Commercial Relations with China: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Seventy-first Congress, Second[-third] Session, Pursuant to S. Res. 256, a Resolution Authorizing an Examination and Study of Stipulations Relating to Commerce in Existing Treaties of the United States and Other Governments with the Republic of China, and Conditions that May Affect Our Commerce and Trade with China ... Printed for the Use of the Committee on Foreign Relations, Volume 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1930 - 552 páginas Aug. 27-29, Sept. 1 hearings were held in San Francisco, Calif.; Sept. 10-12, 15 hearings were held in Los Angeles, Calif.; Sept. 22, 24 hearings were held in Seattle, Wash., pt. 2. |
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American amount army bank Britain British bullion buying power cause cents an ounce Chinese Government coinage coins commerce committee commodities copper countries course CROCHERON currency Dairen DARLING debt decline demand DENROCHE depreciation depression DORTON economic effect Empire estimated exchange exports extent fact foreign France FRONDORF FROST gold basis gold standard haikwan Hankow Harbin Hong Kong imports increase India industry interest Japan KIRKER loan Manchuria ment metal mines monetary months MOSER MOTHERWELL Nanking National Government Nationalist Government Orient ounces ounces of silver PENKETH pounds present price of silver production Provinces purchasing power question Railway reserve rupee Russia SAKURAUCHI sell Senator PITTMAN Senator SHIPSTEAD Senator SWANSON Shanghai silver dollars situation stabilize stock of gold supply T. V. Soong taels Tientsin tion to-day treaty ports United United States Senate value of silver wheat WILSON
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Página 1 - Congress, to employ such clerical and other assistants, to require by subpena or otherwise the attendance of such witnesses and the production of such books, papers, and documents, to administer such oaths, to take such testimony, and to make such expenditures, as it deems advisable.
Página 381 - The Supply of Gold Compared with Prices of Commodities, interim report of the Gold Delegation of the Financial Committee of the League of Nations, Document C, 375.
Página 385 - And It Is hereby declared to be the policy of the United States to continue the use of both gold and silver as standard money, and to coin both gold and silver into money of equal Intrinsic and exchangeable value...
Página 1 - For the purposes of this resolution the committee, or any duly authorized subcommittee thereof, is authorized to hold such hearings, to sit and act at such times and places...
Página 385 - That the provisions of this Act are not intended to preclude the accomplishment of international bimetallism whenever conditions shall make it expedient and practicable to secure the same by concurrent action of the leading commercial nations of the world and at a ratio which shall insure permanence of relative value between gold and silver.
Página 369 - ... may reasonably expect, therefore, that the future requirements of gold * * * will tend to increase as production and trade expand. No direct measurement of the rate at which production and trade in gold-using countries of the world is increasing * * * can be made. But certain estimates exist which suggest that the normal rate of growth in the latter half of the nineteenth century and the early years of he twentieth was about 3 percent per annum * * * (foot p.
Página 1 - ... to take such testimony, and to make such expenditures, as it deems advisable. The cost of stenographic services to report such hearings shall not be in excess of 25 cents per hundred words. The expenses of the committee, which shall not exceed $30,000, shall be paid from the contingent fund of the Senate upon vouchers approved by the chairman of the committee or the chairman of any duly authorized subcommittee thereof.
Página 396 - I am a member of the board of directors of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States and chairman of its taxation committee.
Página 385 - And it is hereby further declared that the efforts of the Government should be steadily directed to the establishment of such a safe system of bimetallism as will maintain at all times the equal power of every dollar coined or issued by the United States, in the markets and in the payment of debts.
Página 497 - The mills of the gods grind slowly but they grind exceedingly small.