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power" Administration bills now be-
fore Congress will pass.
Senator Gore secured the reading
of a series of letters from his pa
triotic constituents who feel that
the Government has betrayed and
outraged them because they are not
"profiteering" as much as they
would like on war prices for wheat.
They want 1.-The blue sky" as the
limit for all they have TO sell. The
demand for "rockbottom" prices for
all they have to buy was voiced in
North Dakota resolutions, submitted
by Senator Jones, protesting against
prices on manufactured goods and
demanding a war tax of a hundred
per cent on all incomes above $1,000.
The Senate Committee on Manu-
features is preparing. for its final re-
port on coal, with the help of the
evidence Senator Reed was assigned
to make for its use. The conclusion
from his able review is that all other
causes of DISCRIMINATION focus on
that due to the impossibility of
knowing in advance what might be
done next by those who could change
their minds and give arbitrary or
ders at will. AS contracts are to be
renewed on April 1, the first essen
tial, as Senator Reed sums the stu
alton, is that restrictions on bust
ness must be reduced to a minimum
and that uncertainty must give
place to stability"
Members Of the Senate Committee
on Commerce returned from their
inspection at Hog Island yesterday,
after paying all their own expenses
including rubber overshoes for the
swampy part of the island. No one
could be found who could cite a SIM
liar case during the twentieth CEN
fury in the legislative history of the
United States or any one Of them.
Mr.. Ayres introduced in the House
a joint resolution to amend the food
control act by including clothing,
hides, leather, cotton, wool, imple-
ments and equipment, with prices
fixed and supply regulated by the
President. In discussing the same
subject before the Senate Agricul-
tural Committee, Senator Gore re-
Gently expressed the opinion that if
''the price of cotton is fixed, South
Carolina will secede." He was merely
sarcastic. Mr.. Lever OF South Caro-
lima is now "headman" in charge of
the fixing"
The House subcommittee on APP
preparations continued its hearings
on increase of salaries to Govern
ment employees. Of course, the real
question is not Of increasing salaries,
but of how much their salaries are
now cut down by the increase of
pr ,es for all they buy and the
cheaper money they are paid with.
This the committee might easily cal.
culate as not less than 25 per cent.
Mr.. Clark Of Florida wishes to
stop all cost plus contracts. He in
serted :. clause prohibiting them in
bill he introduced, appropriating
$50, 100000 to be used by the Secre-
tary Of Labor in housing war
workers.
Under the Flood bill, there is a fine
Of $4,000 and twenty-four years i'm
prisonment for attempting to leave
the United States during the war
without permit.
Thomas Harrison has been a clerk
in the Naval Observatory since 1913.
He is now ninety-one years old. Sen
ator Jones of Washington intro
duced bill to retire him for life on
small pension, which he did not
wish used as an argument in favor
Of pensions for the civil service.
Senator Gore wanted pensions for
Harrison and all other worthy men
above the age of ninety.