Selected Speeches and Reports on Finance and Taxation, from 1859 to 1878

adopted amendment amount authorized bank circulation bank notes Bank of England bill bullion citizens claims coinage Committee on Finance Congress contract convert demand Democratic party depreciated duties effect estimated exchange favor February 25 five per cent five-twenty bonds four per cent fractional currency France free banking gold and silver gold coin Government greenbacks holder honorable House income tax increase issued labor legal tender legal-tender levied limit loan maintain measure ment millions national banks objection paid paper money payable present President principle production proposed proposition public credit public debt public faith question rate of interest redeem redemption reduce repeal Republican party resumption resumption act revenue Secretary securities seigniorage Senate silver coin silver dollar six per cent specie payments specie standard standard of value tariff taxation three per cent tion trade trade dollar treaty United States notes vote