The result of these events was to draw the attention of American bankers toward the practice of other countries. Many persons believed that the past experience of the United States with so-called central banking, as exemplified in the history of the First and Second banks of the United States, had been such as practically to put resort to such expedients out of the question. The Canadian Bank Act, which had been lately revised, offered as its most striking feature, from the standpoint of American bankers, an issue of currency protected by a joint guaranty fund contributed by all of the banks. At a meeting of the American Bankers' Association in 1894, at Baltimore, a plan of a somewhat similar sort was advocated. This was designated as the "Baltimore Plan," and became to many minds synonymous with what has long been called" currency reform." Unsatisfactory conditions in the currency situation had their share in contributing to the growth of the silver agitation, but the presidential campaign of 1896 turned almost entirely about the question of remonetizing silver. Discussion of banking and currency, as distinct from that relating to the standard of value for money, practically disappeared in the struggle over silver. Immediately after the election of President McKinley, however, an effort was made by business men and bankers throughout the country to direct attention once more toward the question of an appropriate note issue. Legislative leaders, nevertheless, showed almost complete indifference to the whole subject, and the "currency reform" movement after 1896, therefore, naturally became an effort to secure definite gold-standard legislation, and only incidentally improvement of the banking situation.