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Show DLAND-ALLISON ACT. t II.Mcnlwj.rln ! IK tontllloiieii. alllf la teprf mo I "It. Wathlngton, Jan II A record and brief hate been recelteil by the clerk of the eupreme court of the United B'ate In a cate from the upreroe court of Michigan that may hate a bearing on the financial question It I the cate of llaker t llaldwln In which Jr A llaker, a Michigan lawyer, aeeka to tett the constitutionality of the Illand-Alllton act. maklnif the allter dollar of 371 Jl grain of pure lltr a full and unlimited legal tender In the payment of all debt, public and prltate Mr llaker clalmt that ' the act of 173, calabllthlng the gold dollar of 93 M grain of pure gold a the atand ardoftaluel the only talld act In exlttenee making coined money a full legal tender and that all contract alnce entered Into payable in money without atlpulatlon a In the kind of money, can I ettled only In gold dollar or In United Htte note re dremahle In gold lie contend that the lllandAlllton act I unconstitutional becaute the bullion value of the allter dollar at the dale of the paatage of that act and eter alnce then ha been lea than the talue of the gold dol'ar ami that eon-gret eon-gret ha "no right nnder tho power to coin money to laaue a debaaed coin and to make It an unlimited tender, where no protltlon I made for It re demption In coin of full talue Mr llaker I a allter man, and In mo wat chairman of the Democratic) late committer but belletea the po. tltlon he hat taken la the true legal one and the cate la a friendly one to determine the matter |