Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1877 — The Silver Bills. [ARTICLE]

The Silver Bills.

The New York Herald's Washington correspondent says the silver people think they have a pretty sure thing of it in both houses, and yet they are probably mistaken. There are a good many silver men, but they are of many minds. Some of the most eccentric would vote with Senator Jones to make the dollar unlimited legal tender,and have it coined at the mint like gold. Others, however, are vehemently opposed to this as extremely impolitic, and dangerous as well as dishonest, but they would agree to a measure such as Secretary Sherman is also believed to favor, recalling all legaltender notes under §5 and issuing silver dollars in their stead, making these dollars legal tender up to §lO, or perhaps §2O, and receivable for public dues up to that amount. Between these two kinds of silver men there is an irreconcilable difference, for the latter believe the former seek for a measure which is in its nature fraudulent anl injurious to the country.