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Show f Silver and Wheat. . Washington, Feb. 17. The silver ques- Vm was broached again this morning, and I ((is time it was in a hearing before the chouse committee on agriculture, on tii' auti-."nttions auti-."nttions bill, which has been under discussion )the committee for the past two weeks. jrlcs A. Pillsbury, the Minneapolis RUOIltVss on the stand. He stated iu the i f his remarks that the world's Bur- ', )Jfi?rj!.pply of wheat was steadily dwindling and was being drawn on each year to meet the increasing consumption of wheat. He said if one man owned the wheat crop raised iu the United States this year, it would have been possible to get $1.50 a bushel for it from Europe just as easy as BO cents, be-' cause Europe had to have it. Russia had none to export, aud India had shipped its surplus the previous year. ''Lewis Then the statistical position of wheat has been growing better for five years past aud the price (except for the spurt this year) has been growing weaker. Pillsbury That's so. .'j fje.His Doesn.'t the value of money have jigreatjj' to do with it? Isn't money I. , " , than ever? ' 0 I think as a whole the dollar t .ore goods now than ever. I s- Oil we had 81,500,000,000 instead of I j iXK) iu circulation would not farmers I 'e for their wheat? -y jury More nominal dollars, hut per-I per-I j ey thcu could not buy so much. J reply to a further question from Lewis, Lfjoury headmitted that short selling alone EjjUd not account for the decline in wheat '(aii h was too great to bo chargeable to one : ! ausc alone. In his address to the committee Pillsbury advocated the passago of an anti-option bill. Pillsbury said there should have been high prices for wheat this year but partly in consequence con-sequence of short selling the millers aud others living from hand to mouth, the world was drawing on the surplus supply of wheat each year, for the consumption was steadily increasing. |