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Show NEW YORK, June 22 "There is no legislation I care not whnt it is tariff, railroad, corporation or of a general gen-eral political character that at ail equals in importance the putting of fir banking and currency system on thp sound basis proposed in the Na tional Monetary commission plan " So declared President Taft tonicht to a big gathering of bankers and men of prominence in the financial and business world at the banquet of the New York state Bankers' association His address was mainly devoted to a careful elucidation of the Aldrlch-National Aldrlch-National Reserve association plan, which he warmly commended as prodding pro-dding for "the establishment of the seven thousand national banks of this country on a representative Republican Republi-can basis. He declared a "careful and well drawn plan, dewsed by a nonpartisan non-partisan commission to avoid the concentration con-centration of controlling Influences either in Wall street or in Washington Washing-ton " 00 |