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Show BANKERS IN OPPOSITION. The National Bankers' Association, at its meeting in New Orleans last fall, pasocd resolutions almost unanimously supporting the Aldrje.h currency plan. This gave the plan a mighty' pretti which theretofore it had lacked. It seems, however, that the indorsement was bv no means as general or as tin reserved a, one might have supposed Ah explained In The Finanrier, "the actual voting was done by less thar. 400 members out of a total of some tning between ll.ono and 12.00f. banks and bankers." It is evi.lent from this that only about one in thirty of the to tal of banking men m the country voted on the proposition. Accordingly, those who did not vote do not feel them elves bound. It n.-Ad Cause no surprise, therefore bat thy Florida Bankers' Association has passed' i resolution requesting the Florida Senators and Representatives in I "Ugrcss to vote ftgainsl the Aldrich monetary commission plan. This action is reported to have been practically unanimous, and since it represents the bankers of Florida, svho nre probably about in the same position of the aver-age aver-age banker of the United States, the a.tif.n taken enn be fairly construed as a iiisimct repudiation so far as the bankers of that State are concerned, of the New Orleans indorsement. The Financier states that "it will not be Surprising to find that more than one of the coming 1012 State ( onsen tions will rescind the action taken in indorsement of the Aldrich plan " It is very evidont that thq last word has not been said yet. even from the bank PX8 ' Standpoint, npon what seemed such clear sailing on the ldrich currency plan. It looks as though the banker-had banker-had acted first and thought, the matter mat-ter over afterwards', and this thinking has resulted already in the bankers of one State absolutely repudiating and putting themselves in opposition to the action recorded at New Orleans, |