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Show Five Hundred Hankers In Session. Chicago, Sept. 23. The eleventh annual j session of the American Bankers' Association Associa-tion began here this morning with a very large attendance. Fully" 500 representatives of the banking interests from every leading oity in the Union are present. The meeting was called to order shortly af tef 10 o'clock by Lyman J. Gage, of this oity, president of the Association, who delivered an address, touching upon the silver issue and other matters to engage the attention of the dele-pates. dele-pates. The executive council offered the following: Mesotvcd, That it is the sense of this convention con-vention that the coinage of silver dollars under un-der the compulsory law of 1878 is detrimental to the best interests of the people and dangerous dan-gerous to the-welfare of the government, and that the law Bhould be immediately suspended sus-pended and remain inoperative until an international in-ternational agreement of the leading commercial nations shall give substantial assurance as to the future relation of gold and silver as money. " Col. W. L. Frenholm, of Charleston, S. CJ, opened the discussion, favoring the resolution. resolu-tion. . . V . . , . |