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Show I EARLY PASSAGE 1 PREDICTED FOR I CURRENCY BILL II Expected to Reach President for His Signature Before Adjournment of Con-IB Con-IB gress for Christmas. II CONDUCT OF FIGHT II PLEASES EXECUTIVE Congressmen and Senators II Probably Will Be Granted IH Long Vacation as Re- II vard for Labor. HH By International News Service. H WASHINGTON, Dec. 9. Such head- HH Tray ia bcinfj tnnrlo in connection will) HHj the curroncy bill in the senate that HaB Senator O -Gorman tonight predicted 1.9 lai voting- on amendments would be- H'n gin tomorrow and the bill possibly put lil upon itd iinal passage by Saturday night, Majority Lender Kern stated HH that beyond any doubt whatever tho M would bo in conference by one week HMJ from tomorrow. HlH It is not tho purposo of tho Icadora, H IU ni,y event, to adjourn before Decern-HHi Decern-HHi bir 20. That would pivo three daya In! -"or consideration of the currency bill in HlH conference, tho difference botweon the lH two houses will be reconciled at tho IHJ "White house, so no trouble is antici-IflH antici-IflH pHted in ngrtcinj: .to a conference roll ro-ll !'ort an" .iav-IiK the bill signed by the HH rrt'sidout by the date upon which it 13 HH ngn-ed tho holiday recess will bo taken. II President Is Pleased. BIB Pleased over tho way mcnibors of l both houses of congress have stood by lH their guns throughout tho long siege, II thc Pr?"dent bns told senators he would Ira not quibble over the length of tho lioli-H lioli-H av reccss congress might take. Demo- III cratic senntu lenders today wore dis-H dis-H cu-siaK the advisability of an adjourn-M adjourn-M nent before December 20 until January Tli is idea is approved by many, HH and a resolution for a four instead of a HH two weeks recess may be presented. HB onalors Nelson of Minnesota and HH Bristow of Ivnnsas, both members of tho banking and curroncy committee, held tho floor practically all day, advancing ad-vancing arguments favoring the Tlitch-cock Tlitch-cock and against the Owons bills. Senator Sen-ator Nelson coutended vigorously that thero should bo no provision permitting tho rcscrvo banks to pny interest on deposits. In the Owen bill tho payment of interest is optional; in tho Itepublic-an Itepublic-an mcasuro it is prohibitod. The Minnesota senator said it should bo absolutely prohibited because tho great evil of tho present Bystcm was this payment of interest on deposits, which concentrated tho funds whero they could not be used for tho general welfare Unless it was prohibited Senator Sen-ator Nolson expressed tho belief that it would be destructive of the whole system. sys-tem. Democrats Condemned. Both these senators condemned tho Democrats for professing to legislate for tho wiiolo peoplo, for denouncing tho proposed central bank as inimical to tho peoplo 's interest and then indorsing in-dorsing a bill that gavo tho bankers full and complcto control of tho ro servo banks, through which they would continue, as in tho past, to control and dominate tho money and bank credits of tho country. Senator Bristow admitted that the administration bill might develop into a benevolent banking monopoly, but expressed ex-pressed the fear that it would grow into a far-reaching and menacing daugor. Ho denied tho justice of the complaints that had been extended to the work of tho authors of tho currency bill in the house. , "I cannot ngrco with those who have extended these complaints," said tho senator. "I do not 'bolicvo tho bill showed any ovidenco of genius or talent. Its cnactmeut. as it came from tho houso, would nave been a calamity," said Senator Bristow. No Effort to Curb Trust. Scnaior Bristow said that thero did not seem to bo any serious effort on tho part of the Democrats to curb the money trust. Referring to tho absence or all provisions pro-visions for interlocking directorates, Senator Bristow said: "It is by that means that tho alleged Wall street monopolv of credit, which hns been vehemently ve-hemently denounced by the partisans of this administration, has been created. Yet this bill which has passed the house is championed by tho chairman of the senate committoo and by Mr. Undermyer, tho attorney for the Pujo investigating committee, and has, tho ardout support of tho president has not incorporated a single lino that will carry out tho finding of the Pujo committee' Senator Hitchcock, who has been absent ab-sent for a week, returned today ami "began taking an active part in tho discussion. dis-cussion. Ho insisted upon keeping a quorum of tho senate, urged that the subject before tho senate was too important im-portant to be disposed of without consideration, con-sideration, and frequently demanded a roll call to bring senators to their scats. |