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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1913
Page
5
The Senate was put on notice of an effort to delay the currency revision until the regular session. Senator Weeks of Massachusetts offered a resolution directing the committee to withhold its report until Dec. 2. The measure will be raised tomorrow as Republicans push for a definite Senate opinion.
Robert E. Maddox of the American National Bank of Atlanta argues small banks rely on out of town check exchanges and would be harmed if all checks must be paid at par in regional reserve banks. Chicago bankers and Minneapolis official Joseph Chapman Jr object to Reserve Board power over interbank discounting. Senator Weeks says no urgent need for currency reform and notes the Aldrich Vreeland law remains in effect into 1914. Radical changes likely. report within 60 days unlikely.
Democratic leaders expect Republican support only for currency measures while Senator Hitchcock urges delay for full information. The House currency committee completed work on the administration bill and authorized Chairman Glass to report it to the House with debate likely to start early next week. Representative Ragsdale pressed to extend rediscountable agricultural notes but lost 8 to 7 and left the meeting. American Bankers Association representatives attacked the bill’s force provisions, predicting failure.
The interparliamentary council approves inviting New York City guests for 1915 America meetings. Resolutions back closing neutral money markets to belligerents and universal two cent postage. Discussions include information, mutual understanding, and treaty precedents.
Nearly 15 000 people attended illumination festivities in Marblehead to honor visiting German yachtsmen. Red fire along two miles of shore, fireworks from a harbor float, band concerts, and dancing followed banquets at the Corinthian and Eastern Yacht Clubs.
New York Sept. 4. A suit in equity to obtain a federal court injunction under the Sherman law against the so called jewelry combine to curb the activities of the middleman or robber was prepared for filing today by United States District Attorney Marshall. Attorneys for the jewelry manufacturers and wholesalers have consented to a friendly settlement of the question.
The National Wholesale Jewelers Association will file in Federal Court and will not contest the suit. Counsel Felix H. Levy says the association accepts the government's view that its actions, though not intended as Sherman Act violations, are construed as such. The decree will not dissolve the group or end other trade activities, and could influence similar interindustry bodies.
Providence R I Sept 4 counsel for the National Association of Manufacturing Jewelers says a forthcoming suit targets manufacturers and wholesalers. He describes the case as challenging an alleged wholesaler plan to bar retailers from trade except through jobbers, with ties to a spring convention and a potential Sherman antitrust violation. The Attleboros region is noted as a major jewelry center with the national group based in Providence.
In Washington on September 4, Senator Bristow argued that the U S government should allow General Venustiano Carranza the constitutionalist leader to obtain arms, asserting the constitutionalists have as much right as the Huerta forces in the Mexican crisis.
The quotation shows debate on recognizing factions in Mexico and arms shipments. The speaker argues the United States should recognize the belligerents and allow Carranza to buy arms while opposing the President’s warning to Americans to leave Mexico. Senator Bristow counters the warning stance.
Senator Sheppard stated Huerta could no longer import arms and Chairman Eaton of the foreign relations committee said Congress and the public supported the President’s approach to solve the issue without a disastrous war.
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