Report from Washington. Recent Congressional action on the Silver Question, 1965 August 12

Senator Peter H. Dominick (R-Colo.) delivers his weekly radio address, Report from Washington, on Aug. 11, 1965. Sen. Dominick discusses topics including the Congress constitutional role in authorizing, appropriating and coining money, the removal of silver from coinage, the federal price controls leading to the shortage of silver, the shortage of circulating coins, and the standards for metal content of U.S. coinage. He reports that he has been appointed to the Joint Commission on the Coinage, and will be pressing the views of Western silver producers.