The Washington herald., 1921-08-14
Keller Assails Administration.


tative Oscar E. Keller. Republican, OF Minnesota
who, the time launched scathing TRADE against
other acts of the administration. charging with blind
obedience to Wall Street"
Keller assaied the handling of the question as an
effort to shift the burden from the wealthy to the middle
and lower classes and characterized Contemplate
subteruge the proposal avoid increasing by bor-
rowing money for current expenses
On the same day OF Keler's attack, another Repub-
can Representative Frear, of Wisconsin, issued
et in which he charged that members OF the Cabinet had
been influenced by powerful interests support the pro-
posal for embargo the importation OF dyestus into
this country. '
Three bills designed to assist the agricultural industry
acted upon way another during the week in
the House The Capper Tincher BILL regulating grain
exchanges and designed to curta gambling in grain
products was sent to conference, the having
previously passed the House and Senate.
The bill providing $Iooooooooo additional credits to
be administered by the War Finance Corporation pro-
expectation of farm products reported avoraby
from the Banking and Currency Committee
Stoekmen for Direct Loans.
u EFORE reporting the bill the committee heard rep
ID resenatives of the livestock industry. of the South
west who requested that the be amended pro-
vide for direct loans to individual cattle men,
) The request rejected after Eugene Meyer, jr,
director of the War Finance Corporation, pointed to
provision already embodied in the bill which would permit
the corporation put 100000 the livestock indus
try in emergencies. ". ....,s
The committee Immediately began consideration of
bill provide additional farm credits and multiple insur-
The first witness called r. @ Miken monetary
stacan for the National Socfy Of PureBred Livestock
Associations who declared the bill would from Wall
Street the control of the big life insurance companies by
placing such control the hands Of their responsible policy
holders by the application of principles of self government
Milken contended that the bill should be amended so
not to have any of the appropriations made available
until of the big life insurance companies had accepted
the proposed Federal charter :. .
@ Representative Tom Connally, OF Texas demand
ed the recognition of the -Obregon government in
Mexico by the United States and cited eight reasons
why this should be done.
Law and order has been established in Mexico and the
nationals of foreign countries being protected there for
the first time since 1910 Cona declared and the United
States raise itself in the eyes of the Central and South
American countries by recognizing Mexico
He declared that Spain. Switzerland. Germany and
other European countries already had recognized the Obre
gon government and that Great Britain only holding
back because of the failure of this country to act.
Connally criticised the State Department for making
requirements for the recognition of Mexico which that
country unable meet According to the best jafo-
nation he sad the department is Withholding recognition
because of article ~ of the Mexican constitution of 1917.
which certain large oil companies afraid be made
retroactive, although both former President Huerta and
be interpreted as retroactive.