New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-08-25

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Its generally conceded that the estspll'hmo"' "
simple and correlated system OF internauona' 0o'e
IA in n high degree desirable, ana tnat Suon U.s.
should bo upon gold and metric basis; eolu I" 70
legal tender OF payment In Gil amounts "nno ,ars,
ano,,S ho srbs,d,ary an overvalued token and legal
teDSer only In sums Of limited amounts and the weisn
OF the standard to DO referaoie 70 .ne ward
the establishment OF such an international system h
Of late made in Germany and the IAN In,ted
states Japan has adopted complete system y. nn1y
on gold and simple metric bass, ana Is .ae V T,e
country OF the world of which this can De sau' ,a
basis adopted by Japan is that recommended W 0oa ~
gress for adoption by this Association al us Session
The action referred to above as lately taken by the
United States the direction OF metric systom oi -
anSress Of our Subsidiary silver coinage upon metric
basis The half dollar hereafter colne 10 wen Jus,
orammes and the quarter dollar and dime In proporvo
Silver pieces of three and cents are not hereafter W
be coined. No modification OF tne goa coinago t vas
made In the late legislature. action In this direction
bain0 reserved for sum session. The States no"
comprising the German Empire, scandinavian otato
SUnupn
nm IN tne present time within very late period, mao
svsems OF coinage based upon an exclusively ciYll
standard In these several states legislation has been
inst competed or is in progress to change their stand
ard unts account from silver to either gold basis or
70 that of double standard 1t is TO be regretted that
the new standard gold coinage will not have simple
relations as TO weight with the gramme, although ex,
messed in terms the granme Concerted action Will
doubtless ere long BIO had by which Tor exchange anu
other international purp0Sesa common untiOf account
upon gold and simple metric bass will be adopted by
the diff rent commercial nations OF the world.
o International Statistical Congress
n, chi
nr Earr of London the eminent statistcian that In
STATISTICAL publications values should be given not only
W the monetary units of the country TO which the sta It's
Zeal values pertain but also in francs and in deca
n,Ines of gold nine-tenths fine, the object being TO
secure recognition of the lastmentioned unit In
10 that Congress by Dr. Farr 1t proposed that
me system OF Great Britain he changed to snbst
tnta The ten gramme piece with certain decimal subdi
visions for use place OF the existing British unit OF
account This decagramme would be the exact equv-
lent of six proposed United states metric dollars
or of SIX japanese yens or doars The corresponding
limited States dollars piece being consequently
precisely half OF such proposed British unit IL rs
10 be hoped that the syscm will DC adopted In England
as thereby simple correlation between the two pro-
posed metric systems will be secured.
Toe following table compares the four standards OF
certain existing and proposed systems OF coinage:
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