| Show AMERICAN MERICAN GOLD OLD COINS I N Oct 31 1701 the tho or orthe r OV 0 the Iho United ll tc MOrVIN King n tU Henry a 1 t to ft It bill biti for tha th ot or n Z mint Seven weeks Il t later Mr tr Morris reported 1 rt it t bill ll tn tl u tt mint and an to ti regu regulate late tha tho national coinage Mi Th 2 debated the bill Doe Dee 2 and anil 27 i and Tall JAIl 2 3 4 f 5 ami jg 0 ft I On the flie last In t named duy Ilu them thelo nl to place upon she hI ob oh h was t iI a It I verse of tIC till the hr silver Hilver strut copper coin n It ItEi of ot hands and Ei lit It tIu Ihl union of nt Ihu thu 1 upon the reverse relIC the Ih fig 1 V ine 1110 III C of justice bearing tho thI mills but It ItI I was t defeated On Jan Jun 12 I the tho bill passed the Iho With a n provision lon Hint iho tho coins bear I m the tIit head of or the thu ot OC the United States for the Limo being bInt b 4 with nn un inscriPtIon to It express thu tho Initial loiter Itter I of or if his hi name n and hut bit bl blId Id In Iii full Cull together with the I j l ot or the tho presidency IW III II expressed OH on the titi other hIL were worl to lo be an un eagle panto and tnt other devices This FhI bill to It the house Jan Jun 13 1792 neil and wit Will to 10 the thc lit tee of or the tIie whole On Oil March Murch 21 I the hill bill came up liP In hi committee of t the Ih whole and an un amendment was wu proposed striking ing In wit out all nil that looked to the UIl In ot the thc presidents clIg and lInd name V upon the Ihl coins colna und and providing In III lieu litti of ot It nn on emblematic head of ut Liberty with the word tord This Title amendment on n u CIn debito to In which a II good gOU many members r took pert the tile men who afterward called themselves Republicans or ur Democratic Republicans In Iii favor of Ct tho the amend V ment the tho Federalists mostly In op irn opposition position Ono member objected to the presidents head on the tIit coinage tin 11 savoring of uC the of monarch monarchies ies les which had IllI title tills method methol of ot handing down town Jo u the Ignorant tho names Caine und tutu succession slon of I their heir unto mon monarchs ti archs The Scriptural phrase Hen Ren Render Hender V der tier unto occur the things Hint ore aro Caesars unto un In God Goti Go 1 the thc things are aio Gods G was Willi recalled It was ns argued on the other Ride ilIc that the effigy Whit was a n proper till trib tribute ute Uto to 10 OIl to which a mem member 11 ln ber h 1 responded 1 that while every eclY one otte might be bo glad gla thus to 10 honor the man then president there might bo he fu future future ture lure presidents whose heads the tho full peo people p pIe would would care to tee upon the coins robe After Ater the question unit Imd been ridi ridiculed 11 11 by b one ono as te too ttO trivial for so o much waste of ol it time thou und and tb tIl amendment n hail hen been seriously urged V tn lii speeches ornate with to tn Roman history the Iho question was slie divid divided ed NI il nut tile the h u e voted 26 23 to 10 22 that tho the n Otilie mm ma and tigy ig of the president not upon the tho It I WAR wn then voted 12 n to tn n G that the em olti b of o Liberty should he h I substituted for the design proposed by bythe b bythe I the Two jwo days Inter the bill u nit liS am Milled pawed d by hy a II vote ot nt of ot 32 to 22 2 On the thu very tn y intuit tiny the r I turned tide tho Ih bill to the lie hatlee with wILh tint Ii V of f C from rein the thc nm Th Tile houi Ii nine willi not mIL pleased tit lit this Ii Is prompt Pt notion of at the As Ait A the lilt tit sessions f of oC the latter lutter hOlly body wore were III In those I days and very N reported In tile Annul A of Congress I Ith the th nature of ot the tiit debate In III the ti In III unknown Their Will more mOl discussion ItI Lou In I ii the th I lie house hOIl e thU tithe time LIme with further i of or all 1111 and oC o If roy royalty rn ally alty Mr fiercer thought ht It would ho lie howell well teil to tn have tor for the thu house ot o representatives some rule as ott that bitt of or orthe the British hourn Imul of commons forbid forbidding ding the mention of Cit tile the nn name nume III In debate and Mr 1111 Page he lie would lather rathel rut ut oft nIT ht h bile 3 right term arm titan than RII the tho mint hill hilt without tho the V The Th house Ii pied to In I n UK ftc It amendment in II IIi i by hI a n vote of o 24 to 83 32 add alid next lIllY day March 27 21 2 1732 tile the senate receded ft toni tun Its ill disagreement New York Yirk Sun I |
