MR. FARMER: Well, you have forgotten the thing that interests me more, generally speaking, than all else, and that is the Land Credit Bank, which we went into last Wednesday night. Of course you intend to include this when you prepare your bill. UNCLE SAM: You bet they will, for I think it's about time that the corn raiser, cotton planter and grain producer and all the rest of the toilers of the turf, should be getting their money at as low rates as anybody else on first-class security for a long period of time, and I am determined to give the farmers of the country the benefit of my good name to aid them in this matter. MR. BANKER: Of course we had all agreed to that, and shall include it in the draft of the bill. MR. MANUFACTURER: Uncle Sam, I move that Mr. Banker, Mr. Lawyer, and Mr. Farmer be a committee of three to prepare a bill to be submitted to us next Wednesday evening. MR. MERCHANT: I second the motion. UNCLE SAM: It's a go. Good Night. SIXTEENTH NIGHT DRAFT OF BILL UNCLE SAM: Well, boys, here we are ready for the report of the committee on legislation, I suppose you would call it. Are you ready to report now? MR. FARMER: Yes, Mr. Lawyer will make our report and speak for the committee. MR. LAWYER: Uncle Sam, your committee has been deeply impressed with the duty you have imposed upon it. That the solution and settlement of our financial and banking problem is the most important economic question that has ever confronted the civilized world must be admitted by all who will take the trouble to investigate it and institute a comparison between our conditions and those of any other country at the time when it adopted its financial and banking system. In 1803, when the Bank of France was established, the financial resources of France were without official record, but comparatively nominal. In 1844, when the bank act under which the Bank of England is conducted was enacted, the banking resources of that country were probably in the neighborhood of $500,000,000. The total note issue of England, Scotland, and Ireland was less than $200,000,000; the public and private deposits in the Bank of England were less than $75,000,000; and the gold in the Bank of England was less than $75,000,000. In 1873, when the Imperial Bank of Germany took its present form, industrial Germany was still slumbering; and the bank resources probably did not exceed $1,000,000,000. The capital of the incorporated banks was about $425,000,000, the notes were about $325,000,000, and the reserves held about $30,000,000.