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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;leeg, post: 3518329, member: 17073&quot;]“The growing number and variety of proposals for memorial coins finally induced an opposition from the House coinage committee. Thus, a bill of February 16, 1925 to authorize the issue of 2½¢ pieces commemorating respectively, Presidents Roosevelt, Harding, and Wilson, and another, of May 27, calling for a Harding 7½¢ coin, died in committee. Bills introduced by both the House and Senate on May 15, 1924 for a half dollar commemorating Fort Vancouver, and on February 17, 1925 to celebrate the Kentucky sesquicentennial, were similarly unsuccessful.”</p><p><br /></p><p><b><i>An Illustrated History of Commemorative Coinage</i>, Don Taxay, ARCO Press, New York City, 1967, p. 89.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; “Because of opposition from the Treasury Department, a number of bills introduced during 1925-1926 for the issue of memorial coins died in committee. One of these would have celebrated the birth of Stephen Foster. Another was to commemorate the completion of the Lincoln and Victory Highways, and still another, the ‘services of American women in all wars.’ A coinage bill ‘to aid the preservation of the birthplace of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’ was briefly debated on April 29, 1926 but its sponsors finally settled for a medal<b>. . .</b> A bill was also introduced last winter in the House of Representatives authorizing an issue of 1,000,000 half dollars to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Stephen C. Foster on July 4, 1926. Mr. Foster was the author of a number of old-time songs, such as ‘Old Folks at Home,’ ‘Old Black Joe,’ etc.”</p><p><br /></p><p><b><i>An Illustrated History of Commemorative Coinage</i>, Don Taxay, ARCO Press, New York City, 1967, p. 118; and <i>The Numismatist</i>,A Brief Review of Commemorative Coins. August, 1926, p.&nbsp; 425.</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>&nbsp; </b>“Although bills for the issue of half dollars commemorating Mount Rushmore and the sesquicentennial of the Continental Congress were introduced during 1927, no memorial coins were authorized that year. In February 1928, additional bills for Joseph Gurney Cannon and Charles Lindbergh half dollars were quietly disposed of by the House coinage committee.”</p><p><br /></p><p><b><i>An Illustrated History of Commemorative Coinage</i>, Don Taxay, ARCO Press, New York City, 1967, p. 123.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>“Among the unsuccessful coinage bills for 1929 were three to celebrate, respectively, the 125th anniversary of the Lewis and Clark Exposition,10 the tercentenary of the founding of Massachusetts Bay Colony, and the 250th anniversary of the founding of Trenton. The following year, bills authorizing ‘discovery of anesthesia’ dollar-and-a-half gold pieces, and Washington bicentennial three-dollar pieces also failed. Then, in April 1930, when Congress finally passed a bill to authorize half dollars commemorating the Gadsden Purchase,11 it was immediately vetoed by President Hoover. Acting on the recommendation of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, Hoover stated the traditional objections to commemorative coins, namely, the threat of counterfeits, expense to the Government, and burden upon the Mint. The bill was debated by the House on April 22, when the veto was sustained 244 to 99.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; It was not until June 15, 1933, after the succession of both Hoover and Mellon, that a new commemorative coin was authorized, this being the Texas Centennial half dollar.”</p><p><br /></p><p><b><i>An Illustrated History of Commemorative Coinage</i>, Don Taxay, ARCO Press, New York City, 1967, p. 132-133.</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a195/leeg1957/Book%20Project%20Images/Commems%20Proposed%20but%20Failed/Beach%20Papers%20A1.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a195/leeg1957/Book%20Project%20Images/Commems%20Proposed%20but%20Failed/Beach%20Papers%20%20B_1.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a195/leeg1957/Book%20Project%20Images/Commems%20Proposed%20but%20Failed/Beach%20Papers%20%20C%201.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a195/leeg1957/Book%20Project%20Images/Commems%20Proposed%20but%20Failed/Beach%20Papers%20%20D%201.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a195/leeg1957/Book%20Project%20Images/Commems%20Proposed%20but%20Failed/Beach%20Papers%20%20E%201.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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