The most notable movement of the four years from 1896 to 1900 was that embodied in what was called the Indianapolis Currency Commission. This was a body appointed by a convention of boards of trade and commercial organizations generally, which had met at Indianapolis, Indiana. The commission did its work largely in Washington, and ultimately issued a report which called for three principal changes in existing legislation: (1) The definite establishment of the gold standard; (2) the separation of the gold fund protecting greenbacks or United States notes in the Treasury Department from the other funds of the Treasury, with provision for reconstituting this fund by the issue of bonds; and (3) the issue of bank notes based upon commercial paper and duly protected in various ways.