ORIGIN OF THE FREEDMEN’S SAVINGS BANK 27 
the hurry and confusion incident upon the close 
of the session, this substitution of the bills was 
not noticed; it has never been explained; it may 
have been a mistake due to carelessness, or it 
may have been intentional. Some years later 
there was a disposition on the part of critics to 
search for ulterior motives behind these changes. 
But the only important difference was the omis- 
sion of the name of Chief Justice Chase.’ 
2 In most of the unofficial copies of the law published at the time the 
amendment fixing the location of the bank at Washington, District of 
Columbia, is omitted. The Nation and The Banker's Magazine both as- 
serted ten years later that the District of Columbia amendment and the 
Chase amendment also were purposely omitted from the enrolled bill. 
But in the laws published in the Globe, 38 Cong., 2 Sess., appendix, p. 
143, only the name of Chase is omitted. Cong. Globe, 38 Cong., 2 Sess., 
pt. I, pp. 1371, 1391, 1403; Banker's Magazine, June 1875; The Nation, 
April 15, 1875.