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Show BLAND HAS A COINAGE BILL. Washington, Dpc. 18. Representative Representa-tive Bland of Missouri will move to strike out ail after the enacting clause in the Carlisle currency bill now before the house of representatives and .sub stituie a measure he has prepared for a currency sys ;m based on coin and coin notes. Mr. Bland's plan does not interfere in-terfere with the existing national bank system, but Instead of allowing banks to issue notes, as the Carlisle plan proposes, pro-poses, Mr. Bland proposes that the government issue the notes, calling them coin note.. These are to be redeemed re-deemed in gold and silver coin and the government is to coin both metals. The Bland measure would have been offered as a substitute for the pending Dili,, but as Mr. Walker of Massachusetts Massachu-setts has given notice of presenting . a substitute embodying the republican view ot the Bubject, Mr. Bland's plan will be offered in connection . with a motion to strike out all after the above The Bland bill provides for the free coinage of silver and for the deposit of gold and silver bullion and the issuance of legal tender notes upon it. -The bul lion is ' to be subsequently coined and the ooin notes are to be redeemed in irold and silver without discrimination as may be most advantageous to the government. Provision is also made lor issuing coin notes on standard silver sil-ver coin. All the outstanding gold and silver certificates are to be retired and coin notes are to be substitued therefore. there-fore. Provision is also made for the redemption re-demption of outstanding greenbacks and treasury notes in gold and silver coin without discrimination. An emersency fund is created so that in case of panic or money stringency the secretary of the treasury may, on deposit de-posit of United fctates interest-bearing bonds, issue to depositors of the bonds coin notes." Interest on such bonds iB to go to the government while they are on deposit, and should they mature while on deposit they are to be cancelled. |