Arizona republican., 1918-07-13
WILSON VETOES ACT
 FIXING PRICE FOR WHEAT, GIVES REASON

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 WHEAT, GIVES REASON
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 Some senators from wheat growing states were disposed tonight to urge the senate to pass the bill over the presidents veto while others suggested that the wheat price amendment might be added to the $11 900 900 emergency agricultural bill to which is attached the prohibition amendclent.
 The presidents veto of the agricul- tural bill was his third in two weeks. The first disapproval was of the post office appropriation bill because of a rider for government purchase of mail tubes in eight cities and the second was of the resolution authorizing the extension of time in which the gov- ernment may relinquish short line rail- roads.
 Message of the President The presidents message on the agri- : cultural bill today follows:
 l regret to return without my sig nature so important a measure. as H k. 9O54 entitled An act making Sp- propriationS for the department of agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919,' but I feek constrained to do so because of my earnest dis sent from the point of view of prin- cipie as well as wise eXpediency from the provisions of that part of section which prescribes uniform minimum price for No. northern spring wheat of $40 a bushel.
 dissent upon principle, because | believe that such inelastic legislative price provisions are insusceptible o being administered in a way that vii be advantageous either to the pro | ducer or to the consumer, establish ing as they do arbitrary levels whicI are quite Independent of the norma market conditions and because I be lieve that the present method O. regulation by conference with all con cerned has resulted in the most satis faction, considering the complexity and variety of the subject matter dealt with.
 Has Stimulating Effect.
 Tt is evident that the presen, method of determining the price to bt | paid for wheat has had the mos stimulating effect upon production the estimated crop of spring whea | for this year exceeding all high rec
 ords in remarkable and gratifying way. By an overwhelming majorit, 1 of the farmers of the United Statc' the prices administratively has beel l regarded as fair and liberal, and ob | jections to it have come only iron
 those sections of the country where unfortunately, it has in recent year | proved impossible to rely upon eli matic conditions to produce a full crop of wheat and where, therefore
 many disappointments to the farme have proven to be unavoidable. | Farmers Are Patriotic.
 Personally, 1 do not believe tha the farmers of the country depen
 upon the stimulation of price to c their utmost to serve the nation an the world at this time of crisis b exerting themselves to an extraordin
 ary degree to produce the largest an
 best crops possible. Their patrioti spirit in this matter has been worth
 of all praise and has shown ther
 playing a most admirable and gratify
 ing part in the full mobilization of tn
 resources of the country. To yer greatly increased production of whea
 they have added an increased produc
 tion of almost every other importar grain, so that our granarieS are likel
 to overflow, and the anxiety of tn
 nations arrayed against Germany wit
 regard to their food supplies has bee | relieved.
 The administrative method {
 agreeing upon a fair price has thi
 very great advantage which any ele
 ment of rigidity would in large pal destroy, namely, the advantage (
 flexibility, of rendering possible { every stage and in the view of ever change of experience a readjustmcf
 which will be fair alike to produce and consumer.
 Would Hit Consumer.
 "A fixed minimum price of $40 pc bushel would, it is estimated, add per barrel to the price of flour;
 other words, raise the price of flot from the present price of $1O.50 [ s125O at the mill and inasmuch as W are anticipating a crop of approx mately 900,000,000 bushels of whea i, this increase would be equivalent : the immense sum of s3S7, 100000. Such an increase of the price 3 wheat in the United States wou force a corresponding increase in u } price of Canadian wheat. The allit governments would, of course. be o
 liged to make all of their purchas 2 at the increased figures, and u I whole scale of their financial oper; | tions in this country, in which u I government of the United States Q directly assisting, would be there' correspondingly enlarged. The Il r crease would also add very material
 to the cost of living, and there Wou
 inevitably ensue an increase Tn
 wages paid in practically every I
 dustry in the country. These ada
 financial and economic difficulties, a 1 c.A4:. ..... .4 ;oo Il,r tho 1rhOle WQr