<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section may be too long to read and navigate comfortably . Please consider splitting content into sub-articles, condensing it, or adding or removing subheadings . (July 2017) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section may be too long to read and navigate comfortably . Please consider splitting content into sub-articles, condensing it, or adding or removing subheadings . (July 2017) </Td> </Tr> <P> Prior to a particularly severe panic in 1907, there was a motivation for renewed demands for banking and currency reform . The following year, Congress enacted the Aldrich - Vreeland Act which provided for an emergency currency and established the National Monetary Commission to study banking and currency reform . </P> <P> The chief of the bipartisan National Monetary Commission was financial expert and Senate Republican leader Nelson Aldrich . Aldrich set up two commissions--one to study the American monetary system in depth and the other, headed by Aldrich, to study the European central - banking systems and report on them . </P>

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