The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-06-06
III Dakota Man Will Preside

korth Dakota Man Will Preside at
~ examination of Expenditures of
Department of Agriculture-Demo-
s# cratic Chairman on Making
s8 Penthouse Votes 3O4 to SO fOr
III Suffrage officials Scrambling for
Foreign Investments-North Car.
81 Dina Man Mentioned for Presi.
NJ dency-Baker Will Auction Army
81 Supplies-Maine Enacts Compul-
sorry Military Service Law.
Washington, D. C.-Congressmau
Iobn NJ. Baer of North Dakota has
IAepn duly elected as chairman of the
house committee on expenditures in
The department of agriculture. His
RpuDljcan associates on that commit
tee are Temple of Pennsylvania, a
FORMER professor of political science
5and King of Illinois, who was one OF
The men prosecuted in the last cam
Daign by the National Security
league and particularly by the Inter
national Harvester company's officials
In the Chicago branch of the notori-
bus organization.
Baer proposes to investigate the
manner in which the peoples money
1 has been spent, during the past two
wears, in several of the bureaus of
The department of agriculture. He
gill introduce in the house a formal
resolution providing for the costs of a
complete inquiry, but if that resolu-
hon is choked to death he will pro-
eeed with an investigation anyhow
The majority of the committee will
be with him.
81 TO INVESTIGATE BUREAUS
Among the bureaus to be looked
into are the Office of farm manage
ment, from which Doctor ]. w. Spill
man was forced out when he insisted
upon continuing the study of the cost
of producing farm crops; the bureau
of crop estimates, in which the grain
Spectators always show a keen in
terest; the bureau of markets, in
which the peculiar methods of Di-
rector Brand are developed to the in
Jury of the farmer, and the weather
bureau.
The committee has no grudge
against any man in the department
but it has a very active curiosity as
to why certain things have been al
lowed to happen. It will try to FIND
out.
DEMOCRATS GET BUSY TOO
Chairman Homer S. Cummings OF
the Democratic national committee
announces that he will spend the
month of June and most of July in
Touring the states between the Mis-
#sissippi river and the Pacific coast in
an effort to remind the voters of tht
constructive achievements of the De
mocratic administration during the
past six years. He will hold confer.
fences with party leaders in all these
states and will address a series Of
public meetings.
Cummings will be assisted in this
effort by Mrs. George Bass, chair
man of the woman's bureau of the
committee, and by W. R. Hollister
executive secretary; W. D. Jamison
director of finance, and w. J. Coch
ran, director of publicity. 1t will b.
a business trip, prepared to tall
solemnly to all Democratic offic;
holders and local leaders, warning
/ them that Will Hays of the Repubi
can national committee is gettin:
away with too much attention befor'
the country. The Democrats mus
begin to make a noise on their owl
account.
SUFFRAGE PASSES HOUSE
A great light broke upon the sad
dest sinners-suffragetically speak
ing-when the annual rollcall on suf
] frage began last Wednesday in tn
house.
Miss Maude Younger, capitol in
terviewer for the militant Nationa
WOman's party, issued statemen
on the night previous to the rollcal
giving the names of 305 members o
the house who had promised, or ha
shown in previous tests, that the
were for the Susan B. Anthem
amendment. She also gave tn
names Of six other members VIII
were considered likely to vote for sui
frage. The rollcall showed that ev
eryone of the 304 who did supper
the amendment were on her list @
3O5. When she showed this list, be
forehand, to Jim Mann, the Republl
can organization boss who too
charge of, and credit for, the suffrag
resolution in the house, Mann laughe
at her optimism. He was sure tia
only by his personal efforts woul
the measure get the necessary two
thirds vote. Yet the rollcall Shove
only 80 men in opposition.
Since the victory in the house. tn
senate standpatters have begun
wobble. Hale of Maine announce
his conversion. Several Democra'
are under suspicion by the ants.
DOLLAR DIPLOMACY AGAIN
Deep secrecy surrounds the late
lnter-departmental committee forme
by the commercial interests to pr,
mote foreign trade" 1t seems to
headed by Wesley Frost of the sta
departments bureau of foreign tra'
advisers, and to be organized to mai
tain after the peace is signed Il
wartime Importance of the personn
which has been collected by the sta
department.
Dollar diplomacy" was official
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