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Show I PRESIDENT ACTS 1 AS CONCILIATOR H Si I , Endeavoring to Reconcile Difference! BBB ' rl ' Of Opinion Among Democrats of BBB 'I l 1 House Committee f . Washington, July 20. President Wilson endeavored today to reconcile BBb (Jlffcrences of opinion among Demo BBB crnls of the house banking cormni'- BY too on tho administration curroncj H I It seemed that tho ndmlnlstrat 0.1 BBg ' supporters would make an effort 10 BBB ii bnve their bill reported soon with a i'l hope that the fight on amendments BBB would be settled In tho Democratic Bflp ' cauciiB. BBl The president spent most of the fo e BBg noon with Hep Wlngo of Arkansas, BBg ono of thoso opposed to certain ten- turcs of the bill. BBl "Tlle Democrats certainly can and BBl will get together on a bill before BBf' long," said Wingo after tho confo"- Bfll Bg, J Tho president's conference Inst H. I I night with Hep Henry, who has been BBl recommending certain changes was BBj described today as satisfactory and BBl administration ofllclnls were optlmls- BBl t,c tnnt "1G differences would bo ad- BBl Justed. Tho president arranged to BBl see Heps. Eagle and Hagsdale Mon BBl day. They lmo been prominent In BBl opposition to the Glass bill BBl Pujo Finding BBS It was learned today thin, the prcs BY !dcnt regards It as Inexpedient to In- BBl' corporate In tho bill tho findings or Bfl. the Pujo money trust committee nnd BBYj that he had pointed out the ncc BBg i,i esslty for keeping recommendations BBM! bnscd on theso find ngs scpa'ate. BB8 Frequent conferences are looked BBJ for nt tho White House next week BJ with a lew to speeding tho f i'n- BJ istrntlon bill through tho house com- BBl mlttco. BftV 1 Chh'rmnn Owen of tho sena'c bank BftV Ing committee, said that on a person- BBgl nl cam ass of sennto Democrats ho BBg' had found 17 who faored taking up BBp currency reform t the present scs- BBk s'on "'"' (" u'' f"ord n recess BBY of congrpsi nnd n postponement of BBl fiction until fall. Two Democrats BftV wero absent and not Included Son- BBl ,'or Owen snld he had also found sit BBl Hepubl cans who ffaored Immoldato BBl action. He expressed tho opinion that BBb differences In the housn committco BBb -would not delay tho sennto's consld- BBl oration of tho bill aftor tho tnrlft BBl revision was disposed of. nccounts which frequently showed $S0 amounts "pnld to two party workers" work-ers" for services in tho Sixth New Jersey district. Mulhall sworo he dealt with a. man named "Fecny" and that ho paid him tho money In cash, usually meeting him ln a Philadelphia hotel Tho Items nppeared almost every week. Writes Foraker October 6. 1910, Mulhall wrote former for-mer Senator Foraker about his talk with President Taft, saying ho nnd submitted names of men who wouU help In tho campaign. "Ho seemed to scrutlnlzo the list very closely,' Mulhnll w-otc, "and talked as if John H. Tnjlor of East Liverpool and H. M. Hanna wero not enthusiastic friends of his Ho was greatly pleased with tho work I told him that had bscn In J'stsnchusetts and other states and nc'ved me to inform our peop a to Jo everything wo possibly could to keei In touch with leaders of the congressional committee, so that wo might bo able to help In close con-greslonnl con-greslonnl districts " Chairman Overman announced to-dniy to-dniy that lawyers for tho National Association As-sociation of Manufacturers and 01 tho American Tederntlon of Lnbo' would bo allowed to cross examine Mulhall. ThlB was n reversal of a previously announced program. |