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Show CHECK 'MOWERS-; f.'..( t ' - CREDIT INFORMATION. TO BE -v COLLECTED' FOR NATIONAL "BANK EXAMINERS. ' ! t Syotem to be Installed Expected to" be a Check on tho Borrowings Which WJII Make It Extreme- ly Hazardous for the Dishonest Dis-honest Individual. Washington. A tcntntlvo system of collecting credit Information for '.ho benefit of the national bank examiners ex-aminers with the compilation and . JT checking up of tho commitments ol if large local and extended borrowers has been formulated by a commltteo of examiners who have been meeting at tho treasury department. Every examiner horenfter will keep for his own uso n complete fllo of nil large and. extended borrowers In his district, which list will be sent to tho treasury department for summarizing. summariz-ing. Tho machinery avnllablo by the comptroller of the currency will bo put to work to gather such credit Information In-formation as can bo obtained from national banks and from stato banks and trust companies located In states whero there is already co-operation between tho federal and stato banking bank-ing officials. Tho examiners will not divulge the name of the bank whero a line of the credit is found of an extended borrower, bor-rower, their speclnl reports giving tho total only of tho loans listed. These lists nrc entirely confidential. It Is expected that tho knowledge that a hundred or more men will bo keeping a constant check on tho bor-rowings bor-rowings will mako It extremely hazardous haz-ardous for the dishonest Individual, firm or corporation to get money from the national banks. |