Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-30
MAY RESUME QUIZ
OF money TRUST"
Some Democratic Leaders
Said to Favor Continuation
of Pujo Investigation.
ADDS TO COMPLICATION
OF CURRENCY PROGRAM
Counsel Untermyer of Former House
Committee in Conference With
Representative Henry.

And now appears still another phase
of the grand miX-up in Congress over
the proposed currency reform bill. Civ
ing rise to the suggestion that some
body will yet gum up the cards be-
fore President Wilson can get the deck
Strengthened out for deal all around
There is talk Of pausing in the eff
fort to pass a currency bill while they
take another look for the money
trust" the long search carried on by
the Pujo committee having only re-
suited in finding hoof prints of the
money devil Some of these tracks
it is charged. lead in the direction of
national banks and there is PROPOSE
ton to follow them up before anything
is done to relieve the currency situa-
| ton.
Representative Henry Of Texas and
Representative Lindbergh of Mime
sofa are reported to be on the trail
with a view -halloo to their colleagues
to join the chase.
Secretary of State Bryan is said to
be in sympathy with the proposed
hunt, although some of Mr.. Bryan
friends contend that he is not active,
as it is the general understanding that
legislation while he holds his port
folio under the Wilson administration
May Take Up Investigation.
The Henry -Lindbergh proposition, as dis
cussed in cloakroom and corridor, is un-
derstood to contemplate taking up the
money trust investigation where the
Pujo committee was halted for lack of
nd m neceS-
sary authority prosecuted mainly in the
direction of alleged participation of ma
tional banks in the concentration OF
credits and money power.
Ii is said that Mr.. Bryan, Mr.. Henry.
Mr Lindbergh and others in and out of
Congress in sympathy with them agree
that the money trust investigation un-
covered enough to warrant deeper prop
ing and at least to furnish the basis for
present action on what was developed.
This action, il is said should be em-
bodied in the currency reform bill, and
the administration measure should con-
tain some of the punitive features recon-
mended by the Pujo report.
Mr. Cntermyer, counsel for the com
mittee has recently been in conference
with Mr. Henry. and not long ago enter
tanned Secretary Bryan at his country
home sn the hudson. Mr.. Intermyer
had another talk with Mr.. Henry day
before yesterday. Mr.. Untermyer made
age that he was mixing in congress
sional affairs at all since his connection
with the now extinct Pujo committee
ceased.
Complication Over Legislation.
The point of all this is that there is
apparent another complication in secur-
ing currency legislation at this session.
1t is well known that President Wilson
is earnestly desirOus of having some
kind of.a currency reform bill on the
statute books along with the new tariff
law.
lie is having the deuce's time getting
it, Leader Underwood is not keen for it
at all because it threatens to interfere
VI tn the tariff bill and take the mind Of
Congress off the main question-tarif
vision. Business men and financial in
te-est are clamcrinS for it, however. and
Nj. Underwood finally laid his hand on
the tai le and told the President to go it
alone. iie would not trump his partner S
ace, anyhow.
There are dozen or two "currency
bills" now extant. but there is no single
mea sure thus far which can be said to
be the administrations bill. Representa-
tive Carter Glass of Virginia. who will
head the new banking and currency COM
mittee has written and rewritten b lis un-
til nc has writer's cramp Senator owen,
chairman of the Senate banking and cur
rcncy committee. has a bill. Secretary
McAdoo has a blL and President viii
sons table is Uttered with them from all
quarters
The last intimation from headquarters
i that somebody VIII have to take these
bills and Whip them INTO shape in one
concrete measure. to be Officially known
as the administration BILL which. as
such, Is to be jammed through under
spur from the White House.
UP to Secretary McAdoo.
Secretary AIcAdoo will probably have
to undertake this task. He will, at
least revise the composite measure and
pass it up to the President. In the
present state of confusion in Congress
over the subject of currency, TO which
old Babel wasn't marker. it is thought
that Congress wall gladly rise to the ad-
mnistration bill as bass to a fly.
But here comes the Henry -Lindbergh
mplication. il it materializes. as the
reports have it, The bills thus far pre-
sented for consideration do not contain
the restrictive and punitive features
recommended by the Pujo committee
and whi, III, it is said. Messrs. Henry
and Lndbergh. with the reported urging
of Mr.. Intermyer and the alleged assent
of Secretary Bryan, would embody in the
new currency law.
Mr.. Glass is decidedly opposed to in
cooperating any of the Pujo- Cntermyer
findings in the strictly technical pro-
visions of a proposed reform of the
currency system. Leader Underwood
and his followers are opposed to spend
ing another minute in chasing the
money trust" while the men who orig
inally put through the resolution for
| the money trust investigation are dead
/ set on taking another shy at 1t.
SUICIDE IS DISCLOSED.