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Show I SENATE VOTES p TO PITT FAMER I ON BANK BOARD Compromise Amendment to ! f Federal Reserve Act Car- I ried By Wide Margin I HARDING FAVORABLE i j Attack Made on $20,000 000 j Building Project in H New York H WASHINGTON. Jan. 18 The first I ic-Dt.- brine abnul farmer repre.scn- H taken late Tuesday by the senate in fl he paa ol th Kellogg-Smlth com- y , mem . rship from riv to six B- End Providing that the r"?uUurna' fntereSa shall have a spokesman ''XVoH-osMtoS. Seven of those wtod opposed the proposition i Ke-publicans Ke-publicans and (wo Democrats They epomerene, uhlo. ana William MIs-Democrats; MIs-Democrats; grander on-Ucit on-Ucit Calder, N. w ork ; bilge. New rersev Keyes, New Hampshire; Mc-I Mc-I i Lean Connecticut; Morse. New Hamp- 1 i u-.-,.i -v. , h New STork i. - B I i ffiftBS BUIIiDlNG HANS mi Ry the 1 ill, 'huh constltutt a an B i endi u to the federal re serve act, H but and instead of the Bpeclflti fef or the namin ol I wo bank- to the board, the statute, if agreed JD , bj ,,, house, will dlrectttie presl- dent, in making appointments to have due regard to a fair representation ox W financial agricultural, industrial V and commercial interests and gco- .phicai divisions of the country. i he measure also provides that ncre- Tl iu, f. d-ral rewnc bank may n- i ban (he consent of congress le urst L UtfENDMENTS PAIL K. i nen were many attempts to change Bi IM . ndm nl reotrld Ing eoi ruction oj B i,:,tur Harris, democrat. Georgia, Sk killed. The agreement on the 1H , niproini.se, which bore ihe ..pproyal hot oniv of all the agricultural bloc leaders in the senate but that of Presl-dent Presl-dent Harding. h Id throughout Senator Smith, Democrat. South Bfl Carolina who first offered the pro- K vision as to fnrner ropresentatlon srithdrew his amendment and called WU upon his Democratic colleagues to Bfl support tho substltke which, he de- elared to be adequate, f li VRDING PAVOR UJIJE H1 While the senate was moving slOW- if toward a vote, word was received Ei tiat Mr Harding would observe the in- tent of the legislation and would name the farmer member He had previous- sfl Is Indicated disapproval of the original! F & proposal and the compromise measure i, -suited. Prior to the vole, there were several M hours of heated debate in which Sen- mgM tor Glas. lii-motrat lrglnia, lorm- Kfl secrotary of the treasury and an DH .tuthor of the reserve act, defended tho Bi w ' -steni and thc. board and criticised H 1 Senator lleflln of Alabama, also a Egl Democrat, for the latter's fcquent a. Lcks on tho board B;v Senator Mclean, Republican; Con- nectlcut, also defended tho board, bu fEsM ,i.-,salled extensively those who. he said, fcfl were going ahead deliberately to "foo K&M the farmer." Mr Heflln declared a board which H, would permit orders to go OUt for th-, . pnstructlon of a bank building like HH i hat proposed for the New STork feder- M' a.1 reserve bank and which is to cost HH around 120,0(10,900 was 'covered all over with suspicion pf graft |