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Show LEADERS REJECT PLANHJHBECESS DEMOCRATIC MEMBERS WILL BE KEPT AT CAPITAL UNTIL SENATE-ACTS ON CURRENCY. President Believes the Presence of Members of House Will Have the Effect of Strengthening the Administration's Ad-ministration's Efforts. Washington. Tho big Dcguocratic majority in the house will be kept in Washington as a moral influence over the slender Democratic control in the senate while the currency bill is under way, according to plans made Friday by house leaders, who definitely defi-nitely rejected, for the present at least, the idea of a thirty day recess. re-cess. After a conference with President Wilson, Representative A. Mitchell Palmer, chairman of the house caucus, cau-cus, declared no effort would be made for an extended recess for the house. It is understood the president believes be-lieves the presence for the House will have the effect of strengthening the administration's effort to pass the currency bill in the Senate. Fresh from its triumphant passage in the house, the entrance of the administration ad-ministration currency bill to the senate sen-ate was signalized by a statement from Chairman Owen of the banking committee that he expected the measure meas-ure out of committee and on the senate sen-ate floor for action by October 6. |