Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1920-02-11

haeasure for submission to q Republi.
can caucus.
One scheme recently proposed is
that the billion dollars that will be re-
CURED for a bonus payment to the ex.
service men shall be covered by bond
issue. The bonds would be given to
the veterans, in small denominations
and the veterans would have to sell
them or keep them until due for pay.
ment by the treasury.
HOUSTON ASKED FOR &C.
COUNTING.
The house committee on expendi-
lures in the department of agriculture
has requested Secretary Houston to
come before it, at his convenience and
to send the heads of the several bu.
reaus to testify before it, on the uses
to which the funds of the department
have been put during the past year.
This request, legally and properly
made by Chairman Baer, has evident
ly caused great surprise both in the
office OF Secretary Houston and in that
of the director of the grain corpora.
ton, Mr.. Barnes. Mr.. Houston has
notified Mr.. Baer that he can learn
all he wants to know, by reading the
testimony of the representatives of
the department before the house COM
mittee on agriculture. Mr.. Barnes has
asked that any questions be submitted
to him in writing at New York, where
he has the necessary data to make
answer. In other words, Mr.. Houston
and Mr.. Barnes assume to choose
which ones of the committee of con-
gress are entitled to their notice.
Mr.. Baer will submit this issue to
the committee, with the suggestion
that Mr.. Houston be invited to come
in person and answer all questions as
to his own stewardship.
WATsoN's PACKER PLANS.
Senator Watson of Indiana, chair
man of the senate subcommittee ap-
pointed to investigate the radical
tendencies of the men employed by the
federal trade commission in it's in.
vestigation of the meat packers, has
decided to start his campaign against
the commission in Chicago, rather
than in the national capital. The
newspapers in Chicago will give him
more headlines and more sensational
notice when he defends the Armours,
Swifts, Morrises, Cudahys and their
friends, and assails Commissioners
Colver and Murdoch and the commits
sion's experts.
a q ho ~ S~~ =
vance, the packers detective and legal
staff, headed by Levy Mayer, will have
charge of the preparation of the ma
terial upon which the subcommittee
will proceed to be "astonished' and
"astounded'' and otherwise Mortified.
Indeed, the packers are said to have
for two years been following up every
possible bit of evidence of radical
economic or political beliefs by even
the temporary stenographers and
messengers of the commission in it's
temporary Chicago Offices, in order to
bring on this sensational stageplay to
discredit the public officials who have
dared to challenge their violations of
federal law. Now that Attorney Gen.
| eral Palmer has publicly declared that
he will not prosecute the big packers,
they are ready to use Watson and his
subcommittee to try to destroy the
commission and it's staff.
Senator La Toilette, the only liberal
member of the subcommittee, is now
sick. Unless the hearings are post
poned until he is able to attend, the
frameup may be expected to move &C.
| cording to schedule.
INDEPENDENT POLITICAL
NOTES.
Warren S. Stone, grand chief of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers,
is the latest and perhaps the most for
midable of the candidates mentioned>
for third ticket in the 1920 presiden-
tial race. Others who have been men,
toned are Glenn e. Plumb, author of
the Plumb plan of democratic control
of the railroads and other basic indus
tries; Clifford Pinchot, once chief
forester under the Roosevelt admins
tration; Frank P. Walsh, former chair
man of the national war labor board
and Irish-American delegate to the
Paris peace conference, and Governor
Lynn ]. Frazier of North Dakota.
Stone is coming to the front not
merely in the labor world but in the
field of national economics He is the
aggressive champion of big co-opera-
tive enterprises. He is worth watch
ing