New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-09-09
Harding Ready
To Apply Curl,
On Profiteers
Members Of Fuel Control
Board Already Chosen
and White House Plans
a Vigorous Enforcement
Senate Passes Borah Bill
Fact Finding Commission
Also Will BE Effective
When Congress SaysWord

From Tho Tribaaes washington Bursnit
WASHINGTON, Sept. g.. President
Harding and his Cabinet to-day dis
cussed plans to curb coal protiteers the
moment Congress sends the Cummins-
Winslow bin to the White House for
executive approval. The President ex-
poets this authority carly next week,
and is determined to give the public
all the protection possible from UNI
scrupulous dealers.
The President and his advisers also
had up the subject OF fact finding
coal commissions. The Senate to-day
passed the Borah bill, which insures
the creation of such commission in
the near future.
President Harding is confident both
measures will be sent to him without
delay. When the House meets Monday
1t will provide for conferences on both
the Cummins- Winslow and the Borah-
Winslow bills. There are no really
vital differences between the House and
Senate measures. The President has
teen assured of early agreement on the
two bills. The President regards them
as fulfilling his recent request of Con-
gress for coal legislation.
Nationalizfng Provision Left In
The Borah commission bill includes
a provision that the commission shall
study and report on the ACCESSIBILITY of
naturalization of the coal mines. Some
of the Administration leaders tried to
knock out this provision, but failed.
The President, it is understood, has no
objection to such study. In fact, he
is represented as believing it will be
better for the commission to discuss
the subject in its report than to ignore
it. In all probability, however, the per-
sonnet of the commission can be de-
pended upon to recommend against
such step, which has very few sup
pcrters in either branch of Congress.
1t was intimated at the White House
to-day that the President already has
decided upon the memberships Of the
commission. 1t was said the COM
mission when announced will be one
that will command "the approval of all
of you" referring to the Washington
newspaper correspondents. The Presi-
dent regards the creation of a COM
mission to study the coal industry as a
great progressive, constructive step.
He holds 1t to be the most important
one taken by the government in a long
time to end industrial strife.
+ The White House is fully informed
ON the profteering in the coal industry
and the Administration will have no
difficulty in putting it's finger on the
guilty ones. There is good reason to
believe that those in authority will
deny cars to coal men who persist in
price gouging.
In all .nrohoh iJf,r @bn uno,,a.,
prices schedules will he adopted.
Recommendation for denial OF cars bv
the Interstate Commerce Commission
will come from the fuel administrator.
The present voluntary organization, it
is expected, will be retained under the
new law.
The Administration program for i'm
mediate coal legislation was practically
completed when the Senate, without q
roll call, passed the Borah bill to estab-
lish a commission to investigate the
coal industry. It is expected the re-
port of the commission when made will
be followed by permanent legislation
for government regulation and con-
troll OF the coal business of the coun-
try,
There was an undercurrent of oppo-
sltien to the Borah bill, just as there
was yesterday to the anti profteering
bill. This opposition represents an
tagonism to any form of regulation of
the coal industry.
Much contention was aroused by an
amendment of Senator Dial, of South
Carolina, who wanted to strike out of
the bill all provision for investigating
either decentralization of the coal mines
or government regulation and control.
The question was divided, so there was
a separate vote on elimination of
naturalization and on elimination Of
government regulation and control.
by vote of so to 10 the Senate re-
Jected the first Dial proposal. The
nineteen who voted for the Dial pro
posal were Senator'S Bursum, McCum-
Der, New, Smoot, Sterling, Sutherland
and Warren, Republicans; Broussard.
Harrison. Heflin. King, Myers, Rams
dell, Shields, Simmons, Smith. STANLEY.
Swanson and Williams, Democrats.
After rejecting the proposition to
eliminate an Investigation of national
l2atlon, the Senate voted to reject that
part of the Dial amendment which
sought to cut out an investigation of
government regulation and control.
This was rejected without a roll call.
Senator Harrison proposed to strike
out the words "and control" from the
expression governmental regulation
and control Of the coal industry.n This
was beaten without division