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It was a day of bulls and bears.

Tickets for seats had been printed the evening previous, and the ticket office had been opened in the morning.

Under Mr. Milliken's able management, notwithstanding the great rush, everything proceeded orderly; and after the seats were all sold, tickets for standing room readily brought the regular price, until the hall was packed. There were fully 3,000 people in the audience at two o'clock, when appeared on the crowded platform.

The morning papers had twitted Professor Laughlin with his attempt to trap the little bimetallist by an unfair question, and the Times cited it as a sample of the methods used by the monometallists in their campaign of misrepresentations.

Lengthy comments were published editorially on the proposition of credit money based on labor, to be redeemed in services by the government.

The Inter Ocean said, editorially: