The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-07-05
RIG BUSINESS MAKING
IT'S LAST BIG FIGHT
INTERESTS ARE LINING UP
IN M pATTLE TO KEEP FREE
M UNCLE SANS EYE.
m SCRAP OVER REGULATION
.s Scene of Legislative Fight as
VO n Business Endeavors to Defeat
DIS Government Regulation
=, p.u,sr Fight Has Begun.

'V n: BUSINESS Endeavors to De1eat
Dle Government Regulation
Of 6t' power Fight Has Begun
~. business has decided to go to the
D 3'g with congress. Proponents and f
1 ma, vents OF government regulation OF
oPPon te,- Erected by interstate com
nouS"ii ove settled down to a real test
nieIt .lon not a test in which party lines
o. Su ;;r To- be obliterated, but which
Bio ian tn decide for all time whether
?foi ;,ass shall be permitted to work ITS
Ousl'' Vii or whether the people OF the
own VII, "' through their representatives
in ,' congress, shall exercise regulatory
powell Rattle Now Under Way.
H., frst skirrnish occurred two weeks
in III aver wei, the packer control measure;
Az ~, V tb;s was merely skirmish, and
Du' - o a compromise bill which
n;ted neither faction, is unsatisfactory
" both sides. 1t was resumed again
~. week with the introduction OF
IA. ss' coal regulation bills, proposed by
S ~, t Frelinghuysen, OF New er-
- or''"' and the struggle is now raging.
n.y. ~ National Coal Association, fight
nc; In' the Frelinghuysen measures, IS
ny .sso;sbing more opposition to the bill
.s sl ,,'' has developed at Washington
. In the big railroad fight in 1900,
One Frelinghuysen bill comPels the
,os operators to present to the gov
sTrr en- correct cost figures. Another
atbor;zes the interstate commerce
admission to establish coal rates
ory;np with the season, providing the
,rerage Weld to the carriers IS not di-
1n;sRed Under such authority 1t IS
damned TO fix lower rates in summer
than during the remainder OF the wear,
the idea being to promote summer
Tving and storing OF coal and conse-
ment steadier operation OF the mines
and the railroads.
Coal Operators Objection.
President Harding and administra-
ton leaders are said to favor the Ere
mpbuysen measures. The coal opera
hrs themselves offer no objection to
-be seasonal rate bill, but they are
combating with all the power al their
"A
command the measure which would
give the government cost hgureS OF
mining and transportation. THIS bill,
which would admittedly give the gov
3 rnment a check on eNorbuant proht
taking in the coal industry, is descrlb-
ed by the operators as everything that
9 Is socalistic, and the charge is made
s that is an invasion by the govern
me1t of private business in a manner
which should not be tolerated. The
4 BILL according to the coal owners, is
n directly contrary to the announced pol
q lev OF less government ii business,
8 with which the republicans made such
popular appeal last November, and
4 as such should not even obtain con-
4 sheraton.
Debate on the measure has waxed
bitter at times, charges and counter
charges flying across the senate cham
I Der. Senator Frelinghuysen, leading
Z the fight for passage of his bill, SUNNI
ed up the situation for the admins
Z tration when he declared:
Would End Prohteering.
I'VE intend, if the senate passes this
BILL to compel every coal operator to
give to the secretary of commerce all
1 information respecting his costs and
y profits, and when they have done that
am convinced that there will be NO
I prohteering in the coal business, some
u thing Of which we are not sure at the
present time"
Lined up with the coal operators in
opposition to the Frelinghuysen meas
lre are other business interests which
tear an extension of government regu-
n alton This includes, of course, the
packers, who fear that congress may
take notion to put teeth in the com
paratvely inoffensive measure passed
& week ago. Representatives OF the
railroads, the tobacco interests and the
Il moving picture industry are also lined
up with the coal operators. Their po'
ation, as announced in one OF the SEN
se Debates is as follows:
Position of Big Business.
The bill, if passed would be fore
runner and precedent of similar pater.
ia! and regulatory legislation with ret
8 "Gnce to every line of private business
IL congress has the power to enact
fSSlation of this character concern
B ing the coal industry and all consum'
Il us OF coal it must have the same pow
81 10 enable similar legislation witt
yIeTence TO other lines of private bus
mess, and, if it is conceded that sucf
cessation offers panacea for suppos
q evils IN the coal industry, it will II
lunlIar fashion be assumed that BY
5sSatlon can be found cure-all fol
81 ness.
Such program of legislation, once
marked upon, will lead rapidly to thu
w Uucton of private initiative, compe
maoh and the whole structure of thu
%oGgulcng and merchandising bushes
tins country.
,- Inc bl.. therefore, is of vital import
r,a ss 70 the entire nation, not only be
sauSe It includes within its scope ev
l,y one who is engaged in the coal in
m" suy ana every one who consume
. ,isa e tnan 100 tons of coal year. blu
,9o because, il passed, it would form
sr. p..scedent Tor further legislation reg
a'''lg other lines of business.
'INAIOP WATSON WILL