Word: tenderable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Word has at length been received from Princeton as to her choice of side for the debate. Princeton will support the affirmative of the question: "Resolved, That Congress should take immediate steps toward the complete retirement of all the legal tender notes." The debate, as before announced, will be held in Sanders Theatre, Friday, March 13. Each speaker will have first a twelve minute speech and in addition, according to the Princeton custom, five minutes for rebuttal...
...question, as already announced in the CRIMSON, will be: "Resolved, That Congress should take immediate steps toward the complete retirement of all the legal tender notes." The debate itself will be held in Sanders Theatre, on Friday, March...
Question: "Resolved, That the legal tender notes should be retired and destroyed at the earliest possible date...
sage of December, 1879 called the attention of Congress to the danger of legaltender notes: McPherson, Handbook, 1880, p. 7.- (g) Both England and France have issued legal-tender notes under circumstances similar to our issue, but retired them directly after the exigencies which demanded them were over: Forum...
...Legal-tender notes are a dangerous element in the finance of the United States.- (a) Their circulation is rigidamount is fixed by law: Act of May 31, 1878, Statutes at large, XX, 87.- (b) The government ought not to do a banking business.- (1) Government officials have neither personal nor material means to make a fiduciary currency flexible.- (a) Withdrawal would make the gold reserve unnecessary: Carlisle's Speech, in N. Y. Sun, Dec. 3, 1895.- (1) Maintenance of gold reserve has cost us at least $150,000,000 in the last two years.- (d) Whenever government reserve goes down...