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CONGRESS, UNITED STATES. 



of the President to the contrary notwithstand- 

 ing." 



In the House, on April 29th, Mr. Fort, of 

 Illinois, moved to suspend the rules and pass a 

 bill to forbid the further retirement of the 

 United States legal-tender notes. 



The bill was read. It provides that from 

 and after the passage of the act it shall not be 

 lawful for the Secretary of the Treasury or 

 other officer under him to cancel or retire any 

 more of the United States legal-tender notes, 

 and that when any of said notes may be re- 

 deemed or be received into the Treasury under 

 any law from any source whatever and shall 

 belong to the United States, they shall not be 

 retired, canceled, or destroyed, but they shall 

 be reissued and paid out again and kept in 

 circulation, provided that nothing therein shall 

 prohibit the cancellation and destruction of 

 mutilated notes and the issue of other notes 

 of like denominations in their stead, as now 

 provided by law, and that all acts and parts of 

 acts in conflict with the act are hereby re- 

 pealed. 



The question recurred upon ordering the 

 yeas and nays, and -there were 58 in the affir- 

 mative. So the yeas and nays were ordered. 



The question was taken, as follows : 



YEAS Messrs. Acklen, Aiken, Aldrich, Atkins, 

 John H. Baker, Banning, Bayne, Beebe, Bell, Bene- 

 dict, Bicknell, Blackburn, Blount, Boone, Bouck, 

 Boyd, Bragg, Bridges, Brogden, Browne, Buckner, 

 Bundy, Burchard, Burdick, Cabell, Cain, John W. 

 Caldwell, W. P. Caldwell, Campbell, Candler, Can- 

 non, Caswell, Chalmers, Alvah A. Clark, Rush Clark, 

 Clarke of Kentucky, Clymer, Cobb, Cole, Conger, 

 Cook, Jacob D. Cox, Cravens, Crittenden, Culberson, 

 Cummings, Cutler, Danford, Davidson, Dean, Deer- 

 ing, Dibrell, Douglas, Dunnell, Durham, Eden, Elam, 

 Errett, Ewing, Felton, Finley, Forney, Fort, Foster, 

 Franklin, Fuller, Gardner, Garth, Giddings, Glover, 

 Gunter. Hale, Hamilton, Hanna, Harden bergh, Henry 

 R. Harris, John T. Harris, Hartridge, Hartzell, Has- 

 kell, Hatcher, Hayes, Hazelton, Henderson, Herbert, 

 G. W. Hewitt, House, Humphrey, Hunter, Ittner, 

 James T. Jones, John S. Jones, Jorgensen, Kei- 

 fer, Keightley, Kelley, Knapp, Knott, Landers, La- 

 throp, Ligon, Lockwood, Luttrell, Lynde, Mackey, 

 Maish, Manning, Marsh, Martin, Mayham, McGow- 

 an, McKenzie, McKinley, McMahon, Metcalfe, Mills, 

 Mitchell, Morgan, Morrison, Muldrow, Neal, Oliver, 



Overton, Page, G'. W. Patterson, T. M. Patterson^ 

 Phillips, Pollard, Pound, Price, Rainey, Randolph, 



Southard, Sparks, Springer, Steele, Stephens, John 

 W. Stone, Joseph C. Stone, Strait, Swann, Thomp- 



son, Thornburnrh, Tipton, Amos Townsend, R. \V. 

 Townshend, Tucker, Vance, Walker, Walsh, Warn- 

 er, Welch, Harry White, Michael D. White, Wig- 

 ginton, C. G. Williams, Jere. N. Williams, A. S. 

 Willis, Willits, Wilson, Wren, and Wright 177. 



NAYs-Messrs. Bacon, William H. Baker, Blair, 

 Briggs, Camp, Chittenden, Claflin, Covert, Crapo 

 Horace Davis, Eames, Eickhoff, Frye, Garfield, Gib- 

 son,Hendee, Hisoock, Hungerford, Jovce, Ketcham, 

 tojl am Coring, Monroe, Norcross, Potter, Pugh, 

 William ^ . Rice, G. D. Robinson, Sinnickson, A. 



J er AV? ifch ' S , te ^ er ; Ward > Kich ard Williams, Benj. 

 A. Willis, and Wood 35. 



NOT VOTING Messrs. Bagley, Ballou, Banks, Bis- 



Jolm H. Evins, Freeman, Gause, Goode, Harmer, 

 Benjamin W. Harris, Harrison, Hart, Henkle, Henry, 

 Abram S. Hewitt, Hooker, Hubbell, Hunton, Janie's, 

 Frank Jones, Kenna, Killinger, Kimmel, Lindsey, 

 McCook, Money, Morse, Muller, O'Neill, Peddie, 

 Phelps, Powers, Pridemore, Quinn, Reed, Reilly, 

 Riddle, Roberts, Ross, Scales, Schleicher, Sexton, 

 Shallenberger, Starin, Stewart, Throckmorton. M. 

 I. Townsend, Turner, Turney, Van Vorhes, Veeder, 

 Waddell, Wait, Watson, Whitthorne, A. S. Williams, 

 Andrew Williams, James Williams, Yeates, and 

 Young 77. 



So (two thirds voting in favor thereof) the 

 rules were suspended, and the bill was passed. 



The Senate, on May 28th, resumed the con- 

 sideration of the bill to forbid the further re- 

 tirement of legal-tender notes. 



Mr. Bayard, of Delaware, said : u I offer the 

 following amendment : After the word ' cir- 

 culation,' in line 10, insert: 



Provided, That the said notes, when so issued, 

 shall be receivable for all dues to the United States, 

 except duties on imports, and not to be otherwise a 

 legal tender ; and any reprint of the said notes shall 

 bear this superscription." 



The Presiding Officer : "The question is on 

 the amendment of the Senator from Delaware-" 



Mr. Bayard : " Mr. President, it will be ob- 

 served that the reissue of the present demand 

 Treasury notes of the United States is by this 

 bill authorized, after they ' shall have become 

 the property of the United States' ; by which 

 I understand that they shall have been paid by 

 the United States ; and I understand the propo- 

 sition is now deliberately made, in a time of 

 profound peace, in the presence of no emer- 

 gency, under no stress whatever of political 

 exigency, that it is competent for the Congress 

 of the United States, not only to issue the notes 

 of the Government upon the credit of the Gov- 

 ernment, but to accompany them with a com- 

 pulsory clause that they shall be receivable in 

 payment of all debts and contracts between 

 other and third parties. 



u I have proposed by the amendment I offer 

 that these notes are to be receivable for public 

 dues of the Government. That fact being 

 known, the party who contracts with the Gov- 

 ernment will arrange his prices accordingly, 

 and if the notes be worth par or more than 

 par he will perform his services upon that cal- 

 culation. No one will be deceived, no one will 

 be wronged, and every one will have an inter- 

 est that the Government credit shall be as high 

 as the credit of any other party, public or pri- 

 vate. But I have excluded the payment of 

 duties upon imports in the amendment, 

 know that there is a proposition before the 

 Senate that the duties on imports shall be made 

 payable in Treasury notes. When the Gov- 

 ernment of the United States issued these notes 

 in 1862, they enacted a law which has remained 

 unrepealed upon the statute book from that 

 day to this, and which of its own force has 



