Sound Currency, Volume 3

Sound Currency Committee of the Reform Club, 1896 - Banks and banking

LAWS RELATING TO COINAGE	1

SILVER DOLLARS	18

LAWS RELATING TO GOVERNMENT CURRENCY	22

LAWS RELATING TO BANK CURRENCY	31

APPENDIX	45

CLEARING HOUSES	49

DENMARK	53

TREASURY NOTES OF 1890	55

BRANCH BANKING	316

REDEMPTION FACILITIES	322

Commercial Limitations on Bank Paper	328

EVASION OF CONSERVATIVE RULES	332

HOW RELIEF CAME 311	337

CIRCUMSTANCES THAT PRECEDED THE CRISIS	338

THE VOLUME OF CURRENCY 177	341

Results	344

PAGE	59

COINAGE	61

GOLD AND SILVER	69

PUBLIC DEBT OF THE U	76

GREECE	89

GOLD PAR EQUIVALENTS	97

REDEMPTION OF TREASURY NOTES AND GREENBACKS	99

BULLION FOR OUR PRESENT COINS	112

THE OLD STANDARD DOLLAR WAS NEVER IN THE BILL	119

EXTENDED CONSIDERATION OF THE BILL	121

Appendix BThe Act of 1873	127

THE FIRST LEGALTENDER ACT	133

JUSTIN S MORRILL OF VERMONT	138

WILLIAM KELLOGG OF ILLINOIS	144

JACOB COLA AMER OF VERMONT	149

WHY LEGAL TENDER NOTES MUST	156

Other Aids to Retirement	162

HOW SHALL THE LEGAL TENDERS BE RETIRED	169

Current Redemption of Notes	175

THE SILVER FACTOR	177

197	181

GREAT BRITAIN	183

FRANCE	190

SWEDEN	196

No native banking companiesPrivate bankers and foreign banksHong Kong and Shanghai	202

Massachusetts and the Suffolk Bank System	210

Georgia	211

HOW TO PRESERVE THE NATIONAL SYSTEM	216

COLONIAL E AMPLES	218

CLASSES OF INSTITUTIONS COMPRISED	222

Kentucky	225

Indiana	231

Alabama	238

Florida	243

Missouri	249

MASSACHUSETTS STATE BANK CURRENCY	255

RHODE ISLAND STATE BANK CURRENCY	261

CONNECTICUT STATE BANK CURRENCY	265

New Hampshire	272

The Bank of Mutual Redemption	281

NEW YORK BANK CURRENCY 285308	285

STATUS WHEN SUPERSEDED BY NATIONAL BANK SYSTEM	288

First Resort to the Safety Fund	292

Results	298

Remedies	304

CONDITIONS PRIOR TO 1867	310

FACSIMILES OF EMERGENCY CURRENCY 345356	345

THE PEOPLES MONEY	357

LAW AS A BASIS OF MONEY	363

LEGAL TENDER	370

THE BALANCE OF TRADE	378

VALUE	383

A FINANCIAL CATECHISM	389

BIMETALLISM IN HISTORY	395

DECLINE OF PRICES	401

COINS FINANCIAL FOOL	405

A FEW NUGGETS	411

COINS SERIES OF EXPLOSIONS	418

108	421

CONCLUSION	424

Character of Discounts Insufficient to Guard Against Depreciation	427

Price of Gold in Continental Markets	429

Par of Exchange	435

Earlier Variations in Exchange	441

CONSEQUENT INFLATION OF CURRENCY	448

BIMETALLISM IN HISTORY	455

IN THE UNITED STATES BEFORE 1873	462

IN THE UNITED STATES SINCE 1873	464

BIMETALLISM IN FRANCE	472

109	478

FRENCH MONETARY COMMISSIONS	479

STRICTURES ON TENDERACTS	491

INTRODUCTION	498

116	504

A DOUBLE STANDARD A SYSTEM OF PUTS	510

PRACTICABILITY OF BIMETALLISM	511

GOLD AND THE FEDERAL TREASURY	517

Withdrawal of Investments	523

CURRENCY CERTIFICATES	529

WHERE LIES SPECIAL INTEREST TO WAGE EARNERS 582	532

Japan	539

100	543

CHILEAN CURRENCY UNDER FREE COINAGE OF GOLD AND SILVER	548

FLUCTUATION IN EXCHANGE AND DEPRECIATION OF THE PAPER PESO	554

THE RESUMPTION OF SPECIE PAYMENTS	560

CONDITIONS FOR AMERICAN COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL	571

silver Comparison with other industriesMarket value in 1892 only 37000000Insignificant	577

THE MONEY OF THE NATION SHALL IT BE GOOD OR BAD?	583

Farm Prices and Silver	592

Our Foreign Markets	599

Free CoinageForced Currency	605

Interest	611

Title	Sound Currency, Volume 3
Contributor	Reform Club (New York, N.Y.). Sound Currency Committee
Publisher	Sound Currency Committee of the Reform Club, 1896
Original from	the University of Michigan
Digitized	12 Nov 2009

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