Bland-Allison Act

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Bland-Allison Act,

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 of 1890.
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In response to the dire situation and pressure from silver miners and farmers, the Bland-Allison Act remonetized silver as legal tender in 1878.
This led to a showdown with Congress in 1885, when President Cleveland futilely urged Congress to repeal Bland-Allison, an act passed by Congress in 1878 over President Rutherford B.
Only one of the thirteen, the Bland-Allison Act, was overridden.
Hayes's veto of the Bland-Allison Act reflected his stubborn commitment to principle, often at the expense of more mundane political considerations.
His forceful argument helped defeat a bipartisan coalition of Western senators seeking to repeal the Resumption Act.(76) Burgess notes that "the pressure upon the President to approve [the Bland-Allison Act] was enormous.
The Bland-Allison Act of 1878 had required the Treasury to issue between 2,000,000 and 4,000,000 silver dollars each month.