discount provisions,_90.
Federal Reserve Board,

91-92, 97.

first draft, 85.

foreign branches of Fed-
eral Reserve Banks, 90.
member bank reserves, 90.
Owen-Glass Bill,

passed by Congress, 87.
provisions of, 89.
twelve regional banking
districts, 89, 113.
passed December 23, 1913,
102-103.

provisions of, 113-116.
Federal Reserve System, 74.
abolition of certain banks
proposed, 152.
Board of Directors, 114.
establishment, 111-123.
farm loans, 123, 124.
Federal Reserve Board,

114, 149-153, 154.
first meeting, 110.
foreign branches, 115-116.
national banks as
bers, 113.

mem-

opening of banks, 141-149.
reason for establishing, 7.
twelve regional banking

districts chosen, 117-
118.

Woodrow Wilson on, 81.
first in United States, 6.
Hamilton's proposal, 75.
Government fund deposits,
68-69, 70.
interest, 68, 70.
influence through financial
control, 60-61.

investigation by Congress,
56-62.
Liberty Loans

(See, Liberty Loans.)

national,

charters issued to, 153.
Government funds on de-

posit, 67.

in Federal Reserve Sys-

tem, 116.

provisions of Federal Re-
serve Act, 90.
reserve funds, 80.
National Bank Act, 68.

Pujo Report, 79, 84.

Currency

questionnaire submitted by
Banking and
Committee, 57.
reserve funds,

Wall Street speculation,
80-81.

revision of methods, 55-74.
second in United States, 7,
76-77.

World War situation, 225.
Baruch, Bernard M.,

subscription to Cotton Loan
Fund, 166.

Bates, W. W., 171.
Belgium,

German declaration of war,
139.

invasion threatened, 131.
loans to, 247.

Benson, W. S. (Admiral),
Sea Power in American His-
tory, 170.

Benton, Senator, 77.
Biddle, Nicholas, 7.
Blackett, Basil, 166.
Blaine, James G., 208.

Blue Ridge Railroad Conven-
tion, 26.

Bond Bill, 250, 251, 255.
Bowers, C. G.,

Party Battles of the Jack-
son Period, 7.

Boyhood of McAdoo, 11, 19-25,
27.

Brand, R. H., 249.

Brownlow, Colonel, 16.
Bryan, William Jennings, 44-

45.

Carter, William S., 328.
Central Railroad and Banking
Company of Georgia, 29.
Chambers, Edward, 316.
Chase, Salmon P., 8.
Chicago railroad strike of
1877, 43.

Chubb, Hendon, 302.

City Securities Company, 63.
Civil War,

financial conditions, 8, 78.
Cleveland, Grover, 28, 43.
Coast Guard, 204.

Coin

(See, Currency system.)
Colombian Treaty, 209.
Commerce

(See, American Merchant
Marine.)

Commercial interests,

controlled by Wall Street,
56.
Comptroller of the Currency,
bank clerk in office of, 63,
64-66.

investigation of books denied
by, 62.

Conger, K. B., 33.
Congress,

investigation of currency
systems, 56-62.
Continental Congress,

Treasury Department estab-
lished by, 5.

Cornwell, John J., 72.
Cortelyou, George B., 92.
Corwin, Thomas, 9.
Cotton,

export shipments, 163.
effect of European War,
157, 163-164.
loan fund, 165-167, 168.

reserve funds, 95.

World War situation, 225.
First National Bank of New
· York, 60.

Fiscal Corporation, 77.

Fisk, Harvey and Sons, 36.
Floyd Family,

genealogy, 17-19.

Foodstuffs,

export shipments,

effect of European War,
157.
shortage, 318.