 | James Madison, Henry Dilworth Gilpin - Constitutional history - 1840 - 702 pages
...notes, as far as they could be safe and proper ; and would only cut off the pretext for a paper-currency and particularly for making the bills a. tender, either for public or private debts. Mr. READ moved to strike out the clause, leaving the appointment of a Treasurer, as of other officers,... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals - Legal tender - 1863 - 254 pages
...MADISON, who became satisfied that striking out the words would not dis" able the government from the use of public notes, as far as they could be safe " and...only cut off the pretext for a paper currency, and, par" licularly, for making the bills a tender, either for public or private debts." Mr. CURTIS : I... | |
 | American periodicals - 1864 - 588 pages
...to do what the delegates from Virginia wished to do by the same vote, as Mr. Madison states, namely: 'Cut off the pretext for a paper currency, and particularly for making the bills a Under, either for public or private debts-.' So the Constitution does not confer the right to issue... | |
 | William B. Dana - Commerce - 1864 - 502 pages
...use of public notes, as/ar ns they could be sale and proper, and would only cut off the pretext of a paper currency, and particularly for making the bills a tender either for public nr pricate dfbts. (5 Elliott's Debates, 434, 435.) I do not know how those proceedings may strike other... | |
 | New Haven Colony Historical Society - Connecticut - 1865 - 400 pages
...Mr. Madison was " satisfied that striking out the words would not disable the government from the use of public notes, as far as they could be safe and...bills a tender eith'er for public or private debts."* In conclusion, the clause authorizing the emission of bills of credit was stricken out, nine states,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1909 - 746 pages
...that he " became satisfied that striking out the words would not disable the government from the use of public notes, as far as they could be safe and...bills a tender either for public or private debts."* If anything is manifest from these debates it is that the members of the Convention intended to withhold... | |
 | John Alexander Ferris - Business & Economics - 1867 - 400 pages
...satisfied that striking out the words would not disable the Government from the use of public notes, so far as they could be safe and proper, and would only cut off the pretext of a paper currency, and particularly for making the bills a tender either for public or private debts.... | |
 | John Alexander Ferris - Business & Economics - 1867 - 378 pages
...satisfied that striking out the words would not disable the Government from the use of public notes, so far as they could be safe and proper, and would only cut oft the pretext of a paper currency, and particularly for making the bills a tender either for public... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Edward Jordan Dimock, Samuel Hand, Hiram Edward Sickels, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Edwin Augustus Bedell, Alvah S. Newcomb, James Newton Fiero - Law reports, digests, etc - 1868 - 672 pages
...latter part of the clause was stricken out by the convention. Mr. Madison says that this was done to cut off the pretext for a paper currency, and particularly for making the bills a legal tender. These facts are urged to show that the power now in question was expressly and intentionally... | |
 | Elbridge Gerry Spaulding - Finance - 1869 - 268 pages
...he ' became satisfied that the striking out the words would not disable the Government from the use of public notes, as far as they could be safe and proper, and would only cut off the pretense lor a paper currency, and particularly for making bills a tender, either for public or private... | |
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Madison, who became satisfied that striking out the words would not disable the government from the use of public notes, so far as they could be safe and proper; and would only cut off the pretext for a paper currency, and particularly for making the... 
