The Congressional Globe, Band 5Blair & Rives, 1837 |
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... demand- ed from it as among its first duties ; and an omis- sion to aid and regulate commercial exchange , is treated as a ground of loud and serious complaint . Such results only serve to exemplify the constant desire , among some of ...
... demand- ed from it as among its first duties ; and an omis- sion to aid and regulate commercial exchange , is treated as a ground of loud and serious complaint . Such results only serve to exemplify the constant desire , among some of ...
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... demands of the Treasury , and numerous and pressing applications were made for indulgence or relief . As the ... demand . This circumstance no fluctuation of commerce could have produced , if the public revenue had been collected ...
... demands of the Treasury , and numerous and pressing applications were made for indulgence or relief . As the ... demand . This circumstance no fluctuation of commerce could have produced , if the public revenue had been collected ...
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... demand ; and Congress , to guard against the slightest violation of this princi- ple , have declared , by law , that if notes are paid in the transactions of the Government , it must be under such circumstances as to enable the holder ...
... demand ; and Congress , to guard against the slightest violation of this princi- ple , have declared , by law , that if notes are paid in the transactions of the Government , it must be under such circumstances as to enable the holder ...
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... demand payment in the legal currency . To provide by law that the Government will only receive its dues in gold and silver , is not to confer on it any peculiar privilege ; but merely to place it on an equality with the citizen , by ...
... demand payment in the legal currency . To provide by law that the Government will only receive its dues in gold and silver , is not to confer on it any peculiar privilege ; but merely to place it on an equality with the citizen , by ...
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... demand a firm adherence , in the mail service , to the standard of value , and the basis of contracts , prescribed by the Constitution , and hith- erto strictly maintained , ( except for a short period , ) amidst the calamities of war ...
... demand a firm adherence , in the mail service , to the standard of value , and the basis of contracts , prescribed by the Constitution , and hith- erto strictly maintained , ( except for a short period , ) amidst the calamities of war ...
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Abraham McClellan adjourned adopted Alabama Allen amendment amount Arphaxed Loomis bill bonds Buchanan Calhoun called Calvary Morris CAMBRELENG cause Charles Shepard circulation committee Congress Constitution creditors currency debt deposite act deposite banks deposite law depositories disbursing drafts duty election Elisha Whittlesey Executive existing expenditures favor fourth instalment funds further enacted gentleman from Virginia gold and silver Government Heman Allen House interest John Calhoon loan Loomis means measure ment Messrs millions of dollars mittee Morris motion moved national bank object officers opinion paid paper passed postpone present President proposed proposition public money purpose question received relief remarks resolution revenue Rice Garland Rives Robert McClellan Samson Mason Secretary Senate session Sherrod Williams South Carolina specie payments submitted surplus sury tion Trea Treasury notes Union United States Bank vernment vote Whittlesey whole Williams yeas and nays
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Seite 34 - All incidental questions of order arising after a motion is made for the previous question, and pending such motion, shall be decided, whether on appeal or otherwise, without debate.
Seite 22 - Treasury note aforesaid ; or shall falsely alter, or cause or procure to be falsely altered, or willingly aid or assist in falsely altering, any...
Seite 23 - That if any person shall falsely make, forge, or counterfeit, or cause...
Seite 23 - ... or cause or suffer the same to be used in forging or counterfeiting any of the notes...
Seite 13 - ... by the Secretary of the Treasury, with the approbation of the President of the United States...
Seite 34 - It shall be the duty of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds to consider all subjects relating to the public edifices and grounds within the city of Washington...
Seite 23 - ... be falsely altered or spurious, every such person shall be deemed and adjudged guilty of felony, and being thereof convicted by due course of law, shall be sentenced to be imprisoned and kept at hard labor...
Seite 5 - ... exchange is treated as a ground of loud and serious complaint. Such results only serve to exemplify the constant desire among some of our citizens to enlarge the powers of the Government and extend its control to subjects with which it should not interfere.
Seite 4 - June, 1836, and the measures adopted by the foreign creditors of our merchants to reduce their debts and to withdraw from the United States a large portion of our specie. However unwilling any of our citizens may heretofore have been to assign to these causes the chief instrumentality in producing the present state of things, the...
Seite 9 - ... be overlooked, will feel at once the necessity and justice of uniting their energies with those of the mercantile interest. The suspension of specie payments at such a time and under such circumstances as we have lately witnessed could not be other than a temporary measure, and we can scarcely err in believing that the period must soon arrive when all that are solvent will redeem their issues in gold and silver.