New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-09
Legislators Plan to Tighten
Up Brown Measure
After Hearing
Graft Charge Is Made
Woman Physician Withdraws
Statement After Senators
Call Ii an Insult
Especial Co-rSpondercel

ALBANY, Aug. S.-The demand made
by big delegation of New York women
to-day on the War Committee Of the
Legislature for food control legislation
"to relieve thousands of hungry peo-
pie" made deep impression Upon the
lawmakers. As a result the committee,
when il meets tomorrow, will 60 long
way toward tightening up the Brown
bill now before il, even though its
changes probably will not meet the
radical demands of Governor Whitman.
The New York women, after graph
cally picturing starving East Side,
for which they declared immediate re-
lief is needed, succeeded in getting the
committee to agree to an amendment
to the bill by which relief can be given
to a community before actual famine
conditions exist.
The bill now enables a community
to purchase food and sell it 20 its In
habitants only in case of famine or
when deprivation of necessaries for
any part of its inhabitants creates an
emergency therefor" The amendment
agreed upon would strike the word
famine" from this section. Another
amendment agreed upon would permit
an agreement between the state and
Federal authorities for the control of
cold storage houses and warehouses
where food is kept. This, it is ex-
pected, will prevent confic. between
the state and Federal authorities.
Legislature Marking Time
In the meantime the Legislature is
marking time until after the passage
Of the food bill at Washington. A per-
functory session of both houses was
held tonight. Adjournment was taken
until 5 o'clock tomorrow afternoon,
when it is expected that another ad-
journment will be taken until next
week.
At times the hearing to-day resem-
bled joint debate between the women
on the one hand and Senate Leader
Elon K. Brown on the other.
Miss Dorothy Zenan, New York So
cial worker. declared that she was sus-
picious of the bill because the middle
men were not opposing its passage.
"Do you want to hear them holler"
asked Senator Brown.
81 do" she declared emphatically.
Miss Mollie Gold, appearing for the
Brooklyn branch Of the woman's stuff
rage party, favored giving the munich
al hnr it in
that food control Vas local rather
than a state question.
Charges Money Used
Insinuations that money was being
used to prevent the enactment of eff
cacious food control legislation was
made by DR.. Mary Dunning Rose, of
New York, but were withdrawn by the
speaker after Senator Brown had re-
buked her for what he termed an Sin
suit to the chief legislative body Of the
state"
After telling the committee that the
poor people of New York are practical
ly held up by the middlemen in the
purchase of milk, Sophie Irene Loeb
asked that the food control commission
be given power to adequately deal with
the New York City milk problem.
Most of the speakers at to-day's
hearing were women from New York
who contended that the committees
bill was not sufficiently drastic to meet
the needs of the people of that city.
Those who appeared in opposition to
the bill included Dorothy Zenan, Sallie
Lucas Jean, Of the Peoples Institute;
Sophie Irene Loeb, in behalf of the
Housewives Protective League; Mrs
Winfield Townsend, of the Jacob A.
Riis Settlement House; Mrs. II. E. Cox,
for the New York City Food Commit
tee and the Brooklyn School Lunch As
ISOLATION; Louise Edgar Peters, of the
National Service Committee of the
Woman's University Club; Jessie VI.
Corvin, representing the Domestic
Economy League; Isaac Russell, a New
York newspaper writer; DR.. Malcolm
c. Rose, of the legislative committee OF
the Washington Heights Medical Soci-
ETY.. and Laura +. Cauble, who said she
represented 100000 people in New
York.