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Show lilt. MM I It lUI.'ll(l AM) Till' IU.J1UI KlTt. Till, sliver frie coinage quntluu t ems likely to jrove Iroublesumo to the Drmoc....o party In and out of Congress. It Is well known that it majority of thu Atlantic seaboard Drmccrnts are renounced nntl freo slhermeii, ThedeJiandfor reform In thu coluabo and i urrciicy stem la lu eiruistnud uri'eut lu thu West and scuth lhat thu greet bulk of tho part) Incline to free coinage. A short tlmo oho Hprlnger, l'almer and other iroiuluent Deinoerals, outlined out-lined a n In mi' for an International currency cougreaa to bo held In Chi tago In lb'Ji. The extreme free-sliver free-sliver Democrats do nut tuko kiud-ly kiud-ly to the iropu.nl Ian. Now It Is le ported that nnother rogramma has been formulated by Honours (lor man, Hill aud llrlce. lhls Is simpl) lo make the repeal of the McKlnle) bill nilil tlio silver set of IbOOIhepo. Iltlcal Issues In the uilng campaign A surlia of reaulutluus loulJ be adopted In the Houie which would I a utlllrs I ! as a parly latforrn. These re jlutlon can lie made m gemril lhatosltlon frumauy wing of the parly will beset alde, and at the same time all silver legislation cau l oatroneel for the I resent. The llland lllll, now In Ilia ban Is of the Coinage Committee, and on which action wns to lo taken on I ebruary 10th, meets all the requirements of the freo silver men. The bill provides that the standard unit of luo lu the Untied Htstis ahall ba the dollar, coined of l-l grains of sliveror 2) 810 gralnaof go) I. Tie aime ahall be coined for any owner of bullion, or tho owner may ilrpo.lt It at lliu mint au I ricetve eolu notes therefor. These notes shall he Issued In dcnomtuatlons of from $1 lo JV.nl and shall ba full legal ItnJer. (told and silver certllluites umlsr the actuf July II, 1V)0, shall not lie re-lolled, re-lolled, lut cancelled and destroyed, colli n Ilea as mentioned lellig Issued Intlcs. Thcae notes ahall be redeemed lu coin on demand, and for thla iur-poee iur-poee the bullion shall be coined asfaft as nrcceesry. The Hand till has another pro vlalon of a rather singular nature. Tho French ratio of coluage Is IS tc 1, that rrovlded for In the llland measure Is 10 to 1, That la, the gold dollar shall contain Vi 8 10 grains of gold, this multiplied by 10 gives 41!) which means lint the allvcr dollar In the United Htatee mint contain 10 Ihnea aa much metal aa the goll one. Hut In France the sliver dollar con. tains only lot times thu siuie quantity of metal as the goll dollar, which means that the French stiver dollar contains only 400 grains. The irovlslou referred lo In tlio llland bill Is that when over Franco shall re-open her mints to the free coinage of allvcr, our coinage ratio shall be changed to conform to the French standard. Thla means, of course, that In the event of the ndotloti of freo colnago In France, unless that country should change lu silver ratio, tho American allver dollar tbi reader woul 1 consist cf 400 Instead of 4121 grains of standard silver. And the irovlslou would ex-tend ex-tend further. It woulj require the re-cnlnago of nil Iho existing dollars luto 400p,raln colmln caao tho content plated contingency deeloCjd Into reality. re-ality. This would net thu goverumcut a handsome profit, and possibly a monetary alllauce with I'ranou would mole than reply the lo-,t to Iho people. That country li the head of tho Ltln Union, n very Important federation of I uropean Htatee for monetary turioie, Illscomjioeed of France, Italy, llel glum, Ureere and Bwltxerlaiid. Tbe sliver and gold oolns of any of these countries aru legal lender lu all the olheis. Hencoa union with France would ultimately mean a powlble union with all theie countries men Honed. It Is said that l.ngland ftvora an International In-ternational inoiiutary arrangement, but It Is dbllcult to see how she can glvo up her toll standard. A very able writer, a short time ago, stated that luternattonal commerce had ad-Jutted ad-Jutted Itself to the Ilrlllsh sovereign or imund sterling, owing of courso te her supremacy lu Iradu aud In thu money markets. The rovlslona of the llland I III will repeal Ihu allver demonetisation actcf ID71, and also thesllverpurthateact of IS00. It Is said that a mnjcrltj of the Colnago Committee are In faorof thlsmiasure.andof making Jtan Itsue Immediately, If this la paised It will pie are the Houth and West, lut the Atlantla seahoarl Democrats will be hostile to It, an I the probable conte queuces are not romlslng lo lhat part... |