The Washington herald., 1919-01-25
SENATE PASSES
famine RELIEF
BILL, So TO 1a
Three Amendments Added
One Barring Aid to
Central Powers.
AGAIN ASSAIL HOOVER
Provision Made That Por.
ton Of Fund Go to Suf-
ferers in Asia Minor.

The bill appropristing s1oo.ooo.oe "a
furnish food supplies TO starving
populations OF Europe, was passed
by the Senate late yesterday. 50 &c
Is Thirty-four Democrats and nine
teen Republicans voted fo- it. and
three Democrats and fifteen Repubii-
cans against il.
The bill has passed the House and
as soon as il has been signed BY
Speaker Clark and Vice President
Marshall il will be dispatched &C
the President in Paris for his sigma
tUre. IL is the first measure Of i'm
pOrtaTse passed by Congress since
President Wilson went abroad.
House support Expected.
Three amendments agreed to b.
the Senate n all probability WiiI
meet with the approval OF the House.
The frst of these makes It specinc
that a portion Of the fund is to pe
distributed among the ArmcniaRs.
Syrians and other Christian and
Jewish populations OF Asia AhsOr.
now subjects Of Turkey. This was
pul in by Senator LDodCe.
The second amendment also by
Senator Lodge makes. IL " .e defin-
Ite that no portion Of the food pur-
chased out OF the fund is TO 60 to
any Of Germanys allies in the war,
and provides that il shall be spent
outside Of German Austria Hungary,
Bulgaria and Turkey. as well as out
side Of Germany proper. ..
The third amendment provides
that so far as the money shall be
spent for the purchase OF wheat to
. be donated preference shall be given
! TO grain grown in the United States.
I Senator Penrose, Of Pennsylvania.
I was the author Of this amendment
In the closing debate on the bill.
Senators PoindeNter. OF Washington.
! Borah. Of Idaho. Ia Toilette, Of Wis
/ Consin. and Myers. Of Montana: at
tackled the measure. and Senators
Knox Of Pennsylvania and Smith.
/ Of Michigan, spoke for IL. The at
I tacks upon Food Administrator
Hoover were continued.
Opposes Anti-German CIAnse-
Senator. Smith, OF Michigan. took
/ issue with the Lodge amendment to
: exclude the food from Germany. and
I declared that the placing Of such a
! limitation on the bill viii come
/ back TO haunt as in after years. '
/ He said that although he did not
believe food should be sent 20 Ger
many by the allies at this time. tho
. matter should be left entirely within
: the discretion Of the President.
. The amendment was defended BY
; Senator Lodge. who said he did not
. HsHa
time would countenancc any meas =
ure to supply the Germans with
food. He said.
I think our first duty is TO feet
the people who were reduced to
starvation by the nations we were
fighting. After that is done we can
think OF doing something for the
/ Germans. Turks. Austrians and But-
garians"
Senator Borah inquired whether
Senator Lodge believed that any lin
itstion placed in the bill by Con-
gress would disturb Mr. Hoover =
. Senator Lodge replied that he did
not that in his opinion Hoover
would payne attention to any such
! provisions
Hoover Perfectly LawIess.-
Mr.. Hoover was perfectly laNless
here continued Senator Lodge. and
there is no reason 10 believe that be
will pay any attention to these Iimita e.
tiOns. He set aside the laws Of States
and every other authority that stood
il the way OF his food administration
But I do not think IL would be a good
thing for the American people for
Congress to pass this bill without this
restriction in it"
Senator la Toilette called attention
TO conditions in some Of tho large
cities and said that the United States
soon would have 10 face the problems
OF starvation and unemployment in
those cities.
Senator Knox confessed that he Jvss
/ greatly ''perDleNed" as to hOR he
should cast his vote. for the reason
that the proposition had been presented
to Congress in a manner so vague
and so difficult OF classification ,hst IL
is hard TO feel willing TO support H. 9"
lie said. however. that he disliked 10
withhold approval Of a plan which
had been endorsed by the intcr-sllied
council.