| Show TEST ACT Claim that list In Silver Coin I Us eon Washington Jan DA record and brief brito have been r received cled by the clerk ot of the Supreme Court of the United States Statu In n a case caso from the supreme court of that may n a bearing on the tho Question It Itis Itis is the case ot of Baker Daker vs S Baldwin In which F A Baker n a Michigan I ka to le test t the constitutionality of oC the act making the eli sll eliver ver er dollar of at grains ot of pure silver IL I full Cull and unlimited legal tender In the payment of at all debts debu public and printe vate Mr Baker claims that the act of 1873 establishing the tho gold old dollar of 2322 grains of oC pure gold M as the stand standard ard o of value Is Ue the only valid Bet act In existence making coined money n a full legal lelal tender and that lint III lI contract utica since entered Into In without stipulation no M to the kInd ot of money can be settled only In gold dot dol mrs or In United d States notes To re redeemable In gold lIe He contends that the tho act acl Is unconstitutional the tho bullion value ot of the Ule sliver silver doll dollar r nt at the dote date of oC the passage o ot that lint act acl and ever since then hM has been less than the tho value of oC the gold rold dollar and that Con Congress gross gress has no right under the power to coIn money to issue n ft debased 1 coin and to make It an unlimited t tender whore no provision Is made for tor Its redemption In coIn ot of full CUll value alue Mr Baker Is nn an advocate of oC silver and In 1896 was chairman of the Demo Democratic cratic State central committee ot of Mich Ian but h he believes that the new lIew standard 1 ot of value ahle which would re result front the of should be adopted for future futuro contracts only and that all existing pUblic and debts contracted since 1873 should be pal paid In gold unless the lie con contract contract tract provides for the pay trient ot of some other kind ot of money mone |
