Show A PERMANENT ORGANIZATION The Committee Appointed by the Silver Convention Elect Officers CHICAGO Aug 3The committee chosen by the silver convention met this morning and effected a permanent organization by electing General A J Warner of Ohio president and George Washburn of Boston general secretary Colonel A C R Fiske of Colorado and H E Taubeneck of Illinois were made honorary members A committee of ways and means was elected consisting of General A J Warner Ohio Hon Denis Sheedy Colorado C B Mathews New York W A Clark Montana 9 E Allen Utah I L Johnson Virginia and George V Bryan Idaho A committee on propaganda was appointed ap-pointed consisting of Hon J S Dough erty Texas Colonel A C Fiske Colorado Colo-rado Ignatius Donnelly Minnesota I E Dean E D Stark Ohio Governor R F Kolb Alabama It was decided that the officials of the general committee together with the members of the subcommittee sub-committee meet at Washington on Tuesday Tues-day probably to remain there until the close of the session of Congress GLADSTONE EXPLAINS He i Interrogated Regarding the Closing ot Indias Mint LONDON Aug 31n the commons today to-day Sir Ellis Ashmead conservative asked the government whether since the stoppage of free minting of silver in India there had been a stated a depreciation iu the value of securities held in England to the amount of 130000000 whether the supply of gold was not insufficient to the monetary requirements oi trade and what measures the government proposed to take to avert a financial crisis Prime Minister Gladstone replied that he did not know how to ascertain the truth of the assertion that a decline to the amount referred to had taken place in the value of securities held in England He did not believe the supply of gold insufficient in-sufficient for trade requirements and could not announce measures to avert a crisis that he did not believe would occur |