The Value of MoneyAnderson, Benjamin M. (Benjamin McAlester)
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The Value of Money
Anderson, Benjamin M. (Benjamin McAlester)
Money
Now several of these reasons are not at all valid. Cash shipped back and
forth between New York and the interior does not get into clearings.
Secondly, New York, because of the charges made for collecting out of
town checks, has tended to lose much of the collection business. Chicago
probably does a great deal more of it than New York does.[404] However,
even if checks on out of town banks were sent largely to New York for
collection, they would not get into the clearings. New York banks send
checks on country banks directly to country correspondents. Checks on
out of town banks sent in for collection do swell clearings in Boston
and Kansas City, where arrangements have been made, to the advantage of
all concerned, to have the clearing houses handle this business. But New
York has not made provision for it.[405] The only checks that get into
New York clearings will be checks drawn on New York banks.[406]
These checks will be of two kinds: (1) checks drawn by individuals and
firms on New York banks. These checks will commonly be drawn by people
in New York, and, in so far as they come from out of town, will
represent business between New York and other places, hence, New York
business. (2) Drafts by banks on their New York balances. These will be
of three kinds: (a) drafts sold, especially by country banks, to their
customers who need to make payments in other cities. Many of these will
represent payments to New Yorkers for transactions between New York and
the country, hence New York business, and will appear in the check
deposits of individuals, firms, and corporations in New York, (b) There
will also be drafts from one country bank, on New York, to another
country bank, in which New York is truly being used as a clearing
house, New York exchange taking the place of an intercity shipment of
cash.[407] (c) Drafts by New York banks on New York banks, to avoid
deficits at the Clearing House, or--especially in the case of private
bankers, between whom and brokers the line is hard to draw,--for general
purposes.
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