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Show JUGGLE OF SILVER. The Accusation Brought Against the Administration Ad-ministration by Stewart of Nevada. HOW THE PRICE IS DEPRESSED. Sellers of Silver to the Government Given Time in Which to Fill Their Orders Proceedings in the Senate and House. Washington, Aprii 12. In the senate the resolution offered by Stewart yesterday in relation to the purchase of silver and the coinage of the standard silver dollars was tak m up. After an amendment by Sherman, Sher-man, inserting the words "and a detailed statement of the amount purchased each day," Stewart addressed the senate on the sebject. Previous to this the resolution offered by Hergan calling for information as to the reciprocity "with Germany and Hayti was agreed to. Stewart was not sure he said that he fully understood the last monthly statement of the treasury department as to the financial con dition of ihe treasury. Having cited the figures as Set forth in the April statement he remarked tiat the entire amount of gold in the treasury in excess of the outstanding gold certificates was h than one eighth the silver and paper f r which rcdemtion demand might be male on it. Stewart gave the amount of gold in the treasury as $125,815, M)0, and said that if the gold standard was to be maintained, the silver sil-ver act of "JO would have to be repealed, and the secretary of the treasury would have to be authorized to sell bonds in order to accumulate accu-mulate gold enough to redeem the silver coin aud paper money now outstanding, but no public man, he said, would dare make such a monstrous proposition. If, however, silver was maintained as money, the silver in the silver dollar would have to be made equally as valuable as the gold in the gold dollar; and that should be done through the coinage of silver on the same terms and conditions as applied to the coinage of gold. He spoke of the unfavorable unfavor-able dispositiun of the president and the administration ad-ministration toward silver and mentioned men-tioned as a matter of common com-mon report that the sellers of silver to the government were given time to deliver deliv-er the silver to fill their orders after they occupied the market and kept others out thus depressing .prices. Whether this is true or not, would be shown, he said, when the secretary of the treasury sent his answer an-swer to the pending resolution. In conclusion he declared that the people of the United States would not stop the agitation on the subject until silver was n-stored to the place which It occupied previous to the unfortunate legislation leg-islation of '73. The resolution went over till tomorrow. Morgan expressing his intention to speak upon it for a brief period. The joint resolution heretofore introduced by Palmer, proposing a constitutional amendment for the election of United States scuator by the people was taken up, Chandler Chan-dler addressed the senate in opposition. In the house the amendments to the Indian appropriation bill were non-concurred in. |