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The bill reported by the committee on finance thus provides for an immediate resumption of specie payments in silver coin, and thus completes the first and most difficult step of the problem.
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Sherman described a bill that would enable the immediate resumption of specie payments in silver coin, addressing a significant financial issue.
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It was the same old story of injustice and wrong, of might against right.
It is not in my blood and these gentlemen cannot put it there.
They want disunion, and not compromise or conciliation.
I wrote an adverse report, but it was suppressed in the committee.
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