The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-10
Measure Will Be Reported
Virtually as it Came from
the House
THOUGHT HITCHCOCK
WILL FIGHT TO END
Senator Nelson Declares IL Wilson Is
Spelling for Fight He Can Have
It-Republican's Bill Win In
clude Amendments

Washington, November 9--Work on
a report on the administration currency
bill to be submitted to the democratic
was continued today by Senators owen.
Shafroth, Pomerene and Hollis, the four
democrats who found it impossible TO
put the measure through the Senate
banking committed
As 1t goes to the conference. IL re.
port viii recommend the bill w :.
as it came from the House, With 4 q j.
ber of minor amendents and ct os
phraseology which the adm : .tiSa
believes necessary to perfecf N at
tempt will be made by q S9 sena-
tors to secure. in addition 9 cir sig
natures, those of senal iced and
o'Gorman. who have q o many OF
the features of the BIZ ie commit
tee. Both OF these senao nave sought
to avoid action by the democratic eau
Gus on the bill and neither signed the
petition which resulted In the call for
Wednesdays conference. 1t is prac-
tically certain that Senator Hitchcock,
whose currency views differ widely
from those embraced in the administra-
ton BILL Will stand out to the end.
Almost Hopeless Task
When the committee meets tomorrow,
| it will be In the position of working OIL
a measure which apparently is doomed
to be discarded. There is some ques-
tion as to whether the committee Will
continue Its struggle to reach an agree
ment or whether it will give up the at.
tempt and leave the entire matter to
be disposed of by the conference. The
latter course probably will be recon-
mended by the administration senators.
but they may have some difficulty in
inducing the committee to suspend
work.
| At any rate the republican members
of the committee, win continue their
Lefforts - perfect & bill asd -wilf report
q completed measure to the Senate.
There, 1t is expected, the fight against
the administration bill Will be sharp
and long drawn out.
'If the President is spelling for a
fight he can have IT," Senator Nelson,
republican. informed Chairman owen at
the close of yesterdays futile session
of the committee. All the republican
members of the committee took that
position today.
Include Certain Amendments
The bill which the republicans will
present to the Senate will follow the
lines of the administration In some par
ticulars, but will include the amend
ments which the banking and currency
committee tentatively wrote into the
bill. These amendments changed the
theory of the measure to a certain de-
gree and the administration opposition
to these changes resulted in the dead
lock, which finally forced the calling Of
Wednesdays caucus.
A small number of regional banks.
not less than four, owned by the pub
lie and controlled by the government
Issuing a currency based on commercial
paper and mobilizing the reserves of the
banks throughout the country, win be
the basis of the republican bill
Washington, November Ex-senator
Reed of Missouri announced tonight
that when the Senate committee meets
tomorrow he would move that in future
all of it's sessions for consideration of
the currency bill be open to the press.
He said. Furthermore, that he proposed
to make an effort to have the newspaper
men admitted to the democratic con-
ference Wednesday,.
Mr.. Reed declared his efforts to per-
feet the pending bill had been misre,-
resented that he had been made to ap-
pear In the light of opposing the ad-
ministration and that he wanted the
public to know just what was going
on in the COMMITTEES.