"Legal tender" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... previous November, during the extra session, the House passed, under a suspension of the rules, a bill for the free coinage of silver dollars of 412-1/2 grains, full legal tender for all debts public and private. Mr. Richard P. Bland of Missouri was the author of the measure. The vote upon it stood 163 ayes to 34 noes, 93 members not voting. It was reported in the Senate with amendments, in December, and its discussion was superseded for the time by the resolution of ...
— Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) • James Gillespie Blaine |
