Financial bill, "to firmly fix gold as the standard of value in unequivocal terms, made fully operative by all proper safeguards, and dispel all lingering doubt from the mind of the public, relative to its monetary standard, is the object of the legislation proposed"

from the remarks of Hon. Jesse Overstreet, of Indiana, delivered in the House of Representatives, Monday, December 11, 1899, and Tuesday, March 13, 1900