Black

list. In financial vernacular when a person has lost his credit, as by failure to meet his financial obligations, he is said to be on the black list or in the black book. The black list or black book is a private book kept by a bank or other financial institution containing (a list of) the names of discredited borrowers of money. “ Bland bill. The bill introduced in the House of Representatives by Mr. Bland providing for the coinage of silver on the same terms as gold (for the free coinage of silver) at the ratio of 16 to 1. At the commercial (market) price of silver the ratio at the time was 18 to I. The bill was amended in the Senate by Mr. All is on and became a law on February 28, 1878, by being pa ed over the veto of President Hayes. As amended it provided for the purchase by the government of not le than $2,000,000 worth nor more than $4,000,000 worth of silver bullion each month and the coining of it into silver dollars, these to be legal tender. The Bland bill thus became the Bland-All is on act. It was superseded by the Sherman act, which see.