Hero was an otter to pay 4 cents an ounce more than tlio market prints. Shermau also criticised the proposition that silver sil-ver wan to he formed into coin' or bara, at the option of the ownor, "without charge. Hm said now, in all sincerity, that if he believed the free coinage of silver would enab'e us to maintain the FIERY He Makes tt Most Hit tor Attack Upon tltet IndcTMMidoiit in Politic. A Spurions 8nfTra;e, Impure and Contaminated Con-taminated by the Sewerage of Decayed Natioas A MEHAOE TO THE EEPDBLIO. Sherman Think 'the Treasury Notes the Beat Money Ever Devised by Man. Change of Value and Dwtrnst Would Follow any Change Such at Proposed. value of silver bullion up to that of gold he wiiiild vote for free coinage today. Hut if it were admitted that silver Could Not K aeh Osld except by tho (iorernment paying a bounty to the producers of domestic silver, he did uot itiiuk there was any danger of the measure pissing. Sherman Sher-man spokri of tho Latin union, and said the United States was much more liberal lib-eral to silver than was even Frnnce, and yet the senate had been told of the great prosperity of France; and that wonderful prosperity had been attrib uted to its treatment of silver. He said it was ridirulous to represent France as a stiver country. Silver waa not legal tender there for a higher amount than fifty fraucs. He did not see why his silver friends, nor the people, peo-ple, ought not to be satisfied With tha frraant law. It was a compromise proposition, made after grave reflection. Why should the bullion owners of Nevada and Colorado be paid more than the market price for their silver? The present law worked well. Last season It was agreed to by the silver men as all tney wanted. It contained a decla-tion decla-tion (which he thought was a point of honor) that it would be the established policy of the United States to maintain tho party of the two metals. Now within a year, a measure was proposed which would destroy that party, The immediate KfTantof Fraa Coinas:. would be to encrease the export of gold. While the currency would bo expanded by the issue of treasury notes, it would be contracted, by the exportation of gold. Another effect would be to increase the importation of silver. When the market for silver was in the most disturbed dis-turbed state possible; when the United States alone was bulling silver against the world; when the Latin nations were seeking a more staple standard, it was proposed that the United States should Btep in aud buy silver at a price far above tho market value. Was it not a WARNINC TO DEMOCRATIC SENATORS The Senator from Ohio Can't Sea Whr the Silver Men ara Klaklatc, W'ashinotom, D. C, Jan. 14 In the Senate the financial bill was taken up immediately after the reading of the journal. Ingalls add.-essed the Senate, begining his speech with a bitter denunciation de-nunciation of the eindpendent in polities. poli-ties. He said there were two porten-tlous porten-tlous evils which menaced the safety, if they did not endanger, the existence of the republic. The first was tho ignorant, igno-rant, debased, degraded and spurious suffrage suffrage contaminated by the sewage of decayed a'ations suffrage. Intimated and Soppraaaad in the south suffrage impure and corrupt, cor-rupt, apathetic and indifferent in the great cities of the north so that It was doubtful to his mind whether for a half century there bad been a presidential election in this country that had expressed ex-pressed the deliberate and intelligent judgment of the whole body of the American people. The electson bill was intended to deafc with one part of this great evil to whiclthe eluded but it was an imperfect -. ? Partial and ISfomplete ' remedy. Violence Is 'bad, but fraud is no better, and it was tho more dangerous danger-ous because the more insidious. There could be uo safety and no stable and permanent peace in this country and under this government until it was just as safe for a black republican to vote In Mississippi as it was for a White democrat demo-crat to vote in Kansas. The second evil to which he had adverted was the Trraanj ef f inklad concentrated, centralized, conscienceless conscience-less and incorporated capital and the people were considering that great problem. At the Jbeinning of the second century the.! AilV-icarij, peoo had become profoundly Oortvinced that tke ballot was not 'a pSmtwiea for the evils of society, tbat it had not abol ished poverty, nor diminished injustice; they had discovered that political equality did not result in social fraternity; fra-ternity; that under the democracy Caaeeatratlea of fireeter Power in fewer hands was more possible than under monarchy. George Wasbingtou the first president the republic had, in 17AI had the largest private fortune in the United State. All his belongings reached the sum fotsl of between ei it serious thing to make this offer, in view of the great store of silver in the world? Sherman said he was ashamed that a great nation like ours should be content con-tent to Lower Its Stamard of value to join China, Japan and the South American States, and to leave the great company of commercial nations which now hopefully stood by the gold standard of value, for whatever might be said of silver, no one would questiou that In tbe great business transactions of life silver would not answer the purpose. pur-pose. It would be measured by tb ton.1 Gold alone was tho standard of r.sM'S..,. He eoyldsue nothing in tha fatu're of thrrmtoetir"(ept dismtstj fear and a change of values. It weulu injure all those who depend upon their labor and upon the production of the farm antl the workshop. There was no ' difficulty, Sherman asserted, in keeping keep-ing gold and silver At Pari '.j whh Keen Other. When they were separated in market value, and when it was clearly seen that, either meta! was going down in value, then the ratio should be changed lie believed that the best money ever devised by man was the treasury notes of the United States issuing under the law of the last session, gold certificates and silver certificates. The common people believed in hard money. They were willing to have piper money, hut they wanted it maintained at par. . Ho 11 1 Cautioned the Demot-ratlo senators from the east and the senators from the southern states, if they committed com-mitted themselves to the policy of the free coinage of silver, they would have the burden of that commitment next year, when tho responsibility of legislation legisla-tion would be upon them; and reminded them that during the four years of democratic dem-ocratic administration they had not dared to propose such a measure, but kept as quiet as possible; and no alliance al-liance would drive them to the principle princi-ple of free coinage. For one, ho would stand by the legal standard of value, on which public and private contracts had been based. and nine hundred thousand dollars. That was less than a century ago. Since thst time the growth of wealth i and numbers in the United States bad 1 had no precedent. The nalldlng of Nat lone. The people of the United States now form one-third nf the worlds mining popnlatisn, one-fourth of its manufac-tng manufac-tng pepnlation. one fifth of its farming population and possess oue-sixth of Its accumulated wsalth. He had read in the morning papers Sherman's speech, a considerable part of which was devoted to the nefenae ol the Millionaire. Tbe people had suddenly , awakened to the conception of the fact that the property of the country was passing into in-to the hands of those senators for Ohio, called by Euprmism, speculators of the country. These men had no politics but plunder aod no principle but the spoation of the human race. It was no wonder the laboring and agricultural ag-ricultural classes of this country had at last awakened and the speculators must take warning. Referring To tha Lata Ettctloa he said it was neither a republican defeat de-feat nor a democratic victory. It was a great uprising of those independent of and superior to both political par- ties. It was a crisis that might become a catastrophe. It was a peaceful revolution. revo-lution. He attributed the depression of the country In a great measure to the demonitization act of 1873. He had not the slightest doubt that the great majority of the people, irrespective of party, were in favor of the Free Coinage of Sliver and had been for tho past fifteen years. Warnings and admonitions were plenty in this debate; but he would say to thoso who were arraying themselves against the delibdrately expressed judgment of the American people that there would come a time whon the people would not be trifled with on this subject, the political power of the nation transferred from tho circumference to the center and the people of that center were unanimously demanding the free coinage of silver. It was for that reason that he should cordiallv support the amendment of the senator from Nevada. Ingalls spoke for a little over two hours, and as he took his scat he was heartily applauded. .lones of Nevada then took the floor in favor of free coinage. coin-age. When he had concluded tho vice president announced that the debate was closed and the discussion of the amendments under the ten minute rule began. Shermaa Standa by Gold. Washington. Jan. 14. In the senate yesterday the financial bill was taken up, and Sherman addressed the senate. Tke senate amendment, be said, was a radical proposition which changed the whole character of the bill. It was a proposition that the United States should pay $129 for every ounce of silver sil-ver bullion that mignt be offered from any part of the world. Not only this, but it had no option as to the mode of payment. The option was iatbe .bands |