The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-05-23
REvAMPED FOOD BILL
IS GIVEN LAW MAKERS
Measure Redrawn After Con-
ference Between Wilson
and Hoover.
GIVES BROAD POWERS
Includes Not Only Distribu-
ton Supervision But
Price-Fixing.
GIVES BROAD POWERS
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will be hurried as much as possible
| in congress. The senate will take UP
/ the first bin tomorrow and the senate
committee is expected to report out q
bill similar to the one introduced to-
day within q short time. The house
will take up the food question as soon
as the revenue bill is out of the way.
Briefly the measure would do these
things:
Bills Stipulations.
Declare the production. manufac-
ture, storage, distribution and sale of
ncccssaries to be affected with pub
lie interest.
Make it unlawful to commit or per-
nit prcventable waste or deterioration
of necessaries; to restrict supply or
distribution or to enhance prices to
excessive levels.
Authorize the president to establish
standards and grades of foods, to
esta blish their quality and value.
Authorize licensing OF manufacture
ing. storage and distribution of food
to prevent uncconomical manufacture
or inequitable distribution; empower
the president to direct the disposition
OF boarded stocks.
Authorize the president to prevent
boarding, monopolizing or the cx-
action of excessive profits, by having
the government either manufacture or
deal III nccessaries authorize the tax
inc over of factories or plants for gov
ernment operation if necessary to pro-
vide proper distribution at fair prices
Prohibit Board Operations.
Authorize the president to prescribe
rules for the conduct of exchanges
and boards Of trade. or to prohibit en-
tirely their operations If in the public
interest
Authorize the fixing Of minimum
prices to the producers to stimulate
production: authorize import duties if
Nimportations threaten operation Of
guaranteed minimum prices; author
izc purchase by the American govern
mcnt at the prescribed minimum
prices supplies for allies of the United
I States,
Establishment by the president OF
! maximum prices to break food cor
4. ners or to prevent boarding and spec
ulation.
Authorize the changing of milling
grades or the mixing of grains il
| making flour.
Authorize the president to prescribe
! restrictions on the use of food stuffs
/ in the manufacture of alcoholic
4 liquors.
viii Be No State Lines.
The measure is based on the wal
powers of congress and operates
throughout the country irrespective o.
state lines.
Liquor prohibition legislation i'm.
connection with the food bills ant
also. but only, in the senate, upon thu
war taxation bin. Senator Gore
committee. who will have charge o
the food production bill. which is I,
be pressed in the senate tomorrow
said the committee will resist any ef
fort to attach prohibition amendments
to that bill
To expedite the legislation compris
ing steps only for increasing food
stuff production, the senate committee
hopes to exclude all cXtrancou
| amen dments. especially those propos
ing to prohibit manufacture of grail
or other foodstuffs into Intoxicating
beverages. or other prohibition pro
poSals. Confinemcnts of such amend
ments, and the protractcd debate the
are certain to provoke, to the hous
bill dealing with provisions for rcgu
lating and conserving food supplies
desired by the leaders.
Many Prohibition Proposals.
| Senator Gore is now writing n pro
| hihitinn amendment to be offered I
! the war revenue bill after it paSsc
the house. Various other prohibitio
proposals are being considered by tn
= senate finance committee, in Whic
| sentiment is reported strong for som
| action along prohibition lines. Sen
| ator Core proposes a heavy tax, VII
| tually prOhihitorN, upon grains use
| for manufacture of intoxicating beV
| crtGeS and remission of taxes on dis
| TILED spirits withdrawn from bondc
| warehouses for e-diStillation into al
| CuhUl for commercial purposes.