Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-23
PUTS Teeth IN
F00O CONTROL
HOUSE PASSES BILL TO JAIL OR
FINE MEN WHO
pRoFlTEEa.
TWO YEARS IN JAIL OR
5000 FINE PROVIDED
Republicans Support Measure While
Bitterly AssaiIing President Wilson
and Department Of Justice to Enforce
Existing Laws--campaisn Promises
Cited as Not Fuifilled--No Opposing
Votes.

Washington, Aug. 23.-Rent pro-
! fiteers narrowly escaped being includ'
ed in the food control act amendments
| which passed the house late yesterda,
| after five hours of debate.
Exemption of farmers from penal
ties and boarding as provided in tho
| bill was the subject of attack. but tn;
representatives of rural districts car
rled the day.
l. Without airy change more important
than the insertion of n semicolon, the
| measure finally was passed as pro
| posed by the. attorney general. Ther'
was no roll call on any of the propo'
! sitions.
5000 Fine, or Two Years in Jail.
AS passed the scope or the food con.
| troll act is extended to include wearing
| apparel and containers Of food. fect
and fertilizers, penalty of $4,000 fine
or two years Imprisonment is provide 70
| for boarding and profiteering. and the
department Of justice Is given author
| ity to go after the small as well as the
large retailers.
Representative Huddleston. of Ala
bama. sponsored the amendment apply.
| ing to rent profiteers. He won in COM
| mittee Of the whole, his amendmen n
being adopted by vote of 70 to SO. but
in the house proper 1t was rejected by
q vote of II to 1872.
Provides Pa rtisan Field Day.
Republicans and democrats had a
field day in partisan oratory in dis
cussing the amendments. The majority
party leaders, while offering no par
ticular objections to the proposed leg
islation, accused the president and the
department Of justice of failing to en-
force the laws now on the statute
books. The democrats defended the
administration and accused the repub-
licans Of playing politics.
Representative Rodenberg of nli-
nois started the ball rolling for the
republicans, making one Of the most
savage attacks Of the day on the pres
ident.
BIames Administration.
IT shall vote for this bill, but in do
Ing so want to say most emphatical-
" that do not regard this legislation
as necessary to enable our inactive
and incompetent department OF justice
to do that which they have so ia
gravity and persistently refused to dc
during the last six years-make an
honest effort to break up food profit
eering in this country" Mr.. .Rodenbers
said. TN my Judgment. the presidents
address two weeks, ago was a confess
sion and an avoidance.
painfully, and it-struck me rather
laboriously, he tried to create the i'm
preston in the public mind that the
American people could not expect any
relief Of a permanent nature from the
present excessive prices on necessarles
until the treaty of peace embodyins
his Utopian conception Of a league OF
nations was ratified by the senate.
LEAGUE Becomes m "Obsession."
His mind for the last nine months
has been completely absorbed by>this
idea OF a league Of nations. He thinks
of 1t all day and dreams Of it all night
In fact, it has become sort OF obses
sion with him. II there were a ram
inc in China, a. drought in India. a
flood in tho Mississippi valley. an earth
quake in Porto Rico, volcanic erup
ton In Central America. or an cpl
demic of spinal meningitis In New
York City, the president. by proc
ess OF reasoning that satisfies him
SELF at least, mas copvinoed hiiisei
that tho sole contributing cause wal
tho failure to adopt the league OF ma
tions."
Mr.. Hodenberg quoted from the dem
ocratic platform of 1912 and from tn
presidents speech accepting the nom'
nation in that year. showing TN
pledges Of the party relative to th'
high cost Of living.
~ Cites Cam alon Promises.
20, we remember the campaign O
1872" continued Mr.. Rodcnbers. wv
remember because you gained tina
election thru absolute misrepresenta
ton, and you have since failed to Keel
your faith with the people.
IT recall how some democratic spell
binders, some Of them here in THU
audience. travelled from the rock bount
coast of the Atlantic to the pcacefu
shores Of the Pacific, and with tear
Of sympathy. coursing down tnei
brazen checks told the honest WORKING
man OF this country. the horny hand
ed sons Of toll. that Il they elected
Wilson president and got control O
congress they would reduce the tarii
and bring about aNreduction in the higf
cost of living. They elected Wilson
they got control Of congress. They
reduced the tariffs; and UP. up, stead
lily UP, went the cost Of living.
"Gst Back on the Track"
'Trom the time that Mr.. Wilson
took the oath Of office, from the day NJ
took oath to enforce thu laws OF this
country and to support the constitu
ton. there has not been single error
made to apply the Sherman antt-trus
law to any Of the scoUndrels who ar
robbing you and me.
II appeal to the president to walk
up and get his mind back on the ira
Of domestic duty. Iask him to trans
fer his thought from Europe and hel
intrigues Ito America ana her neces
stiles. ask him to wait dreaming
!. s:ss.:;! brotherhood and te
devote his time to our home prob.
lens, for the solution Of which he was
elected president
Criticized by Meson and MondeiI
Representative Mason, OF Illinois. at
tackled the president for keeping Hin
OILS boys In. Siberia as "a collection
agency to enable money lenders to
collect their interest"
HE pledged himself to keep us out
Of war" said Mr.. Mason, "and the
only two men he kept out were Teddy