New-York tribune., 1918-07-13

$3.50 a barrel and would put an ad-
ditional burden Of S3S7 900, 900 this
crease in price, he said, would force a
similar increase in Canada, thus en-
larging the whole scale of financial
operations in this country by the Allied
governments and affecting practically
the entire world.
The House is expected to pass the
bill tomorrow, with the price fixing
amendment eliminated, leaving the
guaranteed price at 1920 a bushel
Some Senators from wheat growing
states We're disposed tonight to urge
the Senate to pass the bill over the
Presidents veto. Others suggested
be added to the $11 100000 emergency
agricultural bill, to which is attached
the prohibition amendment.
The Presidents veto of the agricul-
tural bill was his third in two weeks.
The first aisapproval was of the Post
Office appropriation because Of q rider
for government purchase of mail tubes
in eight cities, and the second was of
the resolution authorizing the extern
sion of time in which the government
may relinquish short line railroads.
Text of Wilson's Message
The Presidents message follows:
81 regret to return without my sig
nature so important measure as
H. R. 9054, entitled, AN act making
Appropriations for the Department
of Agriculture for the Fiscal Year
Ending June 80, 1917 but l feel con-
strained to do so because Of my very
earnest dissent, from the point Of
view of principle as we'll as wise ex-
pediency, from the provisions of that
part of Section IA, which prescribes
uniform minimum price for No. 2
Northern spring wheat Of $2.40
bushel.
II dissent upon principle because
| believe that such inelastic legisla-
tive price provisions are insuscepti-
BILE of being administered in a way
that will be advantageous either to
the producer or to the consumer,
establishing as they do arbitrary
levels which are quite independent
of the normal market conditions,
and because l believe that the pres
ent method of regulation by confer
once with all concerned has result
cd in the most satisfactory manner,
considering the complexity and the
variety of the subject-matter dealt
with.
"It is evident that the present
method of determining the price to
be paid for wheat has had the most
stimulating effect upon production,
the estimated crop Of spring wheat
for this year exceeding all high rec
ords in very remarkable and graft
flying way. BY an overwhelming
majority of the farmers of the
United States the price adminstra-
lively fixed has been regarded as
fair and liberal, and objections to it
have come only from those sections
of the country where, unfortunately,
it has in recent years proved i'm
possible to rely upon climatic condi-
tions to produce full crop of wheat
and where, therefore, many disap-
pointments to the farmer have
proved to be unavoidable"
Patriotic Spirit Shown
Personally, | do not believe that
the farmers of the country depend
upon the stimulation of price to do
their utmost to serve the nation and
the world at this time of crisis by
eXertlng themselves to an extraordi-
nary degree to produce the largest
and best crops possible. Their pa
trotic spirit in this matter has been
worthy of all praise and has shown
them playing most admirable and
gratifying part in the full mobiliza-
ton of the resources of the country.
To very greatly increased produc-
tlon Of wheat they have added an ir-
creased production of almost every
other important grain, so that our
granaries are likely to overflow, and
the anxiety of the nations arrayed
against Germany with regard to their
food supplies has been relieved
"The administrative method of
agreeing upon a fair price has this
very great advantage, which any ele-
ment of rigidity would in large part
destroy-namely, the advantage of
fexibilty, of rendering possible at
every stage and in the view of every
change Of experience q readjustment
which will be fair alike to producer
and consumer.
81 More for Flour
"a fixed minimum price of $24O a
bushel would, it is estimated, add 50
a barrel to the price of four-in
other words, raise the price of flour
from the present price of $1,000 to
$3.50 at the mill--and inasmuch as
we are anticipating a crop of approx-
mately 900,000,000 bushels of wheat,
! this increase would be equivalent to
the immense sum of 1887 100000
"Such an increase in the price of
wheat in the United States would
force corresponding increase in the
price of Canadian wheat. The Allied
governments would, of course. be
obliged to make all of their pur-
chases at the increased figure, and
the whole scale Of their financial or
erations in this country in which the
government of the United States is