The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-12-20
ITO DISPOSE OF
RAILROAD BILL
Congress Prepares for Recess
Till Jan. 5 to Enjoy
Holidays.
ADOPT SUGAR BILL
Possible Senate Delay Will
Not Hinder House
Adjournment.

bers to enjoy the Christmas holidays
at their homes. Most of the con-
gressmen have arranged to leave the
capital tonight and lay aside legis-
lative cares until the new year.
Under a concurrent agreement the
senate last night fixed the time for
voting today on the Cummins rail-
road bill and the sugar control bill,
| two of the three measures which
threatened to prevent the recess. The
third, the $33,000,000 urgency def
cheney bill, including $3O.OO0.OOO for
increased war risk insurance allow
ances, was passed last night.
| The vote on the railroad bill will
be take" IT $3.50 o'clock. All amend
mcnts have been disposed lid the
antistrike provisions left intact, all
attempts at modification and elimina-
ton of .ae clauses having tailed. The
SUI stitute of Senator La Toilette, re-
publican, Wisconsin, extending gov
ernment control of railroads for two
years, on which he announced he
would speak today, was the only re-
naming check to the final vote.
| Should any unforeseen develop
ments delay the Senate recess the
house will recess anyway under a
| "gentlemen's agreement" by the GEN.
ate not to transact any important
business between tonight and Jan.
5. Today the house planned to pass
the immigration committees alien de-
portation bill and consider confer
ence reports. .
BY q vote of SO to IL the senate
today adopted the compromise on the
bill to continue government control
of sugar during 1920, accepting the
house amendments increasing au-
thority of the United States sugar
equalization board, but limiting it's
licensing powers to June 80 next.
In Hands Of RetIners.
On the motion of Senator McNary
to concur in the house amendments
with restrictions of the licensing pow
ers of the board to June 80, next. three
| republicans, Gronna, of North Dakota;
Poindexter. OF Washington, and Smoot,
of Utah, Joined nine democrats in op-
4 position. The democrats were Gay,
Louisiana; Henderson, Nevada; Rams
dell. Louisiana; Smith, Georgia; Smith,
South Carolina; Thomas, Colorado;
Underwood. Alabama; Walsh, Mon
tana, and Williams, Mississippi.
| In the limited debate preceding the
seante vote on the bill, Senator Gay,
democrat, Louisiana, made the princi-
|
continuance of government control. He
declared it unfair to single out sugar
| for control in peace times under war
powers and argued that government
control would increase rather than de-
crease price to American consumers.
| I'VE are simply playing into the
hands of the refiners and injurng
American producers" said Senator Cav,
This bill could well be called an act
to benefit Cuban planters to the detri-
ment of American producers and to add
to the Golfers of the sugar trust"
Consumption Of sugar In the United
States this year, Senator Gay said,
was all out of proportion to the world
supply
Judge Ames is in possession of evil
dence which definitely connects a minor
attache of the court with one of the
lawyers in the case and which shows
that these two men were concerned
with a speculation in Southern Pacific
stock on Nov. II, one of them selnn.
the stock short at Wall street brok
erage shop and making a profit of 81, 500
on a small Investment. This was the
day that the supreme court handed
down Its decision in the Southern Pa
cific oil lands case. The stock broke
In price on that information.
Chief william j. Flynn, of the in
Vestlgatlon bureau of the department OF
Justice, is in New York today super
vislng the continued investigation OF
certain brokerage accounts of men
suspected of having been in possession
OF supreme court leak information.
That several brokers were in the
confidence of the Washington LAWYERS
and their tipster associates and that
these brokers and traders were cogni.
zant of the fact that the speculations
We're being made on sure thing in.
formation from the court are facts
known TO the department of Justice
one broker who has been reluctant tc
} several of his accounts to the govern.
meht IN this case is now on a hot xril
Acrimonious warfare mas broken out
among the lawyers and dopesters in.
vowed in the case. The story that de.
clslons were guessed having beer
broken down by the simple expedients
OF Judge Ames these men are now
esiire aunrrehng and blaming each other ant
callins each other liars"
"Politicai Football
me west, he asserted, should pro.
uuce more sugar beets while the acre.
age OF cane sugar easily could be in.
creased in Texas. Louisiana, Missis
Sippl. Alabama. Georgia and Florida
~ pfotGsted against making sugar
political football and continued.
suppose we were to license cotton
Ihe people would rise up evervwher,
IN the1r Just indignation and demanc
to know what right congress has t,
Sihsle OUT cotton Has 1t come that tht
United States is to take over tn,
private business of the country? IF /
mas, we certainly should start with III,
public utilities"
Federal control Of the sugar industr,
was desirable, Senator Gay said. onl,
IN extreme emergency" He added
that such an emergency existed durin.
the war and that the sugar situation
had been ably handled by Herber
, Hoover and later by the sugar eaua liza,
: ton board. but that the control should
have ceased with the armistice.
r Mention Of Hoover.
Mention of Mr.. Hoover's nam,
; brought an interruption from Chairman
t Gronna Of the agriculture committee
who said he hoped Senator Gay woulc
go more fully into the merits OF the
p policy pursued by the FORMER food ad
. ministrator.
: II am not speaking for Mr.. Hoover
replied Senator Gay
II hope the senator WILL" returned
: Senator Gronna, because Mr.. Hoover
j will need it before the American people
\ are through with him"
= Senator Gay declared the proposed
!. regulations were unfair, unjust anC
I un-American" and it was 'unjustifeC
: to single out the sugar industry to b,
: treated as the liquor business and othe
businesses that have practically beer
outlawcd"
In opposing the bill. Senator Smoo
defended beet sugar growers and pro
j ducers. denying that they had pro
fiteercd in sugar and said they had OF