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Show DENVER'S C0XG11ESS. t 5 A FREE COINAGE RESOLUTION WILL BZ TAKEN UNDER CONSIDERATION. ? i; Senator Stewart of Nevada Leading the , Fiht for the White Metal The Itivul Candidates for the Chairmanship f The Speech of the Senator. Denver, Nov. 10. The dedication of the ; Colorado Mining Stock Exchange building and the opening of the llr.-t national mining congress occurred yot-'aday. There '.i was a street parade, in whi'-h j miners and all interested in mining took part. There was also floats bearing mining machinery in motion, and a great many tableux indicative of important features of mining. At the dedication 1 speeches were made by President Taylor of j the mining exchange, Mayor Rogers of Den- ver and others. All the speakers advocated the free and unlimited coinage of silver. I In the afternoon the Mining congress opened at the People's Theater, with ex- I Governor Tabor in the chair. Delegates s from thirty.-lhsfiSiaia&nd ..territorie ri- ported, and it was understood that Hon. : Miles Scarles, formerly chief justice of Cali- fornia, would be elected permanent chairman. chair-man. The greater part of the session was occupied by Senator Stewart of Nevada, who delivered a long address upon the silver question. lie urged the congress to adopt a resolution resolu-tion that would compel the national house of representatives to pass laws restoring silver to a parit- with gold. Resolution favoring the coinage of the American product pro-duct only, the senator said, would not obtain twenty votes in the assembly. The gold ring has repudiated silver, and they have reduced re-duced the issue of commercial do per to the -narrow limits of goid. As a consequence, farmers are growing poorer, and the history of bank failures showed that th'-ir fircula-tion fircula-tion was not enough to keep the banks in reserve fund; why should there be !prd times with twenty jears of peace? Why should times be worse than at any other I time in the century ? The want of money was the cause. Secretary Sherman, said the senator, after a visit to England and a conference, with the gold bugs, returned home r,nd surreptitiously surreptitious-ly incorporated in the bill a clause rejeeting silver. If this had been done to gold it would not be worth. 05 cents on the dollar. If it should not be used for money it would have no commercial value. J'.ul silver bars was universally circulated. It could mt be j destroyed, but it couid be depreciated. There was no surplus bullion in the world previous to ls'.to. The entire product was used for commercial purposes. Great Britain Bri-tain was constantly selling short. The interest in-terest payments of that nation were f So.oOo,. 000 annually and were derived from the sale of silver. When silver went up last year England sold twice as much as ti e requirements of the nation demanded, and they would do this as long as silver remained a commodity. He protested against the long dollar. The country was being robbed, the, middleman was growing rich and the producer growing poorer. Because thev made the long dollar enough dollars couid not be found to pay debts, hence the stagnation and hard times. The movement to exclude the consideration considera-tion of free coinaire resolutions from the Mining congress si iff. red a signal defeat in the caucus at the oiil mining exchange last evening. Senator Stewart of Nevada opposed op-posed the proposition, and it was rci-olved to go squarely before the delegates and abide by the decision, whether it shouM bcfiTur ngaiu.-t the universal coinage thereof. Colorado Colo-rado will endeavor to make Hn. J. B. (Irant permanent president. Iu his hands silver will be safe. |