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Show TO AID RURAL BANKERS. Senator Fletcher Proposes a System of 1 National Rural Banks, i Washington. A national rural ba.nk-f ba.nk-f lng system is proposed in a bill by Senator IHetcher, chairman of the American commission on rural credits, appointed by the president. The bill proposes a system of local national rural banks owned and operated by farmers; a state national rur.sl na-. tional bank in each state to he owned and controlled by the local banks as stockholders, and the national rural bank of the United States, to be located lo-cated in Washington, to be owned entirely en-tirely by the state rural banks. |