People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1893 — AN AMERICAN DOLLAR. [ARTICLE]

AN AMERICAN DOLLAR.

A Proposition Offered in the Senate ftyr Senator Stewart of Nevada. Washington, Sept 19.—At the opening of tbesenate Senator Stewart (rep., Nev.) submitted an amendment to the silver repeal bill, authorizing the president to invite the governments of the republics of Mexj ico, Central and South Amer- ! ica, Hayti and San Domingo to s join the United States in a conference ■ to be held in Washington within four | months from the passage of the act to j; secure the- adoption of a common silver !■ coin( which, shall be a dollar of not more j: than 383.13 grains, nor less than 359.91 : grains of pure silver) to be issued by I each government, to be a legal tender in all commercial transactions between the citizens of all the American states. The amendment proposes |an innovation as to the charac- ! ter of the conference in that it | provides that the action of delegates shall be binding upon the government which sent them. When the common coin is agreed upon each government represented at. the conference shall open its mints to unlimited coinage for the benefit of depositors of silver bul- ! lion.