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Show FAVOR CONFERENCE ON SILVER QUESTION Effort to Get Congress to Nimv Commissioners Com-missioners Asked by Mexico and China. WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. Secretary Shaw, Robert B. Armstrong, who will qualify soon as an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and a sub-committee of the Bouse Coinage committee, consisting con-sisting of Representatives Southard, Southell and Cochrane, bad a conference confer-ence with President Roosevelt yesterday concerning the means of putting into effect the proposition transmitted by the President to Congress on January 29th In a special message. Mexico and China are seeking the cooperation co-operation of this Government In such measures as will tend to restore and maintain a fixed relationship between the moneys of the gold standard countries coun-tries and the silver-using countries. It Is not asked that the United States codify its monetary system, and It Is stated distinctly that there Is no movement move-ment In contemplation for the restoration restora-tion of International bimetallism. The particular desire Is that measures be adopted that will prevent the great fluctuations in ' exchange which now occur tn trade with silver-using countries. coun-tries. After considering the subject carefully, care-fully, it was tbe opinion of the parties to the conference that It would, be wise for Congress to confer with the President and to appoint three commissioners commis-sioners of the United States to participate partici-pate in any official conference on the question of tbe stability of exchange that might be arranged. It is expected that an another effort will be made at the present session to leave that authority au-thority to the President. ' |