People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1895 — What Mr. Harvey Says. [ARTICLE]

What Mr. Harvey Says.

In speaking of the manner in which the silver dollar was destroyed in 1873, Mr. Harvey, in the Horr-Harvey debate in Chicago, chases the culprit in the vicinity of John Sherman’s domicile. Mr. Harvey said: “I want every man and woman in American, who wish to preserve free government to this republic, to read the Congressional Record, giving the words uttered in the senate on Jan. 17. 1873. It shows that the silver dollar was in the bill that came from the house that was to put us on the French ratio, and that the senate agreed to it. Mr. Sherman himself extolled it and said that it was a dollar that would float around the world. This dollar was agreed to by both houses and was in the bill when it went to 'the conference committee. The duty of the conference committee was to settle disputed questions on which the two houses had disagreed. The silver dollar was not one of the questions on which the two houses had disagreed, and yet Ihe bill turns up enrolled, with the silver dollar erased from the bill by the conference committee. • Senator Sherman and Mr. Hooper of the house handled the bill, and these two men or a corrupt clerk made the omission. The significance of this can best be understood when I say that these men represented that they were re-enacting the law of 1853. except in changing the size of the silver dollar and the law of 1852, the silver dollar only had free access to the mint.”