The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-19
REGULATING COTTON
NOW A WAR ISSUE
Three Delegations in Wash.
ington Have Different
Views on Control.
STIRS DEBATE IN SENATE
One Favors Price Fixing, An.
other Opposes 1t, and Third
Wants U. S. Corporation.
sTIRS DEBATE IN SENATE
Special Despatch 10 Tnr srN

WASHINGTON, July lS.--Covernmen,
control OF cotton, with price fixing or
equivalent action or Government aid ia
planters in carrying over big surplus
is rapidly becoming a war Issue.
Extension OF Government price n,,,v
to cotton under terms equivalent to thos.
applied to wheat and sugar was All.
tated at the Capitol to-day. Senators
from wheat States, stung by the Pres,
dents veto Of $40 wheat, are demand.
ing that the same treatment be ar
corded Southern and Southwestern cot.
ton planters as has been melted out IN
wheat growers.
At the same time scores of cotton men
representing three distinct group, or
factions were appealing to various Gov.
eminent agencies for action or against
it. TIE cotton manufacturers facing
price fixing on their products, wan, TN
raw material prices fixed.
Chairman Lever of the House Com.
mittee on Agriculture, a Southerner, who
is endeavoring to bring all the interests
together to solve their own problems
will lay the entire situation before
President Wilson tomorrow.
In the course OF the brief session ~
the Senate to-day Chairman Gore (Oklal
of the Agricultural Committee, bitterly
criticised TIE Presidents veto o, IN.
agricultural appropriation bill with II,
provision for $40 wheat
"Platitudes are sometimes luminous
remarked Senator Gore in his address
but the Presidents principles, sound a,
they are, have no application to ths
amendment he was vetoing"
Senator Gore said that in his belle,
the Presidents veto was inspired by the
agricultural courtiers who stir and fan
the incense around the President" He
believed ''the President in the great press
OF public business applied to some one
else for advice" Otherwise II don't sea
how he could have obtained SO complete
misrepresentation of the facts"
Senator Fletcher (Fla.) interrupted 10
say that he had talked with wheat
farmer owning vast acreage In Montana
who had told him that all the farmer
got over 81 a bushel for wheat was clear
profit.
Senator Gore at once produced sta
tistics to show that the cost of pro-
ducing wheat in North Dakota last
year was s2.19 bushel, while in Min
nesota under war time conditions the
cost of production had been 1901 a
bushel.
what was the price of cotton before
the war" asked Senator Reed tMo),
addressing Senator Fletcher. The lat
ter did not answer directly. hut vol
unteered the assertion that wheat would
have been SO to 81 a bushel II the Food
Administration under the law creating
that organization had not fixed the wheat
price. Senator Gore said the farmers
were getting approximately 20 per cent
less for their wheat than before the
Government assumed control of the
prices.
The Senator from Florida will never
vote TO reduce the price Of cotton. v"n-
ture," said Senator Gore. Il wish 10
would apply the same treatment to the
wheat farmers"
Senator Reed declared that the adj
vance in the cotton market had been
infinitely greater than the price M
Creases in the wheat market and read
into the Record figures illustrating lie
comparisons. They follow