CHAPTER XXII. OUR COINAGE BEFORE AND AFTER THE WAR. But Little Coin in Circulation in 1869--General Use of Spanish Pieces--No Mention of the Dollar Piece in the Act of 1853--Free Circulation of Gold After the 1853 Act--No Truth in the "Demonetization" Charge--Account of the Bill Revising the Laws Relative to the Mint, Assay Offices and Coinage of the United States--Why the Dollar was Dropped from the Coins--Then Known Only as a Coin for the Foreign Market--Establishment of the "Trade Dollar"--A Legal Tender for Only Five Dollars--Repeated Attempts to Have Congress Pass a Free Coinage Act--How It Would Affect Us--Controversy Between Senator Sumner and Secretary Fish. CHAPTER XXIII. SOME EVENTS IN MY PRIVATE LIFE. Feuds and Jealousies During Grant's Administration--Attack on Me by the Cincinnati "Enquirer"--Reply and Statement Regarding My Worldly Possessions--I Am Elected to the Senate for the Third Term --Trip to the Pacific with Colonel Scott and Party--Visit to the Yosemite Valley--San Diego in 1872--Return via Carson City and Salt Lake--We call on Brigham Young--Arrival Home to Enter Into the Greeley-Grant Canvass--Election of General Grant for the Second Term. CHAPTER XXIV. THE PANIC OF 1873 AND ITS RESULTS. Failure of Jay Cooke and Co.--Wild Schemes "for the Relief of the People"--Congress Called Upon for Help--Finance Committee's Report for the Redemption of United States Notes in Coin--Extracts from my Speech in Favor of the Report--Bill to Fix the Amount of United States Notes--Finally Passed by the Senate and House--Vetoed by President Grant and Failure to Pass Over His Objection--General Effect Throughout the Country of the Struggle for Resumption-- Imperative Necessity for Providing Some Measure of Relief. CHAPTER XXV. BILL FOR THE RESUMPTION OF SPECIE PAYMENTS. Decline in Value of Paper Money--Meeting of Congress in December, 1874--Senate Committee of Eleven to Formulate a Bill to Advance United States Notes to Par in Coin--Widely Differing Views of the Members--Redemption of Fractional Currency Readily Agreed to--Other Sections Finally Adopted--Means to Prepare for and Maintain Resumption --Report of the Bill by the Committee on Finance--Its Passage by the Senate by a Vote of 32 to 14--Full Text of the Measure and an Explanation of What It Was Expected to Accomplish--Approval by the House and the President. CHAPTER XXVI. RESUMPTION ACT RECEIVED WITH DISFAVOR. It Is Not Well Received by Those Who Wished Immediate Resumption of Specie Payments--Letter to "The Financier" in Reply to a Charge That It Was a "Political Trick," etc.--The Ohio Canvass of 1875-- Finance Resolutions in the Democratic and Republican Platforms--R. B. Hayes and Myself Talk in Favor of Resumption--My Recommendation of Him for President--A Democrat Elected as Speaker of the House-- The Senate Still Republican--My Speech in Support of Specie Payments Made March 6, 1876--What the Financial Policy of the Government Should Be.