Arizona republican., 1919-01-24
FOOD FUND BILL SLATED T0 PASS
 SENATE TODAY.
Slight Opposition Expected Hoover Both Lauded And Condemned Charge Made That $20, 900, 900 Al ready Been Spent Unlaw. fully Wilson Again Se- verely Criticised.
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 WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.-Passaga tomorrow of the administration bill for food relief in Europe, was predicted tonight by leading advocates and op- ponents, after another day of debate which proceeded with only a few mem bers in their seats Very few speeches are expected tomorrow and polls taken by leaders today were said to have showed only about twenty five votes in opposition.
 Bipartisan support for the bill was further indicated today. Speakers urging passage included Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, democrat, chairman of the foreign relations com mittee and Senators Shoot of Utah, and Kellogg of Minnesota, republicans Principal opponents were Senators Cummins of Iowa and Sherman of Illinois. republicans.
 Declaring that the proposed appro- priation was not for charity, Senator Hitchcock urged the senate to aid President Wilson and his work at the peace conference by voting the fund. Its rejection he declared, would in volve repudiation of Americas repre- SentatiVeS.
 Food Administrator Hoover, who has
 
 of the bill, was highly praised by Sena- tor Hitchcock, and also by Senator 1 Shoot The Nebraska senator said attacks on MT. Hoover were "stabs in the back and he joined Senator Shoot in commenting the food administra.- 1 tion's work in fixing livestock and meat prices. declaring both consumers l and producers had been protected. Hoover is Lauded
 No man in the Unitedf States has rendered greater service than MT. Hoover" said MT Hitchd,ck. Tt Is i outrageous to make these attacks in his absence, attacks whidl reflect on | his honor and characterA
 Senator Cummins of Iopsl, criticiS- l ing the bill asked democratic Leader Martin. whether the appropriation was designed to make market as senators had charged, for packers products. i Senator Martin replied that the appro- priation was designed primarily to all leviate starvation ,, and suffering among our friends" in Europe, and that only incidentally would it make :. market for some American products. The fund will be expended, Senator Martin said, by the inter allied food council, composed of eight of the most distinguished men in the world.' Senator Cummins declared the bill ! commits the American government to Q policy of internationalism and guar dianShip of European nations, while Senator sherman asserted that part of the money would be used to feed Russian bolsheists.
 Complete elimination of Germany, as a military factor in the world, was advocated by Senator Cummins who argued that with Germany impotent to attack any nation. a league of na- tions would be unnecessary. He said Germany should be denied an army CT navy and be required to pay indemnity for the ruin wrought by her forces on land, on the seas, and in the air.
 Senator Sherman declared the pro- posed appropriation was not a rener fund but "a campaign fund.-" and he referred to President Wilson as a knight errant' in Europe, fighting wind mills
 Money Already Spent The Illinois senator said the agree ment on a Russian policy, reported at Paris, proposed recognition of the bolshevik government, and in this con- nection he inveighed agains+ socialist propaganda which, he said, was being forwarded by professors in nearly every American college. DenouncinS these professors as fire brands of se- dition.' Senator Sherman said some men of their type were attached to the American peace mission.
 Senator Penrose of Pennsyfvania | presented a telegram from C. H. Canby, who, he said, was a prominent Chicago grain broker, stating that It was rumored the food administration already had spent s20000,0 ,000 of the 1 appropriation proposed in the bill in anticipation of it's passage, and in vio- lation of law.
 Measures to cause reduction in food prices in America were urged by Sena- | tor Calder of New York, criticising . the food administration for maintain \ ing food prices for large surpluses of foodstuffs held in warehouses, when the war ended. Senator Shoot of Utah, republican, indicated he was in- clined to support the measure. He praised the services rendered by MT. , Hoover in making the meat packers pay 15 cents a pound for hogs, at the same time restricting their profits to nine per cent and their turnover to 21k per cent. The packers big profits q Senator Shoot said, resulted from their enorm S business.
 d Senator Borah took exception to the : statement that profits had been limited f to 9 per cent, saying that applied to r one line of the industry only, while : other branches were left "untram- meled,' and showed profits as high y as forty per cent l. T don't believe MT. Hoover did wrong t in controlling the packers said Sena c tor Shoot If he had not, no one can t tell where prices would have gone" s -o
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