CHAPTER XXVII.

MY CONFIDENCE IN THE SUCCESS OF RESUMPTION. Tendency of Democratic Members of Both Houses to Exaggerate the Evil Times--Debate Over the Bill to Provide for Issuing Silver Coin in Place of Fractional Currency--The Coinage Laws of the United States and Other Countries--Joint Resolution for the Issue of Silver Coins--The "Trade Dollar" Declared Not to Be a Legal Tender--My Views on the Free Coinage of Silver--Bill to Provide for the Completion of the Washington Monument--Resolution Written by Me on the 100th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence--Unanimously Passed in a Day by Both Houses--Completion of the Structure Under the Act.