Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-06-29
Johnson of California Strong
Iy Urges Administration
Measure in Speech to j, S,
Senate.
LODGE is AGAINST
EXTREME LEGISLATION
Massachusetts, S tateSman
Says Germans and French
Drink and Are Splendid
Fighters.

tsY MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED wiPsl
Washington, June 2S.--The fight in
congress over government control of
food and other necessaries today vir-
tually narrowed to the question of
prohibition.
The house control bill as amended
by the senate agriculture committee
was substituted in the senate for its
original draft and debate proceeded
Senator Lodge opening the prohibition
contest with speech in favor of con-
tinuing manufacture of beer and
wines. The bill as it now stands
would prohibit the manufacture of all
Intoxicating beverages but empower
the president to exempt wines.
Senators Johnson of California and
Kellogg of Minnesota spoke on the
general features of the bill, promising
it their support as war measure.
Lapse of several days in general
discussion before the prohibition
fight develops in earnest is in pros
pect. There is pending motion by
Senator Hardwick to send the bill
back to the committee on the ground
that prohibition and other important
sections are unconstitutional.
Fight on Beer and Wine.
Senate sentiment is said generally
to favor stopping manufacture of dis
titled spirits, so the debate will CEN
ter upon beer and wines.
Senator Chamberlain in charge Of
the bill, said tonight he hoped general
speechmaking would end tomorrow
and that the senate by Saturday would
begin considering committee amend
ments, expected to take several days.
The prohibition sections under such
procedure would be reached last.
Senator Johnson, opening the de-
bate on the substitute bill, declared
its enactment necessary to win the
war.
America must make the sacrifice
In dollars and creature comforts with
in the next year, or she must make
thereafter the sacrifice in men-and
then, ultimately, the sacrifice in ma
terial things as WELL" he said. ''The
short cut to victory is organization
and this organization can come only
with a concentration of authority. 1t
is, therefore. with an absolute conf
dence that I give my vote to a bill
according the most extraordinary and
autocratic powers ever before con-
ferred in our nation"
Must Sacrifice Profits.
There must be sacrifice of profits
just as there is sacrifice of blood, the
senator said, and he added:
while, of course. legitimate enter
prise during the conflict should be
nurtured and encouraged, 1t must un-
derstand from the very beginning that
no profitable patriotism will be toler-
ated. If concrete illustration were
required to demonstrate the necessity
for some sort of legislation in rela-
ton to prices, 1t is found in the recent
discussion concerning the steel cor
poration. We find before the war this
corporation selling it's product from
s21 to $25 ton. At the beginning of
1916 it's contracts for the delivery of
steel plates to commercial ship build
ing concerns was $42.56 per tom and
very recently it asked from the United
States government sos per ton.
,"When an ordinary man sees his
loved boy snatched from his home to
be shot to pieces upon foreign soil
and reads of profits asked by cor
poration created by his government
of six hundred millions per year dur
ing the war, he cannot be blamed for
the demand in which our people unite
and in which the congress unites by
the passage of just such bills as this. v
.... Lodge Opposes Features. ....,
Senator Johnson praised Herbert c.
Hoover and said he Is particularly
fitted for the task of food administra-
tor. Senator Lodge, saying he would