The United States was foremost in advocating the policy, France at first favored it, as did in large measure the British Indian administration, tho England was in the main opposed.
The movement came to nothing.
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#The movement for national bimetallism in America#.

When all hope of international bimetallism failed, the efforts of many of its advocates were turned to the plan of legalizing national bimetallism in the United States at a ratio of 16 to 1.

This was very different from the market ratio.

Gold had become before 1860, in fact, the standard of our money system, and after 1873 it was the only metal admitted to free coinage.