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Show Cillill I DEBT REQUESTED British Make Two Such Suggestions, Sug-gestions, Secretary Houston Declares WASHINGTON, Keb. 12 More than one suggestion that Great Britain's war debt to the United States be written writ-ten off has come from British sources, sour-ces, a member of the senate torclun relations' committee said today after I Secretary Houston had been closeted with the committee for two hours dis- cusin the status of American gov- eminent foreign loans. Committee members said Mr. Houston had confirmed that the British Brit-ish government had made a formal I proposal to cuncel the debt and that the treasury department had refused Ft rat intimation that such a proposal propos-al had been made was Kiven by J(- (Austen Chamberlain, British chancel- I lor of the exchequer, in u recent ad- I dress in England. Some senators , said the courec of Secretary Houston in dealing with such I suggestions had been "eminently satisfactory." sat-isfactory." I Mr. Houston was ald to have re-J I iterated thut the onlv course open to j him was to follow lhc law a ithorlz-jinK ithorlz-jinK the treasury departou nt to exchange ex-change the present allied' certificates of Indebtedness for long term notes. The secretary read a long prepared (statement to the committee detailing jail payments to the allies and the present status of ih- loans. At hid reqUest iwj pari Of this was made public, pub-lic, but it was said to have been substantially sub-stantially the same as given by him recently to the senate Judiciary com-' mittce. 1 Members of the foreign r lations committee vci- t. i 1 to h.ivc as Iced especially as to advances to the Ke- I rensky goernment and the alleged use of funds bo advanced by the llus- !sian embassy here after theKerensky government nras o erthrowii |