3. It will not expand or contract the currency; so that the opposite parties on these questions may support it.
4. Under it the banks will gradually strengthen themselves and prepare to resume specie payments.
5. It will give the South and West the opportunity to organize banks, and will interest those parts of the country to this extent in the national securities and the national banking system, by which both will be strengthened.
6. It will within a reasonable time relieve the country of the whole greenback system, and thus dispose of an important question.
7. It will hasten the return to specie payments.
Now I believe every one of these reasons is valid, and I commend them to my excellent friend from Ohio.
The bill was then laid on the table, and ordered to be printed.