The Washington times., 1918-01-11
Did M6aa: Yesterday #
Preparedness INDICATED by Secretary BakerHe Stands by
the Council Of National Defense Lantern Methods Be
Abolished The Triumph Of Woman Suffrage Relief for
Farmers Corn Wasted -Refundng Railroad Debt
Distribution. -. -.
By W. V. BYARS.

sioA oOiiIIieS as uRnLnlnR cnange
artist" Among the antis, Mr.. Small
of North Carolina and Mr.. Lufkin Of
Massachusetts said more of WI at is
most real in the underlying pc itics
Of the situation than any one else
One attacked the multiplicity of elec.
tons in MASSACHUSETTS and support.
ed the general proposition that we
have too much voting already. The
other made his argument in favor
of the right of each State to control
its own qualifications for suffrage
and against its impairment by the
civil war amendments.
A number Of American statesmen
feel able to run the country if vot-
ing were altogether out of fashion.
Mr.. Mays of Utah attacked South
em "chivalrous devotion 20 woman
hood" He quoted Edmund Burke:
my Lords, your dignity is fearful
encumbrance to you," and applied il
to Southern chivalry when used
against women who demand the
right to take part in making the
laws which control them in spite Of
chivalry.
OF course, the entire debate "pass-
ed of in the best order" We speak
Of such things confidentially as "cut
and dried" with spontaneous out.
bursts, likely to be indecorous, care
fully guarded against. Congress
woman Rankin, as the first woman
manager Of a great debate in Con-
gress, handled her side in a W; >
that covered her with glory. Three
rousing cheers for herl
The Senate decided the Hundred
Million Farm Loan bill yesterday by
accepting the action Of the House in
amending it. Senator Sherman of
Illinois said that what the farmers
of the Mississippi valley really need
and demand is the means of TRANS
porting their crops to market. He
was vehement at times. He said
that great quantities of corn were
left in the fields to rot on the
ground, because the transportation
service in the central West was de-
moralized. There were miles of it
still on the ground along the rail-
road tracks in December.
Frank Trumbull, chairman of the
railroad executives committee, and
George M. Shrive, vice president Of
the Baltimore and Ohio, gave infor-
nation Of great Importance to the
Senate Committee on Interstate
Commerce. In explaining the coal
mining and other outside invest
ments of the thirty-eight roads of
the Eastern group, Mr.. Shrive held
back nothing. He said, however,
that it is now the general theory of
railroad men, that they are in the
railroad business as a profession,
and that they ought to let such
outside investments alone. His
memorandum" on the condition of
these thirty-eight lines is a model of
condensation and of clearnsss in
presenting their side in summed-up
figures.
In answer to questions from Mr..
Cummins, Mr.. Shrive discussed re-
funding the entire debt of all roads
now outstanding as a possibility of
the proposed system. He could not
be positive, Of course, as it was "a
matter of policy" still to be decided.
Mr.. Trumbull, in answer to ques-
tons affecting State control and the
desire of the railroads to escape it,
said: 1--WE have advocated exclusive
Federal control"
w. A. Marshall, for the New York
coal dealers, testified before the Sem
ate Committee on Manufactures. To
explain all difficulties, he said:
When the Government started to
regulate the price of coal it blocked
the distribution of coal"
L. b. Featherstone told the Sem
ate Commerce Committee that q
combination representing the Steel
Trust had taken control of the mar
ket and prevented independents from
supplying steel for ships at a third
less than monopoly prices. Taking
over" was suggested as a remedy.
CARD OF THANKS