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COMMEMORATIVE COIN-OREGON TRAIL

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

COMMITTEE ON BANKING AND CURRENCY

UNITED STATES SENATE

SIXTY-NINTH CONGRESS
FIRST SESSION
ON

H. R. 8306

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE COINAGE OF 50-CENT PIECES
IN COMMEMORATION OF THE HEROISM OF THE FATHERS
AND MOTHERS WHO TRAVERSED THE OREGON TRAIL
TO THE FAR WEST WITH GREAT HARDSHIP, DARING,
AND LOSS OF LIFE, WHICH NOT ONLY RESULTED IN
ADDING NEW STATES TO THE UNION BUT EARNED A
WELL-DESERVED AND IMPERISHABLE FAME FOR THE
PIONEERS; TO HONOR THE 20,000 DEAD THAT LIE BURIED
IN UNKNOWN GRAVES ALONG 2,000 MILES OF THAT GREAT
HIGHWAY OF HISTORY; TO RESCUE THE VARIOUS IMPOR-
TANT POINTS ALONG THE OLD TRAIL FROM OBLIVION;
AND TO COMMEMORATE BY SUITABLE MONUMENTS,
MEMORIAL OR OTHERWISE, THE TRAGIC EVENTS ASSO-
CIATED WITH THAT EMIGRATION-ERECTING THEM
EITHER ALONG THE TRAIL ITSELF OR ELSEWHERE, IN
LOCALITIES APPROPRIATE FOR THE PURPOSE,
INCLUDING THE CITY OF WASHINGTON

APRIL 27, 1926

Printed for the use of the Committee on Banking and Currency

WASHINGTON
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
95716 1926