The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-07-13
ATIleK FROM HOOVER
II zyIoeD PIRATES
Letter 3 WIS An Agreement
In s. 4 On "Sub" Bill
JULY 21M1E FOR VOTE
Directors Note Says Consumer
And Farmer Are At Mercy
OF Spectator
JULY 21Ja1E FOR VOTE

Washington, July ia senate
agreement to vote on President viii.
sons food control bill July Fl, five
weeks after its submission to congress
as an urgent war measure, was follow.
ed by issuance from the White House
of report by Herbert Hoover declar.
ing that the farmer and consumer are
suffering while food spectators make
unearned profits from the delay in en-.
acting food control legislation.
Democratic senators procured the
agreement for vote only after they
had consented to strip the bill OF
some of it's more drastic features, In.
Guiding the stringent prohibition pro.
visions.
Substitute Presented.
So far-reaching was the revision
demanded, in fact, that all day con.
ferences of the Democratic steering
committee and the agriculture com.
mittee resulted in presentation of q
substitute for the entire measure.
There was no expression of opin.
ion from the White House regarding
the provisions of the substitute bill.
but it is expected to be agreeable to
the president, in the main. 1t follows
generally the lines Of the administra.
ton bill as originally introduced, with
power to control other industries be-
sides food and fuel eliminated.
1t would prohibit manufacture OF
distilled liquors, without provision for
government purchase Of existing
stocks, and would place in the presi.
dents hands the power and response
billy to decide whether prohibition
shall be extended to beer and wine.
The publication at this time Of Mr..
Hoover's report was regarded as an.
other evidence Of President Wilson's
disappointment over the failure Of con,
gress to act.
Hoover Hammering Spectators.
Unless strong and efficient govern.
ment action is taken Immediately, Mr..
Hoover reported tothe president, the
farmers will face a<slump in wheat
prices and consumers will be caught
in situation even more serious than
that which already is resulting in
actual undernourishment" in the
great consuming centers. The specu.
lator, it is declared, is taking large
part Of the prices now paid by con.
sumers.
1--WE are virtually helpless to safe.
guard either the farmer or the con.
sumer," Mr. Hoover concludes, until
the pending legislation is passed"
The report, in the form of letter
to the president, was issued through
the public information committee with
the statement that publicity was given
it "that the country may know how
serious and far-reaching the conse.
quences may be, both to the farmers
and to the consumers, of the delays in
passing the pending food legislation"
The DiIIyDalIying Congress.
UNITED Press Dispatch.l
Washington, July. 11.-President
Wilson is expected to put the screws
to the dallying congress. Food Admin
istrator Herbert Hoover has warned the
president that any delay at the pres
ent time in the enactment OF the food
bill is very perilous. 1t looks prob
able that the bill will pass bereft Of
some of its most drastic prohibition
features. 1t is believed that the man
fo TN ~fx ;c11 r.
but the president will not be author
lied to purchase the whiskey that is in
bond; and that the question Of the
of wine and beer will be
put up to the president.