The Springfield herald., 1913-06-27
new CURRENCY BILL
DETAILS OF ADMINISTRATION
MEASURE GIVEN OUT.
Provides for Reserve Banks and
Would Create About $5oo,ooo,-
600 More Treasury Notes.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Detail Of Currency Bill.

| OetaII OF currency oil.
Committee to divide country into not
less than twelve districts. each to have
|. federal reserve city.
Each reserve city will have federal
reserve bank
There will be fifteen federal reserve
Central control through a federal
board of nine members.
Proposed new federal reserve notes
Security for these notes may be gov;
ernment or state bonds or approved
Sssiosai baRs aaHef depo.torle. to be
Board Of control given authority to
Headeuarters Of the federal reserve
Authority given to country banks to
Provision for banks Of 1000: 300 Of
more OF capital to establish branch
| Washington. - The administration
currency bill was made. public by Rep
resentative Glass. chairman of the
House committee on banking and cur
rency. 1t will be Introduced in. the
House and Senate aftsf President Will
son has delivered in perspn his I'd.
dress to Congress.
An outline of the measure prepared
by Mr.. Glass states that 1t Will be gone
over in detail for alterations. and sets
out that its purposes is to accomplish
three principal objects:
Provision Of q means for redis-
counting commercial paper of speci.
fled types.
A basis for elastic notes properly
safe-guarded.
Machinery for doing foreign bank
ing business.
The measures essentials provide Tor
twelve or more federal reserve banks
which will rediscount paper. deal IN
government securities. exchange and
conduct government fiscal operations.
National banks and such state bank
and trust companies as conform to
standards would be stockholders Of the
reserve banks. The government would
hold no stock.
The government would control the
federal reserve banks entirely through
federal reserve board Of seven NOM
bers in which the banks would have
no representation. The board would
be composed of the secretary of the
treasury, secretary of agriculture and
comptroller of the currency as mem
bers ex-officio. -Four other members
would be chosen by the President and
confirmed by the Senate.
The national bank note circulation
would remain undisturbed and no pro-
posal is made in the bill for retiring
approximately s700.OoO.o00 two per
cent bonds upon which that note issue
now rests. An amendment or separate
bill to refund these bonds into three
per cent bonds may be introduced
later.
In addition to the $7oo,ooo.ooo ex-
listing national bank notes, not more
than $500, 100000 In what are to be
known as federal reserve treasury
notes might be issued at the discre-
ton of the federal reserve board. sole
ly for the purpose Of making advances
to the federal reserve banks, which
would do no business with the public,
deal only with their member-banks and
receive deposits only from the United
States.
While the notes on their face would
purport to be the obligations Of the
United States, they would be required
to be secured by gold reserve of S3
Ia per cent provided by the federal
reserve bank. and would be first and
paramount dien on the assets of these
banks and would be redeemable In
gold on demand Of the treasury de-
partment at the city of Washington
or any federal bank.