The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-23
CURRENCY BILL ISPASSED WITH WILSON IN FAVOR Presidents s Signature to Act Is Expected Before
 Night BRISTOW IS ONE MAN TO FILE OBJECTIONS Owen Declares Senator Was Excluded to Prevent Elk
 tensive Debate

VCElo4NO DOOCtVO
 Washington, Dec. 23-The conference report of the administration currency bin was approved by the Senate to- day by a vote of 4S to '25. As the House already had approved it, there remained only the signature Qf the Nice-Presldent and the Speaker to complete. the measure for President Wilson's signature
 Three Republicans and Senator Poin- dexter, Progressive, joined the Demo. crats votiig for the bill in it's final form
 The Republicans were Senators Jones' Norris and Weeks The passage soz the report was greeted with little demonstration.
 Washington, Dec. 2s.-The admins traitor currency bill entered the last statge of its passage today when the Senate met at 10 o'clock to take up the conference report which already had been delayed 24 hours by difficult ties in the House.
 Backed by the overwhelming Demo cratic majority of the House the bill came to the Senate for what leaders confidently expected was the last time with the agreement on all disputed points approved by the lower body. It remained for the Senate to act up on the compromise which had been effected between the managers of the House
 The Democratic majority in the Senate seemed to be working smooth ly and the members expected to see the bin finally engrossed and on its way to the White House for Pres1- dent Wilson's signature before night The changes made by the conference managers were agreeable to the prs ideut and it was underwood in off, S-4v Fa% hR vv0TT1d his signature with some sort of a. statement to the country
 When the Senate debate began un= der the agreement to vote by 2:30 ta@ig afternoon, Senator Bristow, one of the RepubIicans of the banking commit tee who had been denied admittance to the deliberations or the Democratic ccnferees, led off with an attack, say ing he proposed to express his opln- ions where they would get into the permanent record
 The agreement placing the Secre- tary of the Treasury, Secretary of Agriculture and Comptroller of the Currency on the committee to organ fzes the new system, he declared, was e. move to bring the whore system un- der political control
 Arrangements fo1 debate provided that Senators Bristow, Nelson and other Republicans wfzo opposed the conference agreement would have about three hours talk.
 Senator Bristow declared he be- ueved Senator Owen had excluded him from the conference for fear he would join some of the Democrats azafnst Owens '+pet measure-
 s-It was done because he knew he could not control my vote, cried Mr. Brfstozv, 'sas he~could not control the votes of some of his Democratic col leagues In the interests of certain great banking interests that have had, Influence throughout in framing this bill The Senator from Oklahoma has accepted the most offensive provisions of the AIdrich bill and has covered them with a mask to deceive the peo- ple.''
 Senator Owen declared Senator Bristow had been excluded from the deliberations of the Democrats be- cause they did not want their confer ence to become debating society,"
 'f the Senator from Kansas thinks he can split the Democratic party to- suit his own convenience and change its policies as he desired he is mis- taken" said MT. Owens. ''He tried it in the banking committee and fail ed"
 s'AGy allegation is that this bill has been drawn in the interests of the banks continued Senator Bristow, s'that the senator from Oklahoma is largely interested in banking; that the profits derived from this system by banks he is interested in will add di- rectIy to his personar fortune and he has voted to increase from 5 per cent to per cent. dividends paid by the new regional banks on the stock held by member banks"
 Bristow's attack was based on a rule of Jefferson's manual of parlia- 1nentary practice that senator should not vote on legislation in which he was directly interested. Bristow read a newspaper clipping to ruote Owen as saymg he had taken stock in a new national bank to be orRanized in St. Louis. MT. owen re- torted that Bristow's charges were @.fahse and ridiculous"
 Senator Bristow wound up by talk ing a fling at the recent dissolution of fhe American Telephone 6 Telegraph company