...; but on the contrary, a series of measures looking to a safe and gradual return to gold and silver as the only permanent basis, standard and measure of value recognized by the Constitution." — Annual Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, 1862. This gentleman was no believer in fiat money....

...Department, recommended a series of measures looking to a safe and gradual return to gold ard silver as the only permanent basis, standard, and measure of value recognized by the constitution. The countries that bought our . bonds from 1861-1873, Holland, France and Germany, all had a silver...

...scheme, but on the contrary a series of measures looking to a safe and gradual return to gold and silver as the only permanent basis, standard, and measure of value recognized by the Constitution." At the session of Congress before this report was made, the bill containing the legal tender clause...

...scheme, but on the contrary a scries of measures looking to a safe and gradual return to gold and silver as the only permanent basis, standard, and measure of value recognized by the Constitution." At the session of Congress before this report was made, the bill containing the legal tender clause...

...in a report to Congress less than a year after the law had been passed, he spoke of gold and silver as the " only permanent basis, standard, and measure of value recognized by the Constitution ". » 7 Wall. 249. It is not conceivable that Attorney General Hoar could have been ignorant of this...

...but, on the contrary, a series of measures looking to a safe and gradual return to gold and silver as the only permanent basis, standard, and measure of value recognized by the Constitution.' At the session of Congress before this report was made, the bill containing the legal-tender clause...