The Butte daily bulletin., 1919-06-12
Our Washington Letter


there will be located grain control
committee of three members. two
representing the operating and traffic
departments, respectively, OF the rail
road administration, and the third
he United States Grain CORPORATION.
4 shipper who desires to shin to
any particular market will have to
apply through the railroad agent aft
the point of origin to the grain con-
.rol committee at that market for the
permit to ship. If that market is not
congested, the permit will at once be
issud. Hines argues that this is fine
only possible way in which the rail-
"oad equipment can be kept contin-
uolisly at work at high efficiency. as
It distributes the traffic before con-
gcstion can start.
Berger Waits for Committee.
Victor L. Berger the lone socialist
elected to the present congress, has
been given an office room and the
use of the postal frank by common
consent of the house. although he is
deprived, by a resolution adopted on
the opening day Of the session, of his
right to speak or vote. He is waiting
for the special committee OF nine
members, headed by Representative
Dallinger of Massachusetts, to begin
its inquiry into his right to become a
member of the house when he is un-
der sentence for alleged editorial vio-
| lation Of the espionage act.
Are your old friends among the
democrats and republicans giving
you the go-by, these days." he was
asked, as he discussed the constitu-
tional questions involved in his case,
seated at his congressional desk in
the house office building
Far from it," replied Berger
Look at those spittoons,'
The evidence of southern and west
ern craftsmanship upon and around
he congressional cuspidors was un-
nistakable; a good many statesmen
had been in to chat.
Jcw~Ea:ting Here, Too.
JeW-baiting has been taken up as
4 congressional pastime by Represent
tative Albert Johnson of Hoquiam,
WASH, who has hitherto reserved his
anathcmas for labor agitators, the
| )olsheviki and radicals generally.
| Whether it be due to the fact that
| Jewish Wage-workers are almost uni
! ,ersally trade uni0nists, or to some
other reason, johnson offered these
remarks, delivered May 26 and print
d on page 2S3 of the Congressional
Record for the new session:
Il received today letter which
might be of interest to those who are
worried tor fear too many aliens are
| going out OF the country 1t describes
! meeting mostly Of aliens-held in
| New York night before last to pro-
| test against the treatment of their CO.
religiOnists abroad, and it is said to
nave been remarkable meeting. No
| one could have studied the mass of
"OlfiSh faces or have seen the stunt
ed humanity. says the writer, without
1 shock. lie says if the committee
on immigration could have seen that
meeting, if members CT congress
could have seen it. there would be
no doubt whatever OF the Immediate
passage of a bill restricting immigra-
ton" (Applause).
Antitrust Laws Attacked.
Farmers and workers who
have watched the easy triumph of the
zig meat packers over the attempt Of
he federal trade commission to bring
hem to time will be interested to
lnow that Secretary of Commerco
tedfield is working for the repeal of
he antitrust laws.
In the official magazine of the
| 'nitCd States chamber Of commerce,
he June issue of the nations busi-
legs, he declares that More and
more as | have gained acquaintance
With the business Of the country as a
| whole | have become convinced that
he advance in ethical purpose, in
moral perception, III a higher grade
If practice in the business world, has
eparated it widely from the actual
onditions with which the antitrust
avs were originally enacted to deal"
He also remarks that 1t is obvious
hat there must be progress Of law
side by side with the growth of busl-
less ideals, so that the former shah
lot misrtprcsent the latter, and so
hat the commerce of the country
may have the freedom necessary for
IS expansion as a living force. We
may not keep the new wine Of trade
in the old bottles of the law
THE obligations of business to the
,uhlic,' he says again, took visible
'orm in connection with the war.
Back Of the armies and making tho
armies possible lay the unsclfish sac
rfices and efforts Of industry. With
>ut our factories we not only could
not have won, but could hardly have
ought at all. The industrial effort
N the war will some day be revealed,
trust, in its true proportions, and
when so shown will go far to shame
hose who retain suspicious OF tho
patriotism of commerce, if any such
ire left. But the effort of industry
was equaled by its sacrifices"
Secretary Rcdfield is mailing verb
al amends to big business for the
failure, for the moment, of his
scheme for fixing high prices for
steel, coal and other basic materials
Of industry for the reconstruction
| period.