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Sherman Silver Purchase Act

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supporters wanted. It increased the amount of silver the government was required to purchase on a recurrent monthly basis to 4.5 million ounces. The Sherman Silver Purchase Act had been passed in response to the growing complaints of farmers' and miners' interests. Farmers had immense debts that
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that could be redeemed for either silver or gold. The result was the substantial expansion in the volume of circulating dollars without a proportionate growth in the gold stock. The crash in the silver dollar's bullion value in the 1890s from 80 cents to approximately 50 cents increased public
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to settle differences between the Senate and House versions of the Act. Sherman was instrumental in getting the conference committee to reach agreement on a final draft of the Act. Nonetheless, once agreement on the final version was reached in the conference committee, Sherman found that he
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Under the Act, the federal government purchased millions of ounces of silver, with issues of paper currency. It became the second-largest buyer in the world, after the British Crown in India, where the
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Originally, the bill was simply known as the Silver Purchase Act of 1890. Only after the bill was signed into law did it become the "Sherman Silver Purchase Act." Senator
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anxiety on their continued ability to convert silver dollars and banknotes into gold. The result was a run on the Treasury's gold stock and the onset of the
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summoned an emergency session of Congress on August 7, 1893, for the repeal of the act to prevent the further depletion of the government's gold reserves.
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disagreed with many sections of the act. So tepid was Sherman's support that when he was asked his opinion of the act by President
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President Cleveland Message on the Repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act
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of 1878, the US government was now required to purchase 4.5 million
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Allen, Larry (1999). "Sherman Silver Act of 1890 (United States)".
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The measure did not authorize the free and unlimited coinage of
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Van Dusen, Laura King (2013). "Sherman Silver Purchase Act".
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for the entire series, creating several scarce coins.
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was backed by silver rather than gold. Instead of the
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per ounce. By the end of the year, it had fallen to
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