 | United States. Supreme Court - 1901 - 1148 pages
...constitutionally, secure the benefit of it to the people by appropria'te legislation. To this end, Congress lias denied the quality of legal tender to foreign coins,...uniform currency for the country must be futile." Bank v. Fenno [supra]; Ватис v. US By the Constitution of the United States, the several States... | |
 | Horace La Fayette Wilgus - 1902 - 1056 pages
...community, in respect to a circulating medium, as perfectly as any mixed currency that can be devised. questioned that congress may, constitutionally, secure...and uniform currency for the country must be futile. Viewed in this light, as well as in the other light of a duty on contracts or property, we can not... | |
 | Bar Association of the State of Kansas - 1905 - 404 pages
...Congress may restrain by suitable enactments, the circulation as money of any notes not issued under its authority. Without this power, indeed, its attempts to secure a sound and uniform currency for this country must be futile." To the doctrines announced in this case of Veazie Bank v. Fenno, 8 Wall.... | |
 | Nebraska State Bar Association - 1909 - 280 pages
...circulation as money of any notes not issued under its authority. Without this power, indeed, its attempt to secure a sound and uniform currency for the country must be futile." Veazie Bank vs. Fenno, 8 Wall., 533. And this reasoning was subsequently accepted by the court as a... | |
 | Westel Woodbury Willoughby - 1910 - 728 pages
...tender to foreign coins, and has provided by law against the imposition of counterfeit and base coin in the community. To the same end, Congress may restrain,...and uniform currency for the country must be futile. Viewed in this light, as well as in the other light of a duty on contracts or property, we cannot doubt... | |
 | Willis Seaver Paine - 1910 - 874 pages
...Congress may restrain, by suitable enactments, the circulation as mon«y any notes not issued under its authority. Without this power, indeed, its attempts...and uniform currency for the country must be futile' (p. 549, 19 L. ed. 488). " The tax thus laid is not on the obligation, but on its use in a particular... | |
 | James Laurence Laughlin - 1912 - 452 pages
...community. In respect to a circulating medium, as perfectly as any mixed currency that can be devised. "Having thus, in the exercise of undisputed constitutional...uniform currency for the country must be futile." 8 Wall., 648-49. In Hepburn v. Griswold, 8 Wall. 603 (1870), the majority of the court said : "Let... | |
 | Harold Edgar Barnes - 1915 - 376 pages
...Congress may restrain by suitable enactments, the circulation as money of any notes not issued under its authority. Without this power, indeed, its attempts...secure a sound and uniform currency for the country would be futile. Viewed in this light, as well as in the other light of a duty on contracts or property,... | |
 | Eugene Wambaugh - 1915 - 1106 pages
...enactments, the circul.t- _t 11 tion as money of any notes not issued under its own authority. ,) 0 ' Without this power, indeed, its attempts to secure a sound and (/uniform currency tor the country lliUBt EeTTutile. Viewed in this light, as well as in the other light of a duty on... | |
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Having thus, in the exercise of undisputed constitutional powers, undertaken to provide a currency for the whole country, it cannot be questioned that Congress may, constitutionally, secure the benefit of it to the people by appropriate legislation. To... 
