The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-06-13

Mere Regulation Planned for Pack
ers-Shipping Permits Needed for
Grain This Fall-Committee of
Nine Working on Berger Contest
Secretary of Commerce Wants
Freedom for Trusts.
Washington, D. C.-What shall
Uncle Sam do for the returned SOL
diprs? Shall the distribution of new
farms or of homesteads be made only
to returned soldiers and sailors, or
q to all citizens ready to cultivate
i them?
These two questions are being
threshed out before the house COM
mittee on public lands. Bills of all
sorts have been offered. No agree
ment is yet in sight.
Il Secretary of the Interior Lane
q wants congress to appropriate sever
Al hundred millions dollars to be used
IN wholesale reclamation of cutover,
Il amid and swamp lands in big tracts,
II and for the making of well equipped
u farms, in community groups, from
these reclaimed lands. He would
have the soldiers and sailors take the
n farms under contract to purchase
q them bv payments distributed over
80 years.
Secretary of Labor Wilson asks
that congress follow this general
Il scheme until the point of sale is
reached, when he would have the
8 farms leased for life to the settlers,
on easy terms, but would not permit
the settlers to secure a title which
could be be used for speculative pro-
u fits. He would have civilians as well
as soldiers and sailors admitted to
the privilege Of the plan.
AGAINST DIRECT AID
II Majority Leader Mondell proposes
to distribute raw lands to returned
soldiers, and to loan them money with
which to do their own clearing, drain,
ing or other improvements before
planting could begin. Senator Smoot
has offered a similar bill in the upper
branch of congress. They are very
firmly opposed to any governmental
connection with the settler, once hi
has been given his land.
MEN FAVOR BAER-GRONNA BILL
al The Soldiers, Sailors and Marines
III National Weekly News, which is pro
noting the Baer-Gronna bill provid
81 ing for payment of bonus of $500
cash to every discharged service mai
81 regardless of rank, is not impressed
I'll with the Mondell or Lane plans. l
81 declares that the doughboy will b.
81 the best Judge of his own needs afte
# he gets the cash, and that it is fool
ii ISL to offer farm to a man wht
iii knows and cares nothing about farm
ing. The Private Soldiers and Sail
ors' Legion goes this paper one bette
by demanding a cash bonus of $50
III for every man, and the opening u
81 of unused public lands for them be
"a sides.
81 BIG DEFICIT WORRIES
When the agricultural appropria
ton bill was being debated in tn
NJ house, Representative Moore Q
81 Pennsylvania, one of the new orga
nizations controlling the majority
began trying to cut out various item
which the committee had recon-
mended.
IF | am preaching an unwise G
unfair doctrine to my Republica
I'd brethren" he said in defending HI
action, II hope / may be pardonee
81 but | wish to observe that unless tn
side Of the house begins to retrenc
it will have a mighty poor excus
nj with which to go to the countl
when we are charged with levyin
s additional taxes upon the people, :
z we may be charged in the very ne:
III future.
IN Il want my Republican brethren
@ know what they are up against. Ne
81 year they will be called upon to me
I'll a deficiency which the Democrats lie
on our hands of nearly 100000
# 000."
A member who had been studyir
the estimates corrected Moore
stating that the deficit would be $1(
Nj 000,000G00.
Of course the small progressive ell
ment, led by La Toilette and job
son of California in the senate, h
been pointing out the utter mad
# quacy of the taxation schemes adoI
# ed by the Democrats and Repub
can majority ever since the first w
revenue bill was reported. But
has taken until the end of May, 49,
# for the standpatters to discover tn
letting the profteers off lightly
the tax legislation does not solve t
@ problem of national revenue.
kENDRICK BILL MAY PASS
Senator Gronna of North Dako
predicts that the new congress W
pass the Kendrick bill, which plat
the meat packing industry and t
Stockyards business under federal
cense. He says that the Kend1i
bill is to be materially improved,
though he does not expect that ev
IN its, final form it will meet his vi
Of what is necessary to break
packers combine and dissolve
food monopoly. AS chairman OF
senate committee on agriculture
IS going to do all in his power to
ally enact into law the program urt
M by the federal trade commission
rs its report of last summer. This p
gram calls for public ownership
Operatiop of Ctockva rdS stock C