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Show Smoot's Proposal Preliminary Step In Reconstruction Governor Bern Urges 10 Western Governors To Forget Partisanship In Support of Measure To Aid White Metal. i SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Dec. 11 (U.R) Governors of ten w estern states today considered telegraphic plea made by i Governor George II. Dora urging concerted support of Sena- j Lor Reed Smoot's bill proposing that the United States accept payment of international war debts in silver. Question Fundamentally Economic Governor Dern's telegram read in part: "In my judgment it is imperative that partisanship on entirely eliminated, as it is fundamentally funda-mentally economic in its nature. "Our friends who are leaders in the western silver movement do not think the proposed war debt settlement plan is the ultimate solution, solu-tion, but urge that it be supported as a preliminary step, to be followed fol-lowed by other constructive legislation." legis-lation." Telegrams were also sent to Senators Smoot and King of Utah and Senator Key Pittman of Nc- j vada. WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 (l'.i; A bill designed to relieve Europe and bolster the silver market at one operation, .was introduced in the senate today by Chairman Smoot of the senate finance committee. Market Price Govern; The bill would authorize the secretary sec-retary of treasury to accept silver from foreign governments in payment pay-ment of debts to the United States. The value of the silver would be the average market price in the United States in the second calendar calen-dar month preceding- payment. "It ought to relieve the pressure on European nations owing us without further concession in the debt," he aid. "If there is any wav j this can be done, it surely should j be taken. ' "If conditions do not right them- selves before long, it may be very difficult for them to pay. "It would make no difiference in the value to be received by this government. If the prevailing price of silver here was 25 to 35 cents, we would get that fixed value on the payments." |