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Show A Teruionter Wrestliue with Silver. Yaabington,27. The amendments which Morrill of Vermont to-day submitted, and give notice that he should offer the pending bill in regard to silver coin, are as follows: To make the weight of the new silver dollar 550 grains instead ot 412 8.10 grain?, troy; to make its legal tender limit five dollars in any one payment instead of twenty dollars; to make the new silver dollar exchangeable by the secretary of the treasury for United rit.it s notei of denominations of ltss than five dollars, commencing with tho lowest instead of allowing allow-ing all United States DuteB to be thus retired, lo insert a new section providing pro-viding that after $50,000,000 ut the new silver dollars shall have been issued is-sued they shall thenceforth be issued only in exchange for gold notes al par; finally in the place of Bogy's amendment to fix the legal relative value of cold and silver at 15J to 1, Mr. Morrill proposes to make it 171 to 1. |