Arizona republican., 1913-06-21
President Wilson Calls Con- grcssmcn to White House to Secure Views on the Proposed Monetary Re form Measure
EXECUTIVE THEN
 ISSU kN STATEMENT
Says That Those Who Have Examined Document Are for Most Part Favorable While None is Openly Opposed
TAssoc1ArED PRESS D1sPArcHl

WASHINGTON. June 20.-Thc president secured tonight from the majority If the democratic members of the house banking currency com 1uittee expressions of harmony and acGuiescence in the administration program enacting a currency bill at the present session of congress.
 At the two hour conference held around the cabinet table in the White House offices where earlier in the day the heads of the govern lnent departments sat as advisors of tho president cOngressmen were asked their views of the administra- ton currency bill as it will be intro duced by Representatives Glass, chairman If the committed some have not vet thoroughly examined the measure but those who express cd opinions are favorably inclined toward it. The fourteen committee men were reticcnt about discussing the conference but the president talk ed to the newspaper men, a pro c,edure unusual at night conferences at the White House.
 The president began conferences tonight with the rank and file of the currency committees of both houses of congress IL is understood his purpose is to learn just what changes are likely to be demanded in the new Glass-O s-Owen-McAdoO cur reucy bill by the critics and oppOn- ents in the senate and house.
 Publication of the bill by Chair man Glass was with the presidents fuE approval and to give members an opportunity to know the details of the plan for monetary reform
 The president talked at length to- night with members of the house committee; next Wednesday he is to confer with the members of the serate committee and later he will talk over the bill with the republican senators who have been closely iden- tified with previous efforts for cur rcncv reform. Ta
 Antagonism to the present action ou currency and criticism of the new bill as agreed on by the administra- tion leaders became well defined among the senators today. Prominent members of the senate currency com rnittee. expressed the belief that the committee as q whole does not favor the immediate passage of any Dill and President Wilson would be urged not 10 demand action at the extra session
 Several senators expressed the be- liec that the provision asked by Rep TeScntd1lNe iTldSS TOT Iilt Itb4i tii4tAi' of national bank notes and refunding two per cent government bonds now securing that currency with three peI cent issue should have been left in the bill.
 Important reductions of the Under wood tariff bill rates on iron, stce and other metals; the addition cattle wheat. pig iron, angora wool and many other articles to the free list and the increase of rates on many classes of common goods and some silk products are the chief features ol the revised tariff bill as laid be- fore the senate democrats today by Chairman Simmons of the finance committee
 After weeks of work in whicf every schedule has undergone close scrutiny by the subcommittee o the majority membership of the fin aace committee, the redrafted meas urc was brought into the democratic caucus today. For two hours i'm pcrtant changes were explained t tho democrats and the bill was theI made public Experts of the com mittee at once began work on comprehensive summary of tn changes.
 The presidents desires as to ire sugar in 1911 and free wool prevaile' ii the redraft of the bill. In tn general level of it's rates the Sim mons bill" represents a heavier GU from the existing rates of the Payne AIGrich law than did the bill as i passed the house.
 The caucus will be reconvened to morrow The senate leaders believ the bill will reach the senate itsel late next week