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Dr. Linderman

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1
Month
February
Year
1878
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don't favor the " goloid " dollar. Senator Christiakcy made an :ibU speeoh, against the Bland silvor bill on Weduesday. TllE Deniocracy of Michigan, through its solé represen tfttie in the House, voted against tho Mat.tlurws " buncomb" resolution. The coinage of the " trado dollar " is to be resuined at Philadelphia, - whicb vyill break the monopoly enjoyed ly tho sil ver speoulators of tlio I'nciiio OOftSt. TllE "silvor aristócrata ' of California - why don't ' thitt sound as woll as " bloated bondholdors? - are shipping large quantitifs of the tfade dollars to the Eastern States, and niaking 3 per cent. by tho transaction. In one column Moudny's Free Pret said that " Watson's appoiutment is not endangered by Beal's attotupted bulldozing," and in auothüi coluiun records his 8UCC6S9. W'oodman is the lucky man who will got pay tbr doing the Paris Kxposition. That deinonetization aot which the silver men hold up before thü people as a bug-bear, was a good deal like the fabled " Pope's buil against the comot." There were no silver dollars in circulation in,J873 : in fact, the " dollur of tho daddiea" was and is a uiyth. The Cabinet having been eonsidering the prosecution of tha members of the Louisiana Returning Board (none of the Cabinet's business), the President is reported as proposing to " exert sonio moral influence to secure a just henriug for the accused men." And that is just the thing the rascáis are afraid of. Refreshixg : that recent love spat in the Senate bet ween Senator Blaine, of Maine, and Senators Dawes and Hoar, of Massaohusetts. It was all about William King, first governor of Maine, whosestatue has just bean doposited in the capital memorial gallery, and the loyalty of Massachusetts in 1812. It was not a very creditable scène for such an occasion. lx TUE House on Tuesday, after a sharp contest, a bill was passcd recognizing the Woodruff around the world Scientific Expedition, and granting registry to a foreign vessel purchased for the purpose. The opposition came trom the ultra protectionists who want all vessels sailing under American colors built in American ship-yards. What are old fogies good for ? Ip THE Free Press and its correspondent are correct in their supposition that Senator Christiancy procured the appointment of Judge Van Zile to the District Attorneyship of Utah, to get him off the bench and make way for the appointment of a judgo Mr. Beal oan manipúlate, the " milk " in Ihat letter read to the Regonts - a regular doublé ender, like some of Christinncy's speeches and votes - inay bo accounted for. TllE Pennsylvania House has decided, by a vote of 150 to 7, that a member's constitutional privilege don't protect him against arrest on a criminal charge, and has ordered the Sergeant-at-Arras to remand P. F. Bullard, under indictment for euibezzlement, to the custody of the keeper of the jail of Dolawaro County. If that District of Columbia judge had been as " well heeled" in the law (or honest in its execution) ho wonld have sent Senator Patterson home to South Carolina for trial. "An Old Line Demockat writing on " The Money Question " in tho Snijiiimcian strikes hard-pan when he utters these words : " Bad money drives out good money; unredeemable paper drives gold and silver from both the North and South. Two kinds of money having the same legal valué, but different market values, cannot circuíate in the same country. That which is worth the most will disappear." And because these words are as self-evidently true as that two and two are four is why the silver speculators clamor for the " cheap dollar." We don't oppose the full remenetization of silver - that is the making of 92 cents worth of silver a legal tender for a dollar - because wo are a " bloated bondholdor," a national bank stockholder, or one of that clas3 despised by all demagogues - a creditor. Wo wish we were one of the tbreo to a liberal umouQt. It is because we earn our daily bread by the sweat of our brow, and want just as good raorley for our earnings as the speculator, contractor, large operator, or mouoy-lender. Good money, not cheap money, is our motto, and should be the motto of every laborer, inechanic, and small dealer. Unless " Old Subsidy " has as niany Uves as a cat ho received his death blow in the House on Monday. Tho club with which his bmins were beaten out, perhaps we should say th charm with which his ghost was laid, was a resolution introduced by Mr. Baker, of Indiana, deelnring that "in the judgrnent of the House, no subsidies, in mouey, bonds, publio lands, indorsements, or by the plodge of the public credit, should be granted or renowed by Congress to auy associations or corporations engaged in, or proposing to engage in, public or private enterprises ; but that all appropriations ought to be limitud to such amounts and purposes only as shU bo imperatively demanded by tho public service." The vote stood : yeas, 174 ; nays, 85. There is considerable lee way in tho final clause for a chíinge of heart and of votos; nevertheloss we suspect that the subsidy lobby may as well pack up their little carpetbags and go home. The Michigan members voted : for the resolution, Messrs Brewer, Congor, Koightley, McQowan, Slone, and Willits ; against it, Messers Ellsworth, Hubbell, and liami. l'olitioally the vote ttood : for it, 8S Demócrata and 80 Republioans ; against it, IS Democrats and 'M Republicana. Tuk prcamblo and resolution of Senator Matthews, of Ohio, stcaling a niarch on the Suprenie Court, entering up a judgnient agaiust the public and private creditor, and deifying the " dollar of the daddies," - a good enough dollar if made worth its pretended valué in the commercial niarts of the world, - by declaring " that all the bonda of the Unitod States issued, or authorized to be issucd, ander the said acts of Congress hereinbofore recitod are payablo, principal and iutorest, at thu option of the Government of the United States, in silver dollars, of the coinage of the United States, containing 412 1-2 grains each of standard silvor ; and that to restore to its coinage 8uch silver coins as a legal tender in paynient of said bonds, principal and interest, is not in violation of the public faith, nor in dorogation of the rights of the public creditor," passed the Senate on Friday last by a vote of 415 to 22 for the resolution, and of 42 to 20 for the proamble. Eight Senators were paired, two were absent uupaired, and one (Kellogg, of Louisiana,) dadged. Christiancy voted no and Terry yes. The resolution reached the House on Monday, aud was promptly passed, under suspension of the rules and without debato boing allowed, by a vote of : yoas, 18Í) ; nays, Tiï". The Michigan meinbers voted : yeas, Messrs Brewer, Conger, Hubbell, Keightley, Stone, and WillitS; nays, Messrs Ellsworth and Williams. Mr. McGowan declined to vote because time for debate was refused. The safe way in such a case is to vote NO.

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