Show WHITE HOUSE EDICT CHECKS SILVER SIL VER DRIVE Proponents of Legislation See Little Chance for Success C CENTER ON DIES BILL Willingness to Compromise Now Perceptible B By United Press Frets WASHINGTON March Con 21 silver leaders privately ad mil mit little hope of ot passing this session any of ot the sweeping legislation they have lave sponsored to put silver er back into the monetary picture Faced with the administrations administration's edict against such legislation pending a thorough Investigation of ot the monetary monetary mone mone- tary Issue they today were pushing the Dies bill which carries only a partial program As a result of ot White House action the he entire silver legislative battle has died ded down perceptibly The silver groups were more agreeable to compromises compromises com promises and willing to accept anything any thing rather than nothing The Dies bill now before tire tim senate sen ate agriculture committee would permit permit per per- mit silver up to a It total of ot In n world market price value to be received received received re re- in payment Jot for agricultural exports The inducement offered inthe to in the purchasers would be a 10 to 25 per percent percent percent cent premium above e the world price of silver The 16 to I 1 1 silver sliver bills bill appear definitely shunted aside There appears ap ap- pears ears little chance for bills such as as' as introduced b by Senator Burton K Wheeler D. D Mont and Representative tive William N. N Fiesinger D. D Ohio which p provide ovide for huge silver purchases purchases pur pur- chases and issuance of ot certificates against the bullion bumon until commodity prices reach the 1926 1026 level The Dies bill as yet et has not been definitely opposed by ity eIther cither the WhiteHouse WhiteHouse White WhiteHouse House or the treasury Senator Key Pittman Asks Bimetallism NEW YORK March 21 P A l'-A A plea pica that the nations nation's domestic currency be hosed based on silver as well as gold was va was was' made today by United States Stele Senator Key Pittman There Is ls no question in my mind that this will soon con be S Senator Pittman declared Addressing the semiannual meeting of ot the Academy of ot Political Science Senator Pittman expressed the conviction con con- that gold os as o Q monetary base basc would in the future be kept on a closed circuit I believe he said that henceforth henceforth henceforth hence hence- forth it will wUl be used only in discharging discharging dis dis- dis charging international debts Senator Pittman said one half of the people of the world have only sliver silver with which to bu buy necessities |