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Show OPPOSED TO BANK BILL W. SMcCornick Decs Not Believe Examiner Bill Is Constitutional. When J. A. Anderson's H. B. No. 3. providing for the inspection of private as well as Incorporated banks, comes up it will be bitterly fought. There is a strong chance that It will never leave the committee with a favorable report, but it will probably be called from the table and fought out on the floor of the House. Several bankers were at the meeting of the Banks and Banking committee and discussed the bill. j.W. S. McCor-nick McCor-nick is against the measure. "Examinations of banks have never prevented failures, so .far as I know," said Mr. McCornlck Wednesday morning. morn-ing. "Many people prefer to do business busi-ness with a bank that is a private institution, in-stitution, rather than with a bank the books of which are open to the examiners, exam-iners, the board of directors and even the stockholders.- For this reason I am against the bill and do not want to see it pass. I believe that an examiner would have as good a right to examine the books of any business house as he ' .tout to cwanttoHee t yrrmtr jrnttf-: I do not believe that such a law will be constitutional." |