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Show PROTEST DRAWN" UP BY OMAHA BANKERS Objection Is Mado to Being Placed iu the Kansas City Boscrvo District. OMAHA, Neb., April 9. Officers of the national banl;s of Omaha have drawn up a formal protest to be sent to Secretary McAdoo objecting to tho placing of Omaha In the Kansas City district of the reserve banking system. Tho protest Is tho formal for-mal action o fiho Omaha clearing house. The burden of the protest is that the selection of some of tho locations for regional re-gional rescrvo bank3 was not made with a view to the customary course of business, and that therefore It is not In accordance accord-ance with the letter and intent of the currency cur-rency law. Tho protest sets forth that Omaha bankers are opposed to being placed In the Kansas City district The protest asks, If Omaha may not have a reslonal bank of Its own, that it be thrown Into tho Chlcugo district, as tho trend of Us business Is In that direction. direc-tion. It also asks that Wyoming, along with Nebraska, bo thrown Into the Chicago Chi-cago district, as Is represented by the voles of Wyoming on flic with the organization or-ganization committee. DENVER. Colo.. April 9. Tho banks of Denver will not join In any formal protest on the location of the regional reserve banks, as announced recently by the committee on organization. This statement was made today by Gordon Jones, chairman of tho joint committee of tho Denver Clearing house association associa-tion and the chamber of commerce. Mr. Jones stated that should the question of redisricting be taken up, Denver would expect to have its case reopened and Its claims for a regional bank acaln considered. consid-ered. JERSEY CITY, N. J., April 9. A protest pro-test against excluding Jersey City from tho federal reserve district of New York City was forwarded to Washington today by a committee of Hudson county bankers, bank-ers, A similar resolution has been passed by tho Associated Bankers of Passaic. They wero included in the Philadelphia district.. |