While embodying the original proposition of substituting bank-notes for greenbacks, it provides for the refunding and consolidation of the national debt in such a way as to make it easy to bear, while it brings the existing currency to a par with coin.
Sumner describes the dual purpose of his bill to stabilize currency and manage national debt.
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