"I refer to section 401, which reads:
Upon deposit with the Treasurer of the United States of all contract obligations of the United States, or any notes-- And so forth. •
Under the Federal Reserve Act obligations that are deposited as the security and gold for reserve notes are placed in the hands of the Federal Reserve agent. I would like to ask the chairman of the committee if this is a plan to change the holding of the security back of Federal Reserve notes to the Treasury of the United States rather than the Federal Reserve agent.
Mr. STEAGALL. This provision is for the issuance of
Federal Reserve bank notes; not for Federal Reserve notes; and the security back of it is the obligations, notes, drafts, bills of exchange, bank acceptances, outlined in the section to which the gentleman has referred.
Mr. McFADDEN. Then the new circulation is to be Federal Reserve bank notes and not Federal Reserve notes? Is that true?
Mr. STEAGALL. Insofar as the provisions of this section are concerned, yes. ."
(sEE: PAGES 78-83 OF THE 73rd congressional record of march 9, 1933)