The Butte daily bulletin., 1919-06-12

Uncle Sam do for the returned sol
diers? Shall the distribution OF new
farms or of homesteads be made only
to returned soldiers and sailors. or tc
all citizens ready to cultivate them
These two questions are being
threshed out befor the house con-
mittee on public lands. Bills OF all
sorts have been offered. No agree
ment is yet in sight.
Secretary CT the Interior Lane
wants congress to appropriate several
auEdrcd million dollars to be used IL
Wholesale reclamation OF cutCver.
}rl and swamp lands in big tracts
md for the making of well-eQuippeG
iallns. in community groups, from
hose reclaimed lands. He woulc
have the soldiers and sailors take the
'arms under contract to purchase
them by payments distributed over
50 years.
Secretary OF Labor Wilson asks
hat congress follow This general
scheme until the point Of sale is
reached. when he would have the
farms leased for life to the settlers.
the settlers to secure q title which
COULD be used for speculative profits.
He would have civilians as we'll as
soldiers and sailors admitted to the
privilege OF the plan.
Against Direct Aid.
Majority Leader Mondell proposes
to distribute raw lands to returned
Il Il -,
with which to do their own clearing
draining or other improvements be-
core planting could begin. Senator
Smoot has offered similar bill IL.
The upper branch Of congress. They
are very firmly opposed TO any gov
arnmental connection with the set
tler. once he has been given his land
Men Favor Baer-Gronnu Bill.
The Soldiers, Sailors and Marines
National Weekly News, which is pro
noting the Baer-Gronna bill provid
ing for a payment of a bonus of $3Ot
cash to every discharged service mal
regardless OF rank, is not impressed
with the Mondell or Lane plans. it
declares that the doughboy will
She best judge Of his own needs aft
er he gets the cash, and that it
foolish to offer a farm to a man who
knows and cares nothing about farm
ing. The Private Soldiers and Sail
ors Legion goes this paper one bet
ter by demanding a cash bonus o.
$500 for every man, and the openin.
UP of unused public lands for then
besides
Big Deficit Worries.
When the agricultural appropria
tion bill was being debated in house
Representative Moore Of Pennsyl
yanla, one of the new organization
controlling the majority, began try
ing to cut out various items which
the committee had recommended.
IF | am preaching an unwlse o;
unfair doctrine TO my republican
brethren,' he said in defel ding his
action, Il hope l may be pardoned
! but | wish to observe that unless this
side of the house begins to retrencf
! it will have mighty poor excuse witt
which to go TO the country when We
are charged with levying additiona
taXcs upon the people, as we may be
| charged in the very near future.
| Il want NY republican brethren tC
know what they are UP against. Next
| year they will be called upon to NEE
! deficiency which the democrats lef
on our hands CT nearly S6,OO0,000,
| 600
4 member who had been studying
the estimates corrected Moore by
stating that the deficit would be $40,
| 900 600. 600.
! Of course, the small progressive
| element, I'D by La Toilette and John
son Of California in the senate, ha.
! been pointing out the utter made
quaCy OF the taxation schemes adopt
ed by the democratic and republican
majority ever since the first wal rev
anEe bill was reported. But it ha:
taken until the end of May, 1919. f0l
the stardpattars to discover chat lie;
Ting the rrofiteers off lightly in tne
| tax legislation does not solve tx
problem CT national revenue.
Ecrdricil Bill May Pass.
Senator Gronna Of North Dakot.
predicts that the new congress vii
pass the Kcndricll bill. which place.
the meat packing industry and tht
stCcl>yards business under federal Ii
cenSe. He says that the kendrici
! bill is to be materially improved, al
| though he does not expect that ever
in its final form it will meet hi.
view Of what is necessary to Greal
the packers combine and dissolve
the food monopoly. As chairman O.
the senate committee Oh agriculture
| he is going to do all in his poWe,
to finally enact into law the program
urged by tho federal trade commits
sion in its report of last summer
This program calls fer public owner
ship and operation of stockyards
stock cars and cold storage ware.
houses. The kendrick bill ignores
he principle of public ownership.
Permit syster, Again.
Walker d. Hines, railroad admins
! traitor, announces that the permit
system for controlling shipment o.
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