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This is an article for the Bimetal Standard and Silver Coinage Act of 1903, set within the co1896 Timeline; in which, the course of American politics diverged from the 1890s onwards.

In the co1896 Timeline, the Prohibition Party avoided the 1896 schism and the party continued its trajectory of growth. Additionally, there are various compounding changes benefiting the advancement of progressive, populist, and third-party politics. In 1898, the Republicans lost the majority in the House of Representatives to a coalition of Democrat, Populist, and pro-Silver congressmen; preventing President William McKinley from passing the Gold Standard Act in 1900. In 1900, Democratic and Populist candidate William Jennings Bryan, who campaigned the Free Silver Movement, defeated McKinley to become president. In the 1902/1903 Senate elections, the Democrats and their allies won a large enough majority in the Senate to be able to move forward with a currency bill.

In March of 1903, the Bimetal Standard and Silver Coinage Act was passed, with a vote of 238-127 in the House and 51-35 in the Senate, and was signed into law by President William Jennings Bryan.

The act established a bimetal standard defining the United States dollar by both gold and silver, requiring the United States Treasury to redeem, on demand and in gold coin or silver coin, paper currency, and established the minting of silver coins at a 16 to 1 ratio to gold dollar coins. It authorized the Department of Treasurer and the U.S. Mint to mint gold and silver coins without a set limit and without requiring from other nations.

 

Following the passage of the Act, the Treasury Department began a period of mass minting of silver coins, along with expanded printing of paper dollars. As expected by both proponents and opponents of the Act, this had an inflationary impact on the U.S. economy. The price of agricultural and manufactured products increased, the market price of silver rose in response to increased minting demand, and the value of many pre-existing debts declined, as the amount of currency in circulation increased.

The passage of the Bimetal Standard and Silver Standard Act was welcomed by its Populist supporters, along with many farmers and miners in the Western States. It was denounced by supporters of the Gold Standard, especially among Northeastern bankers and businesses interests, as the "Crime of 03".