People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1895 — Minority Report. [ARTICLE]

Minority Report.

Washington, Fob. 14.—A minority report on ti e bond resolution presented in the house yesterday has been made by Bryan and Whiting. It opposes the proposed issue for its alleged discrimination against silver, and denounces t >e secretary of the treasury for permit!ng the noteholder to choose the coin in which it shtil be paid. They add: "We have no hesitation in declaring It as our conviction that there is no remedy permanent in character or promising in results, except an immediate exercise by the secretary of the treasury of th right to redeem United Stat s notes and treasury notes in standfd silver coin, whenever it is more convenient for the government to do io, and we further believe that the great' ‘t danger which cun possibly attend hu n a course is Infinitely less than the evils that are certain to follow an adherence to the present policy.” Th substituc for the Jones unrestricted coinage bill which Senator Sherman today proposed is in most respects a copy of tile bill introduced by him t. e 17th ultimo. It is changed, howeu-r, so as to permit the issuance of 3 per cent gold bonds, payable in five years, for the purpose soley of maintaining the gobi reserve and not to meet cv - rent deficiencies as in the original bill. The crtffleats of indbtedness authorizd