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Show Texas Congressman Urges Silver Bill WASHINGTON, March IS OP) Urging Urg-ing silver bill. Representative Cross, D Texas), told th house todsy that on of th reason for th "depra sion" was th inadequacy of "the metallic base of currency." Cross said that the value of all gold has been estimated st about 112.-,0u0 112.-,0u0 000,000, "only about t per capita." The western hemisphere produced sbout 12 per cent of silver and only 2 per cent of gold, he said, and "yet we throw aside silver and grip ourselves our-selves to the currency controlled I largely by the British empire." |