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caoo SEQ COO 900 Has Been Expend-
ed in Anticipation of Passage Of
| Bill.
| Washington, Jan 24.--What Admin
| fstration leaders hoped would be maj
| debate on the house bill approprint-
| ing SlnJ. GOO 900 asked by President
| Wilson inr l..!l..,ea famine relief.
! has II. ii.
Sea- -. ~; cock. Democrat. Ne
| braSka al :h,' foreign relations conf
| nittec. ": .rou:;ly urged its passage
as Il measure. 10 bring world peace.
III IS not II Lat er of Charity he
| said "i,;:l D: good bus ness policy ana
| war t.,r"ti rncy :" rsScue these peo-
/ pies from $ ary:l ion, and put them
| in :: frame Of MD 70 rs NJ I" peace
AMI not rpvert "a anarchy.
Scatter II i,llco. k urged the senate
tc accept The opinion of President
| wills = and the food administrator,
| Herb" v: c. Hoover. that the appro-
| pr:aticn is nes.c>:- 'ry. adding:
1.-THE question is whe her we are
| going 10 repudiate orr own represen'
tatiyes in Europe who are seeking ID
make peace"
| Senator Hitchcock read report
| from the American peace mission,
| showing that 1.40O COO tons of food
| stuffs would he reruired to feed the
! liberated countries "rtil the next har-
I>y. finns
| aIeardy are entering into this relief
| work.
| .Shall we be la.garlS?' he asked.
"Shali We all sit here and becauS" we
: nave political criticism of the admin
i i<tratian hold up tbs bill? I haven't
anv use for the hackers combine. /
would he glad TO vote for any bill that
wn..'.' PIT it rnder government super
| vision ard I know Hoover would"
Congress-. he said. enacted legisia-
! ton g.'aranteeing the price OF wheat
! TO farr,crS. not to enrich them. but TO
! win the var by 'nnlating wheat pro-
+. duction What congress did for the
| farmers ha said was analogous TO
! what Mr.. Hoover did for the hog and
/ cattle supply.
Senator Borah. Republican. Idaho.
: asked if the senator thought Mr.. Hoo
! YER and those under his supervision
! were CARRYING ont these powers when
they put independents out of bust
ness"
81 deny he did that" rejoined SEN
| ator Hitchcock.
.'Rut the evidence shows he did It,"
said the Idaho senator.
ST deny it responded Senator
Hitchcock He declared Mr.. Hoover
had been completely vindicated of any
charge. adding: ..In my opinion. Mr..
! Hoover stands in the hearts cf the
American people equal to any man in
the United States"
! Senator Borah denied that he was
i attacking Mr. Hoover.
"It sounds very much like it, in
terrupted Senator Hitchcock, the
Idaho senator explained what he had
| said was the system Mr.. Hoover had
organized was one he could not ap-
prove of, to that system he did not
| desire to entrust the expenditure Of
800 100000.
Senator Hitchcock read letter
dated February 10. 1915 from Presi
| dert Wilson to Mr. Hoover instruct
ing him to impress upon the packers
they were government agencies and
should do everything possible to assist
relieve food conditions abroad.
Congress did not entrust Mr.. Hoo
yer with power to control packing
house products" Senator Hitchcock
I said. "All he could do was through
his power of purchasing agents~to say
what he would pay. Mr. Hoover did
say what profits the packers could
make by fixing them at per cent on
| their original capital\ stock.
| mo man in the United States has
rendered greater service than Mr..
Hoover" said Mr. Hitchcock. 'sIt is
outrageous to make attacks in his
absence which reflects on his honor
and character
Senator Penrose. Of Pennsylvania,
| presented a telegram from c. H. Can
| by. who, he said, was a prominent
| Chicago grain broker, saying that it
was rumored the food administration
! already had spent $2OO0O,OOO of the
appropriation proposed in the bill, in
anticipation of its passage and in vi
] olatiOn of law.