Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-09-17
THAT COMMISSION COMPLETED
1t Will Meet In Washington Next
Week.


oou,bletiUh Uf the eomiiiitte, accept
auces having been received from
Louis A. Garnet, Of San Francisco,
and j. A, Laughln, of Chicagui The
commission, us completed, is as fol.
lJaS:
Ex-senator G.. f. Edmunds, Yer
mont.
Charles S. Fairchlld, New York, ex.
secretary of the treasury.
G. Stewart Patterson, Philadelphia
j. w. Cries, of Salem, n. g., at the
head Of the cotton Industry that
bears h s name
Il. G. Bush, cf Admission, Ala, pres
ident of the Mobile s. Birmingham
railroad, aud interested in iron in
Alabama.
Geo. L. Lustln, of St. Louis, retired
manu- 'acturer.
". L. Dean, Of st. Paul, u Wholesale
hardware merchant.
r. f. Taylor, of Fort Wayne, law
yer.
Louis Garnet, of San Francisco.
Prof. J. L, Laughlin, of Chicago.
Stuyvesant Fish, of New York.
While no attention was paid to the
political leaningS OF the men chosen
for the commission, 1t happens that it
contains six Republicans and five
Democrats.
The committee has been called to
meet at the Arlington hotel, Wash
ington, on September 22d. A call has
been issued for the executive commit
tee to meet at the same time and
place, and to begin the work for
which the commission was appointed
at once. 1t is To make a thorough in
vestigatiUn of the currency question
in all its phases.
No RISK TO BE TAKEN.
LONDON, Sept. l7.-At the semi-an-
nual meeting of the Bank Of England
the governor said:
you arc probably aware of the
proposals laid before the government
in the summer by the United States
and France whereby this country
shonld increase its use of silver as a
contribution to the international
agreement, which, while not affecting
our gold standard, might enable the
mints of France and Anne rica to re-
sumo free couInage. Among the pro-
posals was one asking that the Bank
of England hold the silver permissible
under the act of 1874 as against its
notes."
IhO SONCiu uoi uuSh iCdu u NOOOi
dated July 90, addressed to the chan
cellor OF exchequer, Sir Michael Hicks
Beach. 1t was as follows:
"Referring to our conversation we
beg to say the bank is prepared to
carry out what is laid down as per-
missible in the bauk charter, viz: to
hold one-hfith of its note issue in
silver, provided always that the
French mint is again open to the free
coinage of silver and that the prices
at which silver is procurable and sala-
BILE are satisfactory.
Replying to questions, the governor
said the bank had had no negotia-
tions with the United States mone-
tary commissioners, adding.
"We have bought no silver. All we
have done is to agree under certain
w NdliJ OuI WudO 10
permissible under the act of l844'"
AS 1T LOOKS IN GERMANY.
BERLIN, Sept. 1.-THE National
Zeitung, referring to the information
in the London Times of Sept 10, that
the Bank of England was prepared to
hold in silver one-tifth of the.bullion
held against its notes, and commencing
says:
"The unfayorable reception the an
nouncemenu has met with from the
organs OF British trade leaves no
room for doubt as to the opinion of
British commercial bodies and as to
the ultimate fate OF the latest Ameri-
can attempt TO secure for the silver
mine owners, with the aid of Europe,