View original document

The full text on this page is automatically extracted from the file linked above and may contain errors and inconsistencies.

538

A meeting of the Federal Reserve Board was held in the office
Of the Governor on Thursday, July 28, 1921, at 3 p.m.
PRESENT: Governor Harding
Mr. Platt
Mr. Hamlin
Mr. Mitchell
Hoxton, Secretary.

•

The Governor stated that the Honorable Sidney Anderson, ChairOf the Congressional Joint Commission
on Agricultural Inquiry, had.
reqUested the privilege of examining, in the offices of
the Board, the
atenographic minutes of the Board under dates of February 28th aid March
24.9 1921, which, by action of the Board, have been, since
their approval
at the
meeting of April 9, 1921, in the confidential files of the Fed61411 Reserve Board, in the custody of the Secretary.
Upon motion of Mr. Hamlin, duly seconded and.
unanimously carried, Mr. Anderson was granted permission to inspect the said confidential stenographic
minutes.
Letter dated July 27th, from Mr. John Ske3.ton Williams, of
111°11111°nd, Virginia, addressed to the Secretary of the Board, requesting
that he be furnished with a transcript of that part of the confidential
stenographic minutes containing his answers to and comments upon the
I:lard's complaint that he had not examined certain New York
banks as
frequently as the law required; together with draft of reply to Mr.
Williams' letter.
Upon motion, unanimously carried, the draft of the
Secretary's reply to Mr. Williams was approved.
Draft of letter addressed by Governor Harding to Mr. Wanamaker,
1311)8i-dent of the American Cotton Association, in reply
to a communication




539
-2-

tz1:141211`• Wariamaker, urging the material reduction of rates at the
l'ederea reserve banks in the cotton sections of the United States.
Approved.:
At 4:30 p.m. the meeting adjourned.




Secretary.