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Gold Standard Act

Votes on the act

The Gold Standard Act was passed by the US Congress on 14 March 1900 to establish gold as the only standard for redeeming paper money, ending bimetallism and spelling the end of the Third Party System. The bill was sponsored by Indiana Republican Jesse Overstreet, and it passed Congress by a margin of 173-127, with the Bourbon Democrats Bertram Tracy Clayton, Edmund Hope Driggs, William McAleer, Jacob Ruppert Jr., Townsend Scudder, and John Quincy Underhill crossing party lines to vote "Yes"; two Silver Republicans, John Franklin Shafroth and Edgar Wilson, voted "No" in line with the vast majority of Democrats.

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