Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-08-08
CHIEF EXECUTIVE
COMPLETES SPEECH
FOR CONGRESSMEN
Hurry Call Sent Out to Have
Members Present
Today.
LEADERS OF DEMOCRATS
DEMAND LEGAL QUORUM
To Lay Before Congress Meas
ures Needed to Curb
Profiteering.
WILL CONSIDER WAGE SCALE
Extension OF Lever Food Control Act
as Pcacc-Time Measure
Will Be Asked.
WILL CONSIDER WAGE scA1f
Extension OF Lever Food Control Act
as Pcacc-Time Measure
Will Be Asked.
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WASHINGTON. Angus. 7.-President
Wilson put the finishing touches on
lis high cost Of living address to Con-
o'eiock. 81 zFSo" 'o'"0'F0" afternoon At
One pcEsibil!,y doomed up to
II was that the leaders might not
be able to round up a quorum in the
House, and that some members. insist
the point. might forestail The joint
session OF the House and senate
Representative Blanton, Democrat,
OF Texas. served notice on Republican
Leader Mondeli ,ha, ne, for one. would
Insist on legal quorum.
Kepublican and Democrat!c leaders
wires not toniEh, with messages
ordering absentees back In time for
TOMORROW afternoon They expressed
confidence that legal quorum would
lie on hand
The address will be confined to lay
Ing before Congress what measures.
In the opinion of tho President and
Attorney Palmer. should be
enacted a. once 10 bring relief to the
public from the existing high prices.
create the condition the country finds
iisele in today. in the view OF these
men. Will be dealt with. These in
clude. il VAS learned author!tative!y
labor problems and strikes resulting
from them. and production which
would De ntertered with by strikes
VIII Include RAILWAY Wages.
To this extent, the matter OF rail-
road wages will be included IN the
address. but solution Of the entire
railroad problem Will not be suggested
beyond the suggestion already made
10 Congress by tne President in his
letters 10 the Chairman OF the Senate
and House Interstate Commerce Com
10 Recommendation viii be made
for a licensing system OF producers.
msnufaSturers or r, dea!eTs lea Sin be made
for a law limiting the margin OF profit
on comm odities.
No concrete law clearly, dehnins
boarding and prohieerins Will be. ask
cd although recommendations VIII be
made for laws designed to bolster up
the existing laws under which the
Attorney General expects TO reach
price gougers and hoarders:
TO Extend Lever Food Act:
The President VIII ask ] for an e1teno 1, n
measure. and 10 include all commodi-
ties, shoes: clothing and life neees-
This much as to the contents of the
address was learned after President
today me mbers Of the Cabinet and the
palmer subcommittee and revised IL TO
meet their suggestions
that the President also Will suggest the
necessity for throwing the "iull light
Of publieisy on the GueStion n OF ,h,ic costs Is
protect itself against eNtortion, This
idea may even go SO far as TO include
marking the cost OF manufacture on
Republican Leader Mondell had the
resolution providing for joint session
10 present It. because the House was
forced to adjourn while Representative
Blanton was attempting To speak on
f,f
resentative Nolan. Republican,. Cali
.ornia. raised no-duorum" point.
ton Of raising the same point, tomor-
row if. he thought it Justified when
the joint session resolution is pre-
sented. Unless quorum. can be mus
tered for it's passage there can be no
joint session to hear the President.
Insist on Quorum being There.
II am going to see that when the
President addresses Congress there
will be quorum to hear, him" said
Republican party to have, one here,
and if they are not camouflaging they
will have one. Mr., Mondell can get
Representative Garner. of Texas. the
Democratic whip, expressed confidence
that members were returning to Wash.
ington in sufficient numbers to meet
the objection. If the count failed to
show the requisite number. he said.
speech, unless some, other way were
found. There was the suggestion that
the Presidents purposes would he
served by addressing the Senate, but
this was answered by the argument
that the President had message for
both houses. which it was the duty of
members to hear.
Federal Officers Active.
While President Wilson, members of
the Cabinet and of the Palmer sub
committee were active shaping up the
recommendations to be made to Con-
gress. the legal department of the gov
ernment today wae actively proceed
ing with its program for Immediate
prosecutions for boarding and profit
eering under existing laws.
United States District Attorney
Charles F. Clyne. of Chicago. disclosed
that the government would ask in in
dictments against the big meat pack
ers when the Federal grand jury meets
at Chicago three weeks hence. The in
dictments will be asked under the
sherman antitrust law and under the
Lever food control law for boarding,
he said Civil suits. he added, will be
fled also under the Sherman law.
In response to the orders sent all
United States attorneys yesterday for
rigid investigation Of boarding and
pronteering and prosecution wherever
legal evidence Is found. the Depart
ment Of Jastice today received reports