Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 107, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1899 — WHITE DOLLARS ARE SCARCE. [ARTICLE]

WHITE DOLLARS ARE SCARCE.

Uncle fam Will Not Now Take Gold in Excbinee for liver. It may be an astonishing tatement to say that the United States Government refuses to accept gold of its own coinage in exchange for silver dollars, but that is what at least one sub-treasurer is actually doing. The complaint comes from St Louis, where the sub-treasurer declines to exchange silver dollars except for silver certificates. Neither goid nor bank notes will tempt the white coins from his vaults. It is quite possible for the United States treasury to reach a point where a general order will be is-' sued to all sub-treasurers forbidding them to exchange silver dollars for gold, national bank notes or any other form of currency except silver certificates. Uncle Sam presents the remarkable spectacle of trying to get rid of gold and of hoarding silver. The treasury stock of fractional silver is down to $6,466,899, •nd there is no law for buying any more bullion for this coinage. Government officials fear the entire stock of small silver will be called into circulation before Congress can take action to meet the great demand. 4. Bettina Girard, ah actress, once prominent in Washington end New York* who has been living a degraded life, has reformed* She will become a nurse in a New York hospital.