Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 1, 1879

No. 314.
Mr. Bingham to Mr. Evarts.

United States Legation,
Tokei, Japan, October 9, 1879. (Received November 4.)

No. 987.]

Sir: Referring to my No. 961, wherein I reported the order of this government making the silver yen a legal tender, I now have the honor to further acquaint you that the same is being produced at the imperial mint of Japan at the rate of 30,000 per day, and that it is rapidly expelling from trade the Mexican dollar, so long the currency of this empire.

As the gold yen is also legal tender, this government has established the bimetallic standard in Japan.

I have, &c.,

JNO. A. BINGHAM.