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Show CURRENCY REFORM BILL APPROVED BY THE SENATE Wide Difference Between Measure Passed and the One Approved by the House Months Ago. Washington. The administration currency reform bill, proposing a revision re-vision of the financial system of the United States, and the creation, of regional re-gional reserve hanks to act as strengthening elements in the banking and financial world, passed the senate Friday night by a vote of 54 to -84. Forces that had fought together Tor improvement or amendment of the measure to the last, divided when the final vote came. Senator Hitchcock, who had led the opposition to the bill, returned to the Democratic ranks, and Senator Weeks, one of the leaders on the Republican side, with five other Republicans and Senador Poindexter (Progressive), voted for the passage of the measure. Wide differences exist between the form of legislation passed by the senate sen-ate Friday night and the bill that passed the house several menths ago. Democrat leaders already have partly adjusted these differences, however, and it was predicted that the bill would be completed by a conference committee and sent te President Wilson Wil-son for his signature by Monday night. The adoption of the administration bill, known as the ''Owen bill," followed fol-lowed upon the formal defeat by 44 to 41 of the "Hitchcock bill," which had been indorsed by Senator Hitchcock Hitch-cock and the five Republican members of the evenly divided senate committee commit-tee that passed on the legislation. The senate had previously rejected, without with-out a roll call, a "central bank" bill offered as a substitute by Senator Burton. |