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Bill Taft: “It is quite apparent from the statements of Mr. Vreeland, who is now the head of the committee on banking and currency…”

On the recordSeptember 13, 1909
It is quite apparent from the statements of Mr. Vreeland, who is now the head of the committee on banking and currency in the House of Representatives, and from the conversations of Mr. Aldrich, who is the chairman of the monetary commission and of the finance committee of the Senate, that the trend of the minds of the monetary commission is toward some sort of arrangement for a central bank of issue which shall control the reserve and exercise a power to meet and control the casual stringency which from time to time will come in the circulating medium of the country and the world.
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Bill Taft
Republican · Ohio
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Remarks at the Banquet of the Boston Chamber of Commerce in Boston, Massachusetts

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