The committee, therefore, recommended that both the notes and bonds should be received in exchange for the funding bonds, and that the notes should be reissued and maintained at par with coin, and be supported by a reserve of coin ample to maintain the notes at par with coin.
Sherman supports a plan to stabilize currency by allowing notes and bonds to be exchanged and maintained at par with coin.
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It was the same old story of injustice and wrong, of might against right.
I wrote an adverse report, but it was suppressed in the committee.
You have all contributed, more or less, in perverting the public mind as to our principles and purposes.
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