The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-07-24
+ SENATE CLIPPED
BONE OFFICIAL WINGS
LnFRs OF BOTH PARTIES
DEED ON GUSHING ONE-MAN
sowFR TO CONTROL FOOD.
|PEClAL BOARD FOR
FOOD CONTROL IS The PLAN

ri FtHlU GUNlNVL 1U I'LL Lt1lV
mo From Themselves by Advis-
Board Is Curtailed. Senator'S
lnenly Charge That Government
Being MIXED. Scandal limited.
kASHINGTON, D. Con- the
tie floor another day was spent
criticism of the defense council
other executive bodies.
report of the food control bill
made embodying the leaders
#nosals which are expected to re-
he many basic objections and de-
b. general support.
Principal revisions recommended
tbe leaders are for limitation of
sernment control of foods, feeds
fuels, including kerosene and
#oIine: creation of a special board
food administration of three sal
ID commissioners, instead of ad-
bistration by an individual; fixing
congress of a basic minimum price
&$175 per bushel for No. l north
wheat; extension of government
Ensing to elevators, farm machin-
factories, packing houses, coal
b. and dealers, fertilizer produc-
4 and wholesalers of such products,
81 government purchase and sale,
! secure reasonable prices, Of fuel,
Heat, -four, meal, beans and pota-
n only.
AThe food board administration idea
Hone Of the provisions of the COM
bmise bin insisted on by Senator T.
B Gore, who has persistently main
b led that Hoover nor any other one
d should be granted the powers
"a car" Senator Gore fought for
Il amendment against President
@lSOn's expressed wish for one man
Mtrol. Thus it can be said that
ARator Gore won the first round
'his fight with the administration
IN the conference agreed on the
20 idea with Hoover as chairman.
Graft limited in War Contracts.
II Discussing an amendment restrict
h sale to the government of pro-
rs in which the volunteer advisers
the defense council are personally
Frested Senator Mcclellan, demo-
b Of Tennessee, made a long
#ech criticising the contract policy
the councils advisory body. The
Aper cent. commissions for super
fmg construction of army canton
Rnt camps, he declared, will milk
L government" of about S250,000
Il each of the sixteen camps. He
sarged that "inside rings" dominate
snracts for the army, let without
8mpetitive bids.
aWorld-Old standards of honesty
ethics, declared Senator John
Of California, require that gov
&ment representatives shall not
II in a dual capacity-for them
sVeS and the government. Senator
8EnSend, Of Michigan, another re-
sblcan, warned that "a host of vul-
les are fiocking to Washington" to
ure war contracts, and that the OPP
N'lnlty for grafters might develop
public scandal.
&noeS contracts were the basis of
lclSm by Senator Kenyon, of.
During the days debate Herbert
sOVer, the food administrator, also
II criticised by Senator Gore and
#mly defended by Senators Cham
Jam and Myers.
Pne senator declared Mr.. Hoover's
#npt to influence legislation had
bold, open and notorious" and
Erfed to him as j. Rufus Walling-
Es4ator Weeks attacked the ship
BOARD and the fleet corporation
noV hastening action on the ship
81 program.
promise Amendments May Win.
lie opinion was general tonight
Jhe bipartisan compromise
nunents would go far toward
'ng the senate's difficulties over
Ieglslatlon, A considerable fac
piahS' however, to fight for gov
llenC control of iron and steel
.GclS and others favor a food
VI hve instead of three mem
d.S amendment created the board
r'"ICed by the leaders provides
lne president authorized
directed to appoint, by and with
auVlce of the senate, three com
M at an annual salary of
EoO, VINO shall constitute a board
oou administration and who shall
4 n Drn such duties in carrying out
'J ~ poses of this act as the presi-
snail direct. One of said com
e ,unefs shall be farmer actual
,nsaged at the time of his an
"g men in the cultivation of the
na ,nf president shall designate
m jie.loers of said board. Said
Ks n, shall hold office at the
ksn le OF the president during CON
go,,a amendment relating to sales
kino4e.I nment agents of their own
.Dro e's 81 70 the government, has been
Ihe senate almost exclusively
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