Show SENATOR JOHN SHERMAN SHE says did not surreptitiously conspire to knoell out silver CHICAGO july S ithac man ou to bo be hanged jie knows be is lying when lie makes ane statement he lie does all and has coyle covertly insinuated that honorable it nien I 1 I 1 have been guilty of dishonest acts these words word with wrath from front senator john rJohn sher ninn man We were redrawn drawn out by the charge drought brought against him and others bv by james 11 ilott pre president Adent of the denver deliver paper mills stills co company n i of denver in a communication to a now newspaper paper the charge Is in lit connection with the passage by Congress of tile law of 1873 demonetizing silver known a q the act mr platt in fit effect charged that senator sherman Sh ermaD w hile acting as a member of the conference committee on oil the bill did in conjunction with other members of the corn tee surre surreptitiously pit insert a claupein cla clause usein in one section of tha tile bill repealing the free coinage and smuggled it through both oth houses and that no member of cither house or even president orant grant when he lie signed the bill had the faintest suspicion that such stich a clause was con contained tabled I 1 n the bill platt further intimated that adv advantage a n tage was taken of thi this secret clause by members of the conference committee speculative for purpose purposes mr sherman Sher nian further on the platt charges said lie ile Is simply revamping the same old charges that were exploded long ago so erni nent a democrat as abram S 0 o witt of en it member of the ile house investigated the charges when they were first given currency and made ft a stron strong rep report ortto to the house to the effect that ere there was not a word of truth in the charges |