Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-06-20
This Will Take Place Of En-
barge In Regulating Ex-
port Of FOOdstufs
NEUTRAL COUNTRIES TO
HAVE SUPPLIES REDUCED
Can No Longer Gel More
Than Needed, and Then
Divide With Germany
BY robert J. bender

Omitted Press staff correspondcnt)
Washington, June 90. While allied
food buyers remained idle and neutral
nations continued contracting for grains
and food. debate began Oh the food com
trol bill in the senate today
The few senators who oppose it de-
nounced the measures which would per-
init the president to conserve the ma
tion's food supplies for the allies
Reed and Gore in the senate, and Rep
resentative Joe Cannon in the house EN-
ployed all their oratory to block the
measure.
"This bill viii bring famine in 1913, 4,
shouted Gore.
uHoover admits wheat and flour
didn't 60 up until last years CROP was
used up and until men Of his illr began
their cry Of famine, Reed shouted.
Gore contended the bin win cost
wheat growers $250,000,00 and the corn
growers $500,000 600
can't stop Agents.
To the argument that the president
could stop shipments of food To neutHals
who are transsshipping il to Germany
through execution Of the embargo SEC
Ition o4 The espionage law, which he has
now signed, advocates OF the food CON
| troll measure replied:
stBut Me can K stop such nncnts-
even German secret agents from bnying
IN vast quantities and holding u n
storage. Under the food bill, and only
under the food bill, is this impossible. =
Chamberlain, Kenyon and other sup
porters Of the measure pleaded Tor
speedy action.
.tDelay immediate passage Of this
measure and we will indeed have famine
and worse throughout the land( tnsy'
declared They pleaded for thc people
TO npet behind Hoover and force re-
calcitrant members Of congress 20 pass
the BILL IL
Spectators are allies q the
kaiser,u r declared Kenyon. We can
kin them off If we pass this ball quick-
". One should apologize for csliing
4 these speculators highwaymcn, for high-
waymen and sea pirates Of tho icwess
type are Christian gentlemen compared
with them.
awe are contendine the babies OF
the moor shall have food; that no huge
fortunes shall be made Of u either.
q F'oulon may snceringly say let the
neonle eat grass Marie Antolnette
nav iecr let them eat cake
III saw they do not propose TO eat
grass and they have no chance 20 eas
ssTha government must replace the
rr;ddlemarl. When we are paying moge
far food than they are in London, some
4hino II wrong. / would far sooner
Nave a food control dictator than 70
nave the food gamblers dictate TO us.
siThis bin was not written by the Al
MIGHTY. but in the departments here,
an nssvered Gore. ''It will be no saerllege
NJ change ii. Let Us have central rooN
nnrchasine board instead OF what TINS
measure proposes. Such program woei0
pass quickly
Rorah. Idaho. declared the measure
febas enouph qeneralitics to bring on
the millennium.
'"S Neutrals Must Suffer.
wasbinoton june 20-NcutHal eo'in.
tr;es arc draining the United states =.
VI wheat simply and unless some io9t
aontrol is Instituted BY July |, Amef'-
as,, ,vheat will be exhausted BY spring
with this startling admission, !he 81
!, ,nsstration today pressed on ITS eI-
farts 70 force congress into prompt as-
t;an on the Lever food eontSi mn
II was pointed out that the cary
sonfhetn grain is already beginning .
move and that by July ! most o. y
win be on the way. Meantime neueta'S
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