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Show : PLATT PROPOSES TO j AID FEDERAL BANKS ! WASHINGTON, May 7. Chairman ; Piatt, of the house banking committee, i proposed in a resolution today to ex-(tend ex-(tend to July 1, 1921, the existing authority au-thority of tlie treasury department to purchase bonds Issues by deferal land 'banks. The resolution recited that the proceedings now pending in the supreme su-preme court attacking the constitutionality constitution-ality of the farm loan bank law might prevent the banks from disposing of I bonds the proceeds from which would be needed to furnish necessarv loans to farmers. |