Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1920-03-24

we leuttiItl taTIn loan DOaTu 10 Tue
farm loan banks throus hout the ccun-
try to make no more farm loans for
the present is the first result Of the
suit to test the constitutjonality OF the
law creating that institution.
\ bank director brought suit in
federal court ut Kansas City to pre-
vent his bank from investing in farm
loan bank bonds on the ground that
the tax-free clause and the whole bank
law as we'll are unconstitutional
He failed in the lower court, and in
January the case was argued before
the supreme court of the United
States. The high court has not yet
rendered it's opinion.
Even if the court is favorable to the
farm loan bank the suspending of
business at this time. when farmers
are seeking money for new crops and
when banks are contracting credit. is
a national misfortune.
If the court holds that the law is
constitutional except for the tax free
clause applying to joint stock land
banks as we'll, the practical result will
be nearly as bad as a completely un-
favorable verdict The law compels
bonds for not less than par and AZ
per cent bond on these terms will not
appeal to investors.
The great success of the federal
farm loan bank has excited the farm
mortgage brokers and increasing ef-
forts have been made to hamper if
not destroy it.
Any decision the supreme court may
make could be cleared up for the bank
by congress willing to act quickly.
ARMY COURTS ATTACKED.
Royal Johnson of South Dakota Of
fered on the floor his amendment to
the Kahn military bill, as drafted by
General Ansell, to abolish the old sys-
tenn Of courtsmartial and to Introduce
modern and humane principles into
military courts. Baer and Sinclair of
North Dakota were supporting John
son. Mondell of Wyoming, the major.
ity leader, was much agitated at the
amount of support which the men
from the Northwest were rallying on
this amendment. Mondell knew that
the retention of the barbarous caste
system in the army, as demanded by
the general staff, depended on their
maintaining the old Prussian-British
system of military Justice" in which
the soldier charged by an officer with
violation of the articles of war has
only one chance in four of escaping
punishment.
Kahn, chairman of the military af
fairs committee, raised a point of or
der on the amendment, claiming that
it was not germane to this army re
| organization scheme. Speaker Gil
lette upheld him, in spite of the laugh
with which his claim was greeted
Johnson appealed from the ruling and
tellers were named to count the votes
AS the line of Johnsons supporters
began filing past the te1lers some Of
the old Republican gangsters began tt
call out, Mob rule! Mob rule!" at the
younger men who were rebelline
against the general staff idea of mill
tary courts. Their sneers and bruta
attitude struck a number of men 81
unpleasantly, as they confessed after
ward, that they voted against the
chair, although they had intended tt
support Gillette's ruling.
The chair was sustained, and sol
diers in the army will remain the play
thing of courts which are, as Score
tary Baker has said, conducted rathe
to maintain discipline than to admin
lister justice.
NEW RAILROAD PRINCIPLES.
Basil M. Manly, former joint chair
man of the national war labor board
has become contributing editor t.
the Searchlight, which has begun
merciless expose of the campaign-yea
activities of congress.
In an article on Labor and tn
Esch-Cummins Bill" Manly sums u
his comment thus: Suffice it to sa
that this railroad bill, which predfc
will become the most burning issue q
this generation, combines the clever
ness of the devil with the ruthlessnes
of the Hun. It's financial feature
overturn all previous rules with r,
gard to the rights of vested interest
and give the railroad security owner
a perpetual lien on the pocketbooks {
the American people and the wages {
their employees. The universally ev
effects of this legislation will weld til
100,000,O00 common people of Anne
lea, regardless Of occupation, into
cohesion which they have nev<
known. The day of reckoning for tn
legislative crime will yet GOMEZ
pU POINT FEAR DECORATIONS
All members of congress have r
ceived from the palatial offices of !
Coleman du Pont, in the WOODWORK
building, New York City, three-pat
circular letter on the immigrant lab,
situation. 1t is addressed by the I
ter-Racial council, holding what W.
formerly the Hammerling syndica
of editorial pages of the reactional
foreign-language press, to it's mel
bers. These members, listed on Il
back, include some hundreds of b
manufacturing and exporting CO
Germs who are interested In .controlliI
both legislation and a labor supply.
Il This circular quotes the stateme
of Commissioner General of -Immig1
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