Deseret Evening News | 1893-02-03 | Page 8 | India and Silver

India nnil Hllver. Calcutta, Feb. a A deputsllon of native aud Kuroau merohnnts wnlte 1 upon the viceroy o India and submitted risolutlous demanding, In view of the failure of the llruvseli monetary oonferenoe to arrive at any couolusloii lu the blmetalllo Issue, that the government ol Inlla should Immediately Im-mediately clone tlio mints to fnu coinage. coin-age. Lord Lansdownu said the Indian In-dian currency association had strengthened strength-ened the casu byioivlug tbe pio omls tociiangelhottaudurd lor futuru consideration. con-sideration. The opponents of the chauge must now show that while the change of Iho currency standard ol vrdue from silver to gold would benefit bene-fit other nations, It would damaxe Ilidli. The whole question uiuit, however, await thxbuueof thn Hers-shell Hers-shell currency commliilon appointed In Hngland to consider tbo question.