Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-05
FOOD BILL REPORT
UNDER SENATE FIRE
Senator Reed Says LASH ;
Being Applied to Hurry
Legislation.
SEES Benefit IN DELAY

The promised attack upon the confer
sncs report on tho food control bill was
launched in the Senate yesterday after
arraigned tho measure as agreed to by
the conferees, and the Senate conferees
for yielding on Senate amendments
which he believed essential. Every min
ute that the bill was held up, he said,
was q blessing to tho country.
Notwithstanding Senator Reeds criti-
eisms. or the fact that the Missouri
senator, who occupied all yesterday
afternoon in his discussion. said that
'he had not yet begun to speak. Sem
the conference report would be adopted
by the Senate before the end of this
week and that the President would
have 1t for his approval.
Senator Reed resisted the effort to
take up the conference report, when
Senator Chamberlain moved the Senate
proceed with its consideration The
Missouri senator was voted down. how
! ever, and he took the floor to state his
opposition to the bill.
Urges Immediate Action.
bill. in a brief statement, insisted that
the country Is demanding immediate ac-
ton upon the food control bill. It is
expected that the friends Of the meas
ure Will do little talking, and its op-
ponents win occupy most of the time
until the vote IL taken
The same lash OF haste that Is now
0einE applied over the food control
bill was employed on the food survey
n1M." said Senator Reed THE same
direct influences from outside that
rushed the food survey bill through
the Senate, and had it held up later
% that the food control bill could be
brought up. Is being exerted now.
Il warn this Senate against falling
into the evil of yielding to caprice. 1t
Is the solemn duty of the Senate to
analyze intelligently every question:
before it. II Congress turns over to
the President powers given it by the
people then Congress will betray the
people who wrote the Constitution in
blood and tears.
Always the Lash, He Says.
TN our war legislation 1t, is the lash.
the lash forever and eternally. The
lash Is laid across the legislative back.
and more and more we cringe and
more and more we whine and crawl
between the legs of those who master
Us. Always it Is haste.
when the food survey bill was up
tho Department of Agriculture got out
IT'S pot OF piaCk paint ana painted
somber pictures Of the future of the
country II 1t were not passed speedily.
And now they hold it up. these same
influences. because there will not be
80 good an argument for passing the
food control Dill If the food survey
bill Is put through ahead Of it. Throt-
tied, smothered. sat upon. is the food
survey bill, while we are told to pass
this one and pass 1t quick.
Terms Delay a Benefit.
THE senators who voted to accept
the changes In this bill did not repre-
sent this body and did not fight for
what this body decreed. They DELHI
erately went against the sentiment of
the Senate. AS the bill stands, 1 say
that every minute its passage Is de-
layed is a blessing to the country. and
every minute it is fastened is but
step nearer disaster"
Senator Reed began an attack upon
Herbert C. Hoover. selected by the
President as food administrator. and
was firing hot shot at him when the
Senate took a recess until tomorrow.
He will renew his criticism of Mr..
Hoover when the Senate meets