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Show BANKERS FIGURE IT OUT. Agree Upon Plan of Currency Reform That Suits Them. Washington. Tho plnn of currency rororm ngreed upon by tho committees commit-tees of the American Hankers1 association associ-ation and tho New York chnmber of commerce, upon which they have been nt work for four days, was mndo public pub-lic Thursday. Hero re adjourning finally, a committee wns nppolnted to whom was Intrusted the drafting ot a bill for presentation to congress which will embody tho Ideas expressed In tho statement made- public by tho committee of bankers, Tho plan ngreed upon by tho two committees contemplates the lssuo under government supervision of credit bank notes by national banks equal to 40 per cent or their bond-secured bond-secured circulation, subject to n tax or 2(. per cent per annum; tin auto- i matlc Increase ot credit notes under ' certain conditions; a rurthor lssuo of credit notes equal to 12i pur cent of a bunk's cnpltnl nt n tax of C per cent per annum; tho estnbllshmont of a guaranteo fund for tho redemption of credit notes; repealing tho existing law limiting the holdings of tho bond-secured bond-secured notes to $11,000,000 per month and the deposit of nil public Monoys abovo rcnsonnblo working balances, in nntlonnl banks without collntpr.it no. ctirltlcs, on which tho banks nro to pay 2 per cent. |