OCR Text |
Show Comittee Will Start-On Start-On Hearings Soon WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 (JPt Chairman Pittman (D., Nev.) eaid today the special aenate silver committee com-mittee would start hearings soon to determine "what benefits. If any, the country has received from the silver purcbaee program." Ths treasury authorities can say whether it has been beneficial," he aaid. "We wiU ask them to tell us about it." The treasury currently Is paying 44.44 cents s ounce for domestically domesti-cally mined silver. Westerns have contended the price should he higher: critics have argued that it amounts to a subsidy sub-sidy for silver Interests. At Pittman's request. Vice President Presi-dent Gerner added four members to the committee Senators Radcliffe ID., Md). Towneend (R. Del.). Johnson (D.. Colo.) and Shipstead tF.-L., Minn.). Other members are Senators King (D., Utah), Thomas ID., Ok la). Borah (R., Idaho) and McNsry (R., Ore.). |