The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-08-24
BANKERS BREAK
u WITH ALDRICh
Westerners Seek to Replace
Monetary Commission.
EX-SENATOR is BUSY

axes HOUSE IN washington .aHu
Works Hard on Report Which Ho
VIII Urge Congress- to Enact Into
Lsw-Members Of Commission Dis
gruntled Because Salaries Stopped.
Burrows and Money said to Have
Left Congress In Financial Straits.
Washington, Aug. 24.--It has come
to the knowledge of members of the
national monetary commission that
there is a movement among western
bankers and fnanciers to cut under
the national monetary commission
and to start a propaganda indepen-
dent of the commission to advance
the cause Of currency reform.
Professor ]. Lawrence Laughlin Of
Chicago, well.known economic
writer, seems to be the moving spirit
back OF the movement. He was in
Washington, it is said, to organize
the independent movement and make
plans for the establishment of a pub
licity bureau to advance the cause Of
monetary reform legislation.
No concealment is made of the fact
that the main reason for starting the
new propaganda is to eliminate ex-
Senator Aldrich from the important
position he now holds in the general
plan for advancing currency reform
legislation. The former senator from
Rhode Island is chairman of the ma
tional monetary commission. He has
announced that he intends to devote
his time almost exclusively TO the
work of the submitting a comprehen-
sive report to congress early next
year on a plan for financial legisla-
tion. The senator has leased home
in Washington and will spend the
winter here in order that he may be
in touch with the work. He expects
to do everything possible to pass a
bill embodying his recommendations
through the next session of congress.
He intends to conduct campaign of
education and will shortly open his
campaign in a speech at Kansas
City. He will follow with speeches
In other commercial centers.
Need the Coin.
The action Of congress in passing
a law abolishing the national mon.
etary commission on March n next
and cutting off salaries at once, has
worked a hardship to some of tho
members. It is learned that some Of
the senators who we're continued on
the commission after their terms in
their time to work Of the commits
sion and have refused business OF.
fers in order that they Nigh: devote
themselves exclusively to the work OF
the commission. They have been
studying books on finance, collecting
data and preparing to carry On their
work with a singleness of purpose
worthy of the subject in hand. In
doing so they relied on the $1,000 a
year salary to meet the cost OF
living
Ex-senator Money of Mississippi,
late minority leader of the senate. is
without any income or fortune, and
his friends say that within few
months he has declined two good
business offers that would nave in.
sured comfortable income because
he felt /. was his duty to give HIS
entire tlne to the work of the mon
etary commission. Now he finds him
self in tho enjoyment of an office
which carries with ii arduons labor,
but without any income Naturally
he does not feel very kindly toward
his late Democratic colleagues who
made common cause with the insur-
gent Republicans and voted for the
Cummins bill, which abolished his
salary.
Ex-senator ]. G.. Burrows of Michi-
gan is another member of the com
mission who is said to be without an
income. Senator Burrows at the end
of his long service in public life re-
tired comparatively poor man. At
the conclusion of his term he went
to Europe to get a good rest prepar-
atory to taking up the work OF the
commission which he knew would