The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1922-06-01
NEWS SUMMARY
OF THE CAPITAL
Bonus Bill is Blocked in Senate FL
nance Committee When Split
Occurs as to Plans.
HOUSE PASSES MILK BILL
Senator Kellogg Proposes That Go
fire Rule be Modified to Cur
tail Long Debate.

ate finance committee have practlcally
reached an impasse on the soldiers
bonus bill, half of the membership ia
voring the Smoot plan for paidup in
surance policies for the veterans and
half Of them favoring the McCumber
plan for certificates to be issued to the
veterans upon which they can borrow
money as in the case of the house bill
This developed at meeting Of repub-
lican members when Senator G. P.
Mclean of Connecticut swung over to
the Smoot plan.
After a 25-year fight against her
hated rival, the famous 'cocoanut cow
of the South Sea islands, the Ameri-
can-bred dairy cow won COMPRESSION
al victory with the passage of the
Voigt pure milk bill in the house by a
vote of 256 to 40. The bill will pro-
hibit interstate and export traffic in
all "oiled" or similar limitations of
evaporated milk, which are made out
of skim milk and cocoanut oil. Friends
of the measure denounced the skim
milk coacoanut oil compounds as ode
ficient in the butter fats and vitamines
which have made real milk a standar
and universal article of food for
ages" They declared that the labels
tend to deceive the public and that re-
tailers commonly sell it s.s milk, max
ing huge profit thereby.
Charging that deliberate flibus-
ter threatens to hold up tariff legisla-
ton and other needed bills for months
Senator Killogg of Minnesota proposed
that the cloture rule be modified SO
that debate can be shut off by ma
jority vote after six days. The pro-
posal was received with enthusiasm
by the republican conference.
The nations cost Of living bill prob
ably will be reduced nearly 81 600, ICo,.
900 year as the result Of the 10 per
cent reduction in freight rates ordered
by the interstate commerce commits
sion, government statistical experts
say. This means saving of $40 a
year for every person in the country
The department of justice has orders
from President Harding to see that
the rate cut is "passed down" to the
consumer just as the rate increases
during the war were "passed on" The
rate reduction is to become effective
on or before July 1, and administra-
ton officials look for it's reflection in
cost Of living figures shortly thereaf-
ter.
A proposal for development of the
governments nitrate and power prof
ects ct Muscle Shoals, Ala, was finally
agreed upon by the house military
committee, after more than three
months continuous investigation anc
study Of the offers made by Henry
Ford, the Alabama Power company
Frederick Engstrum and Charles l.
Parsons. While the proposal was helc
in strictest confidence by the commit.
tee with regard to it's various provi.
sions relating to development Of the
projects, it was learned that the
Gorgas, Alabama, steam plant, was
eliminated from the property to be
disposed of with Muscle Shoals. The
committee plan in another respect fol
lows closely to the terms offered by
Henry Ford.
Although the Washington confer
ence outlawed poison gas in war, at
least seven nations since that time
have sought information from the
United States on poison gas develop
ment, Great Britain among them. Ma
tons are working with feverish haste
to make preparations for chemical
warfare.
The senate republican leaders,
aroused over the absenteeism during
the long drawn-out tariff debate, have
called a caucus to ''jack up" truant
members.
Close friends and associates of Sec
rotary of Agriculture H. C. Wallace
declare he will resign from the cabi-
net if the president accepts and sends
to congress the proposal to the gov
eminent reorganization committee to
transfer roads, forestry and market
bureaus to interior and commerce de-
partments.
The commonly known McCumbe1
soldier bonus plan was ordered favora-
bly, reported yesterday by the senate
finance committee. The vote was 9 to
4. The effective date Of the bill was
changed, however, from next Oct. / to
Jan. 1, 1923, after Senator D. T.
Walsh (dem. Mass.) told the majority
it would take six months to get the
bonus machinery in operation. The
Smoot plan, providing for paid up life
insurance in lieu of all other forms of
compensation, was defeated by vote
OF 8 to 5, the three democrats present
Simmons, Walsh and Garry-voting
against it. Republicans supporting
THE Smoot proposals were Senators
Smoot, McLaren, Frelinghuysen, Cal
der and Dillingham;. Republicans vot-
ing against it were McCumber, Curtis,
Watson, Sutherland and La Toilette.