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Show NOT ALWAYS I N FALLIBLE. In the course of an article on the recent re-cent Mining congress at Denver, the Tribune, in referring to a resolution passed by the congress held in the same city last June, says: Of course that means absolute free coinage; it means more than the law stated up to 1873, because after 1 STiM, while the silver dollar remained the the unit of values in the United States, the mint had ceased to receive and com silver bullion for holders, but bought the bullion and coined it. A copy of a pamphlet before us entitled en-titled "A brief history of coinage legislation legis-lation in the United States;" "Treasury Department. Document No. 1458, Secretary," Secre-tary," states just this, no more aud no less, concerning the coinage act of 1853: "The law of February 21, 1853, withdrew with-drew the right from individuals to have silver pieces of less value than one dollar dol-lar coined at the mint, and reduced the weight of such pieces about 8J per cent, limiting the paying power to $5. "The coinage of silver dollars remained re-mained free to individuals. This law imposed a coinage charge of per cent for gold and for silver-dollars. "The quantity of pure silver in the dollar, as lixed by the act of April 2, 1792, was not changed from that date down to the present time; but the weight of the silyer coins of less denomination de-nomination than the dollar was reduced re-duced from 4121 grains to 384 grains of standard silver per dollar, of nominal value, by the act of February 21, 1853, which fixed the weight of the half-dollar at 192 grains, and the quarter-collar, dime and half-dime at one-haVen,vie-fifth and one-tenth of a half-j? riand The Tribune assumes to bW'tatractive Ience on the matter of coina ..tii,. some other papers it does occasionM' make bad breaks. Its editor can yet find some profitable reading by perusal of documents bearing upon finances. - |