Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-08-10
SENATE. AND HOUSE
READY TO SUPPORT
PRESIDENTS VIEWS
Committees of Both Bodies
Will Launch Probes of
PrOfiteers.
REPUBLICAN FLOOR LEADER
FORECASTS PROMPT ACTION
Declares Executives Recommen-
dadons Will Be Made
Quickly Effective.
LICENSING SYSTEM DISCUSSED
senator Pomereno Points Out Princi-
pie Already Has Been Upheld
by Supreme Court
REPUBLICAN FLOOR LEADER
FORECASTS PROMPT ACTION
LICENSING SYSTEM DISCUSSED
Senator Pomerene Points Out Princi-
pie Already Has Been Upheld
by Supreme Court


Wilson's program for legislation to
control the prices and distribution OF
food supplies will be taken up by tho
Interstate Commerce Committee OF
the Senate next Monday. The COM
anittee held a meeting this morning
and decided to so over the text OF
tho President's message az a basis
Tor legislation which they will rec
ommend to tho Senate. Hearings
on new cold storage legislation rec
commended by the President will also
begin before the House Agriculture
Committee Monday. Chairman Haugen
announced late today. II Is under
stood that the measure as proposed
would limit the time in which sup
plies might be held and compel dis
posai OF them after the permitted
period.
Republican Leader. iMond=li declared
In The House today that Congress was
ton as needed to carry out the sug-
gestions made yesterday by President
Wilson for reducing the high cost Of
Make Further Appropriations.
Further appropriations suggested
by thc President viii be made quickly,
Mr. Mondell said.
/ Congress stands ready to consider
any esttmates." declared the Republic
can leader and hopes such estimates
he submitted 20 Congress- as promptly
as possible. All approximations found
necessary and needed will be made as
In regard to legislation. Mr.. Mondell
said some Of 1t could be enacted
,ns ~h noe iss' % sS,inE pro
ment"" would be debated. All Will receive
the Active and quick consideration OF
AN special agents OF the Depart
ment OF Justice over the country have
been ordered to assis, district attor.
neys in uncover!nG evidence OF prof.
teering in foodstuffs and other neces-
lions were that the special agents
pressing cases now pending and devote
the campaign to reduce the cost OF
living. The result will be to put hun
dred DIS Of IL trained Investigators in the
prices exorbitantly.
While II was not so stated, the I'm
the Investigation of radical propa.
Eanda which resulted in recent bomb
22 at ;s, would be. allowed to inter
teering.
Most of the members of the com
m mites are In accord with the Presi-
houses and to license the distributing s
of branding all foodstuffs with the
price pad The producer was EXPRESSED
~ the committee meeting. but no defin-
lite stand was taken against IL.
Watson for LicensinE Plan.
Senator Watson. Republican. of In
diana, expressed himself strongly in
favor 3 Of the licensing plan; but is not
1q faY Hs SesHsr Of
legislation to limit the expectation of
IoodstrHs and pointed out that during
The yer ar ended fle June 90 1919 the ex:
iSSo4. o0o. 900. :" 'A'ue 20
The Senator is OF the opinion that
what Should be allowed under the
existing ein;,sd sta, state 9f produetion n the
hove prices said IL could
Will fall so long as exports in excess
Of the normal surplus are permitted.
Ohio. explained to the COMMITTEES that
in his opinion there Is no doubt Of the
right of the Federal government to
commerce. He pointed out also that
is, states have the right to license
old storage plants and warehouses
which held goods for interstate traffic.
Principle Already Upheld.
senator Pomerene found this au-
thority In. decision rendered by the
Supreme &C. Court q the united States
which the validity of law passed by
that state to license grain elevators
was upheld. The court ruled in de-
cision written by Chief Justice Waite
that the grain elevators were In the
nature Of a public utility. and as such
were subject to State regulation.
In the decision 1t was stated:
When the owner Of property de-
votes. 1t to a use In which the public
~has an interest he in effect grants to
the public an interest in such use. and
must, to the extent Of that interest,
submit to be controlled by the public,
for the common good. as long as he
maintains the use. He may withdraw
his grant by disseminating the use"
Tho court held that the rights OF
(, property cannot be taken away with
out due process. but laid down the
principle that the State has the right
to say what the reasonable charge for
such service should be. This. the court
4 said, sgeatablishes no new principle In
the law, but only gives a new effect
to an old one" IT was also held by
the court that where warehouses; are
situated and the business is carried OF,
exclusively within a State, she may.
aa . matter OF domestic concern. pre-
scribe. re Eulationa for them, notwith-
4 slkn dthE they are used az instruments
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