In making this statement, I offer my contribution to the settlement of a great question. If I am wrong, what I have said will soon be forgotten. Meanwhile I ask for it your candid attention, adding one further remark, with which I shall close. I never have doubted, I cannot doubt, the ease with which the transition to specie payments may be accomplished, especially as compared with the ominous fears which this simple proposition seems to excite in certain quarters. We are gravely warned against it as a period of crisis. I do not believe there will be anything to which this term can be reasonably applied. Like every measure of essential justice, it will at once harmonize with the life of the community, and people will be astonished at the long postponement of an act so truly beneficent in all its influences, so important to the national character, and so congenial with the business interests of the country. The bill was ordered to be printed, and referred to the Committee on Finance. * * * * * January 25th, a bill from the Committee on Finance, “to provide a national currency of coin notes and to equalize the distribution of circulating notes,” being under consideration, Mr. Sumner moved an amendment embracing the provisions of his bill, with the exception of the first, second, and seventh sections, as a substitute,--in support of which he the next day spoke as follows:-- MR. PRESIDENT,--Some things seem to be admitted in this debate as starting-points,--at least if I may judge from the remarks of the Senator from Ohio [Mr. SHERMAN]. One of these is the unequal distribution of the bank-note currency, and another is that to take from the Northern and Eastern banks circulation already awarded to them would disturb trade. I venture to add, that the remedy would be worse than the disease.