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Show etKETABY noojr Has ft Coaferene Tfltii leading Banker at tTfublncton. New York, SepL IX Secretary Wlndom arrived attheSub-Tnrasury at noon. Notices were at once sent out to tbe leading bankers to attend a conference for an exchange of views with him. The conference was In session two boars. At the close Wlndom stated that he had not decided what action ho would Uko, but would announce a plan this evening. He said a suggestion was made to deposit the Government fund in the National Bank, but rejected. Ho was la favor of extending ex-tending tho time for paying dutlea on jrocels now on hand -it the present tarill unUl February 1st. lie will take every poj-lblo step to relievo the present stringency and believes thai be has atrip! resource-, to effect tills purpose. The general idea 13 that he will decide to purchase a lance amount of government bond. Ite.Vrrlnir to tho conferecco of Secretary WinJom and tho financier, finan-cier, an evening liper says the question of putting government money on deposit In tbe National banks was brought up. Secretary Wlndom defined the position of the government and emphatically, declared de-clared that such a proceeding "U impossible. I n regard to the proposition of the GoTvrnment to iy a year's interest on 3j3OJ),O01 of currency Uew bond. Secretary Wlndom stated that Crtutre would have toauthar lio 11. I A I KQI-U9ITION 1 which met the unanimous approval of thoee present, including the Secretary, was to sueud the paj ment of customs duties frm Nuvem-berlst Nuvem-berlst to February 1st. Secretary WIndem said the present pres-ent difficultr In the money maiket, he believed to be 01 e that extended nil over the country, nnd was not confined to Wall Street, Or CTctl to New York. He salJ It would require re-quire a great deal of careful con slderation to ettle upon the best method of relieving tlie stringency, and for that reason nothing would bo done hastily. in regard to tlie stringency, which is bised on tho belief that a Urge amount of money, according to many, more than $5J,IKW,000, will be re-quired immediately to ey lltilles Id take iraods out of turn! In case tho McKinley bill goes Into effect October 1st. Assl-taut Treasurer Iloberts says: ' It might be suggestwl, in the first place, that tills amount is overstated, over-stated, for the Custom House authorities author-ities bate estimated that tbe amount of duty pa able on goods now in bond does not amount to more Uian $10,W,(VJ. In tlie seeoud place1. If these goods are withdrawn in large nnounta aud thruwn upon the market It Will have a tendency to check Iraiiorti, - THEA1IOU.NT or -MONhV recelved will be diminished. At any rate, II should not increase the stringency. wculd lie wie, however, how-ever, in my opinion, for Congress to extend the time within w hlch goods now in bonds could l withdrawn. This would tend to relieve the market, mar-ket, but in any aspect of the case I do not think there Is any serious ground for alarm. "The surplus shown September 10th ;S9,509 23) Is made upj f ,1 lows: Fractional sllvcrolns, about Jii.eW.lWl unirail-iblo fortlie purchase pur-chase of Inndsl: In Nitiouil lrio -iturlcs. V0J.d0 land not lu elf. u lalionljdeposli 5,000,iao. Ttit two items, amounting to S 17,0- U-JJ, deducted from S39w)0rW0 leavts about 52,0 W.OjI, which represents the entire available eas'i ia the Treasury, and that sum is lartol the 53 i-W.tWO of N'jtbml It ink re-dempt re-dempt on fonJs made available b the recent let of Conres-e. "There is, tlieretore, not a ilulLir lu the surplus whieh nrae the le by tlie payment of cittotu dins or. in ternal taxes. There Is not id liar will Ii rci regents any lioaHing of tlieriirrenrydiinps the last vear. The$-V'',fWalvt le'erred !" has been In the tre-t-ury for several year, and these fund) at onu time during the Lt adminlstra'iiu nmouiitcd toa'iout jl0,ntl,0XI. TELLUAI-lt ON8U1.TATION WwiiiMrroN, Sept, 14. Then-was Then-was a long consuIuUon toIay by wire Ittwrtn the President nl Cresson aud Anting riecrttaty liatchellerand A sltanl Secretary Nbt'leton at tho Treasury Dcpsit-ment Dcpsit-ment coucvmltl tlie stringency ol the money market, dining which the whole sjtuitbn was tlioroughly gone over. I lie PresiJent, it Is understood, states! that it is his desire to avert a pinlclu the mi-iey rutrket, and that none shall be p-rmltte-1 to occur oc-cur If the Treasury D.-atliient can help it. This was telrgraihed to Secretary Win lorn at New York, wlio sent the following message to the President: "Hae ha la conference with the leading financiers. There appears to be considerable stringency, but no reason to apprehend a serious panic. I am full.) advised and will take audi action as I think the situation situ-ation require." The President has also been in constipation by wire with Major McKinley, chairman of the committee com-mittee on ways and msaus and others, in mrarJ b tlie nronrietv of extending the date fixed by the Senate for the new tarilTblll to go into effect, The matter, lt i understood, under-stood, will be the subject of further roo'iience. Tiis.DintXDKOs Tiir.jii.vr announced today his w illingncss to buj largely of sliver Monday II the otters were favorable. In order to asUt In relieving the stringency In uluiej. The Treasury Deiartment caused a-careful iuqjlr, to be made today a to the probabilities of Cvnzress fixing a later date than November 1st In the pending tarill bill for tbe withdrawal of bonded merchandise under the existing schedule, and Assistant Secretary Nettleton lias fclveu the Associated Press thefol-lawingstateaientas thefol-lawingstateaientas to what conclusions conclu-sions were reached: "The information obtained renders it is as sure as any legiUtive event can be foreseen that the dab) of the withdrawal of coo Js will be fixed nt February 1, 1S9I. Indeed, owing le a well nigh universal request from the business community, a later date may be fixed, and the general feeling of apprehension U groundless. ground-less. There appears to be but little opposition to the change. The Sen ate committee have held no form! conference as the matter, but I h tre sticn Aldricb, Allison nnd Hlscock ot the Senate committee, and Chairman McKinley of the House, and I am able to slate definitely, from my interviews with them, that they KAVOH AJT EXTENSION' ta February 1-L The President to day expressed his concurrence In tbe suggested cbange." In an interview with a Tnlmie reierter this evening Secretary Wlndom said- "I have frequently heard it nld, 'Why don't the Treasury Treas-ury do something?' and I beg to tell you in auswer that from the foundation of tbe government until recently no such radical mcar.ins have ever been adopted as during the last thirty days, and let mo state further, that, as a result, $34,-OW.OjO $34,-OW.OjO have been paid out for the puahase of bond and the payment of Interest within twenty threcday. and during (hat time $19,000,003 have been pahl out in poosioas, matin? mat-in? 533,00X1,X) paid out for these three items alone within twenty-three twenty-three days. The receipts in the aame time have cot been over $30,-000,000. |