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Debate of December 19, 1895.Question: Resolved, That the legal tender notes should be retired and destroyed at the earlicst possible date...
...Legal-tender paper money is recognized as dangerous by economists and financiers.- (a) The legal-tender acts were passed as war measures: Cong. Globe, 1861-62 p. 523.- (b) A speedy redemption was anticipated: Cong. Globe, 1861-62 (Speeches on legal-tender bills).- (c) The Republicans passed an act almost unanimously to retire greenbacks, Dec. 18, 1865: Nation, LXI, 380.- (d) March 18, 1869. Congress passed an act solemnly pledging itself to make early provision for redemption of the United States notes in coin: E. C. Mason's Veto Power, S 61.- (e) President Grant urged Congress to retire...
Question: "Resolved, That the legal tender notes should be retired and destoyed at the earliest possible date...
...committee appointed from the Union and the Forum to select a subject for the Harvard-Princeton debate have forwarded to Princeton the following question: "Resolved, That Congress should take immediate steps toward the complete retirement of all the legal tender notes." It remains for Princeton to choose which side she will support...
...Should the Government retire the legal tender notes...