New-York tribune., 1922-08-27
enacted. sad ii II did adjourn the
presideat should call it back.

slider the Cumnsns bill failed 70 draw
auovnna. Senator's Cummins. KcI
sogg and Townsend were present 10,
the Repuslicans and Senator's Under,
woods Myers Stanley ard Pomerene foi
the Democrats. II takss nine to make
quorum. A rambling discussion de.
veloped feeling among some sof tho
Democrats of the committee that tho
bill would be Of little effect. It also
Was disclosed that operators and
miners both want 80 be heard Sen
stor Cummins said he would mot permit
the matter to be dragged out by hear
ings, although be might allow hrias
statements He added that he hoped
10 report the bill Monday. Senator
Pomerene urged that the miners DC
heard.
As soon As the Borah Bill was taken
up in the Senate Senator Shields
amendment to exclude operators or
miners from the proposed fact-hnding
commission was discussed. Senator
Berah expressed hope it would not be
adopted. He said the matter should
be left entirely 70 the President.
Senator Shields declared the oper.
ators and miners should not be allowed
TO be s'msde the Judge of their own
case" He added it was TO be hoped
recommendations would be made hy the
commission to "curb the rapacity and
greed of both the mine owners and
miners Senator Reed, OF Missouri.
who repeatedly has opposed legislation
20 control the coal mines, spoke at
length against the pending bill.
The present BILL, he said, @does not
= L.. n. ~.
II will not produce single ton of coal
at the mine. It relates wholly to the
future. It does not meet the difficulty
and might just as well be laid aside
until next November as any other bill
that ! know Of What we ought to be
doing to-day, what the Administration
ought TO be doing to-day, is to take the
necessary steps TO open these mines
tomorrow.
Investigation Not Remedy
Investigation does net solve the
difficulties of the hour. 1t is not going
TO do any good at the present time.
Indeed, | fear it will do harm, because
it will lead the public to believe that
something is being done when nothing
is being done, and will seem to indi-
cate that Congress proposes to dilly-
daily with this question"
Senator Reed then entered into a
detailed discussion Of the bill end OBJ
jected To many of it's features. He
ridicuied the idea of standardizing the
mine or standardizing n days work.
He criticised miners and operators for
"guibbling" over matters infnitesimal
as compared with the interests of all
the people.
Senator Reed insisted Congress could
settle all questions as to control or
naturalization without any commits
sion. He thought the President could
have called in miners and operators
and effected settlement, using troops
il need be.
"Is union labor,Y added Senator
Reed, proposes to freeze the people of
the United States to death through q
nationwide combination, then we've
got to amend the antitrust law that
excludes labor combinations from it. l
say to them as their friend that If they
pursue their course to where they close
The mills and freeze women and chill
dren, it will come. trust it will never
come, but II this occurs it will come
as sure as there's God in heaven"
Warns Union Labor
He warned union labor it was in
danger of destroying itself by holding
few weeks longer and causing suffering
and freezing. He said he stood ready
TO vote for law that would open
those mines, that he said this as a good
friend Of labor, and he knew that was
the feeling Of other Senator's.
"This BILL" said he, 'is a bottle of
soothing syrup that is not to take eff
feet until FIVE months from now"
Senator Townsend, of Michigan, de-
elared his support for the Borah bill
for an investigative commission. He
said he was glad to be here not only
to support this measure, but to support
could be secured to meet the present
critical coal situation.
The findings of the commission" he
said, must command the respect OF
both capital and labor. The President
OF the country, in his efforts to remedy
this situation, is paralyzed by two
classes OF men with millions desiring
work. The government should insist
that men who want work shall work. >
States Chiefly Responsible
Senator Townsend held that the main
measures of relief to the public in the
pending crisis must be taken by this
state governments.
Senator Stanley, of Kentucky op.
posed the Borah bjil as not necessary
and involving useless expenditure OF
money He spoke at length to show
the government had all the coal data
necessary.
at will inevitably delay, if it does
not prevent, the end designed" said
Senator Stanley.
Senator's Borah and Stanley clashed
over the question of naturalization oil
mines. Senator Stanley opposed it and
wanted to know whether Senator Boraf
thought the people generally favored
decentralization.
do not know whether they do o.
not, Senator Borah answered "Bu
II it inheres to an inquiry, If it is ;
question which relates to it-and VIZ
are going to undertake to deal witt
that proposition-I am not afraid /,
investigate any feature of it. | ma,
be just as much opposed to the nation
aiization as is the Senator from Ken
tucky, but 1t is one of the question,
which inheres in it; it is a part OF It
IT is one OF the things which the people
are discussing and yeu cannot stop ,
proposition, you cannot kill though
by refusing to entertain it in the wa,
Z or an investigation"
IL the coal operators Senate,
STANLEY said, "are against nationalist
Sion and the coal miners oppose it ans
an investigation is held for the bene
nt OF some people who have interes
IN 1t, there will be encamped abou
this city an army Of coal diggers an,
mine owners, each the propagandist o