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MONETARY RELIEF.
Mr. HEFFREN submitted a preamble and resolution, rehearsing the existing money crisis, the commercial difficulties involved in the restriction of bank issues, and directing the Committee on Banks to inquire into the propriety of authorizing a suspension of specie payments by our banks as a means of relief.
Mr. BRANHAM. The Constitution provides that that shall not be done.
Mr. HEFFREN. It may involve a constitutional question : I wish to refer it to a committee that knows something about it.
On motion by Mr. HOPKINS, it was laid on the table.
