Show TALK ABOUT SILVER ltdln of the > ational hllvcr con tendon at St lanis Xlssonrl C I I TELLING SPEECH BY CHAIR MA4 WARNER A Large Portion or Lcechlmrj 1a Consumed lijr lire Loss 100000 BAD RAILROAD WRECK IN TENNESSEE TEN-NESSEE Mrs Sonlhirorlh Sent For Trial > CTT Tori JIurotrIral lien fabrications Ill Tclezrapb to the SEWS 1 MI1LR CONTENTION 1 rttertla j Procrrtllnc nt hi LonltftiMrmnil Wieners Srte tCCh ST LOUIS Mo Xo ilTite National blUer convention meL this morning There are 350 delegates dele-gates in atUndancu and a large number spectators Janus Cimp bell called the convention to order and lulroducid Ta M Kuruscj of St Incuts as temi > orary chairman and Albert SInger as temporary secretary Kuni y saiJl You are not a law making bodj It is true butt all laws nre results of popular will and as you have been nlpiot as popularly tent to ru inHnt tilt people of these United itntCti as are the inciuKra of Congress Con-gress sent tovoice the trill of the I People in Washington it follows that the Congress of the United I States may find througa your deliberations 1 delib-erations and conclusions that you are the latest representatives from the people upon the question of silver sil-ver coinage laws that they must obey the will of the people of the United States and enact the laws jour body cannot enact that will give the people I of the flitted States 5 ept II r fin f the privilege of coining their silver ns freely as they coin their gold Into In-to large an assemblage it would Ix strange If there were not those who have tome pet hobby no doubt very excellent and desirable in sonIc other convention but the time for discussion of this monetary question ques-tion Is so brief it hoped no extraneous extra-neous SUlJivlta wIll be attempted to be pushed upon the attention of this convention At the conclusion of his address various commltttcs bn credential Ittrmantut organization and resolutions resolu-tions were appointed and the court took a rectos till r km General A J Warner of Ohio will be reported to the convention for permanent chairman and Albert Singer for permanent ecrctary THE CONVENTIoN reassembled promptly nt 3 oclock The entire afternoon was pint in a discussion of how the contention heuM roll ome intending hat each delegate present should be entitled en-titled to one tote others that the delegation should vote Its full strength bj proxj no matter how mauj delegates were in the convention conven-tion The nutter w is finnll fettled by the adoption of a resolution olltred by Senator Stewart of > e vada that each delegation should be entitled to twenty votes and all oer that number in any delegation delega-tion hould be allowed one tote The committee permanent orgi mzation repent the following per niancnt olliccr ChaIrman A J Warner OhIo ticechamnan J 31 McMiehael Colorado recretnrj Albert Singer Jllsroun assistant secretaries P Ii Dana Colorado T J Palmer Kansas J A Greer Pennsylvania Chairman Warner upon Ewing introduced to the convention con-vention br Seuatorfctewartjthanked that body for the unexpected honor lie aid that no subject interrteil 1 him more thin the silver question alnce German in 1S7J followed by other European lowers and partly by the United States demonetized de-monetized and limited sliver as money the question had been a vital IKUC and in the discussion the bymetallists won n victory The attempt to change the money standard from gold and silver alone was worse than a mistake was almost a crime The demoneti zatlon silver had made the gold ttandard different than before that act The demonetization of silver I was in fact a great crime and its revocation was now an important question of the world The people bail suffered more from bad monetary mon-etary legislation than from any other cause The first duly wits the stability the finance What was asked was n restoration of the money standard which existed forages for-ages j that silver be placed on an equality with gold and with the name ratio which has existed It was the duty of the country to re stoic vhathliouId never have been distributed and this convention had ufemblcd here decide upon tho best methods to be pursued in reaching TilE DECIDED END II It Chamberlain president of the Denver Chaml < crof Commerce on behalf of that body thin presented pre-sented a solid silver gavel to Chairman Chair-man Warner A number of molu tionsarc to be referredjtcthecommlt tee This committee is considered avery a-very strong one and it expected will embody the wishes of the contention con-tention so btiiily and so clearly that they will I be easily understood After tho announcement that there would be 3 reception at the Merchants Mer-chants Exchange tonight the convention con-vention adjourned The committee on resolutions Is composed as follows Arkansas B mViit rkj D Williams Arizona John CLASS C-LASS Alabama A Irwin Colorado Color-ado T II Buchanan California lion F Pikleyj Idaho Wm Hind man Indiana Ieter Kennedy Illinois Hon E G Waitc Kansas E II McLennan Kentucky Henry Waterson Montana W U Gallgher Missouri n P Bland Nebraska Wm Wallace New Mexico J A Manzanaresj New York Thomas Jordan Nevada Francis GNcwbnd Penmykanla fv t bt V J Cllapney Fsixas Charles Longuennuetj Ulllh C C Good win District of Columbia I C Nichols Michigan Hon Benjamin Colvln Wyoming Wm Orant Tennessee AJ Kcllar Virginia John Porter Scourge or Dlpbllirrla MoSTlCELto IlL Nov 2dA terrible scourge of dfphtlieiti is very sorely aflllctlng the people of central Illinois At Illiopolis and vicinity there are over 50 casts and I many deaths have occurred with many more who will die The public pub-lic schools are closed and all church and Sunday school services arc suspended sus-pended d1fL is also very lad sut Waverly Petersburg Springfield and Iekln and other places auana 5it1olini HELENA Mont Nor 20 There b I no change Jn the legislative situation situa-tion The cenalo met with no quorum quo-rum and adjourned until tomorrow tomor-row The In use will lUCId this afternoon after-noon |