Evening star., 1934-04-23
S|LVER|TES FAVOR
MANDATORY FORM
FOR DIES MEASURE
Senatorial Bloc Reaches De.
cision, Despite Roose-
veIt's Opposition.

The Senate silver bloc decided to-
day at an informal meeting to de-
mand enactment of the Dies silver bill
in mandatory form despite the oppo-
sition of President Roosevelt.
Almost score of Senators attend
ed the conference at which the deci-
sion was reached, but only half of
them were still on hand when the vote
was taken.
The vote was preceded by a round
table discussion in which Senator
Thomas. Democrat, of Oklahoma, led
the move to continue the campaign
for mandatory legislation and Sena-
tor Pittman, Democrat, of Nevada,
advocated seeking legislation "the
President will stand for"
Presidents Stand Reported.
Thomas reported to the group the
Presidents refusal at conference
Saturday to agree to mandatory leg
islation, but members of the commit
tee who conferred with the Chief
Executive said he did not threaten a
veto.
Senators attending the conference
today expressed their views one by
one, and then listened to a series of
brief talks by outsiders. including
Father Charles E. Coughlin of De-
troit, advocating silver legislation.
Lets bury the philosophy of the
Rothschilds and the Federal Reserve
System and get back to the Constitu-
tion where Congress has the right to
coin money and regulate its value"
Father Coughlin shouted.
IF the Democratic or Republican
parties can't get back to the Consti-
tuition, we will start another party.
We're going back"
Thomas Generally Supported.
Most of the Senators supported
Thomas in demanding mandatory leg
islation.
Senator Borah, Republican, Of Idaho,
rounded up their views with a state
ment that he could not "see any,
thing to giving more permissive leg
islation."
"It puts Congress in humiliating
and pathetic position to be granting
permission to do something 1t Is the
duty of Congress to do" Borah said.
The proposition of going ahead
doesn't admit of debate. There isn't
any alternative. We must go ahead.
Fiat Money Held Alternative.
Increase the primary money or we
are coming to fiat money, one OF the
two.
IF we believe we are right, let's 60
ahead. I'm for free and unlimited
coinage of silver at the ratio of 16
to 1. I regret we cannot meet that
issue squarely."
Frankly, we didn't get anywhere, !"
Thomas told the group in reporting
on the Saturday conference. He
added that the President was opposed
to mandatory legislation because he
would be forced to carry it out even
if it didn't work.
Outlines Views.
After reporting the developments at
the White House conference, Thomas
submitted to the group formal state
ment outlining his views on silver
legislation and indorsing the princi-
Piles of the pending Dies bill.
The Dies measure, already passed by
the House and approved by the Senate
Agriculture Committee, provides for
exchange of surplus farm products for
silver, which would be received at up
to 25 per cent more than the world
price. The silver thus received would
be used as the base for further cur
rency issuance.
In addition to Father Coughlin,
those invited to give their views on
the entire monetary problem included
Frank c. Vanderlip, finanicer; Vincent
Bendix, auto accessory manufacturer,
and number of farm leaders.