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Show Evarts and Silver Coinage. Senator Evarts' position on the silver question is still a cause of anxiety to the merchants and bankers of New York. A letter appears signed by sixty principal princi-pal firms, addressed to Evarts, declaring it is of the utmost importance for the interests in-terests of the country that the present compulsory coinage of silver should be suspended, and begging him to exert his great influence in the Senate to that end. All accounts represent Evarts as closely studying the question and carefully avoiding avoid-ing committing himself. The friends of silver coinage count him among the.Sen-ators the.Sen-ators favorable to their cause. |