Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-05-07 | Page 1 | Petition in House Asks Silver Action

PETITION IN HOUSE ASKS SILVER ACTION WASHINGTON May 7 UP W- W House silver advocates dissatisfied with progress progress of the administrations administration's administrations administration's tion's Lions silver purchase program so sought to force action today on abill a abill abill bill to establish a bimetallic cur cur- rency Representative White D. D Idaho prepared to file lite a petition which if signed sign d by members would take his bill away from the coinage com corn committee and let the house vote on whether it would consider the measure Since silver advocates already had failed in previous attempts to change the silver program this session house le leaders expressed no particular doubt over the outcome of Whites White's move I