Reconstruction: speech of Hon. William M. Stewart, of Nevada, delivered in the Senate of the United States, February 3, 1868.
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Money Answereth All Things: Speech of Hon. Wm; M. Stewart, of Nevada, Delivered in the Senate of the United States, January 2, 1889 (Classic Reprint)
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Since that time both gold and silver coin have passed as legal-tender money in all the civilized countries until a very recent period, but barbarous and semi-civilized people have from time to time used other material for money, and some of them do so at the present day. Eng land ceased to coin silver as legal-tender money in 1815. Holland during most of her history used the single silver standard. Belgium adopted the 'silver standard in 1857 and restored the double standard in 1861. Austria and Germany suspended the coinage of gold in 1857, and Germany restored it in 1871, and at the same time demonetized silver by excluding it from her mints. The United States omitted the silver dollar from its list of coins in 1873. The demonetization of sil ver by Germany and the United States induced France, Italy, Bel gium, Holland, Switzerland, Spain, and other European countries to first limit the coinage of that metal and afterwards to cease to coin legal-tender silver.
At the end of the year 1876 every mint in Europe was closed against silver and most disastrous results followed, as I shall hereafter show. In 1878 Congress provided by law for the purchase and coinage of not less than two nor more than four million dollars' worth of silver bull ion per month, and although the Secretary of the Treasury has never purchased in excess of the minimum, about of silver and silver certificates are now in circulation, without which this would be an era of universal bankruptcy. But the United States does not, as heretofore, recognize silver bullion as a money metal interchangeable for coin at its mints at a fixed ratio, but treats it as a commodity to be purchased at the lowest market price.
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Speech Of The Hon. William M. Stewart, Of Nevada, On The Bill To Establish A National School Of Mines: Delivered In The Senate Of The United States, January 16, 1868
William Morris Stewart
F. & J. Rives & G.A. Bailey, 1868
Technology & Engineering; Mining; Mining engineering; Mining schools and education; Precious metals; Technology & Engineering / Mining
Speech of Hon. William M. Stewart, of Nevada, indorsing the President's policy on restoration;
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William Morris Stewart was an American lawyer, politician, and and United States senator.
Background
William was born on August 9, 1827 in Galen, Wayne County, New York, United States. He was the eldest son of Frederick Augustus Stewart and his wife, Miranda Morris. From his birthplace, Galen, his parents moved during his childhood to Trumbull County, Ohio.
Education
He spent three years in Farmington Academy (Ohio), and then returned to New York State, where he taught mathematics in the Lyons high school. Intending to study law, he entered Yale College in September 1848, but left early in 1850, lured by the discovery of gold in California.
Career
After studies Stewart was engaged in mining in Nevada County, California. When he had accumulated about $8, 000, he abandoned mining and began the study of law in the office of John R. McConnell, Nevada City, and was admitted to practice in 1852. The next year he was elected district attorney and wrote the first rules and regulations for quartz mining in Nevada County.
In 1854 he served as acting attorney-general of the state, and formed a law-partnership in San Francisco with Henry S. Foote, ex-governor of Mississippi, whose daughter, Annie Elizabeth, he married in the spring of the following year.
In 1856, Stewart moved to Downieville, Sierra County, California, but the discovery three years later of silver mines in Nevada drew him to Virginia City and Carson City, where his energy, resourcefulness, and knowledge of mining law and practice brought him to the front. During four years of complicated litigation he successfully defended the interests of the original claimants to the famous Comstock Lode, and received $500, 000 in fees.
He was president for a number of years of the Sutro Tunnel Company, founded by Adolph H. J. Sutro. Winning fame as a specialist in mining law, he was retained by some of the largest mining companies in the West. With characteristic energy he threw himself into the turbulent politics of the nascent state of Nevada.
In 1861 he was elected to the territorial council, and two years later to the constitutional convention, serving as chairman of the judiciary committee, but he led the forces that defeated the adoption of the proposed constitution because of a taxation provision obnoxious to the dominant mining interests.
In 1871 he was offered, but declined, appointment to the Supreme Court. Returning to Nevada in 1875, he devoted the next dozen years to his mining interests and lucrative law practice. In 1887 he was again elected to the Senate and served there continuously until 1905.
He was perhaps the first member of either house to propose federal appropriations for the reclamation of Western arid lands.
He constantly denounced the "crime of 1873, " and bitterly fought the repeal (1893) of the silver-purchase clause of the Sherman Silver Act of 1890. With the fervor of an apostle, he edited and published (in Washington, 1892 - 98) a weekly newspaper, first called the Silver Knight and later the Silver Knight-Watchman.
After the nomination of Bryan upon a free-silver platform in 1896, he counseled the Populist and Silver party leaders to indorse Bryan, which they did. Later, when the unexpected discoveries of new sources of gold had convinced him that the silver question was disposed of, he returned to the Republican party, indorsed McKinley in 1900, and vigorously attacked Bryan's silver speeches in that campaign. At the expiration of his term in 1905, he declined reelection, returned to Nevada, and spent his last years at his newly established home in Bullfrog.
In 1908 Reminiscences of Senator William Morris Stewart was published under the editorship of George R. Brown.
Stewart remained in Washington, District of Columbia and died there four years later.
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Politics
Upon the admission of Nevada into the Union, Stewart was elected to the United States Senate as a Republican, remaining in that body until March 1875.
Later, he declined election as a delegate to the National Convention of 1892 and joined the Silver party; and, as a member of that party, was reelected to the Senate in 1893 and 1899.
He was instrumental in securing the defeat of the proposed sale of mineral lands on the public domain to help pay the Civil War debt, and the passage of the mining laws of 1866 and 1872, which recognized and confirmed the rights of miners according to their rules and regulations. At first he supported President Johnson and his reconstruction measures, but eventually advocated Johnson's impeachment and voted for his conviction. His most distinguished efforts, however, were directed toward the remonetization of silver.
Personality
Over six feet tall, of erect and massive figure, with long flowing beard and silvery hair, he was one of the most picturesque and rugged characters ever known in Washington.
Though no orator, he was a clear and impressive speaker. Possessed of unlimited self-confidence, colossal self-assertion, unflagging energy, and indomitable perseverance, he was a striking product of the mining frontier.
Connections
He was first married to Annie Elizabeth, who a daugter of his law-partner in San Francisco Henry S. Foote. His first wife was killed in 1902 in an automobile accident at Alameda, California, and in the fall of 1903, at Atlanta, Georgia, he married Mary Agnes (Atchison), widow of Theodore Cone.