Show NEW RELIEF HILLS BILLS BEINO PREPARED bills designed to alleviate and end present hard times are ready for in tro on the opening day of con can gross gresa among them being a measure by rot rep ranking for expansion of the currency reciting that the purchasing power of the dollar ta Is 66 56 per cont cent abbye the average of the period from 1921 to the mississippi democrats bill calls for the issuance of non interest bearing bo aring treasury securities to be known as liberty notes they would be issued in a minimum amount equal to 4 per capita of the population of the country and would be used to pay the deficit and current expenses of the government until the general commodity index of the coun try rises to it now being about 64 some of the notes would be retired from circulation it if the index rose above the bill assigns the secretary of the treasury department the responsibility of maintaining the value of money at af approximately the normal index of rankin said ald thero there was a sufficient amoun tot gold in the treasury to enable the expansion without endanger ing the gold standard |