The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-09
BILL PROVIDES
 ACCEPTANCE OF
 FORD PROPOSAL
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 riod. there was consumed as a fer tilizer by the farmers about 2bo,ooo tons.
 Chilean nitrate carries about 16 per cent of nitrogen plant food or fixed nitrogen, and this 25o,oo0i tons of Chilean nitrate used during this five-year period, therefore. yielded to the farmers 10000 tons of nitrogen plant food or fixed nitrogen.
 J WnI Make Fertilizer
 "Mr. Ford in his final offer of May 30 expressly agrees and binds himself throughout the lease period to manufacture nitrogen and other commercial fertilizers. mixed or un- mixed, and with or without filler. ac- cording to. demands. and these fer tilizers produced during the lease period shall have a nitrogen content of at least 10000 tons of fixed ni- trogen, and, therefore, MT. Ford agreed to produce fixed nitrogen at Muscle Shoals equal to the fixed ni- trogen contained in that portion oi Chilean nitrate. used by the farmers in the five-year period. 1911.1s1s in- elusive, and 1t will require 100000 horsepower to produce this amount or IlXeQ nllTOBSns TVsVVv @Ch" and so 900, ,0o0 horsepower will pro- duce as much fixed nitrogen as was carried In the total importatiens dur ing the five-year period 1sl1-1s16 in- elusive. .
 shall the farmers continue to pay more than $3,000.0o0 annually export duty to Chile free for nitrate plus ocean freight commissions, insurance etc, when MT. Ford offers to relieve the farmers of these burdens st Mus cle Shoalsf"
 Later Senator badd said he be- lieved the Ford proposal would offei l the best returns to the country ol any development to be made al | of the bill. he said. he was prepared to give 1t his support | The measure was autom ataoally | referred to the agriculture commit | tee.
 .sThe reason I adopted 1t a4 thia time" Senator Ladd explained. ~wai l to get it in the hands of the com | mittee before It's meeting hex Thursday night when opportunit,
 would be given all bidders to offe' 1 their last statement on the offeri l they have made"
 Senator Norris of Nebraska, agri. | Cult CpintthttOo tAAoAt aAe%kt W~S VI | route to Nebraska today as a nem I Der of the congressional delegation I appointed to attend the funeral oi the late Representative Kinkaid oi 1 that state. Chairman Norris. it wa.
 recalled, recently announced his op- 1 position to the Ford offer ss sup. ported by Representative Wrigh
 and Senator Ladd's indorsement o
 the Wright bill. marked the frs i open difference between republican committee members on the offers il | has examined.
 Labor board members said tonigh that they expected E. H. Fitzgerald 1 president of the Brotherhood of Rail l way and Steamship Clerks. Freigh
 Handlers. Express and Station em | ployes. here Monday from Cincinnati
 to enter into negotiations with boart
 members. Hegardins the clerks l strike.
 Confidence was expressed that .. l agreement would be reached. oJ which the strike of clerks would b. l postponed or called off.
 1 Reports that clerks on the New \ York Central lines had been author
 ized to walk out had not been re- I ceived by the labor board toni gh I and board members said that Vic, \ President Sylvester of the Clerk \ had denied kn0wiedee of it.