Show an grexon congressman favors silver PORTLAND or july 0 speaking on the C coinage oina ge question congressman congressmen binger lern ionn today said Bell believing eying in ili tho the free mintage ot silver as well as eold gold but dearine that the united states alone cannot maintain before the world the present legal egal ratio of sixteen ounces of s silver 11 ver to one of gold and that an international agreement to reform the wor worlds 1 ds ratio cin not bo ese secured cured I 1 favor a change of our own legal ratio the sherman law should not be repealed until a i better guarantee is had ad that silver shall bo be recognized upon a just ratio m with lilt bold cold and as free to the mints as gold itse itself 11 |