Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1891 — JUDGE HOLMAN INTERVIEWED. [ARTICLE]

JUDGE HOLMAN INTERVIEWED.

In a recent interview Judge Holman of this State said of the recent defunct Congress: “It was the worst in the history of the country." “Yes; I mean it. It was bad in its methods and in all its surroundings, and, worst of all, it has made a precedent which will likely have a bad influence on the country for all time. It has raised the standard by which extravagance will be judged in the future and render greater extravagance liable. The individual members of the house were dwarfed, and a bad influence dominated. There were some very warm admirers of Mr. Reed who gathered around him, but, with possibly the exception of Mr. Keifer, I think there has never been a speaker before who has made so many enemies among the member- of his own party as Mr. Reed. Some of them have talked to me about the way in which members were dwarfed by the peculiar methods whioh were in practice. These methods, the utter disregard of members and the unprecedented extravagance of the congress, will furnish an evil preoeaent for the fntnre, and the trouble is that the very worst precedents are often followed, especially when it comes to the expenditure of the public money. The Ferty.fourth congress oat under the appropriations of the Forty-third some $64,000,000 but the entire “extravagant” appropriations of the Forty-third congress did not amoun to nearly as much as the appropriations made at the first session only of this congress, which were considerably less than those for this session just closed." Speaking of the tariff, be said: “Before the first of February the house will send a tariff bill to the senate, It will be a bill making a moderate redaction of duties on lines compliant with the demands of the people and very considerably increasing the size of the free list.” And as to silver:

“I believe the next congress will pass a free coinage act. There is a question about the propriety of giving the benefit of the difference between the coin value and the market value of silver to the few holders of the bullion instead of letting it go to the whole people. I think the government should get this seniorage. The whole people should get the benefit of the increased value of the metal by reason of its merely having the stamp of the government upon it. I, therefore, favor a proposition for the government to reoeive both gold and silver at their respective market values and make them into coins of certain standard weights. I would have the coinage of both alike unlimited. The two metals do not always retain the same relation toward each other, nor is the gold dollar always the more valuable. They sometimes ohang* places, their relations being regulated by the supply of each metal and by the amount of each used in the arts. As we know, the silver dollar has been more valuable than the gold, and it is liable to be so again. They are liable to change from time to time, if the free coinage of both is provided for under the same conditions. I refer to the market value of the metal |itself. But there will always be a seignorage to the government from one metal to the other, as they will not remain of exactly equal value. That this difference of the market value and the coin vaiue of whichever metal happens to be cheapest (with relation to the standard ratio) may go to the government, I favor the government purchasing the metals at their market value and issuing the ooin in return, but if it is proposed to make gold the standard and to at ply this method of purchase to silver only, then in preference to that I should favor the unlimited coinage of silver, a dollar for the requisite number of grains, letting the holder of the silver get the benefit of the difference between the market and the coin value. I think that by one plan or by the other the unlimited coinage of silver will be authorized at the next congress." •

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