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Show PAYMENT OF U. S. LOANS OPPOSED Senate Committee Is Told Suggestion -Has Come to Secretary From Various Sources WASHINGTON. Feb. 12. More than one suggestion that Great Britain's war debt of billions of dollars to the United States be written off has come from British sources, a member of the senate foreign relatione committee said today alter Secretary Houston had been closeted with the committee for two hours discussing the status of American government foreign loam. Committee members said Mr. Houston Hous-ton hsd confirmed that the British government had made a formal proposal pro-posal to cancel the debt and that the treasury department had refuaed. FOLLOWS THE LAW. First Intimation that such a proposal hsd been made waa given by J. Austen Chamberlain. British chancellor of the exchequer. In a recent address In England. Home senators said the course of Secretary Houston in dealing; with such suggestions had been "eminently satisfactory." sat-isfactory." Mr. Houston was said to have re Iterated that the only course open to him was to follow the law authorizing the treasury department to exchange the present aHied certificates of Indebtedness In-debtedness for long term notes. DETAILS PAYMENTS. The secretary read a long prepared statement to the committee detailing all payments to the allies and the present status of the loans. At his request re-quest no part of this was made public, ; but it waa said to have been substantially substan-tially the pa me as given by htm recently re-cently to the senate Judiciary committee. com-mittee. Members of the foreign relations committee were said to have asked especially as to advances to the Keren-sky Keren-sky government and the alleged use of funds so advanced by the Russian embassy em-bassy here after the Kerensky government govern-ment was overthrown. j |