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Show Sixteen Favor Pittman Bill Washington, D. G. Majority and minority reports on the Pittman bill, authorizing the purchase by the treasury treas-ury department of 14,500,000 ounces ot American silver at a dollar an ounce in full satisfaction of the terms of the . original Pittman act, were filed with the house by members of the committee commit-tee on banking and currency. Two minority reports were filed in fact, one signed by Representative Luce, Massachusetts; Massa-chusetts; MacGregor, New York; Beedy of Maine and Hooper of Michigan, Michi-gan, opposing the bill in toto, while Representative Black of Texas filed a separate report recommending that additional ad-ditional purchases at the dollar price be reduced to 10,247,976 ounces. The majority report, filed by Chairman McFadden, represents the views of sixteen members of the committee and recommends passage of the bill in the form which it passed the senate last session. As yet no arrangements have been made for getting a special rule to bring this bill before the house. |