Show EXTRA STUDY ASKED ON MINE EXCHANGES V Early Curb S Struggles ruggles Recalled Recalled Re Re- called Before Senate Group WASHINGTON March 7 7 UP UP- UP Old days of ot the famous Comstock lode and the early struggles of the New NewYork NewYork NewYork York curb exchange were recalled Wednesday before the senate banking bank ing committee in t testimony on the pro proposed Fletcher Rayburn exchange regulation bilL bUt Franklin Leon Leonard rd bluff an and hearty mining man who for 13 years Drears was counsel for the curb exchange told th the committee mining exchanges should get special consideration now with the increasing importance of gold and silver in the nations nation's economic coo eco ceo life I In his testimony Mr Tr Leo Leonard rd ard said the Comstock mines developed after the California gold rush made mad it pos poa possible sible for the United States to resume POS POS-I specie payments 60 years ago He spoke of the development of at the curb exchange from a rabble in the street to a trading organization in which a seat has sold old for as high as |