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Show M'ADOO DEFENDS I THE PRESIDENT I Appointment of John Skelton Williams as Comptroller a JtU Wise Move. Seattle, Wash., Jan. 29. Bankers from various cities in Washintgon Mm and Alaska attended the regional bank hearing conducted here today MM by Secretary of the Treasury "William G. McAdoo and Secretary of AgrI-culture AgrI-culture David F. Houston. The sec- retaries were guests last night at a MM banquet given by the Seattle com- mercial club, and in his speech Sec- Mj retarj' McAdoo defended the appoint-ments appoint-ments by the president of John Skelton Williams as comptroller of MM tho currency. vMM "Selfish interests. Mr. McAdoo mm said, "endeavored to defeat the con- IH firmatlon of the appointment," nnd 9W these interests he denounced and VW said "there Is not an honester man in public life than Williams." Mr. McAdoo said that lately he had boon urged by men claiming to represent business Interests to ad- W vise President Wilson to "say noth- BBJ Ing about the trusts." He predicted, BBJ however, that tho anti-trust legisla- fB tlon now under way would be a con-tinuation con-tinuation of the beneficent influence of the tariit ann currency w, ac-retarv ac-retarv Houston took up the published statement that It would be difficult to obtain good men for the federal reserve board and intimated that there had been no lack of candidates BBJ for memberships on tho board. He continued: "I imagine that those who are making special efforts to be consid- ered are not always going to be first to receive iavorablo consideration, because there are positions which in mm mv judgment no man ought to have BH the presumption to apply for." no BBS |