The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-09-28
THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF
BANKERS HOLDS CONvEN-
TION THIS WEEK.
THE WEEKS PROGRAM
A Discussion of the Guaranty of Bank
Deposits Will TaHe Place. Ad-
dresses by Bankers and other Noted
Men from All the Country The
Association and Its Progress.

Denver, Colo, Sept. 2S.-More than
three thousand bankers representing
all classes of financial institutions
and every state in the Union will as
semble here this week at the Thirty
fourth annual convention of the Amer
lean Bankers Association. Hundreds
of delegates are already on the scene
and it is evident from their conversa-
tion in the hotel corridors that the
liveliest session since the memorable
oI,a of 1896 is expected. This year the
guaranty of bank deposits probably
will be the principal topic of discuss
ion. Another subject of vital interest
that will be discussed at length is
that of currency. The association was
not satisfied with the Aldrich curren-
cy bill. The Currency Commission of
the American Bankers Association,
which drafted a measure of its own
only to see it rejected by the leaders
of Congress will make it's formal re-
port at next Thursdays session and
delegates then will be given an op-
portunity to express their views on
the subject.
The reports of the legislative COM
mittees and the committees on ex
press companies and bills of lading
which will be made at the opening
session on Wednesday will present
other topics of general interest. The
association has been trying for sewer
al years to prevent the express COM
panies selling money orders while the
alleged failure of the railroads to
safeguard bills of lading also has been
the subject of much contention both
in the courts and before Congress
and the Interstate Commerce Com
mission. 1t is practically certain that
the convention will empower these
committees to continue their respect
i've contests.
A number of speakers of national
prominence will participate not only
in the sessions of the convention pro-
per which will be held Wednesday and
Thursday but also of the Savings
Bank and Trust Company sections
bank commissioner of Massachusetts,.
will deliver an address at the meet
ing of the Savings Bank section and
the proposed postal savings bank law
will be analyzed in the report of
special committee appointed for that
purpose. THE effect of the recent
panic on the Eastern saving banks"
will be the subject of a paper by John
c. Griswold of New York. Gov. Hen
~ A. Buchtel. of Colorado, and Pres
ident William E. Hughes of the Con-
tinental Trust Company of Denver,
to the trust company delegates. Am
ong the speakers will be Breckenridge
Jones of st. Louis, who has chosen
for his subject ''The Trust Company:
Necessity F. H. Fries of Winston
Salem, N. c., who will discuss 'fRadi-
calism VS.. Conservation" and Law
renee 1. Gillespie of New York who
will speak on New York City trust
companies under present Legislation" ;.
A general discussion of What Less
ons for the Trust Companies were re-
vealed in the 1907 Panic" will also
take place.
Gov. Buchtel and Mayor Robert w.
Speer OF Denver. will speak at the
opening session of the convention
proper Wednesday morning and the
rest of the time up to the noon recess
will be devoted to the reports of the
officers and the various committees.
dn the afternoon Woodrow Wilson.
President of Princeton University
will speak on 'aThe Banker and the
Nation" and B. E. Walker, president
of the Canadian Bank Of Commerce
win discuss the Abnormal Features