The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-12-04
TO
DISCUSS MONEY
LEGISLATION
Financial Measures viii be the
First Taken Up
SENATORS VISIT ROOSEVELT
Speaker Cannon Has Enlarged the
House Committee on Banking and
Currency.

WASHINGTON. Dec AT the con.
vening Of the house Speaker Cannon
read the following telegram from the
Oklahoma legislature to the house Of
representatives:
At the converting Of the house Speak
err Cannon read the following tele-
gram from the Oklahoma legislature
to the house Of representatives:
"Oklahoma's first state legislature.
Just organized. inspired by the fond
reality of local self government, sends
greeting to the Sixtieth congress Of the
greatest nation on earth and conveys
to her sister states a message Of prog
ress and prosperity and loyal devotion
to the Union and the common good"
As the speaker concluded the house
broke into applause.
Among the mass Of bills which have
so far been introduced In the house
are the following:
BY Mr.. Graham of Pennsylvania,
providing for elastic currency.
BY Mr.. Keller of Ohio, providing for
issues of national banks of credit notes.
BY Mr. Brick of Indiana, providing
for uniform divorce laws.
BY Mr.. Hayes of California, regulat-
Ing Asiatic immigration.
BY Ollie VI. James of Kentucky and
by Mr.. Sheppard Of Texas, bills to re-
store the Inscription I'm God We
Trust upon the coins Of the United
States.
William j.. Bryan spent an hour or
more in the marble room Of the sen
ate, the time being principally devoted
to an exchange of courtesies with SEN
ators. Most of the Democratic mem
bers of the senate called during the
time TO pay their respects. as did also
number of Republicans, including
Senator Burkett Of Mr.. Bryan's own
state. Governor Vardaman of Missis-
slppi also was among the distinguish
ed Nebraskan's callers, and he remain
ed for some time in conversation with
that gentleman. Mr. Bryan declared
that his visit was without significance
anu " az 'iiif Iva AiN FAi l'Net Va NV
ing his friends of the senate.
The senate committee on finance had
its first meeting lasting half an hour.
The time was entirely occupied by an
informal discussion concerning the
possible movements of the committee
in the line of preparing financial leg
islation. The consensus of opinion
among Republicans and Democrats.
was that no undue haste should be
made.
In the house Speaker Cannon an
nounced the appointment of the com
mittee on banking and currency and
in doing so stated that he had exceed
ed by one member the number permit
ted by the rules of the house and ask
ed unanimous consent to his action
which was granted
The committee retains as its chair
man Mr.. Fowler On. j.. and in the
main its personnel was unchanged
There were only two vacancies on the
committee as II stood last year. one of
these being caused by the failure of
Mr.. Shartel (Rep., MOI to secure re-
election and the other by the volun-
tary withdrawal of Mr.. Legare Is. CO.,
who found the duties pertaining to his
wsrk on this committee to be in con-
fict with his service on other commit
tees. Mr.. Burton Rep., o. was desig-
mated for Mr.. Shartel's place and Mr..
Crawford On. c. for Mr.. Legare's.
The additional selection was Mr.. Nc
Henry Dem, Pa.
Representative Gardner CTex) intro
duced bill creating new form of le-
gal tender to be called Omitted States
currency notes. and providing for their
printing to the amount Of 100000, 000
At conference held In the White
House last night between the president
and Senators Aldrich Or. H. and Crane
(Mass.) on the subject Of currency leg
islation plans for relieving the cur
rency stringency In the future under
such circumstances as have occurred
recently were discussed.