The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1921-08-11

culture on Thursday voted to displace
creation Of a 500, 100000 corpora
ton for the exporting Of farm prod
ucts, in favor of another measure
said to be less likely to invite Presi-
dent Harding's veto. The original
Norris bill was strongly opposed by
the Treasury Department, and ad-
minstration officials generally.
A dramatic touch was added to
the fight when Senator Norris, Chair
man Of the committee, and author of
the bill, collapsed in the cloakroom
after a bitter denunciation of the
tactics Of the administration, in
which he vigorously attacked many
officials high in the administration.
The substitute measure, introduced
by Senator Kellogg, Of Minnesota,
caused split in the so-called agrar-
ian bloc, composed of a bipartisan
group of Senators from agricultural
states, and when the deciding vote
was taken in the committee, Senator
Ladd, of North Dakota, was the only
man who stayed with Norris in sup
port of the original bill.
The Kellogg substitute was sup
posedly framed by Secretary Hoover
and Eugene Meyer, Director of the
War Finance Corporation.
However, as it now stands, the bill
likely to receive favorable action is
a combination of the two proposals,
the agrarian senator's refusing to
sanction certain of the features pro-
posed by the administration, substi-
tuting for them clauses from the
Norris bill The principal feature of
the Kellogg bill, directing the War
Finance Corporation to perform the
functions proposed in the Norris bill,
was retained
The efforts Of certain leaders to
induce Congress to take a recess is
being opposed by This same agricul-
tural bloc and they have already been
successful in having the Steering
Committee add two more important
measures to the legislative program
for the present session.
The measures are the Capper- finch
er bill, to regulate grain exchanges,
and the Kenyon bill to give the farm
ers representation in regulating the
national banking machinery by max
ing the Secretary Of Agriculture
member of the Federal Reserve
Board. The two bills, the Steering
Committee has decided, will take
their place on the Senate calendar for
consideration in the order named as
soon as the anti-beer bill is passed.
The committee has not yet taken
action upon the question of giving tax
revision precedence over the tariff:
Such action may be deferred until
the tax bill has been sent to the Sen
ate from the House. =,
In the Committee on Ways and
Means of the House, of which George
NJ. Young is member, the members
are still grinding away on the new
tax bill and, according to Chairman
Fordney, the bill will be reported in
record time. Later this same COM
mittee may have to do further work
upon the tariff bill in the event that
the latter measure is much revised
in the Senate, after which there is
still the possibility that the. soldiers
adjusted compensation act will again
bob up. The American Legion is
working on the proposition now and
have, tentative plans whereby bonus
committees will be set at work in each
of the forty-eight states in order to
work up sentiment in the interests OF
such legislation.
The soldiers representatives in
Washington are working away on
definite program with the hope, no
doubt, that their friends in Congress
will bring the compensation act to
a vote before the end of the session.
Steps are being taken to counterfeit
the propaganda now being sent out
against pay adjustment. American
Legion officials state that they will
fight the question to the last ditch,
dispite the attitude Of the administra-
ton. A>>legislative committee rep
resenting the Legion and the Vet
Grams of Foreign Wars conferred
with the President and Secretaries
Hoover and Mellon last week and
while they received little encourage
ment they evidently are not dis
heartened by the present outlook: An
intensive publicity campaign will be
launched Immediately and work done
in every congressional district in the
country to bring the situation before
the public.
The hopes of those who have been
anticipating easy access to medicinal
beer seems doomed for the Willis
Campbell act to forstall such a liber-
alization Of the Volstead law is about
to pass the Senate: Many influen-
tial men in both houses have opposed
the present. dry act, including Sena-
tor Lodge, the majority leader, but
the bill passed the House by COM
Portable majority and similar action
by the Senate seems assured. So
people who cannot do without their
beer will still have to find solace
across the line or in Cuba.
Attorney General William Lemke
has been in Washington again this
week past but as usual his friends
were quite reticent as to his errand
here. John Thompson, Nonpartisan
newspaper man, accompanied William
probably as a sort of an orderly.
Mr.. Lemke is said to like the city
of Washington very well indeed and
it is no secret among some people
that the Bishop considers himself
highly available for senatorial
toga. Lemke, it is said, had such
aspira tons last year but after due
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