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Show CONFERENCE OF BANKERS Washington, Aug. 5 By direction of Secretary McAdoo telegrams were ' sent today to the presidents of the I clearing house associations of fifty -nine citieB in the West. South and on the Pacific coast. Inviting the associations as-sociations In each of these cities to send a representative or committee to Washington to discuss arrangements arrange-ments relative to the deposit of the $50,000,000 government funds which the secretary' proposes to make in the- different sections to facilitate the movement of the crops. The conference with the representatives represent-atives of the clearing house associations associa-tions In tho South will be held at the treasury department on Thursday morning ,ihe 7th Instant. The representatives rep-resentatives of the Western cities will meet the secretary at the treasury' treas-ury' department on Fridav morning, the 8th, while the representatives trom the clearing house associations on the Pacific coast will meet at the treasury department on Thursday, the 14th. The cities which have been invited to have representatives at these con- 'C . ' ferences are as follows: Rlrmingham. Mobile and Montgomery, Ala ; Little ! Rock. Ark., Los Angeles and San 1 Francisco. Cni ; Denver, Colo.. Tampa land Jacksonville. Fla ; Atlanta and Savannah, Oa.; Chicago, in Bvane- ville. Fort Wayne and Indianapolis. Ind.; Des Moines and Sioux City, a . ; Kansas Clt and Wichita. K;in ; Louisville. Ky ; .--. Orleans. La.; 1 Raltlmore, Md . Vlckshurg and Meridian, Meri-dian, Miss ; St. Louis and Kansas City, Mo Minneapolis and St. Paul Minn ; Detroit, Mich Charlotte. Wilmington and Raleigh. N C , Omaha, Neb ; Oklahoma City and Muskogee Okla. Portland, Ore.; Cincinnati. Cin-cinnati. Cleveland and Columbus 0 Charleston. Columbia. Spartanburg and Greenville s C . Chattanooga, Knoxville, Memphis and Nashville. Tcnn.. Dallas Galveston and San Antonio. Texas. Richmond. Norfolk and Roanoke. Vn , Wheeling. W. Va.. Seattle and Spokane. Wash, and Milwaukee, Mil-waukee, Wis. The secretary said that It Is not practicable to Increase the number of cities which are to be represented at the conferences and that he thought those selected were thor-OUghly thor-OUghly representative of the different sections of the country where the crop-moving funds are to be placed Treasury officials declared that th entire $50,000,000 which has been offered of-fered will be deposited If the situation situa-tion demands It It was explained that care would be taken to prevent an undue Inflation of the circulating volume of money and that the government gov-ernment would deposit only what was needed to assist In moving the crops, with the stipulation that It must be returned to the treasury as soon as that need shall havo passed. At th' conference w ith the bankers Sccre- tary McAdoo w ill discuss the amount j needed and the dates to be named for the gradual return of the money to the government The treasury department expect.-, to begin making the deposits before the close of August and gradually to feed the money into the selected centers cen-ters as the demands grow through th crop-moving period. |