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Show FRIENDS OF SILVEIi. THE PRESENT CONGRESS WILL LECIS-LATE LECIS-LATE FOR THE WHITE METAL. Demand of I he Commercial Convention at Aspen Tho Southwest Silver Men lcct Oltlcer Freo Coinage Must lie Adopted. New York, Dec. 17. According to the TFuWif. it is pretty certain that a bill for the free coinage of silver in soma form will pass both tho democratic house and the republican republi-can senate at the present session. Tho plan practically agreed upon by those who will control the matter in tho house, say a Wa.-hiiigtou special lo the HVM, is briefly this: "To stop nil tho purchases of silver by government ; to throw tho mints freo to tho coinage of all silver to be hereafter pro. duced from American mines, aud to guard against the unloadiug of foreign silver upon us by a system of notefleation and inspection inspec-tion similar to that devised for guarding the sugar bounties. The dispatch also elates that Speaker Crifp has finally decided to mako Bland chairman of tlio committee on coinage, aud that a majority of tho members of the com-mitlee com-mitlee will be advocates of freo gilver. In tlie Southwest. El Tasd, lec. 17. The south wept silver convention elected "W. T. Thornton of New Mexico, president ; Mr. Shannon of Arizona, secretary. Judge Trimble of Albuquerque made an able address in favor of free coinage, coin-age, lie declared that ho was a ifc-lon! democrat, but if his party failed to declare for free coinage, Uo would, jiot upperfJift port)-. |