Mexico Missouri message., 1917-05-31


mittee submitted to the senate the
greatest war budget in the history oil
the nation, the total being nearly 3d.
4OO,000,000 All the week the house
debated the war revenue bill.
Aggravated by criticisms of con-
gress for its alleged dilatOriness in the
matter of war legislation, many sena-
tors on Wednesday bitterly attacked
the war policies of the government.
Their especial targets were Secretary
of War Baker, the advisory commits
sion of the Council of National De-
Tense, the car efficiency committee Oh
the American Railway association, pro-
posal of food dictatorship and plans
for fixing maximum and minimum
prices. The outbursts of the senators
showed they were speaking In large
measure in behalf of the business con-
Germs Of their respective localities VINO
they asserted, had had no chance 10
| get government contracts.
Trading In Futures Stopped.
Food supply matters in America
moved rapidly toward crisis last
week. Actuated presumably by the
investigations of the government into
gambling in foodstuffs, and by the ire
mendous rise in the price of wheat,
the Chicago board of trade and the
grain exchanges of several other mid
die West cities put stop to trading
in futures. Wheat and flour prices
fell promptly and decisively. The gov
eminent gathered the necessary data
for prosecution of the wheat gamblers
and then got after the butter and egg
men. The government also came t
the conclusion that the eXorbitan
prices Of wheat and flour were due IL
part to the gigantic wheat buying op
erations of Great Britain and France
and asked them to dispose Of their i'm
mense holdings of grain for future de
livery. This the allies agreed to do
end they also agreed to co-operat,
with the United States in a pooling
system to apportionate exports.
All in d position to know scout thu
idea that there will be an insufficienc!
of food in this country. The problem
is to regulate the distribution and tn,
exports.
HoIIwee Won't Talk Of Terms.
The imperial rulers of Germany ar
not yet holding out an available perez
upon which the dove Of peace nigh
alight. Stubbornly resisting the prod
ding Of both the pan-Germans and tn
: Socialists, the chancellor, Doctor Hol
veg, on Tuesday told the reichsta
and the world that the time was no
fitting for q statement of Germany
war aims or peace terms. The mil
tary situation of the central powers
he declared, was satisfactory, and b
intimated that they were ready to gran
1 liberal terms to Russia, If that strul
Il Cling nation desired to get out of tn
: conflict. But he asserted there was n
: reason to believe England and Franc
I would at present listen TO any propos
I tons from Germany, and to make an
: would be construed by them as an ev
c dence of weakening. On the who'll
S the chancellor's speech was bold an
e defiant, and his position does not seel
:, to be weakened, despite the continue
$ attacks on him. The most startlin
{ Of these attacks last week was mac
II by Georg Ledebour, Socialist leade
o who warned the reichstag that even
II must happen In Germany as they hay
n in Russia and that the people mu
soon introduce q republic in German
e Though such sentiments are supper
It ed by many, 1t is likely the mass
l. opinion in the empire is better repr
n scented by Herr Roesicke, president
y the German Farmers union, who
l. nounced the Socialist aims as slnist
If and anti-national, and as tending to
le pronngation of the war since, as
st declared, the entente based the
N hopes on German disunlon.
president Wilson," Herr RoesIcI
continued, wants no peace with Il
s. Hohenzollerns, but the monarchy is t
Ie deeply rooted in German hearts (
" the malignity of the entente or
le President Wilson to be capable of &
r. stroying it."
q Developments In Russia.
IF After much travail the Russia
,r managed to settle the crisis in tn
" country by the formation of coallti
ne cabinet In which all elements, inclr
re ing the workmen, the soldiers and ev
k, the peasants, are represented. Prin
lg Lvoff. the premier, then announC
u. that for the first time they had g,
lie ernment that would combine BIZ
rs moral authority and material pow
o. The peace-without-annexations-or-
rs IDENTITIES factions sim adhere to
n policy, but all seem agreed that