Connecticut western news., 1917-07-26
HOOD CONTROL
 STILL DELAYED
Battle Over War Committee
 Holds If Up.
REPUBLICANS FAVOR BOARD

Lever Protests "National Scandal" In E Slow Congress Action on Measure t but Members Still Continue to Insist on Own Special Pads In Connection With lt-Democrats May Use Steam Roller In House.
 Echoes of President Wilson's letter 1 to MT. Lever protesting against the 1 appointment of a committee on war expenditures have delayed the progress of the food control bill still another day.
 Senators Lodge and Weeks both X stopped in the midst of an attack on the Creel bureau to state emphatically that President Lincoln never objected to the war committee during his ad- ministratiOn.
 Administration Democrats sided very | strongly with the chief executive | against Senator Owens section to the food control bill. But the majority of the house Republicans, headed by t James R. Mann, are in favor of the | committee.
 T think practically all of the men on ! this side of the house are for the con- mittee," said Mann.
 It was Mann's insistence upon the ! committee that stopped the food con- PeTrol bill. He was determined that ! section 23'' creating the committee should be considered separately from AI.o senate.
 Republicans For Committee. Lever wanted the house to disagree to all senate amendments and agree to the conference. Mann asked the house to disagree to all the amend ments except section 23." So when Lever asked unanimous consent that the bill be sent to the conference the E Illinois member objected. Mann's action forecasts stiff battle by Republicans to retain the war com 1 mittee in the food control bill. The l rules committee voted a special rule to send the bill to conference, and Chairman Lever is armed with this weapon. It is conceded that Demo- crats have sufficient votes to pass the rule and shove the steam roller over the Republicans. Nevertheless the lat ter will work hard to defeat the rule and bitter criticism of the president is anticipated.
 Republicans oppose sending the bill ! to conference because they fear the war committee will be thrown out by the conferees, while straight house vote might show a different aspect. Mann intimated that the majority of I the cOnferees would be Democrats and l side with the president ill the belief l that the creation of the committee l could only be interpreted as a Hack of confidence in myself
 Senatorial allusion to the stand taken by the president was brought out by Hardwick of Georgia, a Democrat, but not always in sympathy with the ad 4 ministration. He asked if the sup l posed objection of Lincoln to a war committee was based on interference
 with the conduct of campaigns or be
 cause the committee checked expendi
 lures.
 Lodge Quotes Book.
 
 son had said the civil war committed
 was a constant source of trouble, ! Senator Lodge asserted that a careful N perusal of Nieelay and Hays life ot |I Lincoln did not show the committee L( lever harrassed the president in the
 conduct of the war"
 Besides "section 23' there is other opposition to the senate amendments
 in the food control bill. Randall wants
 a separate vote on prohibition. Bar
 clay wishes beer and wine prohibited
 Shackelford desires the $2 wheat pro
 vision retained.
 Thompson of Oklahoma did not thinl
 a little more delay would be danger
 ous But Lever said amid applause:
 '"The delay upon this food control bil
 amounts almost to a national scandal
 q do not want to put my colleague
 in the house in an attitude to be crit
 icised for the delay. I want to put th
 blame where it belongs"