The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-10-31

When Roads uee 4 Against
eresseInd Industrial Accident victims
Aidlns viii Fight Pubic Lease
~Baer Floor-No Exclusion for
Grab oha;sts-Kent to Run for
HOnar Packers Convicted OF Al
senate re;ght Bills-Secretary of
tering ire Gives Phosphate Trust
Free Hand
..or y. George P.
Washing II TT the Farmers National
Hampton % IN Transportation sends
COMMITTEE that unless the farm
out lake G up and protest to tnelt re-
ers we congressman ana sena'olS'
they vi" vi charge in freight rates, due
ditlona, .o+11rn of the railroads to prl-
10 the sn.eculative operation.
rate SpenaIvsis of the situation is up
HIS an +he address Of Commissioner
held by .! If the interstate commerce
FOOlless ; ~ in which that official
c Snms that freight rate increase % OF
snow" "sst IS per cent is likely TO De the
st le"9 ,',o - shall pay the private oper-
pflce for their kindness in taking the
'tO[Gs s I hack This, too, in face OF the
roau1. h of the roads are now earning
lSc ioer Drofit each month.
eieai +Pa 25 per cent raise in rates
bu' h eiT multiplied by five, in the
Is so 10 charge n upon the consumers:
ma ma is the experience of past freight
ina. n 10 S Give the roads 10 per
mcleqS; gher rates on beans, and the
eens n nf beans at retail is loaded
prlce ~ bv 1--WE times the actual added
cow 1;mbt ~ cost. Everybody grabs at a
n nC0 profit when the rate goes up
The consumer pays.
lH Th;O Is the one chance upon which
IN, IN the saving of the railroads this
hans from a new chaos under spec
~ Vine control. If the 3O,OOO,OOO
eas;l in the United States can be
ii alrr+ to understand what they
vt gI nav. in grocery bills, clothing
Kills I'M, rent bills and every other item
" Df'e exnense for the return OF the
railroads to private hands, congress
Laji never give them back. Instead,
'onorpss will take order from the
.Onntry and will pass a law extend
mo federal control for period OF
three wears more.
VOTE ON CRIPPLE AID
On the bill providing federal aid
n the states, on half-and-half bas-
Is for the re-education in trades OF
mon and women who are crippled in
inGnstry. the final vote in the house
etoo5 196 to 1O5. Almost every lib
oral and semi-liberal in the house
voted for this measure, while most
Of the southern Democrats and
yood MANY of the more hard-shellec
Renublicans voted against it. The
chief argument made against the
bill was that it was "bolshevistic'
extension of the power of the gov
eminent into a field which should b'
left to the states. The same argu
ment was used against the fedora
child labor law some years ago b!
the same group. They knew exact
" how much the states would do TO
industrial cripples if left to thei
own disposal of the matter.
Among those voting against thi
humane legislation were Good an
Haugen of Iowa, Sears, Ayers an
Anthony of Kansas, Clark of Mis-
souri,, Cannon of Illinois, Fordney o
Michigan, Evans of Nebraska an
other western men. Many of tn
more timid members who had taike
against the bill in the cloakrooms dc
cided at the last minute that the
were making a political mistake
They either voted faye" or stage
away from the roll call.
OIL LOBBYING WINNING
In spite of stubborn opposition Q
the part of Congressman Baer tf
mineral lands leasing grab has no
been voted a favorable report by tt
house committee on public land
Representative Knutson of MinneS'
Ia, the majority whip, announce
that an attmpt will bednade to brir
it to a vote before November l. III
oil lobby is tremendously please
and is beginning to have faith tn
2O-year campaign to get hold =
the last of the natural resources b
longing to the people is over.
Baer is going to take the fight
the floor of the house, where he w
have good deal of support for mai
Of the amendments he has arrang
to offer. Among other things, he pr
poses that state as well as munlclp
governments may have a preferentl
right to take leases of federal co
oil, phosphate and sodium lands. L
oil lobby has seen to it that no ST.
night is given the states, althou
even railroad companies may ha
coal land leases.
MONARCHISTS NOT DAN
GEROUS"
When the house was about
adopt the bill providing for a yea
extension of the powers of the pre-
dent to exclude undesirable allie
from the country-the word "un'
slrable" menaing, in this case, lat
agitators and radical thinkers g
erally-by means of control of
wise of passports, Representa-
Emerson of Ohio offered this amel
ment:
Which restrictions shall prov
chat no Bolshevist, anarchist, or
". W. sympathizer shall be ALLOW
to enter the United States"
Representative Huddelston OF A
hbama asked whether Emerson Wo
De willing to include monarch
and those who preach absolute 6
eminent with autocracy" also.
Emerson was astonished at
suggestion but felt bound to
that he would. However, he
sure that the danger lay in the r.
Gals, and he wanted the law to