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Show ACTION ON CLEARING HOUSE BILI. PUT OPT Tha claarlns housa bill, asnsta bill No. II, by Benat..r L. B. Wlsht. which waa to hava haadad ths calendar yaatarday, was postponad for action until Mnnday. whan the blttar flsht that waa waaad In commlttaa both for and aaalnst tha maaa. ura. will ba renewed on tha floor. Thla bill prohibits the flxlns of rates of Interast to borrowsrs. tha rates of discounts, and tha flxlns of rataa on exchange ex-change by any combination of bank., try at companies or similar Institutions. It waa prepared by Senator Wight as s result of ths testimony etvan by Halt Lake bankers bafors tha Pule Inveetlsat-Ins Inveetlsat-Ins committee In ths house at Waahlns-ton. Waahlns-ton. ss s part of ths so called money trust lnva.tlsstlon. Tha committee on banks snd bsnalns. which lnvestlfatad tha merits of tha bill, called members of ths Bait Laks Clearing Clear-ing Houss aasoclatlon and bankers who ara not members of that aaaoclatlon to Its issetons. and a wide ranss of Inter, aatlns tssttmony waa Introduced. Ths committee wss equally divided on ths report, re-port, thrss recemmendlns the nassass of tha bill and thrss rseommendlns that It b not paaaad. One member of ths commutes com-mutes wss absent whan ths reports were filed |