People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1894 — THEY FAVOR SILVER. [ARTICLE]

THEY FAVOR SILVER.

United State* Senator* Send a Cablegram to the London Bimetallic Conference. Washington, May s.—Following is a copy of a cablegram sent to the lord mayor of London, apropos of the bimetallic conference held in that city, by several United States senators: •‘We desire to express our cordial sympathy with the movement to promote tho restoration of silver by international agreement, in aid of whioh we understand a meeting is held under your lordship's presidency. Wo believe the free coinage of both gold and silver by international agreement at a axed ratio would secure to mankind the blessing of a sufficient volume of metallic money, and, which is hardly less important, securo to the world of trade immunity from violent exchange fluctuations." The document was signed by Senators John Sherman, W. B. Allison, D. W. Voorhees, George F. Hoar, Nelson W. Aldrich, David B. Hill, Edward Murphy, A. IJ.1 J . Gorman, O. 11. Platt, Calvin Brice, Joseph M. Carey, William Frye, C. K. Davis, S. M. Cullotn, Henry Cabot Lodge.