The Financial History of the United States, from 1861 to 1885: By Albert S. Bolles, Volume 3D. Appleton, 1886 - 585 páginas |
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... bonds and treasury - notes.1 This action of the secretary has been regarded by many as proof that he was a believer in fiat money from the very out- set of his administration . Those who think so perhaps do not understand the nature of ...
... bonds and treasury - notes.1 This action of the secretary has been regarded by many as proof that he was a believer in fiat money from the very out- set of his administration . Those who think so perhaps do not understand the nature of ...
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... bonds for a part of the loan and these notes for the balance . On the 11th of May the secretary advertised proposals for the balance of the February loan , amounting to $ 8,994 , - 000. The war had been begun by the attack on Fort Sum ...
... bonds for a part of the loan and these notes for the balance . On the 11th of May the secretary advertised proposals for the balance of the February loan , amounting to $ 8,994 , - 000. The war had been begun by the attack on Fort Sum ...
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... bonds bearing not more than seven per cent interest , payable semi - annually , redeemable after twenty years at the pleasure of the United States , or he could issue treasury - notes in such proportions as he might deem advisable of ...
... bonds bearing not more than seven per cent interest , payable semi - annually , redeemable after twenty years at the pleasure of the United States , or he could issue treasury - notes in such proportions as he might deem advisable of ...
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... bonds he was authorized to issue , $ 100,000,000 could be negotiated in Europe . This was the first law that authorized the secretary of the treasury to borrow money . For seventy years that authority had been granted to the President ...
... bonds he was authorized to issue , $ 100,000,000 could be negotiated in Europe . This was the first law that authorized the secretary of the treasury to borrow money . For seventy years that authority had been granted to the President ...
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... bonds to them , at a rate equivalent to par , for bonds bearing seven per cent interest .. This negotiation , though less favorable to the government— considered purely as a money transaction - than the two prior loans , in some ...
... bonds to them , at a rate equivalent to par , for bonds bearing seven per cent interest .. This negotiation , though less favorable to the government— considered purely as a money transaction - than the two prior loans , in some ...
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The Financial History of the United States: From 1861 to 1885 Albert Sidney Bolles Visualização completa - 1886 |
The Financial History of the United States, from 1861 to 1885 Albert Sidney Bolles Visualização completa - 1886 |
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amendment amount annual appropriations authorized bank circulation bank-notes bankers bill bonds cent interest certificates certificates of deposit chap Chase coin committee Congress contract creditors currency declared demand deposits depreciation dollars duties effect enacted exchange existed expenditures favor Fessenden fiat money fiscal five per cent five-twenty fractional currency frauds free banking fund furnished gold House hundred imports increased indebtedness inflation internal revenue issue July lawful money legal tender legal-tender notes less loan manufacturers March measure ment millions months national banks New-York officers paid paper money passed payable persons produced profits public debt question rate of interest received recommended redeem redemption reduced repeal resumption second session secretary securities Senate Sherman silver six per cent six-per-cent specie payments speculation stocks suspended tariff taxation tion treasury department treasury-notes United United-States notes York
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Página 259 - ... expressly withheld from congress by the constitution; we are irresistibly impelled to the conclusion that the impressing upon the treasury notes of the United States the quality of being a legal tender in payment of private debts is an appropriate means, conducive and plainly adapted to the execution of the undoubted powers of congress, consistent with the letter and spirit of the constitution, and therefore within the meaning of that instrument, "necessary and proper for carrying into execution...
Página 564 - First. A summary of the state and condition of every association from which reports have been received the preceding year, at the several dates to which such reports refer, with an abstract of the whole amount of banking capital returned by them, of the whole amount of their debts and liabilities, the amount of circulating notes outstanding, and the total amount of means and resources, specifying the amount of lawful money held by them at the times of their several returns, and such other information...
Página 558 - That, while providing revenue for the support of the General Government by duties upon imports, sound policy requires such an adjustment of these imposts as to encourage the development of the industrial interests of the whole country...
Página 560 - We therefore demand that the imposition of duties on foreign imports shall be made not "for revenue only," but that in raising the requisite revenues for the Government, such duties shall be so levied as to afford security to our diversified industries, and protection to the rights and wages of the laborer, to the end that active and intelligent labor, as well as capital, may have its just reward, and the laboring man his full share in the national prosperity.
Página 557 - That justice and sound policy forbid the Federal Government to foster one branch of industry to the detriment of another, or to cherish the interests of one portion of the country to the injury of another portion of our common country...
Página 560 - Democratic party is pledged to revise the tariff in a spirit of fairness to all interests. But in making reduction in taxes, it is not proposed to injure any domestic industries, but rather to promote their healthy growth.
Página 317 - ... that the faith of the United States is solemnly pledged to the pay-ment in coin or its equivalent of all the obligations of the United States not bearing interest, known as United States notes, and of all the interest-bearing obligations of the United States, except in cases where the law authorizing the issue of any such obligation has expressly provided that the same may be paid in lawful money or other currency than gold and silver.
Página 263 - The gradual reduction of the currency is the only measure that can save the business of the country from disastrous calamities; and this can be almost imperceptibly accomplished by gradually funding the national circulation in securities that may be made redeemable at the pleasure of the Government.
Página 55 - The provision making United States notes a legal tender ¡has, doubtless, been well considered by the committee, and their conclusion needs no support from any observation of mine. I think it my duty, however, to say that, in respect to this provision, my reflections have conducted me to the same conclusions they have reached.
Página 98 - ... lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States, except duties on imports and interest as aforesaid.