The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-08-12

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40 to Washington after = REL
Il slx weeks, Illinois members
angress will attend the OPEN
w session Of the house next Tues
rlfksly to bs called upon to take
So on the coal and rail strikes.
M 4 not definitely known in
shjngton whether the president
suel will recommend congress
- action, but should he fail to
= Il is certain that individual
Tnabers Of the house will return
y ne capital convinced that con-
100 should take hand in effect
~ . settlement.
a number of bills dealing with
- Industrial tie-up are already
seniinS in the senate and the house.
Vhether these bills are 10 be given
srpmpt consideration or pigeon
SnIed indefinitely will be decided
y house leaders early next week.
IA considerable number Of the
uiinois members Of the house are
tpown to favor amendment of the
Esch-C ummins railroad law, under
which the railroad labor board was
egtablished and is now conducting
negotiations growing out of the
strike.
When the Esch-Cummins bill
was framed in 1920 it included as
reported a provision making it IL
legal for railroad employees 10
strike, but the Illinois delegation
stood practically as unit to elimi-
nate the anti-strike clause.
A move is now on at the capital
to put more teeth" in the labor
provisions, but should the proposed
amendment take the form of an
anti-strike clause it is not likely
that the Illinois delegation would
line up in its support.
Some sentiment has cropped out
among Illinois congressman fol-
the amendment of other provisions
Of the Esch-Cummins law. Illinois
farm organizations, including the
State Farm Bureau Federation and
the Grange have gone on record
favoring repeal of the so-callet
rate guaranty of the Esch-Cummin:
law, under which the Interstat,
Commerce Commission advanced
freight rates in Illinois about 81
per cent to net the roads a return
Of 6 per cent.
Representatives William ]. Ora
ham, Aledo, and Edward ]. King
Galesburg, have been the principa
advocates in the Illinois delegation
Of the repeal of the rate guarant
clause.
Other Illinois congressman viii
are understood to favor amend
ment of the existing law are Allel
F. Moore, Monticello; Charles E
Fuller, Belvfdede, and all the Demo
cratic members from Chicago.
The -Cummins law has fig
Wed this year IS one of the prin
Opal issues in the campaigns ii
Iowa, Wisconsin, Indiana and othe
oates adjoining Illinois, and tn
down-state congressman are anx
ious to have objections against tn
law, voiced by farm organization:
met before the November elections
Illinois is the only state in tn
country which has two member
on the house committee on intel
state and foreign commerce, whic
controls all railroad legislation j
the house. William ]. Graham
Aledo, and Edward E. DeniSon, Nal
ion, are members of this commit
tee and early next week will cor
fer with their colleagues regard
ing proposed amendments to tn
railroad law.
Farm implement manufacturer
at Rock Island, Moline, Peoria an
East st. Louis within recer
months have petitione1 Illino
members to vote for amendment
to the law, permitting further r.
duction in railroad rates.
Illinois shoe dealers won Ion
4 Tight late this week when the sci
ate reversed the action Of ii
house and voted to put importe
hides on the free list in the pent
ing McCumber tariff bill.
For months past, shoe dealers
practically every city of the sta1
have been writing letters to III
nois congressman and senator
asking that no tariff duty be levie
on hides.
The Illinois shoe men argus
mat duty on hides would eau:
an advance in the price of shoes ;
Wholesale and that the retailer
/ who it is claimed, have been a
tempting to cut their prices to Il
] consumer, would have to boost Il
I retail price.
The tariff on hides was attackt
10 the senate Is being in the int
eats Of the big Five" packers
Cnieago. Senator Lenroot, Repu
acan, Wisconsin, declared that Il
lineage packers buy their hid
smost entirely from the Americs
!afmer. but that the independe
unners buy their hides abroad.
ln on imported hides, Senat
eafoot predicted, would give Il
nS Five" an advantage over i
wmpetitors and drive the ind
penoent tanners out of business.
Inc opponents Of the duty {
ides also argued that the du
would be Of no value to the farI
and that he would sacrifice
evanced shoe prices more than
Wuid possibly gain on the pri
"ceived for his hides.
senator Mccormick of Illint