Show MORE MURE MOVES TO TU AID SILVER ARE STARTED Senator Wheeler Revives His Measure I for 16 to 1 I Purchase ase Plan Plat J HOUSE FAVORS TWO BILLS I t l Move to Aid All Metals Also Is Launched Ur lii Associated Press WASHINGTON March 10 A la-A A new drive for the rehabilitation of silver will be launched soon on by that thaL veteran champion of the white while metal Senator Wheeler D. D Mont 1 The senator said today he is preparing preparing preparing pre pre- paring a Q bill for lor the purchase e of auver silver silver sil sil- au- au ver by the government and the Issuance issuance ssu ance of silver certificates in exchange exchange ex cx- change which probably will be he introduced introduced intro intro- the lir first of next week The measure is similar r to the Wheeler amendment to the administrations administration's administrations administration's adminis adminis- gold bill which failed of adoption in the senate by only two votes voles The bill c calls for the purchase at the price of th the metal tea teaChes h s a parity g with gold ld of of r 1 IC 3 ounces to one Senator Wheeler said he was satisfied sails satis fled fied that if the measure ever comes to a voe vote in the house It will vill be passed by a nt majority Before we can call return to loan toan an era em of prosperity currency and foreign exchange ex cx- change must be stab stabilized and silver rehabilitation would do more more than any n other thing to bring about aboul this stabilization because of its wide use throughout the world world Wheeler Wheeler said Two other silver bills designed to aid the status of the devaluated metal reported out of the house coinage ge committee committee com cam today will be passed by the Continued on Pale Pace T To Two o DRIVES STARTED ARTED TO AID SILVER Senate and House Start Work on Plans to Boost Price Continued from Face PI One house Speaker Henry T. T Rainey D. D Ill said The bills reported were the Dies proposal l which creates a board consisting con can slating of ot the president and the secretaries sec see of ot treasury commerce and agriculture authorized to negotiate exchange of American surplus farm products for silver and the Fiesinger bIll calling for the purchase e of at I 1 ounces of the metal Raincy said he heartily approved both bills Earl Early Passage Asked I uI am for both of these proposals Rainey Raincy said and I hope the committee commit commit- tee ce obtains rules providing for earl early house louse consideration The speaker said he had not talked with the White While House recently in regard regard re- re I gard jard to silver slIver legislation but that he had no reason to believe President Roosevelt would be unfriendly to the I proposals I Government Purchase Of Metals Proposed WASHINGTON March larch 10 A JP-A A bloc of western congressmen was at work on capitol hill today with the object of giving the nonferrous mining min mm- ing Industries a Q hand in the new deal The primary purpose of the bloc as outlined in a resolution adopted by representatives of 15 western states at a meeting last night is to provide legislation under which the government govern govern- ment meat would purchase in the Interests of national defense and to provide employment 10 per cent of ot all newly mined metals except Iron at current prices I At the meeting a nonferrous metals committee was organized with Representative Representative Rep Rep- of Nevada as chairman Representative Isabella Greenway of at Arizona secretary and end Representative Taylor of Colorado a member of the executive committee Senate Starts Work said Senator Hayden of Arizona was wae organizing a similar committee of ot senators from the states Senators King of Utah and McCarran of ot Nevada attended the meeting of the representatives I Among the tho western s states said there are many in I which mining is the principal indus indus- try Without some assistance to mining min mm- ing industries those states cannot hope to absorb in natural economic pursuits their vast ast percentages of un nfl employed citizens Something must be b j done to help them when civil works and other emergency relief measures ar are abandoned The committee adopted the following following follow follow- ing ing resolution a copy opy of which was sent to the president outlining Its program Purchase Proposed It u is proposed that in order 1 to in In- Increase crease employment in the mineral industries industries in in- without increasing stocks ol ot metals for sale sal the government shall purchase as a Q measure of national defense at current market prices 10 per cent of ot newly mined nonferrous metals produced by any mining operations operations operations oper oper- which after specific authorization tion by the government shall have produced the metal eligible for government gov gov- eminent purchase by hiring a fled number of ot unemployed workers corresponding to requirements for production of at the metal w 1 And that such newly mined metal shall be delivered to the army for storage s subject to use or sale only in event of ot a Q national emergency am and after declaration of the existence o of such an emergency Provided that the total quantity of ot any metal purchased by the gov eminent shall not exceed that deemed necessary ary to meet the national needs of ot the first year of such emergency based on the requirements of the of-the the year yea 1918 The objects of ot the bloc as outlined out lined by Mrs Greenway are to sus sus sustain tain lain the tariff on metals to promote the use of nonferrous m metals and tc coordinate the c efforts of government agencies through the bureau o ot ol mines for development of minera mineral industries especially gold The he mee meeting ing was called by Mrs Greenway She said all lives tives and senators in the states primarily manly marily interested had signified d the theix intention to assist in the program |