Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1918-07-04
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Administrator Hoover Un-
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! Washington. June ,29.-Sharp pro-
tests by senators from the wheat rails
ing states, blocked action in the SEN
ate today on the motion of. Senator T.
S. Martin of Virginia, the majority
leader, to recede from the amend
ment increasing the minimum wheat
price to $3.50 bushel.
| Such determined opposition con-
fronted the nation that Senator Mar
tin consented to postponement of ac-
tion until Monday. Much spirited de-.
bate is promised then, and it may be-
several days before vote can be TAX
en-. -'
The amendment is attached to the
agricultural appropriation bill. It
was adopted by the senate by an over
whelming vote despite opposition
from the administration. The house..
however, rejected it, and the appro-
priation bill, with the wheat amend
ment, has been tied up in conference
for several months
Since w. E. Borah of Idaho as
I.serted he would prefer to see the
whole bill fail unless the administra-
ton announced a program for in
creasing wheat prices. Senator T. P.
Gore of Oklahoma, who has charge of
the measure; pronouncedait "unjusti-
| fed confiscation" to take, wheat away
from the farmers at the present. pric-
es. He" vigorously assailed the mil
lers for profiteering and quoted from
the report, of the federal trade COM
mission made to the senate. today.
"A member of the commission told
me that the fortunes they 1.-THE mil
1ers) were making were fabulous"
said Senator Gore, zone concern in
the state of Kansas has increased it's
profits many fold and has Increased
its presidents salary from $4,000
year to $4,000 a z year, has in
creased : its vice-president's salary
from $500 a year, q nominal salary,
up to IS 600 a year. They gave their
advertising agent an automobile cost
ing $4,000 and charged itSup to Aex-
penses, and filed q. claim for $4,000
depreciation on sacks in order to es-
cape payment OF taxes on their prop
Ia -. 3O:Per Cant. Dividend,
,. II think one mill in Missouri, which
has been declaring a dividend Of 5
per cent, declared e. dividend this
year of so per cent, and was as
sured that the fortunes they were
mek5ns ;nf like VII ssS|saF' HEs IN 4 gth. Ssis
country.
0'H hHaGaN kthgf sha Elevators:
9 $Ih4 I he4tf Nutshell for
handling wheat as against cent a.
bushel before this benign admins.
tration was instituted in the interests
0f a$8atsF asa8Saa%s Ss3es sRssdqb A Rssssd Il aiisour, aii
attacked Fpod,Administratof Herbert:
(sS5 1a606eH 1dharGd9 tkSxRe-A AIDED the.
millers and packers to proflteer: He
asserted that Mr.. HooveaINHiUsmrected
by "an intellectual strabismus" that
made it possible for him to see only
the profits of the farmer or baker,
but the profits Of the millers and
packers he cannot see, he said.
fai 1881 Reed Scores Hoover s:1itsE
'sFhe millers were taken Under the
wing or the food administration
continued Senator Reed. "But they
were capitalists. They were sabso-
lutelya guaranteed against loss, and
nots7 only were they y. guaranteed
against loss, bnt1their net iprofitsshave
bean multiplied three times over, and
that is done by the very gentleman
who -stauds sdghting againat:allowing
the farmerato make any profit on his
wheat. TsgGs.i .iEis.5 y -. +EDq 81 II: 81
- '..Eyery time M Hoover has regu-
lated the capitalists he has regulated
their prices UP, and the men who
have suffered have been those who
make up the great farming "commun-
ity of this country. -
duce @ fsafas SHOWING 81 that at one Of
the terminals where they manufac-
tured more flour than any other place
In the world, the miller has made not
less than $1.S3 per bushel. since Mr..
Hoover took IT. over" S2f
Unlawful Combination Charged.
,as"The same thing that is. true of
-four is true of the packers" con-
tinued Senator Reed, '.The packing
houses have been. trying to get into
combination for. years. The only
time they, have eyer been, able to eff
feet, that without danger OF going to-
the, penitenttary, was since Mr.. Hoo
yer came In and organized them into
[a pool trust and combination as g war
measure and as q proposition calcu-