Grundsätze der Volkswirtschaftslehre

Geschichte der Firma H. F. Flemming, Leipzig-Leutzsch

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Identifikator:: 832651257

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-63075

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Devas, Charles S. http://d-nb.info/gnd/124362435

Title:: Grundsätze der Volkswirtschaftslehre

Place of publication:: Freiburg

Publisher:: Herder

Year of publication:: 1896

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XXIII, 521 S.)

Collection:: Economics Books

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THE WORK OF COMMISSIONERS 107 duties and released from their joint bond of $100,000. Between 1875 and 1881 several bills were introduced into Congress to abolish the board of commissioners and turn the business over to one man. Among those who introduced such bills were Senator Sherman and Represen- tatives Douglas of Virginia and Durham of Kentucky. The object of the bills was to legis- late Purvis and Creswell out of office and leave Leipold to wind up the business as rapidly as possible. Durham proposed that Congress pro- vide for the purchase of the Freedmen’s Bank building, order the prosecution of the trustees against whom evidence of fraud existed, and re- place the three commissioners, whose powers were inadequate, with one man (presumably Leipold) empowered to close up the business at once under the supervision of the Secretary of Treasury. The friends of Creswell, Purvis, and the trustees united in opposition to this and other measures and succeeded in defeating them. Rainey, a Negro congressman from South Caro- lina, was the chief advocate of Purvis and Creswell. 1 Durham’s bill was strongly opposed by General B. F. Butler of Massachusetts and by Randall of Pennsylvania, both of whom wanted to prevent Purvis of Philadelphia from being legislated out of office. Randall said that since the whites had done so badly by the Negroes the latter would have confidence only in a board which contained a colored man. Senator Hawley of Connecticut opposed the Durham bill because he did not think that the bank affairs should be settled by the Secretary of the Treasury but ought to be handled as usual through bankruptcy proceedings.—Cong. Record, January 26, 1875, pp. 751, 752 and March 3, 1875, p. 2261, 12 This building was leased in 1874 to the government for the use of the Attorney General at a rental of $14,000 a year. Finally it was pur- chased by the government and occupied by the Court of Claims.— Bruce Report, p. 21. 18 Bankers’ bi agazine, June, 1875,

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